Brian Knight and I are excited to announce the 3rd Northeast Political Economy Conference (NPEC), Oct 2, 2026 @BrownUniversity. Interdisciplinary (Econ + Poli Sci), 8 presentations, with keynotes by Rafaela Dancygier and Jesse Shapiro. Please submit by June 5: forms.gle/udPjigwcvFz9...

📢 Call for Papers – EUI PEARL PhD & Postdoc Workshop The Florence Political Economy Applied Research Lab is hosting a two-day workshop at the European University Institute. June 8–9, 2026. We'd love to see your work! [1/3]

Very happy to share our paper “Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies,” published in the Annual Review of Economics! Full paper here: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Short 🧵on main take-aways below. w/ E. Cantoni and J. Schafer #EconSky #PoliSciSky @annualreviews.bsky.social (1/n).

Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies

In recent years, voter ID laws and convenience voting have generated heated partisan debates. To shed light on these policy issues, we survey the evidence on the institutional determinants and effects...

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PEEP is back this year🤌 ! The 4th Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference will be hosted at Harvard on Sept 2, the day before APSA. We welcome observational, experimental and formal theory work focused on Europe. Deadline: March 1st. forms.gle/V6NEy4AfnSs7...

PEEP 2026 - Submission

Please complete this form if you would like to attend the 2026 Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference. The pre-conference will be held on Wednesday September 2, 2026 (the day before APSA) at ...

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Thrilled to see our paper on “Spending Limits, Public Funding, and Election Outcomes” published in the @jeeanews.bsky.social! 👇👇 We investigate the effects of far-reaching campaign finance rules, with Nikolaj Broberg and Clemence Tricaud. Short thread on what we do and find (1/n).

@jeeanews.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Forthcoming article "Spending Limits, Public Funding, and Election Outcomes" by Nikolaj Broberg @vinpons.bsky.social and Clemence Tricaud @eeanews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

Forthcoming article "Spending Limits, Public Funding, and Election Outcomes" by Nikolaj Broberg @vinpons.bsky.social and Clemence Tricaud @eeanews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

Spending Limits, Public Funding, and Election Outcomes

Abstract. This paper investigates the effects of campaign finance rules on electoral outcomes. In French local elections, candidates competing in districts

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🚨 New WP 🚨: All states monitor the political activity of their citizens. But who do they choose to surveil, and why? We study this question with the universe of Italian political surveillance files: 152,000 individuals born 1816–1932, across democracy and autocracy. 🧵 1/11

NBER@nber.org · 8mo ago

Studying the logic of state surveillance based on the universe of Italian files finds that states target educated and subaltern groups, with mobilization and radical change potential, from Gemma Dipoppa and Annalisa Pezone www.nber.org/papers/w34492

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 ⬇️

🧾NEW WP! New data, old divide 🧵 🇮🇹Our new @theifs.bsky.social WP "The #Geography of #Child #Disability in #Italy: New Evidence from Administrative Data" (w/ P Biasi & De Paola) uses administrative data on the 2024 Universal Child Allowance, covering 4m children under 10. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yk89t39e

@gemmadipoppa.bsky.social and I summarize the main findings from our @nature.com article on air pollution, crop burning, and public health in South Asia in @voxdev.bsky.social 👇🏽

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · last yr.

🆕 Strengthening bureaucrat incentives can curb crop burning and save lives in India and Pakistan Today on VoxDev w/ @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) & @saadgulzar.bsky.social (@notredame.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/energy...

Substantial earnings penalties exist for racial minorities in France. Compared to the US, lower overall inequality benefits French racial minorities, but rank gaps are comparable, from Yajna Govind, Paolo Santini, and Ellora Derenoncourt https://www.nber.org/papers/w34013

Thank you @voxdev.bsky.social for covering our (w @saadgulzar.bsky.social) work on bureaucrat incentives to reduce crop-related fires and air pollution! Full paper at www.nature.com/articles/s41...

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · last yr.

🆕 Strengthening bureaucrat incentives can curb crop burning and save lives in India and Pakistan Today on VoxDev w/ @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) & @saadgulzar.bsky.social (@notredame.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/energy...

In Italy, a major tax credit favored middle earners and boosted votes for incumbents, revealing a political-economy tradeoff, from Silvia Vannutelli https://www.nber.org/papers/w33973

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

🚨 June 30th deadline approaching 🚨 📣 Call for papers - CEMIR Junior Economist Workshop on #Migration Research 2025 📅 Event held October 28-29, 2025 in Munich at @cesifo.org 🗣️ With a keynote from Jens Hainmueller ‪of @stanford.edu ⌛ Details/Submit here: www.ifo.de/w/85244ca1

Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...) w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

National Elections Database

The National Elections Database provides detailed national election results for parliamentary and presidential elections worldwide from 1789 to 2023. The version 1.0 of this dataset was first built to...

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Vincent Pons@vinpons.bsky.social · last yr.

We are very happy to publish the "National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

Now available for preorder from Oxford University Press. Makes good beach reading too. www.amazon.com/Workplace-Po...

Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections

In many countries politicians rely on employers to influence the voting behavior of their employees, but this type of voter mobilization has received very little attention. draws on unique surveys ...

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We have a great lineup of papers for the Junior Workshop in HPE. A limited number of spots are available for scholars interested in attending the workshop. Fill this form if you want to join us next June 25 at UC3M forms.gle/DckGoQDfniTU... @tinepaulsen.bsky.social @franvillamil.bsky.social

🚨 New working paper 🚨 @yangyangzhou.bsky.social, @shuningge.bsky.social, Naijia Liu, and I have completed a shareable draft of our working paper entitled "Liberalizing Refugee Hosting Policies without Losing the Vote." We hope you find it interesting. See osf.io/preprints/os....

Happy to share a new paper now out in EJPR w/ @jeyalizade.bsky.social , @fabioellger.bsky.social and @mgruenewald.bsky.social exploring gendered effects of political violence on political supply. https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.70017 A 🧵 with findings

📌 Excited to announce the 2nd Northeast Political Economy Conference 📌 We (briangknight.bsky.social) are seeking submissions from economists & political scientists working on political economy topics. Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...

One week left to submit!

Maria Carreri@mariacarreri.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Last week to submit to PEEP- Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference (Vancouver Sep 10). Submit by April 30 tinyurl.com/4j65s2ye @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social @miguelpereira.bsky.social @awiedemann.bsky.social and I look forward to reading & organizing! Last year’s program below

Migration does not have to be what it is now Innovation can change what migration *is*—more orderly, skilled, integrated, & tangibly beneficial to everyone affected In 2012 I proposed one way: Global Skill Partnerships The World Bank just released a major GSP roadmap—> hdl.handle.net/10986/42780

📣 Please consider applying to the Political Economy of Europe Conference - right before APSA (Sept 10, Vancouver). More info: ⬇️ We look forward to reading your work!

Miguel Pereira@miguelpereira.bsky.social · last yr.

🗣️ PEEP - Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference - is back this year in Vancouver (Sep 10). Submit your work by April 30: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Last year's program below (co-orgs: Maria Carreri, @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social, @awiedemann.bsky.social)

🧵 How do criminal organizations expand to strong states? My paper in @thejop.bsky.social explains how mafias successfully moved to Northern Italy—by striking deals with local actors and exploiting migrant labor. Thread: ⬇️

Journal of Politics@thejop.bsky.social · last yr.

"How Criminal Organizations Expand to Strong States: Local Agreements and Migrant Exploitation in Northern Italy" by Gemma Dipoppa. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Lots of talk about ‘left behind’ places & far-right’s rise. How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support? In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper exploring Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out shorturl.at/xgeho

🚨🚨🚨🚨 New WP (with @benckrick.bsky.social @austinlw.bsky.social) available at the ESOC working paper series: esoc.princeton.edu/wp39

🚨 The proposal deadline for the Yale-UB HPE workshop is fast approaching! 🚨 We'll count with amazing Saumitra Jha (@saumjha.bsky.social) & Steven Wilkinson. Info of previous editions at www.didacqueralt.com/yale-ub-hpew CC @cescamat.bsky.social (UB convener) Help us spread the word!

Thanks a lot to APSA Public Scholar @siennanordquist.bsky.social for this excellent review of my paper. You can read her own research on human trafficking at siennanordquist.com

SIENNA NORDQUIST

Bocconi University ​Class of 2026 PhD in Social and Political Science – with Fellowship

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Sienna Nordquist@siennanordquist.bsky.social · last yr.

@gemmadipoppa.bsky.social finds in her new APSR paper that migrant mobilization ⬆️ reports of racketeering to police, state seizures of criminal assets, & votes for the far-left in 🇮🇹

📢 Workshop Call 📢 3d Edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Keynote: "Revolutionary Contagion" by Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson At University of Barcelona @ub.edu on June 30 and July 1, 2025 Send us your papers by Febr 28: shorturl.at/w96jk @didacqueralt.bsky.social