Paula Rettl

Respect the Marble | Catherine E. De Vries | Substack Catherine E. De Vries's Respect the Marble is a space for exploring how we write, think, and lead with clarity in a world that often rewards noise over depth. Click to read Respect the Marble, by Cath...

And also by signing up to her substack: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

How to write even when the words won’t come Books, articles and grant proposals do not arrive in a single stroke. They are created, like sculptures, through a thousand small movements. Here, Catherine De Vries explains how to develop ‘skill pow...

Are you looking to cultivate a healthier relationship with the creative process—both in academic research and beyond? I highly recommend checking out @catherinedevries.bsky.social's reflections and practical advice here: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-w...

🚨New paper out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Torben Iversen: doi.org/10.1177/0010...
We empirically separate economic factors from cultural backlash as competing explanations for right-wing populism, and find evidence for the former. We define the concept of “unfunded public goods.” 🧵

Very happy to see that my paper with Ken Scheve and @stasavage.bsky.social is online! it's about democracy, inequality and antitrust: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Thank you so much!

Curious about how public service delivery fuels far-right support?

Don’t miss this 🧵 by the best ERC PI @catherinedevries.bsky.social on our newly published article in @ajpseditor.bsky.social! 👇

And follow my amazing co-authors @marcocappelluti.bsky.social & @paularettl.bsky.social

Incredibly proud to share that our paper with @simonecremaschi.bsky.social , @paularettl.bsky.social and @catherinedevries.bsky.social has been published in @ajpseditor.bsky.social!

We argue and empirically show that reduced access to public services fosters far-right support in Italy. 👇

#Polisky

🗂️ Call for papers Bocconi University-Columbia Universiy Conference on Political, Social, & Economic Inequality

🔄 Yearly occurring conference, inaugural conference at Bocconi, June 19-20, 2025.

📆 Deadline: December 31, 2024

ℹ️ 500 words abstract form: accounts.google.com/v3/signin/id...

I am so excited that our paper on how public service deprivation helps to explain the success of the far right in Italy is now out @ajpseditor.bsky.social!

cc @simonecremaschi.bsky.social , @marcocappelluti.bsky.social, @catherinedevries.bsky.social.

You made my day, Alice! This means so much coming from you. Thank you!

Thank you so much @draliceevans.bsky.social for such a careful and insightful engagement with our work!

Our piece focus in perceptions of humanness of social media content. We use pair-wise models to compare platform and AI-generated content. We find:

- humans can in general separate real platform from AI content

- human rely on emotional cues to identify AI vs Human content

Our paper on how reduced access to public services (public service deprivation) increases electoral support for the far is forthcoming at @ajpseditor.bsky.social.

We have a new WP on the effect of increasing female labor market participation on gender attitudes. See the thread below!

Very happy to share that my paper has been published in @iojournal.bsky.social! I argue that outsourcing public judicial services to transnational, private actors can harm domestic legal development. Thanks so much to everyone who gave me feedback and support!

doi.org/10.1017/S002...

2/6 🧵WP by @simonecremaschi.bsky.social @paularettl.bsky.social @marcocappelluti.bsky.social & De Vries on effect of public services on far right support in 🇮🇹 exploiting a policy that reduced provision in small towns. Diff in diff estimates show more far right support. shorturl.at/AGH15

Migration crackdowns won’t help Europe’s moderate right Recent electoral inroads for the far right reflect public dislike of government cuts in public services

There will be many important elections in Europe next year, what can we learn from the recent results in the Netherlands? My take (feat. recent poli sci research, incl that of @simonecremaschi.bsky.social @marcocappelluti.bsky.social @paularettl.bsky.social & yours truly)

on.ft.com/46GsPqx

PSJMInfo ; Polisky - pls share widely.

Applications for Roberto Franceschi research grants open until 15 December: 6,000 euros to finance data collection on poverty, inequality and social distress. MSc and PhD students in Lombardy (and all PhD students who got their MSc in Lombardy) can apply
www.fondfranceschi.it/notizie/fond...

⚠️New WP alert⚠️
With @paularettl.bsky.so @marcocappelluti.bsky.so and Catherine de Vries we study a 2010 reform in Italy to show that reducing local public service increases support for far-right parties. Thanks Harvard Business School WP series for having us!
HBS WP: t.ly/C9up2
OSF: osf.io/5s2cu

I have a book chapter on Economic Globalization and Populism in Latin America and Beyond: books.google.com/books?hl=en&...