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Ana S. Cardenal

@ascardenal.bsky.social

Political Scientist. Professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

Ana S. Cardenal @ascardenal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Really happy to see this piece finally out in @poqjournal.bsky.social. We exploit an unexpected global news event to test exogenous measures of exposure varying in granularity. The results have implications for studies using webtracking data, particularly domain-level measures of news exposure #CSS

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Goodbye WhatsApp www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

WhatsApp to start showing more adverts in messaging app

People who link their WhatsApp account to Facebook or Instagram will see personalised ads.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.”
• The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives.
• The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000.

Each point represents a federal agency:
• Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs.
• Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs.

Key Observations:
• Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates.
• Notable targeted agencies include:
• HHS (Health & Human Services)
• EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
• NIH (National Institutes of Health)
• CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
• Dept. of Education
• USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development)
• The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies.
• A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size.

Takeaway:

The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology.

Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).

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Ana S. Cardenal @ascardenal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

New here. Curious about this space. Looking for discovery and meaningful exchanges. Let’s see where this goes.

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