Jason Anastasopoulos

Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks By Simone Cremaschi, Bocconi University and Nicola Bariletto, University of Texas at Austin and Catherine E. De Vries, Bocconi University While an abundance of scholarly work investigates how economic shocks influence the political behavior of affected individuals, we know much less about their collective effects. Exploiting the sudden onset of a plant disease epidemic in Puglia, Italy—where the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa devastated centuries-old olive groves—we explore the collective effects of economic shocks.

Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks

Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks By Simone Cremaschi, Bocconi University and Nicola Bariletto, University of Texas at Austin and Catherine E. De Vries, Bocconi University While an…

Should AI replace bureaucrats and if so, when?

In a new paper,I argue that democratic principles require human discretion whenever fairness, equity, or rights are at stake. But combining AI w/ bureaucratic judgment can still give us the best of both worlds.

osf.io/preprints/so...

Halfway through August APSA eJobs check-in #polisky (8/1-8/14):

August 2024: 65 positions (51 assistant TT positions)

August 2025: 51 positions (38 assistant TT positions)

It's interesting that the ratio of positions seems stable, but the overall number of positions available is down

End of the month APSA eJobs update #polisky (there may be a few others listed today, will add later)

July 2024: 93 positions (62 assistant TT positions)

July 2025: 58 positions (40 assistant TT positions)

I exclude non-academic positions / PhD studentships from the total count.

Cryptocurrencies and the Political Economy of Money At a time when the U.S. government has floated the idea of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and tech oligarchs question the viability of the sovereign state in the age of blockchains, there is a need f…

You wanna read a paper called "The Political Economy of Shitcoins"? Of course you do. @mcopelov.bsky.social and I are at your service.

Full paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Blog post: tompepinsky.com/2025/08/08/c...

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The Development of an Issue Public: Evidence from The Eras Tour | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

We have a JOP article about how swifties ~randomly denied tickets to the eras tour due to website allocation errors changed their views on related policies
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

let’s see the DAG though

The KKK of the 1920s is probably the most American organization to have ever existed; a for-profit fraternal organization, a multi-level marketing scheme founded by a defrocked minister to piggyback off of a popular movie, eventually torn apart by internecine infighting and a national sex scandal.

Editorial Principles at AJPS From: Dan Reiter and Adam Berinsky, editors-in-chief General Statement of Principles AJPS has for decades been recognized as one of the top two or three journals in all of political science.  The c…

AJPS has for decades been recognized as one of the top two or three journals in all of political science. The central goal of the new editorial team is to maintain and, if possible, further strengthen this reputation. Read about the Editorial Principles at AJPS here: ajps.org/2025/06/05/e...

What are some of the best papers on the political economy of federalism?

Useful and interesting

Brutalist buildings are awful and dehumanizing. Good riddance.

It's always nice to know when you're making a positive impact on students' lives.