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The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (coedited with Jared Rubin) is online. New chapters are posted at the end of every month. Current chapters up from Volha Charnysh, David Stasavage, Mark Koyama, Dr. Margaret Peters & others. academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

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It was a pleasure to have you here, Ellen! We look forward to seeing you again soon.

Check out Assistant Professor of Political Science Giuliana Pardelli’s latest publication! Great work Giuliana & co-authors NYUAD Social Science NYU Abu Dhabi #NYUAD_SocialSci journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

We are thrilled to announce that NYU Abu Dhabi will host the 11th Annual Asian/1st Annual MENA Political Methodology meeting in January 2024! Congratulations to Aaron R Kaufman, Robert Kubinec and Benjamin Laughlin on this achievement #NYUAD_SocialSci The Institute at NYUAD | المعهد NYUAD Social Science

🚨Why is ethnic & racial homogeneity correlated with higher trust & social cohesion?🚨 Using new historical data from Brazil, our working paper shows how cohesive & homogenous communities are both more likely to develop under stronger state institutions researchgate.net/publication/37…

Looking for alternatives to policing? So was the mayor of Medellin. In 2018, we worked with his govt to choose 80 neighborhoods. In half, the city intensified civilian staff and problem-solving 10-fold, for 2 years. The results were... unexpected. Paper: osf.io/preprints/soca…

🚨 Our review article on bureaucratic politics (with Sarah Brierley, @raugpott, and twitter-less Kenneth Lowande) is just out in Annual Reviews! doi.org/10.1146/annure…

🚨NEW W.P.🚨 w/ Antonella Bandiera & Horacio Larreguy Dictators distribute rents to local elites, but how do they pick beneficiaries? Family networks: well-connected elites can exploit family ties to control the masses Data: family trees & illegal public lands from Paraguay 1954-2007

For anyone who is interested in how empires govern their peripheries, my book “Imperial Borderlands” is available for pre-order on Cambridge Core: tinyurl.com/3tzsrsnt.

Borders in #Africa were not decided in Berlin & are not random! Causes? Geography, precol states & negotiations btw Europeans & Africans. Time to update high school textbooks! Jack Paine Xiaoyan Qiu & I American Political Science Review 🙏🥳 doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

🚨 New article in World Politics 🚨 Taxes In the Time of Revolution: An Experimental Test of the Rentier State during Algeria's Hirak tl; dr: we learned how Algerian protesters responded to info about regime subsidies-- good for the rich, bad for the poor. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

🚨 Brazil is known for its racial diversity and low trust, but is there a causal link between the two? 🚨 Our new World Development article with Giuliana Pardelli challenges this view and shows the crucial role of past state capacity in shaping both outcomes doi.org/10.1016/j.worl…

🚨Please share widely!🚨 J. Walsh, Beth Elise Whitaker, M. Ewers & I are hiring a new postdoc to join our growing team working on collective shocks and migration starting this summer. We're looking for a social scientist with strong data skills & interest in migration:

FirstView day for my newest paper American Political Science Review! 🥳 We show that when partisan redistricters draw the lines, they don't just take preferred voters: they also capture corporate headquarters. Take a look here: doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

📢 Just out in Journal of Politics @[email protected]! doi.org/10.1086/729961 (DM me for a copy if you don't have access; pre-print available at guillermotoral.com/turnover.pdf) 🧵⬇️

New research by Giuliana Pardelli challenges the view that agrarian elites always resist state expansion. This study highlights how economic interests and political power shape state-building. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

The October issue of World Politics is live! It features articles from Allison Carnegie Ricky Clark Noah Zucker; Tobias Böhmelt; Zaraí Toledo Orozco, Moisés Arce; Giuliana Pardelli; and Anders Woller #AcademicWriting muse.jhu.edu/issue/53448

🚨Why do people turn out less in some places than others, even in compulsory voting systems?🚨 In our new British Jnl Poli Sci paper w. Giuliana Pardelli, we highlight the role of migratory turnover in increasing voting costs for communities and test it using new municipal panel data from Brazil

It turns out migration isn’t great for turnout!? In our new British Jnl Poli Sci paper, Giuliana Pardelli & I show that local migratory turnover—incl. in- & out-migration—lowers turnout for movers and non-movers alike by raising voting costs (even in the context of compulsory voting in Brazil)