VALPOP project
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VALPOP investigates how the distribution of public goods is influenced by societal networks and their degree of populism. Funded by Horizon Europe. Views expressed are our own. https://www.valpop-project.eu/
An intense project meeting in Copenhagen with our VALPOP colleagues has just ended. Exciting times ahead as we put the data we’ve collected (+156 million documents) to work, exploring how societal networks, populism and the rule of law shape the creation, distribution and valuation of public goods.
New research by VALPOP colleagues Vera Kunczer & Thomas Lindner shows firms are 28% less likely to invest in countries with highly populist governments. Where pro-business populists reduce this negative effect, anti-immigration regimes strengthen it. The study👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Populism, regime characteristics, and MNC location choice - Journal of International Business Studies
Countries with populist governments are less attractive investment destinations for Multinational Corporations (MNCs), as foreign firms tend to be delegitimized and targeted as members of the outgroup...
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What can 500,000 news articles reveal about political power? The #VALPOP pipeline transforms unstructured news into structured networks of political elites. Learn how we tested the pipeline on Austrian and Polish news in this paper by Kirill Solovev & Jana Lasser👇 arxiv.org/abs/2606.27347
Mapping Political-Elite Networks in Europe with a Multilingual Joint Entity-Relation Extraction Pipeline
Whether political elites organise into rent-seeking coalitions that capture public resources or civic networks that sustain governance is a central question in comparative politics. Yet observing thes...
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Year 1 of VALPOP is wrapping up! We met at @wuvienna.bsky.social 🙏 to discuss progress. Focus now: large-scale data collection. We are building core datasets from ~180M public articles to map societal networks & populist rhetoric, connecting them to the governance of public goods. Y2, here we go💡
Some interesting NZ perspectives ahead: join our panel session on 📅7 Nov on corruption, populism and the role of societal networks in the distribution of public goods⚖️ @euinnz.bsky.social
Fresh insights from our panel session at the workshop on geopolitics, organised by the Institute for International Business at @wuvienna.bsky.social. The session explored how geopolitical shifts and populist politics shape the creation and distribution of public goods🛢️ #geopolitics #publicgoods
Geopolitics, populism and public goods: insights from the VALPOP project
Paper Development Workshop on Geopolitics 23 September 2025 At the Paper Development Workshop on Geopolitics, the VALPOP team, represented by Dr. Michael Wolfesberger (WU), Laurenz Tinhof (WU), and ...
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6 months into VALPOP! Thanks to Copenhagen Business School for hosting our 2nd meeting🙌 We discussed progress & a paper by Laurenz Tinhof & Harald Puhr on FDI & mutual value capture between MNEs and local actors. Key takeaways: ✅ FDI isn’t one-sided ✅ Governance matters ✅ Fairness & balance count
📣 Paper Development Workshop: Geopolitics, Strategy & International Business 🗓️ 23 Sept 2025 | 💻 Online 🎓Hosted by Institute for International Business at WU ✨ Includes a VALPOP session on geopolitics & public goods 📝 Submit by 25 Aug, noon CET → ib-pdw@wu.ac.at #geopolitics #internationalbusiness
Paper Development Workshop on Geopolitics, Strategy, and International Business
Featuring a VALPOP session on the connection between geopolitics and public goods The Institute for International Business at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) is organising an online...
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How can companies contribute to public goods? Fresh insights from the Business Case Challenge 2025 and VALPOP Roundtables, arranged by Vienna University of Economics and Business & @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social www.valpop-project.eu/how-can-comp... #CorporateResponsibility #PublicGoods #Sustainability
How can companies contribute to public goods?
Insights from the Business Case Challenge 2025 and VALPOP Roundtables As part of the Business Case Challenge 2025, where university and high school students work on real-world business challenges fr...
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