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📢Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 📷 1/7

nativist populism, except it's the world's richest man, a foreigner, unconstitutionally witholding congressionally appropriated funds for American preschool children wpr.org/news/half-wisc…

As promised, here is a bit more on my new book, The Welfare Workforce, now available fully open-access from Cambridge University Press - Politics 🧵1/11

There is now total clarity, no matter how unimaginable things might seem. And they amount to this: The U.S. government has been taken over by a clique of extremists who have embarked on a process of regime change in the world's oldest democracy. 1/n

Forget Inflation, GDP and Trump tariffs. Behind the scenes, the world has economic choke points – and those are being squeezed. Rethink the global economy on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds. Ben Ansell speaks to Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman and Ed Conway bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

I wrote a piece for WSJ on the politics of NIH university funding The reactions have been incredibly polarizing - not surprisingly! Realistically I don’t think universities can get back to high indirects any time soon 🧵

📣 New vacancy: Associate Professorship of Social Policy and Director, Economics, Inequality & Opportunity Programme (EIO) - joint appointment with INET Oxford In association with a non-tutorial fellowship Nuffield College 📆 Deadline: 19 March More: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Billionaire wealth grows significantly faster under Democratic administrations (+57.1%) compared to Republican ones (+16.5%). So why support Trump? It's the taxes. It’s a dangerous decoupling: billionaire interests have separated from general economic prosperity. -new Bonica

Thank you so much Jane Gingrich for this 😊 So much further research needed on the availability and ALLOCATION of public moneys (fiscal, financial, monetary 😱). Unleashing public investment and directing it towards green industrial policy is possible.

My timeline is awash with “inspiring women” for international women’s day This would be a great campaign IFF the bottleneck to equality was women’s stereotypes Activists would be more effective if they actually used evidence on what works, without triggering backlash 🧵

We are very happy to publish the new National Elections Database, including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

We (Jane Gingrich & Jasmine Bhatia) have recently updated our AI working papers on SSRN showing limited equalization of productivity differentials across groups (tinyurl.com/2heyfweu) and sociotropic social policy preferences of people exposed to AI (tinyurl.com/mrzkrjr4).

Why is it that lots of people are cool with the concept of pain for the economy (for an ultimate greater good), but can’t countenance diminishing the purchasing power of the the rich in order to open up more productive real resources for the masses?

🚨New paper out in Comparative Political Studies with Torben Iversen: doi.org/10.1177/001041… We empirically separate economic factors from cultural backlash as competing explanations for right-wing populism, and find evidence for the former. We define the concept of “unfunded public goods.” 🧵

A STAGFLATIONARY SHOCK OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS Tracy Alloway and I talked to Bloomberg Economics Chief Economist Tom Orlik about a tariff announcement so large it could break the system of world trade. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/odd…