"Midterms" by Adam Przeworski open.substack.com/pub/adamprze...

Fascinating new paper by and @elena-amaya.bsky.social and Robert Braun on the role of folklore in shaping far-right support in Weimar Germany: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ... Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups? Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com: tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf

Exciting project joint with @cubel.bsky.social and Mariele Macaluso.

A new publication at www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We find that religious markers (esp. beards) can reduce perceived trustworthiness in Turkey. (That's why you often see me clean shaven ;-)

Recently accepted by #QJE: “Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict,” by Gehring (@kaigehring.bsky.social) and Schaudt (@paulschaudt.bskz.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Using surnames, we show that colonial-era hierarchies continue to shape access to Colombia’s best schools and elite social networks, limiting intergenerational mobility through both education and marriage. Read today's article to learn more:

New OA In ESR How do institutions and social norms affect tax payment? @lucaspasin.bsky.social #Aaszekely @squazzoni.bsky.social find that in low-quality institutions contexts, social norms can trigger vicious cycles of evasion, even when evasion is socially disapproved doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf057

1/ 🎙️ New episode of Policy Implications! I talk with @plvezina.bsky.social about Ukrainian refugees in Poland who aren’t just workers, but entrepreneurs creating new businesses and even boosting Polish firm creation. This season is supported by @econ4ua.bsky.social and Kozminski University 💛💙

🚨Free book alert (for 2 weeks)! In her new CUP Element, @caglayanbaser.bsky.social shows that rebel groups with♀️combatants are seen as more gender-equal, democratic and morally legitimate, even when they perpetrate violence. This increases public support for government sponsorship of rebel groups!

can't wait to dig into the data with @tommasopavone.bsky.social. This is probably one of the largest survey experiments ever run in Slovakia, a country you will not find analysed in the big journals very often

Happy to see my article with @joostvanspanje.bsky.social on the short-term political consequences of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy announcement published in @psrm.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

There is growing interest in HPE about social conflict in the run-up to the French Revolution. In a new article at Data & Corpus, I describe the Jean Nicolas Database, a database of 8,516 rebellions in France (1661-1789) 👉Article: doi.org/10.46298/dc.... 👉Database: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... 🧵1/6

🚨NEW WORKING PAPER🚨 Why are many Latino immigrants *not* naturalizing, learning English, and participating in American politics? We provide new theory and evidence across 3 surveys and an instrumental variables approach to show how migration motives shape immigrant integration. tinyurl.com/3expvu8e

Can Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) extract features of urban neighborhoods from street-view images? New with Paige Bollen (OSU) and @joehigton.bsky.social (NYU): Sometimes, but the models better recover national assessments that local ones, even w/additional prompting (which can make things worse!)

Carl is a fantastic researcher & knowing him well as a colleague, he will be an amazing mentor. Plus those look like very good postdoc positions. Please apply.

We got a new paper out on Ukrainian #refugee entrepreneurs in Poland, with Cevat Giray Aksoy and Piotr Lewandowski. Check it out here: cevatgirayaksoy.com/wp-content/u... and see below for a THREAD!!! 👇 #EconTwitter

Difficult to grasp how the crisis of UK universites - largely caused by bad policy and bad management - is not treated as a massive national problem that requires government involvement to help solve the issue. Product of a discourse in which parties don‘t want to be seen as appealing to graduates?

New data release from the Deportation Data Project: Every ICE arrest, detainer request, and book-in to detention nationwide between September 1, 2023 and October 15, 2025. deportationdata.org/news/2025-12...

#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Population Displacement and State Building: The Legacies of Pashtun Resettlement in Afghanistan - https://cup.org/4rgO1il - David B. Carter, @austinlw.bsky.social#OpenAccess& Luwei Ying #FirstView

Adaptive persistence of elite families despite regime change, alongside lasting regional scarring, highlighting the role of cultural transmission for social mobility, from Carol H. Shiue and Wolfgang Keller www.nber.org/papers/w34451

Ever wondered why some countries get recognition while others struggle to be seen? My book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 is finally out in the world! 📘 academic.oup.com/book/61560

📣Call for papers now open for our annual Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration. Rome🔥, May 28-29, 2026. More details below👇

This will spark some great papers: an open digital dataset of roads in the Roman Empire www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Państwo z palcem na spuście: dlaczego Brazylia toleruje przemoc policji i co to mówi o demokracji? - https://oko.press/dlaczego-brazylia-toleruje-przemoc-policji-i-co-to-mowi-o-demokracji

At La Statale Milano in the Social & Political Sciences Dept. with NASP graduate school & EPRA Hub we have organised a new seminar series: Milan Conflict Research Seminars (MiCoReS). Here this term programme.

Worth checking out: preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...

📢 New publication! 📢 Does political violence backfire in mature democracies? In this article, @kkrakows.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and @juansemorales.bsky.social (Wilfrid Laurier University) examine how the January 6 US Capitol Attack affected public support for US politicians.

Looking for rising stars in Historical Political Economy? 🌍📚 Check out this year’s job market candidates: www.broadstreet.blog/p/hpe-candid...

🚨 New paper: “Does Rent Control Turn Tenants Into NIMBYs?” in the Journal of Politics (JOP) (joint work with @anselmhager.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social) 👉 Have a look over here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Most important findings in this thread: 1/11

🚨🚨🚨Announcing a special issue on “Political Violence in Democracies” published by @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social and edited by @andrearuggeri.bsky.social, U Daxecker, and me. In this very long 🧵, I will introduce the special issue with its 14 articles. doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Vicente Valentim Receives the 2025 Robert A. Dahl Award for “The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand” The Robert A. Dahl Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor an untenured scholar who has produced…

🚨New ‪paper from our colleague @dianebolet.bsky.social and co-author @florianfoos.bsky.social: Media interviews with extreme-right activists normalise their ideas. 👉 Uncritical interviews ↑ agreement & perceived support 👉 Critical interviews ↓ persuasion but still raise perceptions of popularity

This September, I’m launching a new series as part of my Respect the Marble Substack called:
 Etched in Marble: Conversations with writers about how & why they write I wrote about in my latest post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/introducin... 🧵

@magnusrasmussen.bsky.social, @chknutsen.bsky.social, @charasz.bsky.social, @deandulay.bsky.social, and I are closing down #IPSA with the last panel of the conference - come if you still have energy and want to see some intriguing projects using historical evidence in a variety of ways! ‪‪‪‪

📢 The most recent volume of the Annual Review of Political Science is now online. Take a look at the table of contents arevie.ws/45pJ0f1

What a cool paper: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

🏙️What happens when a city loses its capital status? #MyPhDPitch In 1999, Poland cut its regions from 49 to 16, leaving 31 cities without their former role. At @eui-eco.bsky.social, @martakorczak.bsky.social studies how this reform shaped local development, from brain drain to lost business appeal.

🆕 Motives matter: Reducing fare evasion at metro stations in Argentina Today on VoxDev, @kkrakows.bsky.social (King's College London) & Lucas Ronconi (Universidad de Buenos Aires) discuss the impact of sanctions and social norms on accountability-seeking behaviour: voxdev.org/topic/public...

🆕 Public policy that appeals to a citizen’s sense of civic duty helps stimulate an interest in holding those in positions of power to account, according to a study co-authored by our academic, Dr Krzysztof Krakowski 🤝 Read more 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/policy-...

We are pleased to announce the program of the 5th Early Career workshop in Quantitative Political Economy from 19 to 21 May 2025 at King's Collge London. Full schedule: sites.google.com/view/kingsqp... Non-presenting PhDs or Postdocs are very welcome to attend, just let me know!

My article with U Daxecker titled "Demanding Violence, Punishing Peace: Support for Party Violence in India" has been accepted for publication by The Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social. Below is a 🧵explaining the argument, the empirical case, and many thank you(s). doi.org/10.1086/736113

This, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

What a treat. Prof Adam Przeworski (NYU) at our Department of Political Economy distinguished lecture series. A true giant in his field and such an honour for our community to host him. @kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Over a century ago, 1.2 million Greek Orthodox refugees reshaped Greece. While initially lagging, they outperformed natives in education, favoring transferable degrees over local fields, from Michalopoulos, Murard, Papaioannou, and Sakalli https://www.nber.org/papers/w33586

🆕 research co-authored by @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social provides the first causal evidence that the Black Lives Matter protests following George Floyd's death had a significant impact on the 2020 US presidential election 🗳️ Read more below ⬇️ (@polbehavior.bsky.social) www.kcl.ac.uk/news/black-l...

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"National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! From @vinpons.bsky.social, Marx and Rollet. The companion paper: www.restud.com/electoral-tu... #EconSky #Elections