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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · Jul 22

Got a few new papers coming out with some excellent coauthors.

Descriptive representation on K street: Race and gender among federal lobbyists

w/ @hjghassell.bsky.social @davidryanmiller.com and @bcegerod.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Money in Politics at CBS @moneypolitics-cbs.bsky.social · Jun 19

. @bcegerod.bsky.social and Hye Young You presenting data on what has been happening in the study of money in politics

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Money in Politics at CBS @moneypolitics-cbs.bsky.social · Jun 18

Thrilled to welcome so many excellent scholars to EGB for the CBS-Princeton Money in Politics this Thursday and Friday. www.cbs.dk/files/cbs.dk... We are looking forward to two days of great presentations and discussions. Watch this space for some timely updates

www.cbs.dk

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Danish Institute for Advanced Study @d-ias.bsky.social · May 21

What are the implications of politicians swapping public office for corporate roles? Interestingly, this ‘revolving door’ might have political benefits for both the public and the private sector.

Thanks to @bcegerod.bsky.social of Copenhagen Business School for making us a little wiser 💡

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Megan Stevenson @meganstevenson.bsky.social · Mar 3

Paper🧵!

We....

1) develop a framework for identification w/ multiple treatments in a judge IV design
2) find that felony conviction (without incarceration) increases recidivism relative to dismissal

with @johneric.bsky.social Aurelie Ouss @winnievd.bsky.social and Kamelia Stavreva
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This a screenshot of the abstract of our paper, called Conviction, Incarceration and Recidivism: Understanding the Revolving Door. It says "Noncarceral conviction is a common outcome of criminal court cases: for every individual
incarcerated, there are approximately three who were recently convicted but not sentenced to
prison or jail. We extend the binary-treatment judge IV framework to settings with multiple
treatments and use it to study the consequences of noncarceral conviction. We outline
assumptions under which widely-used 2SLS regressions recover margin-specific treatment
effects, relate these assumptions to models of judge decision-making, and derive an expression
that provides intuition about the direction and magnitude of asymptotic bias when a key
assumption on judge decision-making is not met. We find that noncarceral conviction (relative
to dismissal) leads to a large and long-lasting increase in recidivism for felony defendants in
Virginia. In contrast, incarceration (relative to noncarceral conviction) leads to a short-run
reduction in recidivism, consistent with incapacitation. Our empirical results suggest that
noncarceral felony conviction is an important and overlooked driver of recidivism."

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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · Jan 3

Hot off the presses @igajournal.bsky.social with @kirstenwidner.bsky.social and @mgmacdonald.bsky.social! We look at inside + outside lobbying strategies of social media groups on Facebook and Twitter. Check it out here 👇

link.springer.com/10.1057/s413...

Lobbying in public: interest group activity on social media - Interest Groups & Advocacy

Social media has transformed political communication by making it easy to post and free to disseminate information. Interest groups can use social media platforms to direct messages to policymakers an...

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Money in Politics at CBS @moneypolitics-cbs.bsky.social · Jan 4

Deadline for the 🚨CBS-Princeton Money in Politics Conference 🚨 is coming up quick. Submit your paper by January 10, 2025 if you want to join. The conference will be held June 19-20, 2025 in Copenhagen.

shorturl.at/EOfzs

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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · Jan 4

This is a great thread with many thoughtful responses on how comparative politics (science?) should evolve. @bcegerod.bsky.social and I have another paper to add to the pile, discussing power issues in the new staggered difference-in-differences estimators: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · Jan 4

If you want to join us for the money in politics conference in June, you have to apply by next Friday (January 10th)! 💵🏛️

Money in Politics at CBS @moneypolitics-cbs.bsky.social · Jan 4

Deadline for the 🚨CBS-Princeton Money in Politics Conference 🚨 is coming up quick. Submit your paper by January 10, 2025 if you want to join. The conference will be held June 19-20, 2025 in Copenhagen.

shorturl.at/EOfzs

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Ben Yoel @benyoel.bsky.social · Dec 18

I’m thrilled that this update is now officially public! Caleb, @mattgrossmann.bsky.social, and I spent quite a bit of time on this one. If you have any suggestions for improving the database or if you’d like to have your data included in CongressData please feel free to email me directly.

Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · Dec 17

New CongressData update with its r packages & web app:
cspp.ippsr.msu.edu/congress/

We now have 1,000 variables at the district-member-year level, including 9 new data sources with area crosswalks, activist presence, primaries, environmental data, broadband, & legislative style

CongressData

The CongressData Project aims to compile, disseminate, and encourage the use of data relevant to research of the US Congress and tracks member-level variables across the states across time. We have gathered more than 900 variables from various sources and assembled them into one large, useful dataset. We hope this project will become a 'one-stop shop' for academics, policy analysts, students, and researchers looking for variables germane to the study of the US Congress.

cspp.ippsr.msu.edu

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · Dec 17

go to this!!

Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · Dec 17

Very happy to announce that the 🚨CBS-Princeton Money in Politics Conference 🚨 will be held June 19-20, 2025 in Copenhagen. Deadline is coming up soon -- send us your papers before January 10, 2025.
Link: sites.google.com/view/bcegero...

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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · Dec 17

Very happy to announce that the 🚨CBS-Princeton Money in Politics Conference 🚨 will be held June 19-20, 2025 in Copenhagen. Deadline is coming up soon -- send us your papers before January 10, 2025.
Link: sites.google.com/view/bcegero...

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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · Dec 7

🚨Job🚨 Interested in working 2 years in beautiful Copenhagen with our political economics group? Jan Stuckatz and I are hiring a postdoc for a revolving door project at CBS. Start: summer '25. No teaching.
Deadline: January 5 '25
Link: www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...

Postdoc in Business and Government at Copenhagen Business School | CBS - Copenhagen Business School

The Department of International Economics, Government and Business (EGB) invites applications for a vacant position for a two-year postdoc in Business and Government. The postdoc will be part of the p...

www.cbs.dk

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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · Dec 11

Jonathan wrote a very important paper about cross country regressions being difficult to power!

Jonathan S Doucette @jdoucette.bsky.social · Dec 10

Thrilled that my article has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 The article argues that low statistical power is a major impediment to acquiring cumulative knowledge on questions concerning cross-national differences: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What Can We Learn about the Effects of Democracy Using Cross-National Data? | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

What Can We Learn about the Effects of Democracy Using Cross-National Data?

www.cambridge.org

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Jonathan S Doucette @jdoucette.bsky.social · Dec 10

Thrilled that my article has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 The article argues that low statistical power is a major impediment to acquiring cumulative knowledge on questions concerning cross-national differences: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What Can We Learn about the Effects of Democracy Using Cross-National Data? | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

What Can We Learn about the Effects of Democracy Using Cross-National Data?

www.cambridge.org

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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · Dec 7

🚨Job🚨 Interested in working 2 years in beautiful Copenhagen with our political economics group? Jan Stuckatz and I are hiring a postdoc for a revolving door project at CBS. Start: summer '25. No teaching.
Deadline: January 5 '25
Link: www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...

Postdoc in Business and Government at Copenhagen Business School | CBS - Copenhagen Business School

The Department of International Economics, Government and Business (EGB) invites applications for a vacant position for a two-year postdoc in Business and Government. The postdoc will be part of the p...

www.cbs.dk

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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · Nov 23

Hej Marc. Jeg vil gerne på listen

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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · Nov 23

Hej Anne! Jeg vil gerne på :)

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Oct 24

This new AJPS paper by Alexander Sahn is a methodological tour de force, using tens of thousands of comments to show how public hearing commenters are older, white, NIMBY homeowners who exert extreme influence on zoning decisions at public meetings doi.org/10.1111/ajps... #polisky #PAsky

Public comment and public policy
Alexander Sahn

Abstract Is public policy responsive to demographically and ideologically unrepresentative comments given at public meetings? I investigate this possibility using a novel data set of over 40,000 comments made at the San Francisco Planning Commission between 1998 and 2021, matched to information about proposed developments discussed in hearings and administrative data on commenters. I document four stylized facts: First, commenters at public meetings are unrepresentative of the public along racial, gender, age, and homeownership lines; second, distance to the proposed development predicts commenting behavior, but only among those in opposition; third, commission votes are correlated with commenters’ preferences; finally, the alignment of White commenters (vs. other racial groups) and neighborhood group representatives and the general public (vs. other interest groups) better predict project approvals.

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Money in Politics at CBS @moneypolitics-cbs.bsky.social · Nov 20

Our own @bcegerod.bsky.social writes about lobbyists in Denmark in Børsen today:
borsen.dk/nyheder/opin... #dkpol

“I al ubemærkethed har lobbyisterne indtaget Danmark”

Lobbyismen er ikke længere forbeholdt de store interesseorganisationer. I løbet af de seneste år er public affairs-branchen steget eksplosivt. Konsekvenserne af dette kender vi endnu ikke En af de stø

borsen.dk

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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · Nov 20

The CBS money in politics group is now represented on bluesky. 💵💸 Please follow along and add it to all your relevant lists and starter packs. 💵💸

Money in Politics at CBS @moneypolitics-cbs.bsky.social · Nov 20

Hello from Copenhagen, this is the bluesky account of the Money in Politics research group at the Copenhagen Business School. Our members study non-market strategy, lobbying, campaign finance, political connections, corruption, business and politics, and much more. Please follow along for updates

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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · Nov 20

Follow the Money in Politics group at the Copenhagen Business School here 👇👇

Money in Politics at CBS @moneypolitics-cbs.bsky.social · Nov 20

Hello from Copenhagen, this is the bluesky account of the Money in Politics research group at the Copenhagen Business School. Our members study non-market strategy, lobbying, campaign finance, political connections, corruption, business and politics, and much more. Please follow along for updates

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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · Nov 20

Boomer energy

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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · Nov 20

Bluesky doesn't support GIFs yet. I had found a good one

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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · Nov 11

The other place is ablaze.

Looking forward to hopefully reconnecting here with all the smart people that showed up in my feeds in the good old days and made me understand the world better.

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