Chagai Weiss

My take on the partisan expressive responding literature is now in print. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Would read!

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🧺 Paper Picnic 2.0 is here! More journals. New features. An easier way to keep up with the latest research in political science and adjacent fields. 🧵👇

Two-year Postdoctoral Research Position in Economics | INOMICS The Department of Economics and Management at the University of Padua invites expressions of interest from outstanding young scholars for a two-year, research-oriented postdoctoral position in Economi...

Very attractive postdoc opportunity at the University of Padua. While the position is advertised as Econ, the group has strong interests in political economy and would consider seriously quant polisci students.

inomics.com/job/two-year...

Amazing! Well deserved!

I am extremely honored, and equally perplexed, that my book has received the Stein Rokkan Prize.

Thank you so much to everyone who helped out with this project along the way. So much of the book is the result of feedback by kind people who took the time to listen and read. Thank you.

The cover of the book The American Mirage, by Eunji Kim. The cover has a dark orange background, with a large graphic of the Statue of Liberty holding up a tv remote. control

Dr. Eunji Kim of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social unpacks her book The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy. 🎧⬇️
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @americanstudier.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social
#BookSky #EduSky #AcademicLife

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1/ Sorry for double-posting from X. Sharing a new working paper for the Year of the Horce 🐎:

"An AI-assisted workflow that scales reproducibility in empirical research" (bit.ly/repro-ai) w/ Leo Yang Yang

Check out our @nber.org working paper on how exposure to energy stock can increase support for climate action!

☀️☀️Academic friends wondering what to do with their sabbatical next year (FYI Jan 31 NOT a hard deadline) or the one after:

Consider visiting us in Madrid for a term or 2!

We have a great community in polisci/political economy/HPE/pol.behavior + offices and can help with settling you here.

Link👇

🧵 New paper out in AJPS! "Seeing like a citizen: Experimental evidence on how empowerment affects engagement with the state"

With @lbp2106.bsky.social, @wilsonprichard.bsky.social, @cdsamii.bsky.social, and Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra.

doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

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Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ...

Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups?

Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com:

tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf

Picture of No Option But Sabotage

My book—No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis—comes out today!

It's the result of 3+ years of research and 150+ interviews with 100+ activists and experts.

Clearly, AI makes alot of the research process for these projects better and more efficient (I experience this already), but hard to see how it will replace the in-person component (e.g., collaborate with stakeholders, align policy and academic incentives)... But, maybe wishful thinking on my end :)

And demonstrated ability to execute substantively interesting complex projects that can’t be fully automated (eg field experiments, analysis of proprietary admin data)?

Fresh snowfall on the University of Toronto, St. George campus

Today, the Government of Ontario announced changes to funding across the postsecondary sector, including a $6.4 billion investment.

This funding will help sustain access to high-quality academic programs & support students in preparing for the future. uoft.me/funding-announcement

Thanks, Chris! I can't wait to hear what you think :)

Yes! Plus this could have positive externalities, ultimately improving intergroup relations!
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🌍Climate action is a polarized topic & increasing support for mitigation is very challenging!🌎

In a new WP w/ @saumjha.bsky.social, Kala, Shroff, Hanlon, we use an RCT to show that exposure to financial assets in the energy sector ↗️ support for climate action www.chagaiweiss.com/papers/inpro...

Working on this project was a lot of fun, and I learned a ton from my coauthors! As always, we welcome any and all comments and suggestions!!

Finally, we show that fx attenuate, but are still detectable 8months post-treatment initiation, and 6.5months after respondents are divested from their assets!

To substantiate our mechanism of learning, we show that exposure to financial markets:
🔸increased (reduced) consumption of financial (partisan/polarized) news
🔸increased financial confidence
🔸increased objective/subjective knowledge regarding firms environmental impact

Importantly, we show that our intervention, which is a non-paternalistic approach to persuasion (!) doesn't preach to the choir! Fx are larger among those with more skeptical beliefs and preferences ex-ante!

We find that exposure to financial assets in the energy sector increases support for climate action midway through trading and after six wks of trading!

Fx r stronger for respondents initially endowed 🟢 assets, but 🟤 assets also increase support for climate action!

Notably, after 3 wks of trading we gave respondents the opportunity to trade across 🟢🟤 asset types. As evident from our trading data, respondents diversify, but mostly stick to the asset type to which they were initially assigned.

Around the 2024 election we endowed +3.5K US voters w/ financial portfolios in either 🟢 or 🟤 energy valued at $50-$100. Over 6wks we encouraged them to hold/trade assets.

Using unrelated surveys we elicit climate beliefs, preferences & behaviors midway through trading and up to 8mnths post-trt

🌍Climate action is a polarized topic & increasing support for mitigation is very challenging!🌎

In a new WP w/ @saumjha.bsky.social, Kala, Shroff, Hanlon, we use an RCT to show that exposure to financial assets in the energy sector ↗️ support for climate action www.chagaiweiss.com/papers/inpro...

Congratulations to all of our amazing undergraduate students who received awards last week! www.politics.utoronto.ca/news/undergr...

Flyer for the Wharf: Thomas Zeitzoff — No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis -with JJ Green — at The Wharf

Book cover: "No Option But Sabotage"

I’ll be doing a book talk with @jjgreenjr.bsky.social
for my new book:

*No Option But Sabotage*

at Politics and Prose (The Wharf) this Friday, 1/30.

We'll be discussing:

-the climate crisis
-social movement
-protest tactics
-and responses to repression

politics-prose.com/thomas-zeitz...