Silviya Nitsova
@snitsova.bsky.social
British Academy International Fellow, Politics Department, University of Manchester | Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis | UNC PhD | political economy, oligarchs, money in politics, Ukrainian & post-communist politics, networks | snitsova.com
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Silviya Nitsova
@snitsova.bsky.social
· Jun 30
🚨 New research 🚨
osf.io/preprints/os...
How do oligarchs foster favorable policy outcomes in developing democracies?
I used social network and regression analyses of unique quantitative data and original interview-based evidence on the case of Ukraine (2014-2022).
Here’s what I found.
osf.io/preprints/os...
How do oligarchs foster favorable policy outcomes in developing democracies?
I used social network and regression analyses of unique quantitative data and original interview-based evidence on the case of Ukraine (2014-2022).
Here’s what I found.
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Book workshops are *fantastic.* Whether or not resources are an issue, the Zoom version (2-3 hours) works incredibly well and makes it much easier for participants to attend.
Other book workshop tips 🧵:
Other book workshop tips 🧵:
I wish more schools had money to organize book workshops. I have attended one today that was intellectually so stimulating. As any good book workshop, it will not only make the manuscript that was being discussed better, but it will make the future work of all the participants better.
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Book workshops are *fantastic.* Whether or not resources are an issue, the Zoom version (2-3 hours) works incredibly well and makes it much easier for participants to attend.
Other book workshop tips 🧵:
Other book workshop tips 🧵:
🔵—🟠 👀
Excited to have this paper on social networks as a mechanism for cleavage stabilization with @dpzollinger.bsky.social out!
If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations?
In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer.
tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp
In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer.
tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp
November 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
🔵—🟠 👀
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New OA article @europe-asia.bsky.social: The Incumbency Advantage and the Enabler Effect: How Londongrad Beat the UK AML Regime
Drawing on £2bn of property data, we show that not a single incumbent kleptocrat (0/72!) lost their UK assets.
with @jheathershaw.bsky.social T. Mayne & S. Tokubayev
Drawing on £2bn of property data, we show that not a single incumbent kleptocrat (0/72!) lost their UK assets.
with @jheathershaw.bsky.social T. Mayne & S. Tokubayev
November 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
New OA article @europe-asia.bsky.social: The Incumbency Advantage and the Enabler Effect: How Londongrad Beat the UK AML Regime
Drawing on £2bn of property data, we show that not a single incumbent kleptocrat (0/72!) lost their UK assets.
with @jheathershaw.bsky.social T. Mayne & S. Tokubayev
Drawing on £2bn of property data, we show that not a single incumbent kleptocrat (0/72!) lost their UK assets.
with @jheathershaw.bsky.social T. Mayne & S. Tokubayev
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Really pleased to this out as part of special issues on "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies". Huge thanks to the SI editors, @dpzollinger.bsky.social and @davidattewell6.bsky.social for putting the special together and all of their support during the process.
💥OUT NOW!
"Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset" by @jacobgunderson.bsky.social
Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies", edited by @dpzollinger.bsky.social & @davidattewell6.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
"Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset" by @jacobgunderson.bsky.social
Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies", edited by @dpzollinger.bsky.social & @davidattewell6.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
October 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Really pleased to this out as part of special issues on "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies". Huge thanks to the SI editors, @dpzollinger.bsky.social and @davidattewell6.bsky.social for putting the special together and all of their support during the process.
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How can we compare the size and structuring power of different cleavages over time? Check out @jacobgunderson.bsky.social 's great paper and dataset for scholars working on cleavages at the party system level!
The latest from @dpzollinger.bsky.social and I's Special Issue in @wepsocial.bsky.social.
The latest from @dpzollinger.bsky.social and I's Special Issue in @wepsocial.bsky.social.
💥OUT NOW!
"Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset" by @jacobgunderson.bsky.social
Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies", edited by @dpzollinger.bsky.social & @davidattewell6.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
"Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset" by @jacobgunderson.bsky.social
Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies", edited by @dpzollinger.bsky.social & @davidattewell6.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
October 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
How can we compare the size and structuring power of different cleavages over time? Check out @jacobgunderson.bsky.social 's great paper and dataset for scholars working on cleavages at the party system level!
The latest from @dpzollinger.bsky.social and I's Special Issue in @wepsocial.bsky.social.
The latest from @dpzollinger.bsky.social and I's Special Issue in @wepsocial.bsky.social.
Funding and networking opportunities for researchers of Eurasia, (very) broadly defined.
The UKRI Network Plus: Shifting Global Polarities is calling for applications for Network Fellowships, Network funded research projects, and participants for our annual workshop to be held in Glasgow.
More information can be found at the network website.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/pro...
More information can be found at the network website.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/pro...
Network Plus: Shifting Global Polarities - University of Birmingham
Global research network tackling geopolitical, societal & environmental shifts across Eurasia to build a secure, resilient world.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Funding and networking opportunities for researchers of Eurasia, (very) broadly defined.
I’ll ask Didi.
I don't find it super convincing.
October 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I’ll ask Didi.
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Paths to Power (PtP) is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! It is a database with data on cabinet members' social profile globally from 1966-2021.
This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏
A short 🧵
This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏
A short 🧵
Paths to Power: A New Dataset on the Social Profile of Governments | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Paths to Power: A New Dataset on the Social Profile of Governments - Volume 55
www.cambridge.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Paths to Power (PtP) is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! It is a database with data on cabinet members' social profile globally from 1966-2021.
This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏
A short 🧵
This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏
A short 🧵
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We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI.
We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research!
Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research!
Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
October 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI.
We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research!
Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research!
Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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New Working Paper 🚨
I am introducing the new dataset on Parliamentary Elites in Authoritarian Regimes (PEAR). It includes information on the composition of parliaments in 819 legislative terms in 130 autocracies from 1945 - based on over 200k individual-level observations.
tinyurl.com/48h68hmh
I am introducing the new dataset on Parliamentary Elites in Authoritarian Regimes (PEAR). It includes information on the composition of parliaments in 819 legislative terms in 130 autocracies from 1945 - based on over 200k individual-level observations.
tinyurl.com/48h68hmh
October 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New Working Paper 🚨
I am introducing the new dataset on Parliamentary Elites in Authoritarian Regimes (PEAR). It includes information on the composition of parliaments in 819 legislative terms in 130 autocracies from 1945 - based on over 200k individual-level observations.
tinyurl.com/48h68hmh
I am introducing the new dataset on Parliamentary Elites in Authoritarian Regimes (PEAR). It includes information on the composition of parliaments in 819 legislative terms in 130 autocracies from 1945 - based on over 200k individual-level observations.
tinyurl.com/48h68hmh
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We have a new article in @cpsjournal.bsky.social theorizing founding leader personality cult emergence in Vietnam, China and Indonesia. It'll be part of a special issue "Imagining Nations" w/ @eunajo.bsky.social, @deandulay.bsky.social, @jiyoungko.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Founding Leaders and National Narratives: Anthropomorphism and the Roots of Founding Leader Personality Cults in Three East Asian Cases - Paul Schuler, Trung-Anh Nguyen, Yongfeng Tang, Mohammad Khan, ...
Founding leader personality cults are crucial components of national narratives. Yet, relatively little research examines how they emerge. A small political sci...
journals.sagepub.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
We have a new article in @cpsjournal.bsky.social theorizing founding leader personality cult emergence in Vietnam, China and Indonesia. It'll be part of a special issue "Imagining Nations" w/ @eunajo.bsky.social, @deandulay.bsky.social, @jiyoungko.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We need to build proper labs in the social sciences and promote team work!
Research output after tenure drops off a cliff for business, economics, sociology, and other non-lab fields.
But it remains high post-tenure in lab-based fields such as chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
But it remains high post-tenure in lab-based fields such as chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
October 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
We need to build proper labs in the social sciences and promote team work!
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Come join us! We have an awesome lineup of presentations this fall from grads and early career researchers. Our first workshop is next Friday 10/10 at 11ET/5pm CET.
You can get more info + sign up for our list-serv to get the papers and Zooms here: eepg-workshop.github.io
You can get more info + sign up for our list-serv to get the papers and Zooms here: eepg-workshop.github.io
🎉 We're excited to share our Fall/Winter 2025-26 schedule! We have a stellar lineup of research highlighting cases from Central Europe to Central Asia🎉
Workshops are on Fridays 5pmCET/11amET/8amPST with links+papers shared on our list-serv the week before.
Sign up here⤵️
eepg-workshop.github.io
Workshops are on Fridays 5pmCET/11amET/8amPST with links+papers shared on our list-serv the week before.
Sign up here⤵️
eepg-workshop.github.io
October 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Come join us! We have an awesome lineup of presentations this fall from grads and early career researchers. Our first workshop is next Friday 10/10 at 11ET/5pm CET.
You can get more info + sign up for our list-serv to get the papers and Zooms here: eepg-workshop.github.io
You can get more info + sign up for our list-serv to get the papers and Zooms here: eepg-workshop.github.io
Lego truly is a great company.
Zelenskyy speaking at EPC in Copenhagen on drones, Russia and European security.
Spot the Lego flowers he was gifted in the foreground
Spot the Lego flowers he was gifted in the foreground
October 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Lego truly is a great company.
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An important new paper from my talented, but BlueSky-less PHD Jose Lopes
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The unfulfilled promises of upward mobility and support for radical left parties in Western Europe
In recent decades, educational expansion has produced a large swathe of university graduates which labour markets are increasingly less able to absorb…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
An important new paper from my talented, but BlueSky-less PHD Jose Lopes
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Are you interested in research on corruption/illicit finance/kleptocracy? We are hiring a Research Fellow at @acdatacollective.bsky.social: acdatacollective.org/wp-content/u...
Please share in your networks, this could be a great gig.
Please share in your networks, this could be a great gig.
acdatacollective.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Are you interested in research on corruption/illicit finance/kleptocracy? We are hiring a Research Fellow at @acdatacollective.bsky.social: acdatacollective.org/wp-content/u...
Please share in your networks, this could be a great gig.
Please share in your networks, this could be a great gig.
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Happy to share that my article, "The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001-2022," has been published in the American Political Science Review (@apsrjournal.bsky.social)! Link here: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
September 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Happy to share that my article, "The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001-2022," has been published in the American Political Science Review (@apsrjournal.bsky.social)! Link here: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Reposted by Silviya Nitsova
Are Firms Gerrymandered?
Are Firms Gerrymandered? By Joaquín Artés, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Aaron R. Kaufman, New York University Abu Dhabi, Brian K. Richter, University of Chicago and Jeffrey F. Timmons, New York University Abu Dhabi We provide the first evidence that firms, not just…
Are Firms Gerrymandered? By Joaquín Artés, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Aaron R. Kaufman, New York University Abu Dhabi, Brian K. Richter, University of Chicago and Jeffrey F. Timmons, New York University Abu Dhabi We provide the first evidence that firms, not just…
Are Firms Gerrymandered?
Are Firms Gerrymandered? By Joaquín Artés, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Aaron R. Kaufman, New York University Abu Dhabi, Brian K. Richter, University of Chicago and Jeffrey F. Timmons, New York University Abu Dhabi We provide the first evidence that firms, not just voters, are gerrymandered. We compare allocations of firms in enacted redistricting plans to counterfactual distributions constructed using simulation methods.
politicalsciencenow.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Are Firms Gerrymandered?
Are Firms Gerrymandered? By Joaquín Artés, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Aaron R. Kaufman, New York University Abu Dhabi, Brian K. Richter, University of Chicago and Jeffrey F. Timmons, New York University Abu Dhabi We provide the first evidence that firms, not just…
Are Firms Gerrymandered? By Joaquín Artés, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Aaron R. Kaufman, New York University Abu Dhabi, Brian K. Richter, University of Chicago and Jeffrey F. Timmons, New York University Abu Dhabi We provide the first evidence that firms, not just…
Looking forward to reading this! 👀
#OpenAccess from @polanalysis.bsky.social -
A Statistical Model of Bipartite Networks: Application to Cosponsorship in the United States Senate - https://cup.org/48qWQ24
- @adelineylo.bsky.social, Santiago Olivella & Kosuke Imai
#FirstView
A Statistical Model of Bipartite Networks: Application to Cosponsorship in the United States Senate - https://cup.org/48qWQ24
- @adelineylo.bsky.social, Santiago Olivella & Kosuke Imai
#FirstView
September 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Looking forward to reading this! 👀
This is a fantastic and much needed contribution. Highly recommend to anyone interested in building strong designs for rigorous empirical work with networks.
Designing Empirical Social Networks Research by Jennifer M. Larson
An introduction to the study of social networks, with a focus on theory-building to guide empirical research design.
New in the Methods for Social Inquiry series #ResearchMethods
📚 cup.org/3VDut9L
An introduction to the study of social networks, with a focus on theory-building to guide empirical research design.
New in the Methods for Social Inquiry series #ResearchMethods
📚 cup.org/3VDut9L
Designing Empirical Social Networks Research
Cambridge Core - Research Methods In Politics - Designing Empirical Social Networks Research
cup.org
September 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is a fantastic and much needed contribution. Highly recommend to anyone interested in building strong designs for rigorous empirical work with networks.
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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Want to understand the long term drivers of why big business is so unpopular now? (And it’s not just in the US—we trace this phenomenon around the world). Check out our new book coming in January. Too late for Xmas, but what everyone is secretly hoping they get for Valentine’s Day 2026.
September 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Want to understand the long term drivers of why big business is so unpopular now? (And it’s not just in the US—we trace this phenomenon around the world). Check out our new book coming in January. Too late for Xmas, but what everyone is secretly hoping they get for Valentine’s Day 2026.
Reposted by Silviya Nitsova
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Call for Proposals: Politics and Political Economy of Eurasia Workshop at the 83rd MPSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 23–26, 2026. Deadline: September 18, 2025. Highly recommend.
Politics and Political Economy of Eurasia Workshop
Chicago, US
sites.google.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Call for Proposals: Politics and Political Economy of Eurasia Workshop at the 83rd MPSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 23–26, 2026. Deadline: September 18, 2025. Highly recommend.
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Ukrainians don’t think much of Putin’s ‘peace’ plan.
Our surveys from earlier this summer show overwhelming opposition to a Russian land grab.
See the data here: goodauthority.org/news/ukraini...
Our surveys from earlier this summer show overwhelming opposition to a Russian land grab.
See the data here: goodauthority.org/news/ukraini...
Ukrainians don’t think much of Putin’s ‘peace’ plan.
Our surveys from earlier this summer show overwhelming opposition to a Russian land grab.
goodauthority.org
August 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Ukrainians don’t think much of Putin’s ‘peace’ plan.
Our surveys from earlier this summer show overwhelming opposition to a Russian land grab.
See the data here: goodauthority.org/news/ukraini...
Our surveys from earlier this summer show overwhelming opposition to a Russian land grab.
See the data here: goodauthority.org/news/ukraini...