This was an incredibly inspiring workshop! Thank you so much @giorgiomalet.bsky.social, @jellekoedam.bsky.social, @tinepaulsen.bsky.social & @nicolaiberk.bsky.social for organizing and showing us the best “Badi” spots in Zurich

We find that these resolutions significantly depressed turnout in affected municipalities, with opposition parties showing less mobilization capacity. By contrast, turnout for the incumbent Law and Justice Party increased substantially.

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We use a synthetic difference-in-differences design that allows us to compare treated municipalities to re-weighted synthetic controls with similar pretreatment voting outcome trajectories, successfully aligning trends.

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Illiberal actors worldwide have adopted anti-gender and -LGBTQ policies to bolster their political agendas. We use a prominent case of contemporary political homophobia to study its electoral effects: the establishment of so-called “LGBT-free zones” in hundreds of municipalities in Poland.

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New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia:
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Absolutely thrilled to have had Gemma Dipoppa giving a guest lecture on "the political determinants of migrant labor exploitation and how to fight it" at my "Hate in Context" seminar today! Thank you @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social, my students and I found it incredibly engaging 💫

Ciao Firenze! Happy to spent this week at the EUI, presenting my research at the Political Behaviour Colloquium.

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