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Harry Pickard

@harrypickard.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Economics at Newcastle University. Interested in political economy, conflict and migration. sites.google.com/view/harrypickard

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Nico Ajzenman @nicolasajz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🚨 WP with Cevat Aksoy Giray and @harrypickard.bsky.social "Populist Rule and the Formation of Zero-Sum Beliefs". Individuals exposed to populist leaders (typically divisive narratives) develop more zero-sum beliefs decades later in life, which translate into more extreme voting choices.
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Harry Pickard @harrypickard.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🚨We are hiring this year and have multiple positions. Happy to answer informal inquiries. #EconSky 🔗 t.co/r7auFewQkD
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https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ343/lecturer-in-economics
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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🛥️ @fresejoris.bsky.social applies Multiple Unexpected Events during Survey Design to study how Mediterranean shipwrecks shape immigration attitudes... ➡️...and finds anti-immigration attitudes only declined in one exceptionally high-salience case www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
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Harry Pickard @harrypickard.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🚨 New QAPEC discussion paper! We study how exposure to armed conflict shapes prosocial behavior using a natural experiment in Turkey, where random military deployment during mandatory service lets us identify the causal effects of conflict exposure on altruistic preferences. 📄 bit.ly/4fHnVPs 🧵👇🏻
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
#OpenAccess from our new issue - Are the Effects of Terrorism Short-Lived? - cup.org/3IPUZpJ "heightened risk perceptions and emotional reactions in the wake of deadly attacks do not dissipate in the very short run" - Vincenzo Bove, Georgios Efthyvoulou & @harrypickard.bsky.social
British Journal of Political Science Bove, Efthyvoulou & Pickard abstract graphic
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