How can researchers identify covert state propaganda campaigns in China? My co-authors Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts, Brandon Stewart @bstewart.bsky.social and myself are excited to share our new article in PNAS (@PNAS): doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Thread below.

The decade-long growth of government-authored news media in China under Xi Jinping | PNAS

Autocratic governments around the world use clandestine propaganda campaigns to influence the media. We document a decade-long trend in China towar...

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Women in politics face a 'double burden' of toxicity - more frequent attacks AND harsher consequences. New research by @GregoryEady & @a_rasmussen shows how prejudice amplifies political toxicity. #PoliticalToxicity #RepresentationMatters #APSR @apsrjournal."

How Gender Alters the Costs of Political Toxicity.

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Jack Wippell, covers the new article by Gregory Eady and Anne Rasmussen, "Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity." Is political toxicity— such as online hostility, abuse and intimidation— just a cost of doing business in modern democracy, or does it weigh more heavily on some groups than others?

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Lots of articles are in FirstView! In “News Sharing on Social Media: Mapping the Ideology of News Media, Politicians, and the Mass Public” @gregoryeady.bsky.social, Richard Bonneau, @jatucker.bsky.social, and Jonathan Nagler introduce a method to unify ideology measurement across media platforms.

NEW: Women politicians face 'double burden' of online toxicity 💻☣️ In a study co-authored by our academic, @annerasmussen.bsky.social, and Dr Gregory Eady, more light is shed on the issue of toxicity in politics (📚@apsrjournal.bsky.social) Read more 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/women-p...

Happy our correspondence is published: + Narratives on gen AI: existential risks, immediate risks, acceleration, balanced risks + They shape public perceptions & policy + We need more research to understand their impact w/ @argohdes.bsky.social A. Kasirzadeh et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs We show: 1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...

In less competitive elections, politicians shared more polarized information, finds @gregoryeady.bsky.social @richbonneau.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social & Nagler doi.org/10.1017/pan....

Check it out! (ungated here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y1omw...) Kirill, Xavier, and I tried hard to make this useful to wide groups of readers: new users of shift-share IVs, experienced users, and even those who don't know they that they are users

NBER@nber.org · 2y ago

A practical guide to recent econometric advances with shift-share instruments, from Kirill Borusyak, Peter Hull, and Xavier Jaravel https://www.nber.org/papers/w33236

A practical guide to recent econometric advances with shift-share instruments, from Kirill Borusyak, Peter Hull, and Xavier Jaravel https://www.nber.org/papers/w33236

The super election year is ending, with many winners and losers. Our new @thejop.bsky.social paper, (@henrikseeberg.bsky.social, @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social ) asks: How do winning and losing candidates see elections? Spoiler: Losers are more concerned about fairness. Link: doi.org/10.1086/734240

Good moment to remember this excellent paper on sports events and repression. Autocracies will often refrain from using repression during these events (and where it is more visible), but will increase it before and after: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2y ago

Saudi Arabia confirmed as 2034 World Cup host despite human rights concerns

New publication (4+ years in the making): “The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook”. shorturl.at/VE2fU We analyze the propagation of 1B+ posts across content moderation regimes, with @davidlazer.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @annenbergpenn.bsky.social

Delighted that @gregoryeady.bsky.social and my paper "Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies" is now online @apsrjournal.bsky.social (Open access) More in this [1/14]

"...integrating women into previously all-male units does not negatively affect men’s performance or behavioral outcomes, including retention, promotions, demotions, separations for misconduct, criminal charges, and medical conditions..." www.nber.org/papers/w33235 cc: reporters on DefSec nom

Happy to share that research by @gregoryeady.bsky.social & me on "Gendered Perceptions of Toxicity Online" forthcoming @apsrjournal.bsky.social, has contributed to two news stories that made it to the front page of Danish @politiken.dk politiken.dk/danmark/art1... politiken.dk/danmark/art1...

🚨 NEW PAPER: When low-income Americans get $1,000/month for 3 years, what happens to their political views & behavior? The OpenResearch Unconditional income Study reveals surprising findings about the effects of income on politics... 🧵

(1/7) 📢 New research alert! Even when people are shown clear evidence of #discrimination, it doesn‘t change their support for anti-discrimination policies. Read @kkrakows.bsky.social, @asmusletholsen.bsky.social, and my article in @ajpseditor.bsky.social to find out why: doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

The disadvantages experienced by minorities and lack of societal remedies are partly attributable to native-majority citizens’ limited awareness of minority hardships. We investigate whether informin...

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Man I cannot endorse this abstract more

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 2y ago

Just now seeing this paper reanalyzing the "Many Teams" paper on racial bias in soccer (29 teams analyze the same RQ with the same data, find different results). This reanalysis finds that variation in findings results from theoretical / interpretive differences. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

With Fox News hosts nominated for the cabinet, I wanted to share takeaways from two recently-accepted papers w @jkalla.bsky.social on partisan TV. There's been much skepticism that partisan TV actually affects public opinion. Our findings rebut that skepticism: partisan media matters! 🧵

Female content creators on YouTube received significantly more negative feedback for comparable content. But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand. sites.google.com/view/maritaf...

New (and first) paper from one of our fantastic PhD candidates at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social out in @bjpols.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000... @conorgaughan.bsky.social will be on the job market soon(ish) so you should keep an eye on him if you're looking to hire in computational social science

Conor Gaughan@conorgaughan.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨Happy to share that my first academic paper has been published by @bjpols.bsky.social! Using work from my PhD thesis, this research provides estimates of left/right position of UK MPs (2019-2024) using their Twitter/X follower networks. Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S00071…