Posting this excellent paper by Diane Bolet and Florian Foos for painfully obvious reasons #tvduell
osf.io/preprints/soca…

We've opened the call for our The British Academy The Leverhulme Trust
small grants scheme offering £10k. We receive so many good applications so awards will be allocated randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold. Spread the word!
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Another good enough answer to an important question I guess…

Some new descriptive work on what *citizens* think we should do about the far-right.

doi.org/10.1177/135406…

Thank you Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics & Journal of Politics @[email protected]! 🎉

I study how criminal organizations can expand to strong states by exploiting migrant labor to strike agreements with local actors - that’s how southern Italian mafias moved north.

Short summary of the paper here 👉 theloop.ecpr.eu/exploiting-mig…

Happy to share two additions to Journal of Politics @[email protected]'s 'Just Added' collection🙂

Field experiment on negative identities with Dr Katharina Lawall Florian Foos & Joshua Townsley, PhD
doi.org/10.1086/730718

Meta analysis with Elizabeth Simon on education & in-group biases
doi.org/10.1086/730745

#OpenAccess -

Which Information Do Politicians Pay Attention To? Evidence from a Field Experiment and Interviews - cup.org/3PNSZSI

- Roman Senninger & Henrik Bech Seeberg

#FirstView

Which dictatorships hire Public Relations (PR) firms, under what conditions, and with what effects?

Christian Gläßel, Alex Dukalskis, and I offer first answers with data on 7k contracts between autocracies and US-based PR firms (1945–2022).

🚨WP🚨
Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, right?
WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20pp (d~1)!
🡆Tailored AI evidence rebut specific arguments offered by believers
🡆Effect lasts 2+mo
🡆Works on entrenched beliefs
osf.io/preprints/psya…

Friends — this paper was a true labor of love. It’s the piece I’m proudest of, possibly ever. Please read and teach it!!

Looks like a great opportunity!

✨ CALLING ALL SOCIAL SCIENTISTS ✨

🤩 UK in a Changing Europe has funding available to support small-scale research projects.

📊 We are particularly interested in work on political behaviour and public opinion.

More info 👇👇

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Application deadline: 10 April.

🚨The EuroWEPS application deadline is tomorrow!🚨

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