Mads Dagnis

Quantitative political science shouldn’t favour tools over meaning - Impact of Social Sciences Has the fetishization of quantitative tools obscured the wider context and meaning of in political science?

Methods don’t make meaning. Theory does.

Better methods won’t eradicate the slot machine.

Put the tools to the use of theory.

Thanks to @lseimpactblog.bsky.social for featuring my post.
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Gender Differences in Economics Seminars (Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Thank you for a brilliant episode!

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

This week we’ll feature three sections to provide more information about the conference.

🔝 This time: Public Opinion, Political Communication & Political Methodology

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When Nature Strikes: Which Regimes Exploit Natural Disasters for Fiscal Expansion? This study examines how different types of regimes use performance-based legitimation after severe natural disasters. While prior research has evaluated emergency relief, broader fiscal responses rem....

When Nature Strikes: Which Regimes Exploit Natural Disasters for Fiscal Expansion? A new article in Governance with Suen Wang examines this question. We find that hybrid regimes do, while democracies and autocracies do not.
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📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference.

🔝 This week: Comparative Politics & International Relations

Yes - looking forward to seeing you there!

Congrats Jan!

📚🏛️Welcome back to campus! Join us at our Open House next week to meet our faculty and fellow Europeanists 🇪🇺 Discover what CES has to offer!

🗓️ Sep 10, 4:30-6:00pm
📍Adolphus Busch Hall

Tillykke Jacob!

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New study out today—“Is the Urban-Rural Divide Affectively Polarised?“ finds a substantial political cleavage between urban and rural populations in multiple European countries. Place-based affective polarization is associated with voting along liberal vs nationalist divide #PoliticalScience

Dansk økonomi trodser verdens kriser Der er udsigt til vækst og flere penge til forbrug de kommende år, viser prognose fra regeringen.

Det er jo ligesom i 2006, hvor den daværende finansminister sagde, at "faktisk går det så godt, at Danmark snart ejer hele verden"... www.dr.dk/nyheder/peng...

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

Very insightful update on the EU Commission’s new structural funds proposal. There already has been quite some renationalization in previous funding rounds, but the outright move away from regional funding would be quite a change to our understanding of EU governance.

Gudhjem sunset:

Out now🎉 - Evidence (from distribution analyses and machine learning models on EES 2014-2024 data) of strong similarities and growing convergence in EU public opinion, particularly on economic issues. Common right-ward shifts on immigration, yes - but underlying drivers still vary. shorturl.at/KCx0S

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💸CBS-Princeton in Money in Politics conference starting in ~12 hours 💸

Huge congrats - this couldn't have gone to a more deserving person!

Understanding the Heterogeneity of Intergenerational Mobility across Neighborhoods | Becker Friedman Institute Recent research has uncovered substantial differences in intergenerational mobility across neighborhoods, in countries and continents around the world. In some neighborhoods, children from low-income families grow up to join the middle class (and beyond), while in other, nearby areas, children from comparable backgrounds are more likely to remain trapped in poverty. It is unclear, however, Read more...

In Denmark, most intergenerational mobility variation is due to family location choices and random factors. Urban areas promote greater upward mobility than rural ones. New research brief from @durlauf.bsky.social (@harrissocial.bsky.social)and co-authors.

#EconSky

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Still six days to the application deadline for the V-Dem Directorship position!

Contagious representation? How regime type conditions the effect of legislative gender quotas on equal access to state jobs This study examines the “contagious” effect of legislative gender quotas on gender-equal access to jobs in state institutions, and how this effect varies across regime types. Combining theories on ...

Can gender quotas in parliament drive broader gender equality in state institutions? Analyzing 160 countries over 40 years, we find that quotas increase women’s access to state jobs — but only in democracies, not autocracies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#GenderQuotas #Democracy #Autocracy

As an ally to the US, Denmark sent soldiers to Afghanistan and Iraq, had the second highest casualties per capita in Afghanistan. Trump is explicitly threatening a country that thought of itself as (one of) the US strongest ally.

Meninger: Professor Carl Henrik Knutsen: – Mer sannsynlig enn ikke at det amerikanske demokratiet vil overleve Trump Trump og hans støttespillere undergraver demokratiet, og det er en reell fare for demokratisk sammenbrudd. Det er likevel gode sjanser for at demokratiet overlever, men det krever mot-mobilisering.

Endelig fikk jeg skrevet ned kronikken som har tatt opp mye plass i hodet mitt de siste par ukene:

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The German Elections: Do the Results Portend a New Direction? On the heels of Germany's elections on February 23, join us for an analysis of the results with Melanie Amann and Benjamin Bidder of Der Spiegel, one of…

German post election maneuvering still underway but next week come see this with two Spiegel journalists
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Kom glad!: surveyselskab.dk/event/fysisk...

Thank you for inviting us @clint0475.bsky.social!!! An outstanding set of questions and discussion.

Happy to see this finally with page numbers!

Under Trump 2.0, it will be important to distinguish between policies that are illiberal, policies that are conservative and policies which constitute democratic backsliding. These are not the same thing.

From the abstract:

"The U.S. has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, with over seven million individuals admitted to jails each year. These incarcerated individuals are the only group in the U.S. that have a constitutional right to receiving "reasonably adequate" health care."