Ignacio Jurado

New publication (4+ years in the making): “The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook”. shorturl.at/VE2fU
We analyze the propagation of 1B+ posts across content moderation regimes, with @davidlazer.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @annenbergpenn.bsky.social

🚨 New @apsrjournal.bsky.social Paper! 🚨
In “When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands,” I study how empowering undocumented migrants can reduce labor exploitation and even weaken organized crime.

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Consolidator Grants 2024: Examples of projects Five projects awarded in the 2024 round of Consolidator Grants showcase the remarkable diversity of research topics and the broad geographical reach, with locations including Czechia, Germany, Latvia,...

Thanks to all of you that have contributed to this for your help and support! This achievement is also yours.
And thanks to the European Research Council for this opportunity! I am grateful and excited to start this project on the losers' consent. Stay tuned!
#ERCCoG
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Are you interested in democratic backsliding?

With @honoratam.bsky.social and Joep van Lit we are organizing a workshop on "Early Signs of Democratic Recession in Established and Backsliding Democracies"

Join us at the @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions

polisky

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Congratulations!

New paper now conditionally accepted at @thejop.bsky.social

With @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social - one of the best (& nicest) people in polisky - we ran a meta analysis looking at effects of educational group-based biases in candidate choice experiments.

👉https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/hrufe

Check out this new special issue in Electoral Studies: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/elec... It contains 7 cool articles on the nature and causes of AP - using observational and experimental data, focusing on measurement, elites and ideology, and an important theoretical piece as well.

We start the academic year with a warm farewell to Hadas Mandel (Tel-Aviv Univ.) after 9 months with us,and a welcome to Harris Mylonas (@harrismylonas.bsky.social), Beatriz Magaloni, & Alberto Díaz-Cayeros who will be spending the upcoming months with us!
We will keep you posted here of our events

Guess I should post something here, so I’m linking my job market paper! I examine the effects of ideological polarization on local politics through the lens of police union endorsements. tinyurl.com/2s7kdpem

Geopolitical change, de-risking policies, and backlash politics: My econ colleague David Dorn and I discuss the current challenges to globalization.

Since so many more people have joined, just a reminder that @fortunato.bsky.social and I are recruiting a two-year postdoc for our project on legislative capacity. Come to beautiful Copenhagen and work on a fun project. PSJMinfo

First post on Blue Sky!

Thought I’d start it with a thread laying out the chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (the proofs are finally in!)

The Handbook comes out in November

Come work with me!
Polisky PSJMInfo: 7 Jobs!

PS jobs at U Toronto
politics.utoronto.ca/employment/f...

And at the policy school
munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...

Thanks!

Hi @profmusgrave.bsky.social . I'd be grateful if you can add me to polisky. Thanks for organizing this.

Niche (🇮🇹) and posted in the other site but here we go:

I spoke w/ Rivista Il Mulino about a climate politics article I wrote for their new volume on "future challenges". The pod of the convo: www.spreaker.com/user/1547282...

TDLR: climate change is not inevitable. But politics needs to step up.

Glad to be here. Let the coordination happen!