(1) Happy to share our new paper in @bjpols.bsky.social 📊 Together with the amazing @eaizenberg.bsky.social and @diliaravaleeva.bsky.social we analyze whether firms increasingly dominate interest group systems over time?
Diliara Valeeva
@diliaravaleeva.bsky.social
Asst Prof @Uni of Amsterdam. Researching how powerful actors—corporations, billionaires, and elites—shape technological futures, especially in outer space
Abstract of our new paper on evolution of corporate lobbying networks 👇 @bjpols.bsky.social
NEW - The Evolution of Firm Lobbying in American Politics: Testing Theories of Lobby Activity and Centrality (1999–2018) - https://cup.org/4dykWuq - @marcelhanegraaff.bsky.social, @eaizenberg.bsky.social & @diliaravaleeva.bsky.social #OpenAccess
New paper @marcelhanegraaff.bsky.social @eaizenberg.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social Are firms more active lobbyists in Washington? Many theories in PoliSci suggest they are. But we find remarkable stability. The structure of business lobbying did not change much over the past 20y cup.org/4dykWuq
New preprint 🚨 Social media is often criticized for reducing the quality of political discourse. How can we design social media to foster better conversations? We build a social media populated with Large Language Models (LLMs) to test how algorithms shape discourse 🧵1/ arxiv.org/abs/2310.05984
Simulating Social Media Using Large Language Models to Evaluate...
Social media is often criticized for amplifying toxic discourse and discouraging constructive conversations. But designing social media platforms to promote better conversations is inherently...
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