🚨Awesome new #preprint 😍"Good Description" by Dan de Kadt & Anna Grzymala-Busse 🔥They argue that good description is never atheoretical. Instead, good description is dripping with theory. A must-read for folks writing and reviewing papers. GitHub: github.com/ddekadt/good_d…

Something extraordinary is happening in Eastern Europe: Poland is on track to overtake Japan in GDP per capita by 2026. Here's the full story of how Poland emerged from Soviet communism as one of Europe's poorest nations to now surpassing the world's former economic powerhouse.

Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller (2015) is where the replication crisis comes to economics and political science. Simply put, this chart is impossible. It implies that West Germany’s real GDP per capita grew by almost 8% per year from 1960 to 1990. But it clearly didn’t… 1/20

New open-access data, also used in The Economist article: Causal Claims in Economics 🔓 250k+ claims made in 45k papers and 69 variable over 1980-2024. Now free to download. 🥳 Details below

New WP w/Thomas Piketty ! We build a database of World Historical BoP (wbop.world) and study +200 years of economic transactions Key takeaway: power plays a key role in global imbalances. Collective rules are needed to correct them. Check this thread 👇

Glad this paper is finally out in American Political Science Review, five years after we began the project. Hope it proves useful to researchers. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🚨 New Comparative Political Studies publication w/ Jiawei Fu & Haibing Yan Haibing Yan! Does affluence influence responsiveness in urban China? We show mixed findings: richer areas get faster municipal service—but poorer areas receive equally positive outcomes. 🔗journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

My book was just sent to press! It'll be available in print end of July. Focusing mostly on Southeast Asia during the 20th c, the book develops an argument about how state-building can present headwinds for nation-building.

This is a very cool paper showing social class affects career progression within US academia.

In "Visual Conjoint vs. Text Conjoint and the Differential Discriminatory Effect of (Visible) Social Categories," Alberta Ortega & Marco Radojevic find that visual cues drive stronger discriminatory voter preferences than text labels alone. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Ever feel like everything online is getting angrier? You’re not imagining it. Tweets with anger have surged since 2013, while neutral content has declined. 📉 And it matters for policy—our new paper shows how emotions shape what people support. socialeconomicslab.org/research/worki…

"It's the economy, stupid" Voters vote based on the state of economy. But there are many economic performance indicators. Which matter the most? This new paper shows voters react to growth, unemployment, inflation, & stock markets. But the inflation plays the biggest role.

1/ New paper: Democracies only grow faster than autocracies because of personalist leaders. Bad things mainly happen in overcentralized, unchecked regimes. New from me, Scott Gehlbach & arthur_zeyang_yu, The Personalist Penalty: osf.io/preprints/soca…

I’m excited to share my new Perspectives on Politics article, “Bringing the Sector Back In and the New Political Economy.” The new research agenda introduces the “contextualized comparative sector approach” to study the multidimensionality of sectors in the NPE. doi.org/10.1017/S15375…

🚨🚨🚨 The Cooperative Election Study's 2024 vote validation data is now available for download! Microdata here: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/X1… Or easy interactive analysis of the data on... vote choice: cooperativeelectionstudy.shinyapps.io/VoteTrends/ demographics of voters: cooperativeelectionstudy.shinyapps.io/votercomp/

The CCP’s triumph over the KMT shocked the world—even the Soviets bet on the KMT with more aid. My book, Domination and Mobilization, asks: how did the CCP survive and prevail? 👇 #ChineseHistory #CCP #KMT #ChinesePolitics #AuthoritarianPolitics #PoliticalHistory #PartyBuilding

A History of Political Conflict. Elections and Social Inequalities in France 1789-2022 Our book with Julia Cage is out today at Harvard University Press hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…

A second paper also finds Generative AI is reducing the number of junior people hired (while not impacting senior roles). This one compares firms across industries who have hired for at least one AI project versus those that have not. Firms using AI were hiring fewer juniors

Just published in PNAS (PNASNews) : “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration” We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress. 🧵1/4