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Alice Xu

@alicexu.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at UPenn | Comparative inequality, urban & distributive politics, climate change and environmental politics, Latam | alicezxu.com

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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mexico’s cartels rule alongside government institutions. Here's how. Read the latest from @garciaponce.bsky.social: goodauthority.org/news/how-mex...
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How Mexico’s cartels rule alongside government institutions
Research in Michoacán shows how criminal groups survive leadership turnovers, expand into new markets, and retain power.
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Charles McClean @cmcclean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy to share two pieces of good news: first, my job market paper is online @thejop.bsky.social I find younger mayors increase spending on child welfare for young families, especially through long-term investments, but do not cut elderly welfare spending www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Out today at the Annual Review of Political Science, my article with @alicexu.bsky.social and Audrey Sacks "The Politics of Climate Change in the Developing World." www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Excited to share our @annualreviews.bsky.social article, “The Politics of Climate Change in the Developing World," with @guygrossman.bsky.social and Audrey Sacks: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... It’s been amazing to watch this area of research grow so much in recent years. Let’s keep it up!
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The Politics of Climate Change in the Developing World
Climate change politics in the developing world remains understudied, despite the region's acute vulnerability and centrality to climate futures. This article synthesizes emerging research across...
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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Excited the first paper I worked on in grad school came out @thejop.bsky.social this fall: doi.org/10.1086/734242 I find political competition causally increases deforestation by prompting politicians to weaken bureaucratic capacity. 3 fieldwork rounds,many rejections,~a decade(?) later, it’s out! 🥲
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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Thanks to @ldattaro.bsky.social for this lovely write-up of Getting Better. If this sparks your interest, you can get the book open access here: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/getting-better @profkatsmith.bsky.social @profbambra.bsky.social @pennldi.bsky.social @pennaging.bsky.social
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Hope for a Healthier World
With a new book, Professor of Political Science Julia Lynch and colleagues offer legislators a roadmap for reducing health inequality.
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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🚨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.” 🧵
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
…So let me get this straight: New Jersey is represented by legendary badass CORY BOOKER. While New York is stuck with Chuck “obey in advance” Schumer, and Pennsylvania has John “next Kyrsten Sinema” Fetterman. As regional rivalries go, that has really gotta sting.
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Virginia Oliveros @viroliveros.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Super happy to see this finally out! Coauthored with a dream team! @gustavodiaz.org Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro & Matthew S. Winters Check it out! 👇🏼 *long thread with a summary of the argument may be coming soon
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Ignoring Women’s Performance: A Survey Experiment on Policy Implementation in Argentina | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Ignoring Women’s Performance: A Survey Experiment on Policy Implementation in Argentina - Volume 55
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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
2/6 🧵In @cpsjournal.bsky.social, @alicexu.bsky.social & Iversen ask if economic, rather than cultural factors, drive support for right-wing populists. Staggered DiD in the US & covid lockdowns. In states with less educated people (cannot work from home) lockdowns increase Trump support doi.org/pft7
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Didac Queralt @didacqueralt.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🚨New pre-print! It builds on the State Formation seminar that I teach at Yale, benefiting from rich conversations with brilliant students. The piece tackles state formation, state building, and outlines 3 paths of future research: civil wars, international constraints, and bureaucratic capacity.
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From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development | Annual Reviews
Our understanding of state development—a term that encompasses both state formation and state building—has grown significantly in the last two decades. In this review, I outline the foundations of the...
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Ioana Marinescu @imarinescu.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Excited to speak at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice’s webinar on climate’s influence on health, politics, and the labor force. Register here: upenn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Two of the most important books on climate politics, which need to be read (much) more widely.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This likely confirms that the decision to arrest him was made at the highest levels of government, a terrifying return to the policies of ideological exclusion last seen used during the heights of the Cold War. A very, very worrying precedent at the start of this government.
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Dr. Alexandra “Ali” Cirone @alicirone.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
New Broadstreet post up! Highlighting some great work rethinking common assumptions about African borders! @ricarthuguet.bsky.social @jackpaine.bsky.social and Christy Qiu www.broadstreet.blog/p/african-bo...
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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
🚨 Call for papers 🚨 Political Economy of Climate Change and the Environment (PECE) APSA 2024 mini-conference Deadline soon: March 1st, 2024 Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More information: static1.squarespace.com/static/59bc8... web.sas.upenn.edu/pece2024/
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Jae Yeon Kim @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
I don't know how many of us (political scientists) read Cohen and Dawson (1993) during grad school, but it's still one of my all-time favorite papers in REP and beyond.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
Two of the greatest cities on Earth — New York City and San Francisco — are getting absolutely wrecked by decades of local and regional political mismanagement, despite having so many other things going for them.
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Dan Hopkins @dhopkins1776.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Why did I do 7 survey experiments on the effects of racial priming on White Americans' ACA attitudes, and what can we learn from the heap of null results? A 🧵, drawn from Chp. 6 of my new book "Stable Condition: Elites' Limited Influence on Health Care Attitudes" Polisky 1/
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Carl Müller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
How do Ukrainians think about self-defense against Russia? In a new paper out in the AJPS, @janinadill.bsky.social, Marnie Howlett and I find through a conjoint experiment that they are categorically against major concessions, even at very high costs of self-defense doi.org/10.1111/ajps... (1/6)
At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self-Defense Against Russia
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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Excited that this project (JMP!) is now FirstView @APSR! doi.org/10.1017/S000... I show that segregation encourages the privatization of urban services. Conversely, integrated cities produce intergroup externalities that align the middle class w/ the poor in coalitions for public goods 🧵
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Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
📣 Deadline for EPG2024 conference in Quebec City organised by @jfmorin.bsky.social at Laval University is fast approaching. Submit your abstract by *** MONDAY, 16 October 2023 *** through the website here: www.epg2024.com polisky ipesky
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