Benjamin Blumenthal
@bnjmnblmnthl.bsky.social
now: FNRS & ECARES (ULB) | past: ETH, PSE (PhD) | game theory, pol econ, org econ | accountability, lobbying, etc. | minions enthusiast site: https://bnjmnblmnthl.github.io/
🚨 Davide Cipullo, Tommaso Colussi, Domenico Rossignoli and I are happy to share the call for the 26/27 Political Economy – Work in progress seminars. Tuesday, 5-6 pm, Universita’ Cattolica. Open to anyone doing political economy! Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Political Economy WIP - 2026/27
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New paper with Salvo Nunnari which aims to detect (partisan) motivated reasoning (MR) using experimental designs based on information order. This provides a flexible way to detect deviations from Bayesian updating which can be explained by MR. osf.io/preprints/so...
Call for Submissions: Democratic Resilience and the Politics of Belonging Columbia, June 4-5, 2026 Co-Organizers: @aalrababah.bsky.social (Bocconi), @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (Columbia), Shigeo Hirano (Columbia), @ginvernizzi.bsky.social (Bocconi) Submit: lnkd.in/eiPgt_w5 Details ⬇️
Please share! Call for papers in the formal theory section at EPSS 2026 @epssnet.bsky.social. Call for papers is open: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... We welcome individual and panel submissions on all substantive areas of political science!
Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
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My paper "Voter Information and Distributive Politics" has been accepted for publication at the AEJ: Micro 🥳 Ungated version here: osf.io/preprints/so...
🚨Davide Cipullo, Tommaso Colussi, Domenico Rossignoli and I are excited to open the call for the 2nd UniCatt Political Economy workshop! We have 2 great keynotes: Alessandra Casella and David Yanagizawa-Drott. Send us your papers (theory or empirics) and let us meet in Milano on December 18.
FT Editorial: "Unless the Israeli government agrees to an immediate end to the war and a surge of aid into Gaza, western countries should be sanctioning Netanyahu and his government." www.ft.com/content/69d5...
🚨 New paper with Jie Ma and @keithschnak.bsky.social: Democratic Accountability with Citizen Coproduction As always: read it, cite it, love it! Link: osf.io/preprints/os...
A survey of advances in modeling cultural transmission in economics and how these models differ conceptually from those employed in evolutionary anthropology, from @albertobisin.bsky.social and Thierry Verdier https://www.nber.org/papers/w33928
This recent EJ Virtual Issue on Accountability and Electoral Selection features my (not-so-recent) JMP. A great opportunity to revisit an old thread!
Royal Economic Society@resmedia.bsky.social · last yr.📢 EJ Virtual Issue: Accountability and Electoral Selection is now live. Free to read for a limited time! 🗳️ Featuring 11 key papers + intro by Editor Amanda Friedenberg, this issue explores the challenges of holding politicians accountable in democratic systems. 🔗 bit.ly/4n4Ca56 #EconSky
Great workshop on Democracy at @ethz.ch in collaboration with the @cepr.org. Food for thoughts with a view! @bnjmnblmnthl.bsky.social @bartonelee2.bsky.social
The latest econ scandal is another opportunity for non-econ people to smugly assert that econ is not, in fact, a rigorous endeavour; that it's merely about repeating what others have said; or giving ideological arguments a veneer of rigour. I suppose it's good to see that some things don’t change.
The abandonment of all moral principles in the pursuit of a good publication should lead us to reflect much more deeply on how the discipline functions, rather than focusing excessively on an individual's failings.
Forthcoming article by Charles Louis-Sidois "Both Judge and Party? Investigating the Political Unbiasedness of Fact-checkers" @eeanews.bsky.social Teaching materials available: www.eeassoc.org/teaching-mat... doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
Hilarious to see Macron once again trying to pretend that working conditions for researchers in France have not (further) worsened under his presidency. Europe -- and France in particular -- should get their act together on research rather than launch glossy but empty schemes.
Call for papers! The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be held in London on Nov 6-7, 2025. Organized by @nicolasajz.bsky.social, Cevat Aksoy and myself. The submission deadline is July 4. Apply here (and share widely): sites.google.com/view/tpec-mo...
Are lobbyists influential? The public sure thinks so, but applied political science since lobbying registration data emerged (late 90s) struggled to produce evidence that it does. In new review @wmjunk.bsky.social @heathbrown.bsky.social and I chart a wave of research showing that lobbying matters.
How Lobbying Matters | Annual Reviews
For decades, political scientists have struggled to provide empirical evidence that lobbying influences policymaking. A considerable gap arose between widespread public suspicions of lobbying and the ...
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among the best interactions I’ve had in an interview: a *game theorist* asking me whether we do not already have *too many* models, before asking me about the possibility of designing *new* mechanism design/voting procedures for political inefficiencies.
Policymaking under Influence is now online (doi.org/10.1093/jleo...) at the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization! 🙂
Policymaking under Influence
Abstract. Policymaking is an arduous process and politicians often fail to change the status quo despite their best efforts. I introduce the notion of infl
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Dark Money and Politician Learning (w/ @keithschnak.bsky.social) now online at @thejop.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Dark Money and Politician Learning | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
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It is very funny to see various European countries talking about schemes to attract US researchers to Europe, when the situation for so many academics on the Old Continent is so bad.
🚨 Deadline in two weeks 🚨
Pau Vall-Prat@pauvallprat.bsky.social · 2y ago📢 Submit your work to the Junior Workshop on HPE organized by @tinepaulsen.bsky.social, @franvillamil.bsky.social & myself. 📍 UC3M Madrid 🗓️ June 25, 2025 (just before EPSA) 📝 Deadline: Feb 21, 2025 🔗 Apply: forms.gle/F5zPJRWn6gr4... ℹ️ More info: www.pauvallprat.com/hpe-workshop #HPE #EPSA2025
Some implications of the model for the empirical literature on environmental politics: (1) Voters can use policy outcomes to determine which policies they want to see implemented in the future *and* which politicians they trust to do so.
Benjamin Blumenthal@bnjmnblmnthl.bsky.social · 2y agoI've just posted a revised version of "Environmental Policymaking with Political Learning" (osf.io/preprints/so...). Comments welcome! 🤗
I've just posted a revised version of "Environmental Policymaking with Political Learning" (osf.io/preprints/so...). Comments welcome! 🤗
📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 NICEP Conference What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics 📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd 📍 Nottingham, UK Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh... #EconSky
🎓Do you work on taxes? Consider submitting to the Workshop on the Economics of Taxation 🗓️ 3-4 June 📍 Barcelona 🗣️ Keynotes: @dinapomeranz.bsky.social (Zurich) & Youssef Benzarti (UCLA) DEADLINE: March 14th 👉 t.co/oeVJ5kR0GJ
