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As a non-IR person this also clarified something for me. This framework still assumes some kind of larger rationality or end goal. But what happens if the hurt or ability to hurt is not a tool to achieve the goal but the goal itself? E.g. what if the sadism is the point ?
Honestly, this is maybe a great thing for them to see. One of the reasons I always struggle teaching DAGs is that as soon as we actually try to apply it to anything we have covered in class, it breaks down. Tbf, that says as much about our research as it does about DAGs.
psychologists and ingroup/identity folks: any work you can point me to on research that looks at cases where an ingroup lacks a clear outgroup? I'm thinking this may be an intriguing idea for thinking about state identities in the US.
That would be great.
I keep thinking of our cohort mates with military backgrounds, who did fieldwork in war zones while we ran regressions.
I think I can just repost this every couple of months. Seems to be eternally relevant.
The more advanced the method, the longer the code runs. So the longer the code runs, the more advanced I am as a user, and the more fancy my research. That is just science.
I feel like we should have exactly this paper, but for political science.
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Gibt es einen Datensatz der Wahlkreise über die Jahre harmonisiert / die Veränderungen der Wahlkreise maschinenlesbar macht? Ich weiss, dass das auch für andere Leute ein Problem war, aber nicht mehr, wie es gelöst wurde.
🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social)
Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others?
💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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I love that slide! But the real question for a German audience: what would a Mettigel represent? Measurement error ? Conceptual stretching ? Lacking construct validity ?
Something something within vs. between effects.
This is way cooler than writing an R Randomizer script that ends up generating an alphabetical order author order.
A slide that quotes Donald Trump on Ownership of Greenland as a psychological need.
At least I have a good intro slide for my Political Psychology and IR session tomorrow.
A postdoc is available at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social in a Horizon project on 'the emotional expressions of grievance politics and implications for democratic governance':
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQD118/r...
What is the hive mind view of the Frontiers (e.g frontiers in political science) journals ? I have seen some controversy about them being predatory, but also have seen colleagues publish interesting papers in them.
And... we're off
Join us next Spring at the University of Potsdam for the third Applied Causal Graphs workshop: applied-causal-graphs.de
Now that the date and place are set and two of the keynote speakers are fixed, all we need is an abstract from you.
Very exciting. I will apply, though is there room for less "technical" applications? I mostly use DAGs when teaching, so for presentation that would be the only area I would feel comfortable speaking about.
Not quite about local levels of government, but at least a regional perspective on affective polarzation: ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Shockingly long in the making, but I'm happy it's finally out: @cgnguyen.bsky.social's and my article on the rel between attitudes on the welfare state ("support") & penal punitiveness ("punish") in 22 countries: doi.org/10.1177/1462... #welfarestate #criminaljustice #redistribution #punishment
I realized that most students never had to learn this, so I literally spend an entire session just teaching them about files, folders and file paths.
This includes exercises like "Copy a file to your desktop and then tell me what the file path for this file is"
Survey folks, what are people’s recent experiences with online panels in terms of:
1. Panel quality (bots/LLMs)?
2. Representativeness?
3. Cost + time to complete?
Planning a 700–800 US nat-rep pilot.
Best practices welcome!
Updating my own teaching using the excellent "Statistical Rethinking" resources from @rmcelreath.bsky.social , but am wondering if someone has already done some work adapting it to a political science / psychology context? Any pointers are welcome.
Updating my own teaching using the excellent "Statistical Rethinking" resources from @rmcelreath.bsky.social , but am wondering if someone has already done some work adapting it to a political science / psychology context? Any pointers are welcome.
"eines Bundeslandes"? tja, und dann wills wieder keiner gewesen sein
www.welt.de/vermischtes/...
Check out my new blog post based on my article "Integration is local"! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇
What is the hive mind view of the Frontiers (e.g frontiers in political science) journals ? I have seen some controversy about them being predatory, but also have seen colleagues publish interesting papers in them.