This recent article in Trouw is a much-belated, and quite balanced, discussion of the label 'Global South' [in Dutch, gated]. I shared some of my concerns about using the label (which I still find inaccurate, homogenizing and misleading) for the piece.
trouw.nl/buitenland/het…

Politicisation undermines the responsiveness of intl. institutions: 👇our WEP Journal article on when the EU Commission responds to public opinion over policy integration w. Aleksandra Khokhlova Anastasia Ershova Fabian David Schmidt Goran Glavaš (@_euinaction Political Science Leiden) doi.org/10.1080/014023…

New version of our paper on cycles in choice experiments. Lots of cutting to get word count down, so more in the appendix. Check out Appendix B4 for a new section breaking down some of the other estimators recently proposed in the lit. osf.io/preprints/soca…

Our report on political polarization in South Holland is now published! The text is here: lnkd.in/ergtxqrb, and you can explore the data in the interactive app we developed here: lnkd.in/eBcbmf7a
See, for example, this feeling thermometer towards different groups:

Policymakers believe money motivates people to get vaccinated.

In reality, it is wasted $$$, as it has no effect.

Cool study in nature Scientific Reports.

nature.com/articles/s4159…
Sebastian Jilke 🤖 Erez Yoeli Florian Keppeler

🚨 In the European Research Council (ERC) MULTIREP project we are looking for a postdoc in Computational Social Science. If you are a political/social scientist doing technical/methods stuff or data/computer scientist working on social science applications, 👇 is for you 🧵 wratil.eu/files/MULTIREP…

Happy smiles at the last day of the Studying Governance: Questions, Designs, and Methologies course. Many thanks to Merlijn van Hulst, Dimiter Toshkov and Barbara Vis for their insightful contributions! 💐

'Russian attacks on civilians strengthen Ukrainian resistance '

🗳️Following the developments around the #election in #Belarus ? Read some of our great & #FREE articles on the socio-political order in 🇧🇾 👉 doi.org/10.1080/215991… / doi.org/10.1080/215991… ✅ Adam Fagan Petr Kopecky Lenka Bustikova Andrea Pirro

The three major party groups in the European Parliament (EPP, S&D, Renew Europe) could usually count on a solid majority, but that's no longer a sure bet.
I ran some simulations on seat data to check what happens if a small number of MEPs don't vote along party lines. #EU

We love this episode of Yes Minister so much we use it in our training. And now we have tested its precise effects…. #framingmatters #orderingmatters

People who favor a policy do not always care about it to the same degree. In this paper, forthcoming at PSRM, we examine alternative ways of measuring differences in 'preference intensity' (1/5)
charlottecavaille.wordpress.com/published-pape…

Simple benchmarks outperform academics and experienced forecasters in predicting the long-term effects of educational, health and social policy interventions.
The benchmarks: uniform or triangular distributions in the [-0.5, 0, 0.5] and [-1, 0, 1] range of effect sizes.

Framing international cooperation: citizen support for cooperation with the European Union in Eastern Europe

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link.springer.com/article/10.105…

#EasternEurope #EuropeanUnion #Internationalrelations

Last spots available for Netherlands Institute of Governance Studying Governance: Questions, Designs, Methodologies.
⏲️Deadline: 29-1.

Excellent starting point for every PhD candidate studying #Governance related topics.

🎓Instructors: Dimiter Toshkov Barbara Vis and Merlijn van Hulst

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