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Pau Grau-Vilalta @paugrau.bsky.social · 12h

Barcelona this week! Today at @politiquesupf.bsky.social (IPA) I’m presenting joint work with Alejandro López Peceño and @eliasdinas.bsky.social on how Civil War refugees mobilized the left in postwar France. Next Thursday @ IBEI JCPOP: career incentives vs. ideology in Fascist Italy’s surveillance.

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 8d

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Gender Differences in Economics Seminars

(Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19d

Regrettably relevant research today

Disguised Repression: Targeting Opponents with Nonpolitical Crimes to Undermine Dissent
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · Sep 13

Colleagues have backed up the point with data and infographics. The answer is no: political violence in the US is if anything declining, not rising. The far right commits more than the far left, but both are rare, and fewer than 10% of Americans endorse violence for political goals.

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"

Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds

Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age

www.theguardian.com

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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · Aug 28

🧪 We ran a preregistered endorsement experiment with 4,000+ Spaniards.
We tested whether VOX voters support funding for cultural orgs, including the Francisco Franco Foundation (which glorifies the dictatorship).

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Aug 7

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Aug 7

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.

😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.

👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.

A short 🧵

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Jul 19

Been a busy year in the data mines.📊 Just published my mid-year roundup: 29 data visualizations on the state of US democracy, tracking everything from judicial resistance to billionaire influence to why Dems have a mobilization crisis, not a moderation problem.

All charts free to use:

On Data and Democracy (Mid-Year Roundup): Charting the Assault on American Democracy and A Path Forward

A narrative of a democracy in the balance, told through 29 data visualizations.

open.substack.com

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Pau Grau-Vilalta @paugrau.bsky.social · Jul 10

"This paper finds that Jews are included in “the people” when this is ideologically conducive to the parties, when it can appear to justify Islamophobia and anti-immigration sentiment, and when antisemitism can be used to argue that “the elite” are ignorant and incompetent"

Claire Burchett @cburchett.bsky.social · Jul 7

Happy to share my first published article based on my PhD in Party Politics with @journals.sagepub.com in open access!

doi.org/10.1177/1354...

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Political Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social · Jul 7

Currently in FirstView: In “The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem in Political Science,” @dwlee.bsky.social, @melissazrogers.bsky.social‬, and Hillel David Soifer discuss the MAUP and how the size of spatial units and the location of their borders affect empirical results.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Jul 5

On the one hand, a complex sense of how race, ethnicity, nationalism, migration, bias, displacement, intermarriage and acculturation forge an identity and, on the other, puzzlement that decades of this history doesn’t fit cleanly in a five-item box.

Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · Jul 5

The Mamdani Columbia story is an example of a microgenre where ethnic communities have had complex internal conversations about identity for generations and white people pratfall into them to go "what the fuck, why are you trying to trick me"

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · Jul 5

July 4th, 2025

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Joris Frese @fresejoris.bsky.social · Jul 1

New WP w/ @riazsascha.bsky.social: via >42 million placebo tests, we show type I error inflation in Unexpected Event during Survey Designs (UESD), propose an adjustment, implement via new R package uesdRobust, and demonstrate utility by replicating two top UESD studies.

osf.io/preprints/os...

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Pau Grau-Vilalta @paugrau.bsky.social · Jun 27

What shapes repression levels? We argue that bureaucrats' incentives play a major role.

Come to the presentation of the work with Lorenzo Vicari and Andrea Xamo at #EPSA2025 today.

🗓️ Friday 11:20-13:00
📍 Room -1.A.03 | Panel P7-S164

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Jun 26

This is fantastic. Very excited by this development in European Political Science.

Please come and join us. Get involved. Sign up to the listserv. Etc

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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Juan Luis Jiménez @juanluisjimenez.bsky.social · Jun 17

El Gobierno catalán anuncia préstamos a jóvenes para pagar la entrada de su primera vivienda (incentivar la demanda). Cuando hicieron una política similar en Reino Unido (help-to-buy):

❌Aumentaron 8% precios.
❌No aumentó la oferta.
❌Los promotores se apropiaron de toda la ayuda.

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Jun 18

Re-upping this, as I've had a few conversations since, and think we're on to something about how the Right coordinates a coalition against the Left.

On Riker, and breaking coalitions by adding cross-cutting issues, I recommend The Art of Political Manipulation: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Scope Conditions Podcast @scopeconditions.bsky.social · Jun 17

📣 New episode!

What happens when there are multiple rules of law - when state law overlaps with religious and customary law? What does this mean for marriages, child custody, and even murder?

Egor Lazarev discusses his research on postwar Chechnya:

www.scopeconditionspodcast.com/episodes/epi...

EPISODE 3.10: Rules of Law, with Egor Lazarev — Scope Conditions Podcast

Political analysts are thinking a lot these days about the rule of law: where it comes from, what sustains it, how it can break down. Those are hard enough questions in themselves. And, yet — they sim...

www.scopeconditionspodcast.com

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American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) @ajpseditor.bsky.social · Jun 17

We have been discussing amongst ourselves how AJPS should handle the issue of artificial intelligence (AI) in the creation and review of journal submissions. These are important issues we feel we must address. Read the AJPS AI Policy for authors and reviewers here: ajps.org/2025/06/17/a...

AJPS AI Policy

We have been discussing amongst ourselves how AJPS should handle the issue of artificial intelligence (AI) in the creation and review of journal submissions. These are important issues we feel we m…

ajps.org

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · Jun 15

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions

Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Pau Grau-Vilalta @paugrau.bsky.social · Jun 13

Indeed! The mean was taking other variables, now should be correct. Other than the north-south divide, no clear pattern emerges:

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thanks guys!

This data shows what we conjectured in the late afternoon of June 9 - it was always gonna be a hard fight to get to the 50%+1, but the citizenship in particular made for a super hard fight.

A note: parties’ positions were *a bit* split, so party cues may have mattered indeed.

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Jun 13

Together with @paugrau.bsky.social, we have just posted our first Substack, which is our quick take on the outcome of the labour rights and citizenship referendums in Italy on 8-9 June
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Divide and Lose

One Reason Why Italy’s Progressives Lost the June 2025 Referendums

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Pau Grau-Vilalta @paugrau.bsky.social · Jun 13

First substack with @simonhix.bsky.social — was it a good idea to join labour and citizenship questions in the same referendum? Illustrated with scatterplots and (arguably) aesthetic maps!

Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Jun 13

Together with @paugrau.bsky.social, we have just posted our first Substack, which is our quick take on the outcome of the labour rights and citizenship referendums in Italy on 8-9 June
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Divide and Lose

One Reason Why Italy’s Progressives Lost the June 2025 Referendums

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Jun 6

Shout it from the rooftops

Calls for abstention are not ideologically neutral. They are strategic. Italy’s referendum mechanism includes a quorum: for a referendum to be valid, more than 50% of eligible voters must participate. Therefore, encouraging people to stay home effectively sabotages the vote, not by contesting the proposals themselves, but by rendering them institutionally invisible.

This tactic is deeply problematic in a country whose Constitution begins by declaring that the Republic is “founded on labour”. When citizens are invited to vote on rights central to that founding principle, the governing coalition’s call for disengagement cannot be brushed aside as a tactical choice. It strikes at the core of democratic accountability.

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Pau Grau-Vilalta @paugrau.bsky.social · Jun 4

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · Jun 3

La presidenta de la asociación de propietarios, al Sindicato de Inquilinos: “¿El problema es que nos tenéis envidia?”

La presidenta de la asociación de propietarios, al Sindicato de Inquilinos: "¿El problema es que nos tenéis envidia?"

Núria Garrido ha defendido las rentas que cobran los tenedores por poner sus pisos en alquiler: "Claro que cobramos. Un piso se debe reformar, reacondicionar... Proporcionamos viabilidad económica a m...

www.eldiario.es

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