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Georgy Tarasenko

@tarasenkogeorgy.bsky.social

PhD Student in Government at Cornell University Fellow at the Center on Global Democracy Behavioral Political Economy | Political Psychology | Authoritarian Politics HSE University & Leiden University alum 🏳️‍🌈 georgytarasenko.com

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD@umpamdk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is consistent with earlier psychometric work that suggests 5-7 is the best response scale options, but good to see that the finding holds up in contemporary research. Also, good to see that labeling scales whether anchored or not has little impact on findings. academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

Do You Agree? Do You Strongly Agree? The Effect of the Number of Response Categories on Response Processes and Verification of Substantive Hypotheses

Abstract. This study investigates how the number and labeling of response categories in survey scales affect respondent behavior, psychometric properties,

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Georgy Tarasenko@tarasenkogeorgy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Just back from an incredible two days at the NYU CESS Experimental Political Science conference! 🎓 Happy to share that my poster, "Do Wartime Casualties Affect Support for the Autocrat? Evidence from Russia," won the Rebecca Morton Poster Prize !

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AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Forthcoming in the AER: "Social Preferences over Ordinal Outcomes" by Sandro Ambuehl and B. Douglas Bernheim.

Social Preferences over Ordinal Outcomes

(Forthcoming Article) - We study social preferences in settings where someone who chooses on behalf of others knows how those individuals rank the available options but may lack cardinal information concerning those comparisons. Contrary to majoritarian principles, most people place more weight on pre- venting least-preferred outcomes for others than on enabling most-preferred outcomes. Ranks matter both intrinsically and because they provide a basis for inferring cardinal utility. Ordinal aggregation principles are stable across domains and countries with divergent political traditions. Designing attractive social choice mechanisms is challenging in practice partly because aggre- gation principles that make manipulation diffcult yield outcomes people consider normatively unappealing.

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Georgy Tarasenko@tarasenkogeorgy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

As a TA in the US, I recognize this so much. Students often feel “effort = A,” but grades are supposed to reflect expertise and outcomes. I keep wondering: what would it take to make academic work the primary signal of achievement again—above extracurriculars, sports, and everything else?

Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle.com · 9mo ago

One of the Harvard report’s most compelling findings is that students almost universally speak about grades in terms of how much effort they put in. If they spend a lot of time studying and do all of the work asked of them, they believe, they should get an A. https://chroni.cl/4iiaoA3

Victor Gay@victorgayeco.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Call for abstracts for interdisciplinary conference on "Popular Support for Autocratic Regimes in Historical Perspective," May 26-27 in Toulouse @tse-fr.eu Deadline: Nov 15. Travel/accommodation will be covered. Please apply! Co-organized with Jan Stuckatz, Selina Hofstetter, and Mikkel Dack.

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Georgy Tarasenko@tarasenkogeorgy.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Tonight I had my very first lecture by a Nobel laureate — Claudia Goldin (‘67) at Cornell. Back when I thought of becoming an economic historian, her work was among the most important I read. And her famous blind auditions experimental study inspired my own interest in experiments.

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Grant McDermott@gmcd.bsky.social · 12mo ago

To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo... Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯 This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood. #rstats #econsky

Running dbreg::dbreg() on a full year of NYC taxi data... and it takes less than 2 seconds. dbreg( tip_amount ~ fare_amount + passenger_count | month + vendor_name, path = "read_parquet('nyc-taxi/**/*.parquet')", ## path to hive-partitioned dataset vcov = "hc1" ) #> [dbreg] Estimating compression ratio... #> [dbreg] Data has 178,544,324 rows and 24 unique FE groups. #> [dbreg] Using strategy: compress #> [dbreg] Executing compress strategy SQL #> #> Compressed OLS estimation, Dep. Var.: tip_amount #> Observations.: 178,544,324 (original) | 70,782 (compressed) #> Standard Errors: Heteroskedasticity-robust #> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) #> fare_amount 0.106744 0.000068 1564.742 < 2.2e-16 *** #> passenger_count -0.029086 0.000106 -273.866 < 2.2e-16 *** #> --- #> Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
Grant McDermott@gmcd.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Nice post by @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social on the scaling benefits that come from offloading your big regression jobs to a database. jamesbrandecon.github.io/blog/posts_h... (Showcasing some new-ish 📦 s that he, @apoorvalal.com & myself have been working on, but haven't really advertised yet.)

Political Behavior@polbehavior.bsky.social · last yr.

James Tilley & Sara Hobolt's newest publication finds that narcissistic personalities fuel affective polarization in the UK. Narcissism predicts both loyalty to in-groups and hostility to out-groups, deepening political divides. #AffectivePolarization Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Narcissism and Affective Polarization - Political Behavior

There are increasing concerns about affective polarization between political groups in the US and elsewhere. While most work explaining affective polarization focuses on a combination of social and id...

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Mike Frank@mcxfrank.bsky.social · last yr.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
Lusine Grigoryan@grigolus.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bsky has a thread composer now. To celebrate, here is a thread about our recent paper on antiwar attitudes and actions in Russia. In August 2022, we asked ~1000 Russians about their feelings regarding the war in Ukraine and whether they did or planned to do anything to oppose it. #polpsy #socialpsyc

Gefjon Off@gefjonoff.bsky.social · last yr.

Our Element is out! 🎉 Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms? www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies

Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies

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Nathan Goodman@nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · last yr.

Vincent Ostrom argued that both the Soviet Union & the American state masked imperialist dynamics with rhetoric of freedom. Moreover, he argued against relying on notions of state sovereignty, arguing that instead we should build relations of self-governance.

Cryptoimperialism is a theory for creating cryptoempires, hidden empires in which the control apparatus is concealed by a veil of secrecy behind rhetoric about "freedom" and "liberation." The other formula was worked out by V.I. Lenin. The success of Lenin's revolutionary efforts marked the end of Imperial Russia and created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its association with other socialist states governed in accordance with Marxist-Leninist principles. Lenin's approach to revolutionary struggles for liberation yields a form of cryptoimperialism analogous to Copeland's. The crises associated with cryptoimperialism are also reflected in the ideology used to organize the new nations of the Third World. In the second part of this essay, I use the theory of sovereignty to demonstrate how sovereign states are likely to become predatory states. Wherever liberation efforts draw upon concepts of state-building and state-to-state relationships as the keys to development in the 3rd World, we can expect extraordinary opportunities to exist for a few to exploit the many. We can begin to understand some of the sources of human tragedy--crises--in the contemporary world. In continuing this anlysis, I suggest that alternatives may be made available by drawing upon principles of self-governance. Understanding those alternatives depends upon a much fuller elaboration of the terms upon which alternatives are available in the constitution of human societies. Such an approach requires as much attention to the role of infrastructures in the fashioning of human societies as to that of the superstructures reflected in institutions of national governments.