Halloween update 🎃👻: NEW PAPER ALERT 👻🎃: want to learn about how recent findings in HPE are challenging our priors about the origins of state capacity? Here is my Annual Reviews on *Endogenous State Capacity*: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Thanks for engaging with the paper and sharing, Ross!
Simply platforming right-wing activists via interviews can increase public support for right-wing views and perceptions of the popularity of such views. Really cool use of audio as a stimulus by @dianebolet.bsky.social@florianfoos.bsky.socialosf.io/preprints/so...
Come along for Elias Dinas' talk "Seeds of Indoctrination: Political Exile and the Unintended Consequences of Repression", tomorrow at 4pm in the LSE Political Behaviour Seminar. As usually, you can join us in CBG 4.17, or remotely on Zoom. Looking forward! More info: www.lse.ac.uk/government/r...
Pre-print here: osf.io/p93kq 🔥Politics is increasingly about who we are (and who we are not!). So what happens when political parties use identities in campaigns? 📣Thread (1/n)
Very excited that one of my first-authored PhD papers is now conditionally accepted at the JOP! 🥳Through a digital field experiment in collab. with a political party, we test what identity primes mobilise supporters. 👉Going negative is mobilising but has drawbacks! #identity#campaigns#experiment
If you like pre-registered field experiments that manipulate identity primes & rely on validated behavioural outcome measures (💰), then you will likely enjoy this new (conditionally accepted at JOP) paper with the fantastic @katharinalawall.bsky.social@florianfoos.bsky.socialosf.io/p93kq
Does prolonged contact with migrants during wartime affect locals' attitudes towards them? In a forthcoming AJPS with Yang-Yang Zhou, we find no change in views despite up to 6 months of daily classroom contact b/t locals & migrants in Kandahar City, Afghanistan polisky
Haha I wouldn’t go as far as to say it’s excellent 😉
I’ve come to expect bad transport services in most countries, so whenever sth works I’m in a slight state of shock.