Simon Chauchard

🚨🚨 Some hope: media and information literacy trainings - modules providing crucial skills to better consume information - in classroom settings appears to move the needle, and to have positive externalities!

Check out the (open-access) results of our large field-experiment in India.

Even subtle online rumors about out-group can ⬆️ resentment & conflict-related emotions. Results from large pre-registered experiment out in
@cpsjournal.bsky.social
, with Mathilde B. Mjelva,
@sschutte.bsky.social
, Helga M. Binningsbø.
@statsvitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social

Never felt more represented

2025/2026 here we go... 🚀

Check out our Permanent Seminar Series line-up for the fall! 🍂✨
This year is going to be full of exciting news—stay tuned!

Mandatory reading as always...though the most important quote may be elsewhere, in the association drawn between the short-term agendas/lack of overarching vision of current reformist parties and their losing this social base.

Political ethnography alert! 🚨

Fabulous article by @professorbiko.bsky.social and Tali Mendelberg in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social showing that MAGA is as much about 'reclaiming lost status' as it is about culture wars or policy preferences.

🚨 new paper out w/ @simonchauchard.bsky.social in BJPS @bjpols.bsky.social on the link between misinformation and religiosity- does religious belief cause people to endorse more misinformation? And if so, what can we do about it?

thread below ⬇️

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.

i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Wow looks great! will try and read, now :) Curious: does this have anything to do with the kind of leadership/mayors these cities have....like, active/"good" mayors manage to attract the tour and this is the kind of stuff that helps fend off the far right? Any data in this direction?

🧲 We are hiring!
✨ PhD position to join @dec-gr.bsky.social
🏁 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Pol Sci / Social Sci background + Master’s + English
📧 Send expression of interest with CV and motivation letter to gr.dec@uab.cat
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Political violence in democracies: An Introduction - Andrea Ruggeri, Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, 2025 It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...

🚨🚨🚨Announcing a special issue on “Political Violence in Democracies” published by @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social and edited by @andrearuggeri.bsky.social, U Daxecker, and me. In this very long 🧵, I will introduce the special issue with its 14 articles. doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Missed it in august! But this (with @sumitra.bsky.social) also is out at @bjpols.bsky.social

We map how religious beliefs and identities affect the endorsement of falsehoods, and use an experiment in India to test. More to do on the contextual drivers of misinfo, but this is a start. Check it :)

Inclusive reforms as levers for social exclusion: The paradoxical consequences of quotas for women in rural India Why do radical institutional changes to democratize who accesses power fail to change who realizes power in practice? We argue that disjunctures betwe…

New article out in World Development! 🚨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (ungated if u click now)
With Rachel Brulé and @alyssarheinze.bsky.social, we explain and document some of the paradoxical (and actually inequality-building) consequences of India´s extensive gender quota system.

MaPE 2025 8th MAPE Workshop Friday, September 26th, 2025 Saturday, September 27th, 2025 Contact the organizers for more information: Agustín Casas & Antoni De Moragas REGISTRATION FORM FOR MAPE 2025 HERE!!

🚨Excited to host the 8th edition of the Madrid Political Economy Workshop (#MAPE2025) at @cunef.bsky.social on Sept 26–27 Keynotes: Julia Cagé, Ruben Durante & Georgy Egorov. Check the program and register here 👉 sites.google.com/view/cunefpo...

Congrats!!

Aiii muy bien y gefeliciteerd, Catherine!

Bravo!

nah, sadly. too far....

Bravo!!!

Long time (8 yrs!) in the making, but it's here! Our article on gender, policing, & institutional change is out (Open Access) in @apsrjournal.bsky.social! Working on this @amangla.bsky.social & @sandipz.bsky.social was a privilege, adventure, esp in mixed method research. tinyurl.com/yc4f6ste

I am hiring! 1-2 post-docs to join my project on political violence in democracies at @uupeace.bsky.social!

Once again, PBC is back and calling for your applications! As always, this is a no-budget but heart-rich story — and we can’t wait to see your proposals!

BJPolS abstract discussing the role of religion in misinformation and polarization, specifically within the context of India. The text highlights methods and findings from a study exploring how religious identities can amplify or reduce the effects of misinformation.

NEW -

The Religious Roots of Belief in Misinformation: Experimental Evidence from India - cup.org/472gDEr

- @simonchauchard.bsky.social & @sumitra.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages

@newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.

BREAKING: At least 62 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza despite a “tactical pause” to allow aid into the besieged enclave, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/pag0eh

Opinion | What Iranians Lost When Israel Bombed Its Most Notorious Prison

Had no idea Israel had bombed Evin last month. What incredible evil shit, in addition to all the rest

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...

Gaza has reached IPC Phase 5, which is the worst level of food insecurity & is associated with high amounts of death & permanent disability. For people experiencing this level of malnutrition, even if it ended today, many of the consequences (eg personal outcomes like disabilities) are irreversible.

Interrogating content moderation systems in indigenous and low-resource languages of the Global South Date: Thursday, August 7th, 2025 Time: 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM (EST) How do content moderation systems operate in non-English contexts, particularly low-resource languages of the Majority World? While the...

Most content moderation systems weren’t built with the Global South in mind.

Our partner organisation @cdt.org’s new research shows how they fail in Tamil, Kiswahili, Quechua & more.

👇🏻 Join their August 7 webinar for findings, recommendations, and global voices on language equity in tech.

New paper with @yannistheocharis.bsky.social

When it comes to health choices that seem to run counter to people's own self-interest, politics is overwhelmingly more important than individuals' cognitive styles or media diet:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...