#MPSA2023 I’ll present at 3pm on the use of bureaucratic information in Congress — come along if you’re interested in bureaucracy, NLP, and use of info in policymaking

Looking for some help from #MPSA2023 attendees. I lost my pen, which was bought by my dad when I passed my PhD defence so has sentimental value. It looks like the below picture. If you find it, please let me know or drop it off at the MPSA helpdesk / concierge. Thanks!

A Costly Commitment: Populism, Economic Performance, and the Quality of Bureaucracy by Luca Bellodi, Massimo Morelli, and Matia Vannoni is now available in Early View. Luca Bellodi ajps.org/2023/05/11/a-c…

Interested in integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches to study causal mechanisms in social science research? Join our CIVICA The European University of Social Sciences workshop tomorrow, live at Università Bocconi or on zoom civica.eu/fileadmin/PDFs…

Our attempt to bring together bureaucracy lit in the American and Comparative subfields. The result of hours of conversations, and much wheel spinning, to identify and understand potential "blind spots". We hope it encourages more cross-subfield conversations and projects!

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP18338 The Shift to Commitment Politics & Populism: Theory & Evidence Luca Bellodi Università Bocconi Massimo Morelli Università Bocconi Antonio Nicolò Università di Padova UoM School of Social Sciences The University of Manchester Paolo Roberti unibz ow.ly/OKnJ50PxnuO #CEPR_PoE

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Nothing illustrates misinformation on X better than the fake account of a newly minted Nobel laureate announcing the fake death of another Nobel laureate and some media outlets running with this fake story.

🥁 New round of hirings for POSTNORM: 1. One postdoctoral research fellowship: eui.eu/Documents/Serv… 2. Two pre-doc/RA positions: eui.eu/Documents/Serv… Feel free to contact me for more information and please help to spread the word. 🎺

two invite codes available for folks late to the party

This viz on transformers/LLMs from the FT is very well done, check it out. Separately, it’s very cool to be working (albeit in a very small, applied way) on a tech that’s so “important” that it’s deemed worthy of explainers! ig.ft.com/generative-ai/

Join me for week-long course on ML next February! We'll go from the fundamental building blocks all the way up to deep learning models, using interactive code demos, as well as discuss how ML helps (and hinders) political science research. More info here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event/P…

Coming to MPSA 2024! I've organized a conference-within-a-conference on the separation of powers. We've got a great lineup of scholars working at the intersection of legislative and executive politics. And I'm very grateful to the Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy for sponsoring the CwC!

CBS-Princeton Money in Politics Conference will be held on June 27-28, 2024, in Copenhagen 🇩🇰. Please submit your research proposal by January 5 (Friday) to [email protected]. For more information: sites.google.com/view/bcegerod/… Benjamin Egerod

New CEPR DP18778 Digging Up Trenches: #Populism, Selective Mobility, & the Political #Polarization of #Italian Municipalities Luca Bellodi, F. Docquier LISER, S. Iandolo Università Salerno, M. Morelli Università Bocconi, Riccardo Turati ow.ly/VW2j50QtSWS #CEPR_PoE #CEPR_PE

Using proprietary non-reproducible LLMs to label data is bad for science and expensive. So I'm creating free, open source LLMs for Zero-shot classification of political texts that require a fraction of the compute. Here are the first models available on Hugging Face:

If you'll be at MPSA next week, consider attending this CwC on the separation of powers I organized with support from the Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy on Friday. We have four fantastic panels at the theoretical, empirical, and methodological cutting edge of SOP and institutions research.

I have a new paper conditionally accepted at Journal of Politics @[email protected] where Massimo Morelli and I show how important it is to have a skilled bureaucracy for politicians' ability to get things done! Check it out! lucabellodi.com/material/BM_Po…