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🚨 please share! We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June. This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers. Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️ www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...

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Please spread the word: Reminder that, together with @emmylindstam.bsky.social and Joan Ricart-Huguet, we are organising a pre-EPSA workshop on Culture on June 25th at IE University. The deadline to submit papers is next week (Feb 15th). More details here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Let’s just hope we were right about this one…

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Yes. arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536

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Early this morning I saw a pineapple liying on the sidewalk and the image has been haunting me since.

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[CONFERENCE ALERT] Political, Social, and Economic Inequality Organizers: A. Alrababah and G. Invernizzi (Bocconi), S. Hirano and C. Prato (Columbia) The conference will be held at Bocconi University on June 19-20, 2024. Submit here before 12/31: shorturl.at/fDyoD

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Where Ian Turner and I argue that weakening congressional oversight may actually undermine presidential attempts to influence bureaucrats

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With @ginvernizzi.bsky.social, @carloprato.bsky.social and Shigeo Hirano, we're thrilled to announce the inaugural Bocconi-Columbia Conference on Political, Social, and Economic Inequality. 📅 Mark your calendars: June 19-20, 2025 at Bocconi University!

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This is interesting. One can also interpret this in terms of aspirations—and maybe the connection between aspirations and expectations is cohort-specific. But still.

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A counterexample: in my first election as a US voter, I supported the adoption of RCV in NYC based (among other things) on what I thought was a very compelling intuition. The math showed that the intuition was spectacularly incorrect

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Also, if you are looking for a balanced, ungated, and accurate source of Italian news, I recommend ilpost.it

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This headline is ambiguous

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“The mass migration of November 2024”

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It is not a coincidence that the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics this year recognizes a body of research centered around the importance of well-functioning institutions. For me it’s a bit like my team won the world cup but I cannot really celebrate. Bittersweet.

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New website, still rather spartan but I updated food recs. carloprato.com

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One of the things I will remember about these days is the wonderful contrast between the soothing jazz music played by the Columbia radio and their really high-quality coverage of the campus events

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Today is the perfect day to share that my article with Juan Masullo "The Political Legacies of Wartime Resistance: How Local Communities in Italy Keep Anti-fascist Sentiments Alive" is forthcoming at @cpsjournal.bsky.social ! A preprint is available at osf.io/ve8w4 polisky

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I don’t know where this originated but it’s too good not to share.

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My favorite Kate theory so far, from threads

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Register for the Rebecca Morton Experiments conference at NYU on March 1 and 2: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... We have a great lineup of papers and posters — schedule and more info on the conference website: wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica... Please join!

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how your email finds me:

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What happens when a formal modeler and a political psychologist walk into a room? …Very excited that my paper with @keithschnak.bsky.social, Anger and Political Conflict Dynamics, has been accepted at APSR! 1/7

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#psjminfo

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Two-year post-doc in Russian Politics at the Harriman Institute at Columbia. Deadline Jan 8. Applications from all social sciences accepted. Come work with us. apply.interfolio.com/135397

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❗Job openings in our unit ❗ We currently have two job openings: Postdoctoral Research Fellow Deadline for applications: 14.01.2024 www.wzb.eu/de/node/80075 Student Assistant Deadline for applications: 02.01.2024 www.wzb.eu/de/node/80074 Please share widely.

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I am looking for teaching work. Currently based in US Northeast. Long list of courses in my repertoire: American parties, Congress, urban politics, state politics, comparative institutions, methods, etc. Pipeline: party-in-elections, effects of electoral reform on descriptive representation. CV 👇

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Useful clarity.

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This probably sounds better in the original German

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Polisky

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Speaking of the fact that higher polarization -> weaker congressional leaders www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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