The Danish government has appointed me to direct a 5-year audit of Danish democracy in the 21st century: ufm.dk/aktuelt/presse… Political scientists can think of Dahl's classic, "Who Governs?", but for an entire country. It is a monumental research challenge. 🧵 1/5

🚨New pub w Helene Helboe on the legislative cost of ruling Parties lose voters after entering government (the electoral cost of ruling)- we show this in turn adds legislative costs by making MPs vote against party policy to signal distance from the party ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

The right question is whether Pogacar wants to cooperate after the summit. By regrouping, Pogi maximixes the chance of gaining more seconds by sprinting in a group with Gaudu, Hindley, Skjelmose and alike.

Pogacar made a tactical mistake that might be decisive for the result 🥇🥈in Paris. He would most likely have dropped Vingegaard if he had attacked first as was Jumbo Visma’s plan. #LeTour #TourDeFrance2023

Politt 🇩🇪 and a fit Wellens 🇧🇪 make a big difference for the best UAE Tour team. Likely replacing Trentin 🔜 Tudor 🇨🇭and Laengen 🇳🇴. If Ayuso or Almeida goes, I’m curious to see whose replaced.

#sortepenge

Frederik Hjorth kicking off the Nordic Political Behavior workshop sponsored by Carlsbergfondet Studying nonverbal communication in parliament he finds that elites use vocal style strategically to accentuate political conflict. Work with Mathias Rask

Do socioeconomic disparities between ethnic groups influence whether a country democratizes and remains democratic? Very happy to see my article addressing this question is now online at Journal of Politics @[email protected]. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1086/726949

🚨New tool to classify text into discrete emotions! Fine-tuned mDeBERTa model based on crowdcoded data described in my Political Analysis study (link below). Unlike the ELECTRA model discussed in the paper, this new tool is MULTILINGUAL (up to 100 languages) #textasdata #nlp

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This is a mathematics joke involving potatoes and calculus. (Circulating widely on the Web.)

Experimental findings in "Tolerance for the Free Speech of Outgroup Partisans" (Carlos et al, 2023): Republicans significantly more opposed to restrictions on campus speech in all conditions, even when the speaker is articulating only liberal views. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Thread: It sure looks like phones are making students around the world dumber I wrote about the new PISA report on student test scores, which have been falling steadily in OECD countries since 2012 —> theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Correct tactical decision. No doubt. But also highlights why Pogacar and Evenepoel har far more popular in the cycling community.