Diego Romero

The deadline to apply to the Building Democratic Resilience workshop is coming. Please consider submitting your work!

Poll after poll shows corruption is THE issue voters care about. And Jeffries goes out of his way to praise Adams, whose public corruption charges were dropped after Trump’s DOJ unceremoniously shut the case down?

Democrats have the winning hand right in front of them. Wild that they won’t play it.

Excited for NPEC this week at Brown University where
@diegoromero.bsky.social
and I will present our work on the effects of organized crime on public procurement capture in Guatemala along such stellar colleagues! Thanks to @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social and Brian Knight for the invitation!

📢 Call for Papers! Building Democratic Resilience workshop — Mar 6, 2026 at The LBJ School, UT Austin. Organized by @isabellatingley.bsky.social & me. Seeking work on democracy, backsliding/resilience, institutions, attitudes & civic engagement. Apply by Oct 15: tinyurl.com/BDRLatAm

Affect, Not Ideology: The Heterogeneous Effects of Partisan Cues on Policy Support - Political Behavior How do individuals process political information? What behavioral mechanisms drive partisan bias? In this paper, we evaluate the extent to which partisan bias is driven by affect or ideology in a thre...

Our paper with @samjfuller.bsky.social and @jrametta.bsky.social is finally out at @polbehavior.bsky.social! You can find it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A reminder that we are hosting the webinar below on Wednesday at 12p ET. We would love if you joined us!

upenn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

My grant was one of those terminated. Our team included political and climate scientists using machine learning/language models and a unique corpus of high quality media from developing countries to model the effects of climate change on climate adaptation, political stability, and conflict. (1/2)

The episode #123 of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast features an insightful discussion with experts from the QoG Institute, Marcia Grimes and Monika Bauhr, on the complex relationship between corruption and democracy.

🎧 Listen now:
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GLD fellows 2025.

As we step into a new year, we are excited to welcome a new group of GLD Fellows! A heartfelt welcome to our 12 new program fellows joining us in 2025.

Here’s to a year filled with collaboration and shared experiences 🎉

Join me tomorrow at the World Bank to talk about how @pdri-devlab.bsky.social and others are using AI/ML to increase and improve civic engagement.

Register here: bit.ly/49fZoOF
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🚨Call for Papers🚨 Psyched to announce the CBS-Princeton Money in Politics conference to be held in Copenhagen, June 2024. Third iteration of the conference, always a fantastic experience. Send us your papers before Jan 5, '24!

Link: shorturl.at/ampPV 1/2

We are still searching for a program manger here at PDRI-DevLab, who would manage a portfolio of studies around migration, displacement and human trafficking. Come work with Erik Wibbels, and I and our great, fun, and collegial team. Please consider applying (or nudging others to apply).

It’s Hispanic Heritage Month! I’m going to intro my fave Hispanic scholars. A little about me: I’m TT AP at Purdue. 1st gen Amer. Cuban (Mom), Aruban-Venezuelan (Dad). Lived in LOTS of places, inc VZ. High school dropout, comm college grad, JD & PHD. Research rebel law/gov & conflict resolution.