kinda hard to follow all the criticism of AJR: is the critics’ argument that their work is all wrong, woefully incomplete, or trivial? hard to be all three at the same time!

For those new (or not!) to Acemoglu & Robinson's theory of democratization (doi.org/10.1017/CBO978…), a must read on the fundamental mechanisms behind it is Robert Powell's 2004 APSR on Costly Conflict with Complete Information (doi.org/10.1017/S00030…).

Forthcoming in the AER: "Organized Voters: Elections and Public Funding of Nonprofits" by Camille Urvoy. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

New prominent negative probability supporter Ben Golub Itai Sher

Next week, Monday 18 November 2024, we welcome Benjamin Blumenthal (ETH Zurich), who will present "Environmental Policymaking with Political Learning." Benjamin Blumenthal

Excited and grateful to be given the opportunity to present my JMP "Environmental Policymaking with Political Learning" at the POLECONUK Webinar next Monday (3PM GMT)! The paper is available here: doi.org/10.31235/osf.i… DM for the link to the Webinar.

📢In this Journal of Politics @[email protected] blog post, Barton Lee argues that some politicians will “feign” support for policies that voters demand: proposing & publicly endorsing such policies but then exerting little effort toward their adoption. Why? Find out here ⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/politicians-wh…

It is ironic that our paper with Nicolas Lagios & ilan Tojerow on the 2002 demonstrations against the #FrontNational was published online by the Economic Journal on the day following the passing of #jeanmarielepen.👇 academic.oup.com/ej/advance-art… #econtwitter