Ezequiel González-Ocantos
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Ezequiel González-Ocantos
@egocantos.bsky.social
🇦🇷/🇬🇧 Professor of Comparative and Judicial Politics @Politics_Oxford @NuffieldCollege || Judicial Politics, Transitional Justice, Corruption Prosecutions, Latin America ||

https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/person/ezequiel-gonzalez-ocantos
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Strong partisans, conditional democrats? Partisanship and reactions to electoral outcomes in Argentina
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Paper forthcoming in @cpsjournal.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @egocantos.bsky.social and Carlos Melendez
Strong partisans, conditional democrats? Partisanship and reactions to electoral outcomes in Argentina - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive
Partisans who back self-interested illiberal measures jeopardize democracy. We explore important precursors of support for backsliding using survey and focus group data from severely polarized…
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November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This year’s call for applications for the Prize Post Doctoral Fellowships in Politics at Nuffield College is now live! It’s a fantastic opportunity for newly minted PhDs to spend three years in a wonderful academic environment:

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Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics - Nuffield College Oxford University
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November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We are looking for a new Latin Americanist to join our wonderful department - open-rank. Happy to answer questions about the advert.

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October 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Thrilled to join @notredame.bsky.social London on Thu, Oct 16, 6pm to discuss trends in democracy from a Latin American perspective, with former @apsa.bsky.social and @ipsa.org president D. Pinderhughes, E. Gonzalez Ocantos, B. Forjwuor and L. Keita. 4 Suffolk St www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/perspectiv...
Perspectives on US Democracy in Challenging Times
Perspectives on US Democracy in Challenging Times: Historical and Comparative Reflections
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September 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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🧡 “El uso del derecho como herramienta de transformación en América Latina”. Acceso abierto: ➡️ publicaciones.dejusticia.org/items/ab2fac... @redpolitologas.bsky.social @lawtransform.bsky.social @andreacastagnola.bsky.social @egocantos.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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👏🎉 Congratulations to @egocantos.bsky.social - awarded the 2025 Alexander George Best Article Award from @apsa.bsky.social’s Qualitative and Multi-Methods Research section for his article 'Aligning Interviewing with Process Tracing'!: www.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/dpirs-e...
DPIR’s Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos wins APSA Best article award
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August 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Thank you so much to @apsa.bsky.social and to Professors Wendy Martinek, Alyx Mark, and Rachel Stern for recognizing my dissertation with the 2025 Edward S. Corwin Award
July 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The deadline is August 8!

If you are thinking about attending LASA 2026, this is a great opportunity to get the panel accepted (before you commit to paying membership and conference fees) and give more visibility to the papers.
LAPIS invites applications for sponsored panels on political institutions for LASA 2026. Apply by Aug 8 via this form: forms.gle/EhLLj5fkdWba.... Selected panels are guaranteed conference acceptance.
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July 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Congratulations to our wonderful DPIR 2025 DPhil prize winners!

Meet @vivianabh.bsky.social ‪(DPhil in Politics) who's won the PSA's Walter Bagehot prize for the best dissertation in the field of government and public administration: ow.ly/Kwjf50WmpIK
July 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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The Spring issue of QMMR is out! You’ll find essays on archival/interview methods, a symposium on case study research, a discussion of Kreuzer’s new book, a note from the field on the role of care & a note from the classroom on teaching digital ethnography.

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July 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The Spring issue of QMMR is out! You’ll find essays on archival/interview methods, a symposium on case study research, a discussion of Kreuzer’s new book, a note from the field on the role of care & a note from the classroom on teaching digital ethnography.

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July 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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belatedly celebrating the successful conclusion of the third Nuffield-UCL workshop on social science approaches to law and courts. Special thanks to @icuervo.bsky.social and @egocantos.bsky.social for making everyone feel welcome in Oxford
June 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Next up, Carlos Meléndez (Lisbon University, @eljorobado.bsky.social) presents work on voters' responses to authoritarian stances by political leaders, with survey experimental data from Brazil 🇧🇷.

(joint work with Ezequiel González Ocantos @egocantos.bsky.social)
June 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I feel a tad better knowing I’m not the only one who’s terrified of going through US immigration at the moment…
April 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Re the Le Pen verdict, these decisions raise vexing questions about the relationship btw accountability and democracy & can have complicated conseq for public opinion, judiciaries and politics more broadly. We explore them in our book on Latin America’s Lava Jato

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France: Presidential candidate Marine Le Pen (RN-PfE) has been sentenced to 4 years in jail and banned from holding public office for 5 years for embezzlement.
The ban, which disqualifies her from the 2027 presidential election, will come into force even if she appeals.
March 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Great opportunity to work with the wonderful Federica Genovese! Apply
Be part of the @leverhulme.bsky.social Climate Vulnerability team 🚀

I’m looking for a 2-year postdoc to join my group at @politicsoxford.bsky.social. Apply if you’re an empirically minded junior researcher who just finished or abt to finish a PhD!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ634/p...

⏰ midday Feb 26 ⏰
Job Details
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January 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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You probably saw this but if not would recommend this excellent piece by @gralefrit.bsky.social
'The Traitors', Agatha Christie, and The Kierkegaard Edit
How we consume story, versus how it's made.
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January 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Argentina’s ‘Judicial Family’: Mapping Family Connections in the Argentine Provincial Federal Judiciary
doi.org/10.1515/9781... book chapter by Andrea Castagnola & @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @egocantos.bsky.social #NuffSky #PoliSky
Chapter 11 Argentina’s ‘Judicial Family’: Mapping Family Connections in the Argentine Provincial Federal Judiciary
Chapter 11 Argentina’s ‘Judicial Family’: Mapping Family Connections in the Argentine Provincial Federal Judiciary was published in Informality and Courts on page 188.
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January 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Excited to share my latest #OpenAccess publication!

I develop a theory on how courts can counter executive aggrandizement—even in unlikely contexts—offering a fresh perspective on #DemocraticResilience.

I welcome any feedback, reactions, or questions!

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Overruling the Executive: Judicial Strategies to Resist Democratic Erosion | Journal of Law and Courts | Cambridge Core
Overruling the Executive: Judicial Strategies to Resist Democratic Erosion
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January 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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I’m so happy to announce that my book is now published and available open-access! (🧵coming soon, too :)
"A beautifully written and insightful take on the evolution of mental healthcare in advanced democracies, and one that opens a new lens on one of the most central, and largely unexamined, parts of the modern state."

The Welfare Workforce by Isabel M. Perera

Out now in #OpenAccess cup.org/3DQJizT
The Welfare Workforce
Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - The Welfare Workforce
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January 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Please consider applying to present at the third edition of our Early Career Researchers in Law and Courts workshop. This year we will meet at Nuffield College, Oxford.
Workshop announcement: for the third year running @uclspp.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social are teaming up to bring together some of the most exciting early career researchers in Law and Courts, this year also joined by @dnaurin.bsky.social. Apply by 31 March with @icuervo.bsky.social!
January 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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How should we "draw" arguments to maximise theoretical clarity and the productivity of empirical work? Juan Masullo and I had a lot of fun convening this QMMR symposium on causal figures. Lots of disagreement on best practices, but also great advice

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December 17, 2024 at 9:40 AM
The Fall 2024 issue of QMMR is now live!

1. Eye-opening symposium with a debate on how to draw causal graphs
2. Reports from the Emerging Methodologists Wkshop
3. Great articles on archival research
4. Fascinating notes from the Field/Classroom

Dig in!

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December 9, 2024 at 11:09 AM