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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Jun 9

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...

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Pablo Bortz @pablobortz.bsky.social · Apr 23

Un evento muy atractivo para estudiantes de economía en América Latina. Muy muy recomendable. Acá, todos los detalles. Se agradece la difusión.

MDE | CEED | DEP UNSAM @mde-ceed-dep.bsky.social · Apr 23

¡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.

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Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Apr 10

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.

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Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Mar 10

@lupitachavez.bsky.social

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Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Mar 10

@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.

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Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Mar 10

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.

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Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Mar 10

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.

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Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Mar 10

@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.

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Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Mar 10

With excellent comments from Professor Leigh Payne, the participants discussed the estranged citizenship that returnees and deportees may experience after returning from the United States to Mexico.

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Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Mar 10

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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Viviana Baraybar Hidalgo @vivianabh.bsky.social · Mar 10

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

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Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Jan 29

#polisky #academicsky #econsky #AcademicChatter #Academia #PhDsky #gradsky #phdlife

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Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Jan 29

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.

Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Jan 17

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.

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Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Jan 27

Participants also consider rises in production costs attributed to recent events like the COVID-19 pandemic, oil price fluctuations, and supply chain disruptions.

Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Jan 27

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.

Stefanie Stantcheva @s-stantcheva.bsky.social · Jan 27

🚨 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

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Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Jan 22

Mitä aiheeseen tämä viittaa?

Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Jan 17

@vivianabh.bsky.social @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social @pvkastner.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Jan 17

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.

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Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Jan 13

Would love to replicate this on Walmart in Mexico, the largest employer in the country.

Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · Dec 24

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

Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Jan 10

Man gets his shoes shined on the way home from the market. Centro, Cuahtémoc, CDMX.

Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Jan 10

National Guard gets his boots shined in Belén de las Flores, Álvaro Obregón, CDMX.

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · Jan 6

Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all.

It’s all about labour 🧵

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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · Nov 27

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

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Maria Puolakkainen @marialingon.bsky.social · Dec 17

Thank you for putting this together! Could I be added as well?

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