Maria Puolakkainen
@marialingon.bsky.social
Political economy PhD at University of Oxford, Nuffield College. Previously covered Brazil for ACLED, MPhil at Oxford Latin American Centre, and PPE at Warwick. Working on the politics of industrial policy, informal labour, and trade.
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THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford.
One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods
We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...
One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods
We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...
June 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford.
One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods
We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...
One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods
We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...
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Un evento muy atractivo para estudiantes de economía en América Latina. Muy muy recomendable. Acá, todos los detalles. Se agradece la difusión.
¡Abierta la convocatoria!
¿Sos estudiante avanzadx o graduadx reciente de Economía o carreras afines?
IDEAs (www.networkideas.org) y la Escuela IDAES (unsam.edu.ar/escuelas/eid...) te invitan a una nueva edición del Ciclo de Escuelas de Tópicos Avanzados de Economía Política.
¿Sos estudiante avanzadx o graduadx reciente de Economía o carreras afines?
IDEAs (www.networkideas.org) y la Escuela IDAES (unsam.edu.ar/escuelas/eid...) te invitan a una nueva edición del Ciclo de Escuelas de Tópicos Avanzados de Economía Política.
April 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Un evento muy atractivo para estudiantes de economía en América Latina. Muy muy recomendable. Acá, todos los detalles. Se agradece la difusión.
Finland: where attempts at vote buying in come wrapped in blue foil. Stokes was right — but forgot to model the chocolate elasticity of voter compliance.
April 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Finland: where attempts at vote buying in come wrapped in blue foil. Stokes was right — but forgot to model the chocolate elasticity of voter compliance.
@sebastianraphael.bsky.social's work "From One-Party Rule to the Presidential-Military Complex: Evidence from Five Mexican Presidencies", examines the relationship between presidential goals and military mandates in Mexico, with excellent comments from Prof. Timothy Power.
March 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
@sebastianraphael.bsky.social's work "From One-Party Rule to the Presidential-Military Complex: Evidence from Five Mexican Presidencies", examines the relationship between presidential goals and military mandates in Mexico, with excellent comments from Prof. Timothy Power.
Julia Lodoen's paper "In Democracy’s Shadows: How Institutions Created under Democratic Regimes Strengthen Authoritarian Repression" stimulated conversation on institutions of violent repression in Uruguay and Argentina before authoritarianism, with superb comments by Laurence Whitehead.
March 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Julia Lodoen's paper "In Democracy’s Shadows: How Institutions Created under Democratic Regimes Strengthen Authoritarian Repression" stimulated conversation on institutions of violent repression in Uruguay and Argentina before authoritarianism, with superb comments by Laurence Whitehead.
Luis Soto shared his original findings, "Neither Meritocracy nor Kinship for Enhanced Court Performance? The anti-nepotism reforms’ effects on the Mexican Judiciary". With
@javierpsandoval.bsky.social's great comments we discussed the inference approach and the state of judicial reform in MX.
@javierpsandoval.bsky.social's great comments we discussed the inference approach and the state of judicial reform in MX.
March 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Luis Soto shared his original findings, "Neither Meritocracy nor Kinship for Enhanced Court Performance? The anti-nepotism reforms’ effects on the Mexican Judiciary". With
@javierpsandoval.bsky.social's great comments we discussed the inference approach and the state of judicial reform in MX.
@javierpsandoval.bsky.social's great comments we discussed the inference approach and the state of judicial reform in MX.
@pablopizarro.bsky.social shared his paper "Gender, Leadership, and Experience in Prosecutorial Decisions: Evidence from Chile", with exciting results on the decisions of female prosecutors in Chile. Excellent comments from Prof. Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos stimulated conversation on theory.
March 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
@pablopizarro.bsky.social shared his paper "Gender, Leadership, and Experience in Prosecutorial Decisions: Evidence from Chile", with exciting results on the decisions of female prosecutors in Chile. Excellent comments from Prof. Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos stimulated conversation on theory.
Fantastic first day at the Rising Scholars Workshop on Comparative Politics in Latin America! Our first paper was "Mobilizing in exile: Moving beyond reintegration and towards dignified return with evidence from Mexico", by Guadalupe Chavez, PhD Candidate at Oxford.
March 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Fantastic first day at the Rising Scholars Workshop on Comparative Politics in Latin America! Our first paper was "Mobilizing in exile: Moving beyond reintegration and towards dignified return with evidence from Mexico", by Guadalupe Chavez, PhD Candidate at Oxford.
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Very excited for the first day of our workshop for PhD students and early career researchers working on Latin America! @marialingon.bsky.social @pvkastner.bsky.social @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social. Thanks to funding from @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, DPIR, SLAS and the LAC
March 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Very excited for the first day of our workshop for PhD students and early career researchers working on Latin America! @marialingon.bsky.social @pvkastner.bsky.social @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social. Thanks to funding from @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, DPIR, SLAS and the LAC
Grad students and early career scholars:
there is still time to send your submissions for this workshop on 10-11 March at Nuffield College, Oxford!
Deadline 31 Jan, this Friday.
Excellent opportunity to get feedback on your dissertation/JM papers and meet likeminded scholars.
there is still time to send your submissions for this workshop on 10-11 March at Nuffield College, Oxford!
Deadline 31 Jan, this Friday.
Excellent opportunity to get feedback on your dissertation/JM papers and meet likeminded scholars.
Call for abstracts by 31 Jan: Rising Scholars Workshop on Comparative Politics in Latin America at Nuffield College, Oxford on March 10-11! 2-day event for early career scholars to workshop their papers with senior discussants. Seeking abstracts on a wide range of CP topics. Please share widely.
January 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Grad students and early career scholars:
there is still time to send your submissions for this workshop on 10-11 March at Nuffield College, Oxford!
Deadline 31 Jan, this Friday.
Excellent opportunity to get feedback on your dissertation/JM papers and meet likeminded scholars.
there is still time to send your submissions for this workshop on 10-11 March at Nuffield College, Oxford!
Deadline 31 Jan, this Friday.
Excellent opportunity to get feedback on your dissertation/JM papers and meet likeminded scholars.
Fascinating study on how people make sense of inflation in the US. Their findings show that the major perceived causes of inflation include *government actions*, such as increased foreign aid and war-related expenditures.
🚨 New data alert! Curious about how people really understand inflation—its causes, impacts & what governments should do about it? 📊 You can dive into the data from our project "People's understanding of inflation" here: socialeconomicslab.org/research/pub... Excited to see new analyses!
People’s Understanding of Inflation - Social Economics Lab
This paper studies people’s understanding of inflation — their perceived causes, consequences, trade-offs — and the policies supported to mitigate its effects. We design a new, detailed online survey ...
socialeconomicslab.org
January 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Fascinating study on how people make sense of inflation in the US. Their findings show that the major perceived causes of inflation include *government actions*, such as increased foreign aid and war-related expenditures.
Call for abstracts by 31 Jan: Rising Scholars Workshop on Comparative Politics in Latin America at Nuffield College, Oxford on March 10-11! 2-day event for early career scholars to workshop their papers with senior discussants. Seeking abstracts on a wide range of CP topics. Please share widely.
January 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Call for abstracts by 31 Jan: Rising Scholars Workshop on Comparative Politics in Latin America at Nuffield College, Oxford on March 10-11! 2-day event for early career scholars to workshop their papers with senior discussants. Seeking abstracts on a wide range of CP topics. Please share widely.
Would love to replicate this on Walmart in Mexico, the largest employer in the country.
What happens when a Walmart Supercenter comes to town? Earnings go down, while poverty and receipt of public transfers go up. The cost savings of Walmart are not enough to compensate. Here is a summary of our recent paper in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Would love to replicate this on Walmart in Mexico, the largest employer in the country.
National Guard gets his boots shined in Belén de las Flores, Álvaro Obregón, CDMX.
January 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
National Guard gets his boots shined in Belén de las Flores, Álvaro Obregón, CDMX.
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Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all.
It’s all about labour 🧵
It’s all about labour 🧵
January 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all.
It’s all about labour 🧵
It’s all about labour 🧵
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Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩
Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work!
Still 50 spots open! 🙋
go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3
Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work!
Still 50 spots open! 🙋
go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3
November 27, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩
Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work!
Still 50 spots open! 🙋
go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3
Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work!
Still 50 spots open! 🙋
go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3
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It's application season and sometimes fear of rejections can keep us from applying to the places and programs we most wish to be studying at.
In my experience, self-doubt is especially wide-spread amongst women in academia.
In my experience, self-doubt is especially wide-spread amongst women in academia.
December 11, 2024 at 11:55 AM
It's application season and sometimes fear of rejections can keep us from applying to the places and programs we most wish to be studying at.
In my experience, self-doubt is especially wide-spread amongst women in academia.
In my experience, self-doubt is especially wide-spread amongst women in academia.
Did ontological individualism emerge from a climate of McCarthyism and a need to escape "ideology"? Another great example of how ideas are shaped by the context of their origins in time. Squirm-worthy hypothesis for rational choice theorists and economists?
December 16, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Did ontological individualism emerge from a climate of McCarthyism and a need to escape "ideology"? Another great example of how ideas are shaped by the context of their origins in time. Squirm-worthy hypothesis for rational choice theorists and economists?
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Really enjoyed this conversation with @benclift.bsky.social and @cisk.bsky.social
We talk about the IPCC's approach to climate modelling, how constructivist IPE can help us to see the policy imprint of entrenched ideas about the economy, and what this means for mitigating climate change
We talk about the IPCC's approach to climate modelling, how constructivist IPE can help us to see the policy imprint of entrenched ideas about the economy, and what this means for mitigating climate change
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️
New Thinking in Political Economy: Climate Scenarios w/ Ben Clift & Caroline Kuzemko
Why is modelling so important for climate mitigation policy, and what are technocrats getting wrong?
Listen now:
tinyurl.com/ufpk7jp8
New Thinking in Political Economy: Climate Scenarios w/ Ben Clift & Caroline Kuzemko
Why is modelling so important for climate mitigation policy, and what are technocrats getting wrong?
Listen now:
tinyurl.com/ufpk7jp8
November 28, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Really enjoyed this conversation with @benclift.bsky.social and @cisk.bsky.social
We talk about the IPCC's approach to climate modelling, how constructivist IPE can help us to see the policy imprint of entrenched ideas about the economy, and what this means for mitigating climate change
We talk about the IPCC's approach to climate modelling, how constructivist IPE can help us to see the policy imprint of entrenched ideas about the economy, and what this means for mitigating climate change
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Half of Americans under 35 are “not in a steady relationship”.
If men and women do not not deeply love & care about each other, that is a radically different world from past centuries.
It’s important to understand how romantic love shaped the West
open.substack.com/pub/dralicee...
If men and women do not not deeply love & care about each other, that is a radically different world from past centuries.
It’s important to understand how romantic love shaped the West
open.substack.com/pub/dralicee...
December 10, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Half of Americans under 35 are “not in a steady relationship”.
If men and women do not not deeply love & care about each other, that is a radically different world from past centuries.
It’s important to understand how romantic love shaped the West
open.substack.com/pub/dralicee...
If men and women do not not deeply love & care about each other, that is a radically different world from past centuries.
It’s important to understand how romantic love shaped the West
open.substack.com/pub/dralicee...
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Here is a rapidly growing starter pack with political theorists and philosophers. Please share it widely and send me a message if you want to be added to the list!!🌻 go.bsky.app/4uqLbgZ
November 8, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Here is a rapidly growing starter pack with political theorists and philosophers. Please share it widely and send me a message if you want to be added to the list!!🌻 go.bsky.app/4uqLbgZ
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Automation has a much larger effect on manufacturing jobs than trade competition, but the effects of trade competition were more geographically concentrated:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The unequal effects of trade and automation across local labor markets
We quantify the joint impact of the China shock and automation of labor, across US commuting zones (CZs) in the period 2000–2007. To this end, we empl…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 1, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Automation has a much larger effect on manufacturing jobs than trade competition, but the effects of trade competition were more geographically concentrated:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
President-elect Trump's threats to install 25% cross-sector tariffs on its top two trading partners, as leverage over migration and fentanyl flows, is a ticking time bomb for his base.
The only time he can upset consumer prices without losing his pocketbook-conscious voters is early on in his term.
The only time he can upset consumer prices without losing his pocketbook-conscious voters is early on in his term.
Model solves for new U.S. consumer prices for all products. Here are products with US price increases >2%, up to 13%. Lots of industrial inputs & food products, unsurprisingly given CAN/MEX/PRC imports. Model doesn't have input-output linkages, so prices for downstream products may rise more. 2/3
November 26, 2024 at 12:05 PM
President-elect Trump's threats to install 25% cross-sector tariffs on its top two trading partners, as leverage over migration and fentanyl flows, is a ticking time bomb for his base.
The only time he can upset consumer prices without losing his pocketbook-conscious voters is early on in his term.
The only time he can upset consumer prices without losing his pocketbook-conscious voters is early on in his term.
...and the award for most beautiful figures goes to...
Tsebelis (1995).
I stopped reading and let the geometric hypnosis set in.
Tsebelis (1995).
I stopped reading and let the geometric hypnosis set in.
November 19, 2024 at 5:00 PM
...and the award for most beautiful figures goes to...
Tsebelis (1995).
I stopped reading and let the geometric hypnosis set in.
Tsebelis (1995).
I stopped reading and let the geometric hypnosis set in.