New evidence from a high-quality field experiment:

Even prolonged contact (through vocational training programs) is insufficient to improve relations between migrants and locals in conflict settings.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Our #EP2024 Voter-Advice-Application is now live (w/ EUMatrix.eu). You vote on 20 issues and we 'match' you to the MEPs & national/Euro parties based on how they voted. Currently in English, but available next week in all official EU languages. Have fun!
eurompmatch.eu

guess the prompt

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