🌍 Diversity matters
The EPSS Diversity Committee has convened and is planning activities for EPSS and Belfast.

More updates soon.

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🙌 Section Chairs
We’ve assembled an impressive team of Section Chairs for #EPSS2026.


We’ll be highlighting two sections per week across our channels, stay tuned!

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📄 Call for Papers: #EPSS2026 Belfast
The call is out!

Submit your proposals here:
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Proposals are already coming in, please help us spread the word!

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Thanks Mark!!

‼️ New paper out in EJPR!

With @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, we use a new survey item that we fielded in surveys in five countries to examine who accepts party policy change. Check out the 🧵 by Maurits below for an overview of our findings!

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to
- not publish
- have outstanding publication records
- introduce more novel scientific concepts
- less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.
www.nber.org/papers/w33289

🆕 Are citizens in declining powers less supportive of bilateral economic cooperation than those in rising powers? ↕️

Quynh Nguyen, @sattlersthomas.bsky.social and I
explore this with survey-embedded experiments in 🇨🇳 and the 🇺🇸!

More👉 bit.ly/4iIm6DG

#China #USA

Full paper available here: thomassattler.org/Publications/

The fear of a power transition between explains the trade war between U.S / China.

doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Austerity, economic vulnerability, and populism by Leonardo Baccini and Thomas Sattler is now available in Early View. @sattlersthomas.bsky.social ajps.org/2024/05/17/a...

Thanks for posting it!

Survey experiments show that respondents in countries with undervalued to mildly overvalued currencies disapprove of currency depreciations, whereas those facing a very highly overvalued currency favor depreciation.

Results from 412 elections in 59 democratic countries show that voters generally punish depreciations when the currency is undervalued. At extremely high levels of currency overvaluation, voters sometimes reward incumbents for depreciation.

Do exchange rates affect elections? Yes!
 
See new paper in International Organization, with Dennis Quinn and Stephen Weymouth:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I wish I had written this paper.

Here it is one more time, then I'll stop, I promise :). @evehubscher.bsky.social, @markuswagner.bsky.social

Our paper on the effect of fiscal austerity on political polarization is now officially published in the current issue of @bjpols.bsky.social:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

With @evehubscher.bsky.social and @markuswagner.bsky.social

My first post over here: our new paper in @cpsjournal.bsky.social shows that IMF interventions can increase public support for adjustment policies.

Hello!