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Social scientist @ Columbia University | Formal Political Theory | Early memories: the fall of the Berlin Wall and that header by Claudio Caniggia | carloprato.com
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From which we conclude that The Bayesian Persuasion Police™ is more zealous than The Italian Food Police
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Unclear
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It was in Brussels, so not an option
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they’re called tweets, it’s generic now, like bandaid and kleenex
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This is a link to the radio: www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/
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Go for it
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My sense is that the contribution of closed primaries to the many pathologies of US electoral institutions is greatly overstated. But even if one agrees with the premise, I am skeptical that rcv will help. More on this shortly
osf.io/preprints/so...
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From the people who also brought you Inferno and Sangue di Giuda
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Spain being the undisputed leader in the genre
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I believe the adage applies to cheese in general: “Al contadino non far sapere quant’e buono il cacio con le pere.” I agree pear+pecorino is an excellent pairing. Fresh fava beans+pecorino is also delicious.
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Also this one by Dellis and coauthors, showing that rcv can incentivize entry by centrist candidates:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Updated version coming soon, slightly better for rcv. Bottom line: rcv can discourage “base” campaigning when group identities are not very salient (eg primaries—maybe). But when they are, it encourages it.
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Or, compromise can only be reached by choosing a relatively inexperienced person—like certain medieval Popes—who everyone thinks they can bend in their direction?
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We are indebted to several people who encouraged, helped, commented, suggested, and inspired us. Including polisky-ers @chitbazoo.bsky.social @hannafolsz.bsky.social @annemeng.bsky.social
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While this review is by no means exhaustive, our hope is to facilitate a closer integration between theory and empirics on a topic of fundamental importance (Fin—for now)
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The effect of citizens’ normative attachments to democratic values is also nuanced; for instance, fire alarms are less effective when citizens’ responses to severe violations are expected to be strong (7/n)
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What did we learn? Among other things: polarization (both mass and elite) increases the risk of electoral manipulation but can actually lower the risk of executive aggrandizement (6/n)
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We then show that the same classification scheme can be productively applied to the (many) recent empirical articles on democratic backsliding recently published in political science (5/n)
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We then propose a meta-model through which we proceed to replicate, in a simplified form, the key insight of each of these models (4/n)