Sergiu Lipcean

❓ @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social and @sergiulipcean.bsky.social ask: If the European Commission consults more stakeholders, are its proposals less likely to be changed by legislators?

✅ Bottom line: Yes, but it depends

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Does public participation in supranational policymaking enhance the European Commission’s legislative agenda-setting success? Under what conditions does public participation in supranational policymaking help the European Commission strengthen its legislative agenda-setting power and minimise the change of legislative pro...

🌟 New article
👥 Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social & Sergiu Lipcean @sergiulipcean.bsky.social
👉 Does public participation in supranational policymaking enhance the European Commission’s legislative agenda-setting success?
📗 Journal of European Public Policy
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Blessing or curse? A critical review of the paradoxical consequences of direct public funding for political parties | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Blessing or curse? A critical review of the paradoxical consequences of direct public funding for political parties

For those interested in the effects of direct public funding of political parties on various dimensions of political activity, a brief review.

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Do political finance reforms really reduce corruption? A replication study - Sergiu Lipcean, Fernando Casal Bértoa, 2024 In their 2021 article published in the British Journal of Political Science, Calla Hummel, John Gerring, and Thomas Burt (henceforth Hummel et al.) examine the ...

New thread on @sergiulipcean.bsky.social 's critique of panel data methods in an influential study of political corruption:

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tl; dr: simpler models are better than "causal" models if you don't know the DGP.

let's go... 🏎️⚡

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