What is "oligarchic sovereignty" and can it explain the tech bro seizure of the US government and its effects on the world? I discuss with some very thoughtful colleagues here: cup.org/3KZzRly Free to read as a Christmas gift to you all:

As @abenewman.bsky.social and I might say, hegemonic enshittification has consequences www.wired.com/story/enshit...

New working paper w/ @erikvoeten.bsky.social on the hottest topic in town: data centers! We show how concerns about #digitalsovereignty, decarbonization, electricity costs & local environmental impacts shape public support for data center construction in #Germany. osf.io/preprints/so... 🧵 ⬇️

New working paper w/ @erikvoeten.bsky.social on the hottest topic in town: data centers! We show how concerns about #digitalsovereignty, decarbonization, electricity costs & local environmental impacts shape public support for data center construction in #Germany. osf.io/preprints/so... 🧵 ⬇️

This is correct! Researchers find that a) most people underestimate the administrative burdens of immigration, and b) when informed about these burdens become more supportive of immigration. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

Remember when dense networks of strategic cross-shareholdings among firms, native to coordinated market economies, went the way of the dodo? The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors? Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Ahead of tomorrow's hearing on European "censorship" of Americans under the Digital Services Act, I have a new blog post explaining why that is not a thing. You can get the gist in about two minutes of skimming the bold text, or stay for the details. 1/ cyberlaw.stanford.edu/a-primer-on-...

This is the coverage of Trump's high tariffs on India in one prominent Indian financial paper. economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/i...

Excited to report my article "Digital Interdependence and Power Politics" has been published open access in @bjpols.bsky.social. I use internet measurements to understand how international security influences global data flows www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Notable that Ron Estes, the ‘revenge tax’ author and influential Republican, supports a US return to the multilateral bargaining table on digital taxes: www.fdiintelligence.com/content/bc16...

In the latest issue of Global Studies Quarterly, Lars Gjesvik and I develop a conceptual argument to analyze the evolution of digital governance strategies in the 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺 and 🇨🇳. A short thread🧵 academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... @gsqjournal.bsky.social

Looking forward to the EUSA conference in Philly this week. Come by Friday, 8 May at 5:30 for my talk on how the introduction of security logics into EU politics may reshape Europe. More info here: bit.ly/4lA5Civ

📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData

General Court of EU hearing on suspension of Data Privacy Framework, and it "should issue a decision for this main proceeding in a few weeks or months." www.hoganlovells.com/en/publicati...

Seems relatively clear that UK officials are laying the groundwork for concessions on the UK digital services tax. The DST absolutely can't "continue to garner significant revenue" if you exempt targeted sectors or tax profits instead of revenue. Those things are the whole point of the tax.

A series of European Commission decisions on whether top Big Tech companies are in breach of the bloc's digital competition laws could open up a new front in the EU-US trade war.

I'm excited to report that "Digital Interdependence and Power Politics" has been conditionally accepted at BJPS. I learned how to be a political scientist by iterating versions of this paper. The next thing this paper will teach me is how to use natbib.

Fight over Digital Services Taxes is back on as Trump threatens tariffs on countries that collect DSTs. As @abenewman.bsky.social, Lori Crasnic & I argue, DSTs were key to getting to the 2021 OECD global tax deal, which has now stalled: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... shorturl.at/i7XJU

Purging the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) raises serious questions about the viability of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. This agreement was already built on shaky grounds, as @gbeaumier.bsky.social, @abenewman.bsky.social, and I outline: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In a recent article with @abenewman.bsky.social and @jonasheering.bsky.social, we highlight how despite a veneer of cooperation, transatlantic data flows remain constantly at risk of costly disruption. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The European Court of Justice's decision to fine the Commissions for its role in enabling the transfer of European personal data to the US highlights the continuous conflict over data regulation across the Atlantic. iclg.com/news/22120-e...

Economic risk perceptions and willingness to learn about globalization: A field experiment with migrants and other underprivileged groups in Vietnam by Niccolò W. Bonifai, Edmund J. Malesky, and Nita Rudra is now available in Early View. ajps.org/2024/11/20/e...

How did we get global tax reform? Unilateral digital taxes in Europe and India played a key role. More generally signals how national rules can provoke multilateral negotiations. New work with Jonas Heering and Lori Crasnic. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Z2QVI...

We at @goodauth.bsky.social are excited to share this call for the Good Authority fellows program. Deadline is January 15. Application is brief. Please share! (And yes, in my mind, I'm calling it goodfellas.) goodauthority.org/news/good-au...