https://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3mpxtoil42s22Actual copies06 Jul 2026 10:05 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpxtoil42s22https://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3mivekmjwvs25In another universe, I’d be at the ECPR joint sessions today—surrounded by friends and colleagues, deep in conversation about the interplay between normative political theory and empirical political science.07 Apr 2026 08:32 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivekmjwvs25https://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3mfym4bmgys27timing is odd, but a new open-access publication (co authored with Ariel Zellman and Jonathan Fox - out in Ethnicities: we revisit the classic “corruption thesis” in church–state theory and put it to an empirical test.01 Mar 2026 11:10 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfym4bmgys27https://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3mfebcfpaf22221 Feb 2026 09:03 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfebcfpaf222https://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3mfc6d4ltx22uhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/empirical-political-theory-9780198966579?q=Nahshon%20Perez&lang=en&cc=gb with the cover! It came out nice, right?20 Feb 2026 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfc6d4ltx22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3me6qm22zkc2ewe have the first results of "AI and Political Theory: Exploring Argument Mining for Normative Research—A Political Theorist's Perspective (or: on identifying patterns and structures)." comparing argument mining of AI and the human coder.06 Feb 2026 10:56 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3me6qm22zkc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3lzzs3bzy222bTomorrow I begin my term as Head of the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University. Grateful to Jonathan Rynhold, the outgoing chair, for his dedicated service. Looking forward to a fascinating and challenging term ahead, and to working together with our outstanding faculty and staff.30 Sep 2025 05:27 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzzs3bzy222bhttps://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3lzdkwagpgs26Pleased to share that 'Empirical Political Theory: A Methodological Framework', by yours truly, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press, with publication planned for spring 2026. I am grateful to the friends who made this possible, and to the ECPR Group on Methods of Normative Political Theory.21 Sep 2025 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzdkwagpgs26https://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3lv3i2rp4xs2umy department published a call for applicants for tenure track positions: politics.biu.ac.il/node/1957 https://politics.biu.ac.il/node/195729 Jul 2025 06:27 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv3i2rp4xs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3lpjiak3rrk2zone of the challenges of writing a methods monograph, is that each chapter explores a different topic; but often shares other preliminary assumptions with other chapters; I'm pretty sure a given reader will not read the whole thing,19 May 2025 11:37 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpjiak3rrk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3loic6y4wrk2lpage by page, slowly but consistently 'Empirical political theory, a methodological framework' by yours truly and under contract with OUP, is being completed. I now have something like/more or less/ the full manuscript. A lot of work still to be done, but I can see the ending...hopefully...sort of..06 May 2025 06:50 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3loic6y4wrk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3lncmumqyjk2ghttps://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/workshop-policy-oriented-political-philosophy looking forward to this21 Apr 2025 07:20 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3lncmumqyjk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3ljrs653vj224https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/workshop-policy-oriented-political-philosophy looking forward to this very much! (and to seeing many friends). the paper to be presented (with Liron Lavi) explores conceptual concretization in empirically informed political theory.07 Mar 2025 10:24 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljrs653vj224https://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3ljn6vfoeq22dProgress05 Mar 2025 14:29 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljn6vfoeq22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3lj5gyvhfuc24Needed to merge several different bibliographic lists into one, delete redundancies, arrange alphabetically, and consistently arrange according to APA. A tedious task. Claude did it in 30 seconds.27 Feb 2025 08:11 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj5gyvhfuc24https://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3litqmf6z5k2z23 Feb 2025 11:37 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3litqmf6z5k2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3lijq3oomyk2xa new article debating political theory methodology. Many thanks to the great methods group at the ECPR. Open access. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2474736X.2025.245124019 Feb 2025 12:01 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3lijq3oomyk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/nahshonp.bsky.social/post/3lagiznbrf22w'Empirical Political Theory: A Methodological Framework', by yours truly, is under contract with Oxford University Press. It is designed to assist political theorists incorporating empirical elements in their research with key tasks—including a typology of data usages, a research design, etc.08 Nov 2024 09:55 +0000at://did:plc:j3ttaht4httep4rtupvcvwei/app.bsky.feed.post/3lagiznbrf22w