🚨New paper forthcoming @apsrjournal.bsky.social!🚨 How do economic shocks shape politics? We study a plant disease epidemic in Italy🌱—finding it fueled far-right support It’s not just economic loss but how shocks uproot communities and interact with perceptions of state neglect shorturl.at/ntKyt

Any impact section in a grant proposal.

And for public services, you need public employees. After the financial crisis of 2010, most countries cut back on employee compensation. Most countries also reinvested in the years after. But not Italy and Greece. 🇮🇹 🇬🇷

Low levels of public sector employment often coincide with higher levels of outsourcing. The figure shows four Western European welfare states. 🇧🇪🇫🇷 versus 🇳🇱🇩🇪

I'm excited to release the 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 for #RStats ! Convert R dataframes to beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Quarto, Markdown, etc. Easy to learn; minimalist interface; concise syntax; ultra-customizable tables; and zero dependency. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

We developed an #Rstats API interface for the databases of the Flemish parliament. A fantastic resource for textual analysis research. www.flempar.be