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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 1d

Scholars & pundits have focussed a lot on the electoral demise of center left, but in doing so we paid to little attention to the electoral problems of the center right.

Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 3d

Fukuyama gets laughed at all the time because of "The End of History" (or at least because of the title choice), but honestly, "The Origins of Political Order" and "Political Order and Political Decay" are quite good.

Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 3d

It's 2025 and research institutes are still gating working papers/preprints written by academics. I don't know their business model, so they may have a reason, but for academics, posting *preprints* under a paywall without providing an ungated version is very unethical, sorry

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 8d

Fantastic news, congratulations!

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 8d

Riley's book is an important one.

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 21d

Same here.
August 2024: "This seems a nice easy paper to do as a side project."
One year later: "Let's get the job market paper done by the spring..."

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 25d

It's also related to an APSA/🍕 conversation with @ludwigschulze.bsky.social @robertovalli.bsky.social on when we should permute event dates in UESD

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 25d

Nice post by @kylefbutts.bsky.social. I have been puzzled too by papers using randomization inference in obs settings with no discussion of why/when the assignment should be seen as random.

www.kylebutts.com/blog/2025-09...

Kyle Butts

Kyle Butts -- Urban Economics and Applied Econometrics

www.kylebutts.com

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 25d

Gabriel Zucman be like

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 26d

Remember when the left was actively trying to get people fired for right wing tweets? A bunch of people back then said, "hey maybe ceding authority to companies to regulate private speech isn't exactly the leftist position you think it is." They all got called dirty centrists.

And here we are.

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 26d

Great opportunity to work with my fantastic colleague Mateo and a team of top political economy scholars. Consider forwarding to your students.

Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) @tse-fr.eu · 26d

🔍 #EconJob Research Assistant in Political Economy

You'll work w/ M. Montenegro @hlarreguy.bsky.social, J. Merilainen & N. Garviras

💡France-based—Toulouse ideal; remote OK; part/full-time
🧠 Advanced Stata skills + knowledge of Spanish preferred

Application: mateo.montenegro[at]tse-fr.eu

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · Sep 8

Radical-right parties are often linked to the “left-behind”. But supporting them when stigma is strong is costly. So who is willing to pay that cost early on, before it’s normalized?

In my new WP, I argue that breaking political norms is socially stratified. 🧵👇

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · Sep 6

All this thread.
Personally, my prior probability that a flashy headline finding is true, especially in the nutrition area, is close to 0.

Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"

Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds

Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age

www.theguardian.com

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · Sep 5

Terrific, congratulations! Looking forward to learning more

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · Aug 27

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions

(September 2022) - We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure disparate impact, regardless of its source, in the context of bail decisions. We show that omitted variables bias in pretrial rele...

www.aeaweb.org

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · Aug 16

Fyi statistical methods to detect ballot stuffing were often developed on Russian data because it was so easy to spot and validate

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 16

Trump: "Vladimir Putin said something- one of the most interesting things. He said 'your election was rigged because you have mail in voting. It's impossible to have mail in voting & have honest elections.' He said that to me because we talked about 2020. He said, 'you won that election by so much'"

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · Aug 14

Great paper that clarifies a long-standing doubt of mine on the connection between empirical measures of persuasion and its behavioral definition.

Identifying the Effect of Persuasion | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 131, No 8 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · Aug 12

Morton & Williams is a key reference, although mostly methodological it aims at building a paradigm.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality

Cambridge Core - Research Methods In Politics - Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality

www.cambridge.org

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · Aug 12

Are there any good reviews of how behavioral games have been used in political science? They are very popular in behavioral economics and psychology but seem underused in political science (for now).

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Aug 7

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Aug 7

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.

😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.

👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.

A short 🧵

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · Aug 8

Felicidades, Agustina!

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · Jul 29

A very interesting article on the logic of elite propaganda and group mobilization, an area with rich empirical evidence but many theoretical open questions.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Identity Propaganda | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

Identity Propaganda - Volume 54 Issue 2

www.cambridge.org

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Daniel Tavana @danieltavana.bsky.social · Jul 22

New preprint with @cmparreira.bsky.social and Lindsay Walsh posted to @socarxiv.bsky.social: "From Protest to Parliament: Lebanon’s October Revolution and the Rise of Movement Parties." Link: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · Jul 15

One of our “green new scam” research grants that USDOT terminated focused on making transit infrastructure more resilient to more frequent and severe weather events. But “climate change adaptation” was too woke, obviously, and doing this research is clearly unnecessary

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 15

The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight

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Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social · Jul 12

We always assume that politicians optimize their chances of staying in office. But it’s also true that politicians can be bad at politics.

This is the underlying theme of my take on the Kenyan opposition’s chances in 2027: kenopalo.substack.com/p/how-kenyas...

How Kenya’s opposition can defeat President William Ruto in 2027

In order to win in 2027 the opposition has to be bigger than the sum of its regional components; and engineer a wave election

kenopalo.substack.com

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