Not sure there's a stronger sign that this was the right move

What do tax cuts for the rich do? They increase inequality. They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment. "Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."

First week as a faculty member @MSstate! Met many colleagues and students, who are all amazing. Very excited to be a part of this university. 🤓

Twitter has turned on by default now a setting that allows them to use our tweets to train grok. Turn it off by going to settings and searching grok, there’s only 2 results and they seem to both be the toggle anyway.

Modern econometrics

Umpteenth rereading of "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime" for my intro course and still finding interesting, new insights. Not a bad job, this.

Presented our work on a BERT model to identify the illiberal speech of political leaders, coauthored with Seraphine F. Maerz & Carsten Q. Schneider. We use it to predict democratic decline. Computer assistants really speed up the process! Great panel and great questions! #APSA2024

😡 Authoritarian, illiberal & populist actors always play on negative sentiments? 🤔 In their new article Franziska Wagner & Zsolt Enyedi Central European University CEU Democracy Institute argue this is not necessarily so. Read more on the AUTHLIB Blog! authlib.eu/projecting-bri…

Children should be able to take small shopping trips on their own by the age of 5.

I don’t have a plan, I have concepts of a plan.

New AUTHLIB article out now! What is illiberalism? The negation of 3 liberal democratic principles: limited power, a neutral state, and an open society. 📔 Zsolt Enyedi Central European University CEU Democracy Institute explores the concept & its varieties in his Politics and Governance article cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgov…

Very happy to finally present an AuthlibEU paper coauthored with Dean Schafer & Mehmet Yavuz at the #KONVENS Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political and Social Sciences. We are measuring illiberalism with word embeddings and dictionaries. Stay tuned for more!

Is Political Compass a fun teaching tool or bunko science? Is it a disservice to use in an intro class?

When they ask me what keeps me going in academia

🥁 New Article Collection! 📚 The #RadicalRight in Southern Europe 1⃣6⃣ #FreeAccess Articles 🎯Introduction by Nicolò Conti Bonnie Field and Mattia Zulianello Read and download here ⬇️ tandfonline.com/journals/fses2…

Join us TODAY at Budapest Forum! What's behind illiberals' appeal? What would 🇦🇹 FPÖ & 🇨🇿 ANO do in power? Are populists in the 🇪🇺 more of a threat to democracy today than before? 🗓️13.15 CET, Nádor 15, R103 🗣️Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik Marlene Wind Petra Guasti Zsuzsanna Vegh

One of the populism hub conveners Levente Littvay on stage discussing populism and authoritarianism Budapest Forum CEU Democracy Institute

False positive and false negative are lovely, self-explanatory terms. I see no reason for anyone to ever say Type 1 and Type 2 error when strictly better alternatives are available. And I refuse to look up which is which.