Shir Raviv Receives the 2025 Harold D. Lasswell Award for “The Evolving Politics of Using AI Algorithms in Public Policy Implementation”” The Harold D. Lasswell Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best doctoral dissertation in the field of…

Postdoc Spotlight💡Shir Raviv is working on the democratic challenge of AI: aligning algorithms with public values She designs field experiments & large-scale surveys that track how public attitudes shift based on experience & information exposure Read more: datascience.columbia.edu/news/2025/th...

🚨 Excited to share that my job market paper is now online at @thejop.bsky.social! "When Do Citizens Resist the Use of AI Algorithms in Public Policy? Theory and Evidence" shorturl.at/hHoxw 1/6

What does the latest research tell us about the current and future intersection of AI and democracy? Our Democratic Innovations external fellow @shirraviv.bsky.social hosted a conference to catch us up: bit.ly/3YgKlAl

Honored to organize the mini-conference on AI & Democratic Governance at @ispsyale.bsky.social! This year, we explored the risks AI poses to democracy, approaches to governing it responsibly, and its potential to enhance democratic participation and representation.

On my way to New Haven 🚆 and very excited to take part in the conference “AI and Democratic Governance: Challenges, Oversight, and Potential”🤖 at @ispsyale.bsky.social tomorrow! Thanks to @shirraviv.bsky.social for organizing it!

Excited to organize the AI and Democratic Governance mini-conference at @ISPSYale this Friday! Join us for a day of conversations on how AI is shaping democracy - its risks, oversight, and potential. ⚠️ Last day to register! shorturl.at/KEaE9 Open to the Yale community!

My department is *hiring a PhD* student (3 years, fully funded) for a research project on the social and political effects of AI-related technological change. *Deadline: May 4, '25*. See here for more information & to apply: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #PoliSky #Sociology #AcademicSky

"The Cultural Origins of Populism" by Yotam Margalit, Shir Raviv, and Omer Solodoch. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

We just launched a call for a workshop and special issue proposal on "The Politics of AI"! Excited to see many great submissions—join us in Oxford!

📢Special issue and workshop on "The Politics of AI: Citizen Perceptions, Preferences, and Priorities" 📢 We aim to bring together cutting-edge research on the political ramifications of AI for a workshop in Oxford and a special issue in a leading political science journal.(1/2)

We are excited to announce the recipients of our latest research and conference grants: bit.ly/3ZvyXAj @winnievandijk.bsky.social @johneric.bsky.social @barbarabiasi.com @jacobwswallace.bsky.social @leegeiller.bsky.social @elizaoak.bsky.social @shirokuriwaki.bsky.social @nottone.bsky.social

Read a summary of last week's conference on AI and Government: bit.ly/49WYO7z @shirraviv.bsky.social

It was an honor to host the conference on AI in Government at @ispsyale.bsky.social with stimulating conversations and reflections by the talented: Savannah Thais, Kirk Bansak, Alan Gerber, Eddie Yang, Virginia Eubanks @geomblog.bsky.social @elizaoak.bsky.social @kaylynjschiff.bsky.social

Excited to organize the AI & Algorithms in Government conference at @ispsyale.bsky.social on April 19, 2024. Join us to explore the promise, challenges, and politics of using AI in public policy. Agenda + registration: bit.ly/4ayMzii #Polisky

4/6 🧵  In PSRM @shirraviv.bsky.social & Margalit ask: what redistributive policies do citizens consider when asked about inequality reduction? Original survey & experiment in the US. Informing about concrete redistributive measures boosts support for government action doi.org/mdmt

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Very happy to share my paper with Yotam Margalit, now online at PSRM: "Does support for redistribution mean what we think it means?" cup.org/3HthSOR 🧵Here’s a summary thread… 1/

Experimental Research Section Award nominations are open! Deadline for nominations is April 15. I'm on the dissertation award committee with @robertblair.bsky.social and Love Christensen -- we want to read your dissertations whose main inferences are grounded in experimental design.

ICYMI: Apply to be a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton (due Dec. 1)! Most postdocs are matched to a specific faculty advisor (including, possibly, me). See below for more details. citp.princeton.edu/programs/fel...

1/12 It's that time of the year. We're just about done collecting data on 2,000+ participants for my Experimental Research class. This semester, we settled on AI image/video discernment as our key outcome, and 11 students submitted their own interventions.

At a Democratic Innovations workshop, @shirraviv.bsky.social shares her work on the politics of using AI in public policy.

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Happy to share a new working paper with Yotam Margalit, "The Politics of Using AI in Public Policy: Experimental Evidence" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/7

Israel's democratic crisis provides us with an opportunity to explore, in real time, who supports democratic backsliding. Our new working paper (w\ Noam Gidron, Yotam Margalit and Itamar Yakir) examines this issue using original pre- and post-reform panel data. Here's what we find: osf.io/zxukm/