📯Wednesday 13th, 16CET📯 "Generating surrogate temporal networks from mesoscale building blocks" New CIVICA Data Science Seminar w/ @_giuliacencetti showing how to generate networks for LOTS of computational social science applications REGISTER 👉bit.ly/CIVICACencetti👈

As SPS HoD during this ranking period, I’m thrilled with this outcome—it's a testament to the hard work our department has put in to remain at the forefront of political science.

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!! We're looking for presenters for Jan-June 2025. Please email with a provisional paper title, preferred dates to present, and (preferably) a short abstract: [email protected] Deadline for proposals: Dec 15

📈 How does the concentration of wealth & income in metropolitan clusters lead to the rise of right-wing populism? Torben Iversen, Fernand Braudel Fellow Political and Social Sciences at EUI & Harvard University Prof, delves into the concept & the impact of knowledge economies. #EUIResearch: loom.ly/DB1uwRM

1/ Thread 🧵 new paper with E. Dal Bó, Fred Finan and P. Pessoa. With a crisis of legitimacy of politicians and parties across many countries, how can we bring new people into politics? People that abide to democratic values and become good politicians? drive.google.com/file/d/1Lm8O1_…

Just published on APSR First View: "White, Male, and Angry: A Reputation-Based Rationale for Backlash" by Stephane Wolton. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Just published on APSR First View: "Sustaining Exposure to Fact-Checks: Misinformation Discernment, Media Consumption, and Its Political Implications" by Jeremy Bowles, Kevin Croke, Horacio Larreguy, Shelley Liu, and John Marshall. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

This paper has been in the making for so long that eight children across the co-author group were born between the time we started and now! But it is finally out, and you can check it at arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13323

#FirstView from Political Analysis - Priming Bias Versus Post-Treatment Bias in Experimental Designs - cup.org/4htpJf6 - Matt Blackwell, Jacob R. Brown, Sophie Hill, Kosuke Imai & Teppei Yamamoto

Partisans often seem unwavering in their support for a politician/policy, even when faced with opposing evidence. But recent studies show that partisans can be persuaded. So how can both be true? My new British Jnl Poli Sci paper explores this Q: doi.org/10.1017/S00071…

I'm happy to share that this paper, "Misinformation Beyond Traditional Feeds: Evidence from a WhatsApp Deactivation Experiment in Brazil," is now conditionally accepted by The Journal of Politics (Journal of Politics @[email protected]) 🥳 Final pre-print version here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The call for papers for the 2025 LACEA conference is out. The conference will be in Recife, Brazil, Nov 20-22 lacea2025.org. Please submit your paper before May 30th Vox.LACEA UFPE PIMES - Pós Graduação em Economia UFPE

Our article on using LLMs for text classification is out now in SMR! We compare different learning regimes, from zero-shot to instruction-tuning, and provide recommendations for using these models for sociologists and other social scientists. doi.org/10.1177/004912…

🚨 Awa Ambra Seck and I are hiring a full-time predoctoral researcher at HBS, starting July 1, 2025! Our projects focus on development and political economy in Africa and Latin America. Find more details below. Please share and apply: awaambraseck.com/resources EGAP J-PAL

Just published on APSR First View: "A New Measure of Affective Polarization" by Nicolas Campos and Christopher Federico. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

New Research: Why do courts overturn former leaders' corruption convictions? Our new study shows that reversals are more likely when high courts are less independent than lower courts, creating space for political accommodation. 🧵

NOW ACCEPTING VISITING FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS! Postdocs, junior and senior faculty, and others working on global democracy: learn about the Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellowship Program today! Residential fellowships at the University of Notre Dame. NEW THIS YEAR: Competitive

Causal inference is all the rage. But good descriptive research is vital. This new article lays out an argument for what makes good descriptive research.

1/ Fred Finan and I have written a chapter for the forthcoming Handbook of Political Economy, where we summarize what we have learned in the past 20 years from micro evidence about why Democracies Malfunction in the Developing Countries drive.google.com/file/d/1VwKXCr…