Clinton was secretary of state only for 4 years. John Kerry took over the second Obama term

And Feyaad will present the other paper on an exciting Theme Panel about Parties and Democracy in India.
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It would be interesting to see these disaggregated by subfield/open positions. I have no priors for this but it seems as though the number of CP positions has plummeted

Ethnonationalist Gender Norms: How Parties Shape Voter Attitudes toward Female Candidates in India - Thomas - 2024 - American Journal of Political Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Did the number of positions REDUCE over the past month from June 2025 to July 2025? Or is that just the total number of positions added each month rather than the cumulative number of positions posted?

And here is the link for the dataset available on Harvard Dataverse: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... (4/4)

Here is the link for the dataset on SHRUG's User Contribution page: devdatalab.org/shrug_downlo... (3/4)

The LGD codes allow me to achieve 90% accuracy in linking SHRUG village identifiers with their corresponding GPs, and above 95% accuracy in most Indian states. Hope it will be of use to those trying to combine village and GP level datasets. (2/4)

I have learned a lot from:

Saad Gulzar Who Enters Politics and Why

Kate Baldwin Traditional Authorities around the world

Pavithra Suryanarayan Endogenous State Capacity

Thank you so much Bhumi!

Congratulations Mathias, have learnt so much from your scholarship as a student! Looking forward to presenting at APSA at the same panel in Vancouver!

Thank you so much Saad!

Thank you again for your generosity Danny!

The poli sci community is generous, welcoming and I couldn't be more thrilled to become a very junior member of it. I hope to do justice to the faith shown in me by so many whose work continues to inspire me (14/n)!

Finally, I am grateful to @saadgulzar.bsky.social, Tanushree Goyal, @bhumi.bsky.social, Shikhar Singh, @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social, Prerna Singh, @dhdannychoi.bsky.social, Steven Wilkinson, Deborah Yashar, Kate Baldwin, and Adam Auerbach for guidance at various stages this past year. (13/n)!

Researching political ambition with Rahul Verma has sparked my own ambition to someday have knowledge of Indian politics as widely and deeply as he does! His encouragement helped calmed nerves during the uncertainty of the PhD admissions process (12/n).

In Alyssa Heinze I found a fellow political scientist working in Maharashtra. Her insights into managing field projects eased the pain of overseeing 30 enumerators. She is a remarkable academic of gender and climate and I am lucky to collaborate with and learn from her (11/n)

I am forever grateful that @feyaadallie.bsky.social took a chance on me based on a cold email at the end of my MA and mentored me through my transition from a consumer to a producer of research. I hope to pay forward his selflessness in giving me intellectual space in our collaboration (10/n)