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Krzysztof Krakowski

@kkrakows.bsky.social
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Political scientist studying conflicts: krzyskrakowski.github.io

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New working paper w/ Hanna Folsz In Jan 2025 Trump issued an executive order targeting corporate DEI programs. Many companies ended DEI fearing financial risk We find that firms that kept DEI performed just as well in financial markets, revenue, etc democracypolicylab.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...
The Trump administration has used executive authority to influence the behavior of civil society organizations such as law firms, universities, and corporations.
Do corporations that resist executive orders perform worse financially? In January 2025, the Trump administration issued an executive order directing federal
agencies to investigate and compel firms to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Some firms complied with the order, whereas other firms
resisted by reaffirming their DEI programs. We find that S&P 500 firms that
maintained their DEI programs performed just as well as compliant firms, both
in terms of stock market returns and revenue. The results are robust across various measures of maintaining DEI, including measures based on executives’ public
statements about DEI programs, interest group ratings, firm financial statements,
and shareholder rejections of anti-DEI resolutions. The results suggest that, at
least in some areas, firms can resist pressure from the executive branch with
minimal costs to financial performance.
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Krzysztof Krakowski @kkrakows.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Gdynia 👌 notesfrompoland.com/2026/07/27/u...
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UNESCO adds Poland's modernist port city of Gdynia to World Heritage List
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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Folktales featuring ethnic bogeys legitimize fear toward outsiders and increase the resonance of far-right mobilization journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Oko.press RSS @okopressrss.plsky.eu · 12/07/2026
Po Wołyniu był jeszcze Hrubieszów. Zapomniana historia współpracy polskiego i ukraińskiego podziemia - oko.press/po-wolyniu-byl-jeszcze-hr…
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Po Wołyniu był jeszcze Hrubieszów. Zapomniana historia współpracy polskiego i ukraińskiego podziemia
Dzisiejsza debata sprawia wrażenie, jakby historia relacji polsko-ukraińskich zatrzymała się w 1943 roku. Jakby po Wołyniu nie wydarzyło się już nic, co mogłoby zmienić sposób, w jaki patrzymy na siebie nawzajem. Tymczasem zaledwie dwa lata po zakończeniu wojny wydarzyło się coś, co jeszcze w 1943 roku wydawałoby się całkowicie niemożliwe.
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
There is an entire academic discipline that has zero issues speaking ill of the dead. It's named history
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NBER @nber.org · 23/06/2026
Viewpoint neutrality, requiring teachers to cover varied views, can weaken direct instruction but improve overall learning by making homophilous peer interactions more informative, from Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin www.nber.org/papers/w35351
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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Super grateful for a wonderful review of Making a Career in Dictatorship by the very sharp @kkrakows.bsky.social in @democratization.bsky.social One of my favorite lines: "Few books sustain this level of analytical momentum across chapters."
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Making a career in dictatorship: the secret logic behind repression and coups
Published in Democratization (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Huge congratulations to Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social for winning the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social best book award for “Making a Career in Dictatorship“ 🥳 #EPSS2026 @hertiesecurity.bsky.social
Picture of Christian Gläßel receiving the award.
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Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The Juggler (The Magician) botfrens.com/collections/69/content…
Gift of Joan H. Tisch (by exchange)
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Laia Balcells @laiabalcells.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Very happy to have this paper out. Thanks to all the people who gave us feedback at different stages.
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Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Does public service deprivation boost support for the populist right? New evidence in our paper, conditionally accepted at APSR 🥳, where we study how GP closures shape voting intentions in England. 👇
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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
From our FirstView articles: A Precolonial Paradox? Rethinking Political Centralization and Its Legacies by MARTHA WILFAHRT. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Jordi Muñoz @jordimunoz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We are launching the dual degree between our Master in Institutions and Political Economy at the University of Barcelona @ubmipe.bsky.social and King's College London www.ub.edu/mipe/#dual @ub.edu
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Master in Institutions and Political Economy | UB
The Master in Institutions and Political Economy (MIPE) is a Social Science research program that combines Political Science, Economics, Economic History.
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Shay O’Brien @shayobrien.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)
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Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence - Shay O’Brien, 2026
How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 24/03/2026
A new beginning in Göttingen 👋🤗 The #MaxPlanckInstitute for Political and Social Sciences launches under Ursula Daxecker & Steffen Mau addressing social & political challenges, including democratic backsliding, social inequality & conflict www.ips.mpg.de @steffenmau.bsky.social
The Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Sciences in Göttingen is now beginning its work. Political scientist Ursula Daxecker - left - and sociologist Steffen Mau - right - have been appointed to the MPI for Political and Social Sciences in Göttingen.
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Yamil Ricardo Velez @yamilrvelez.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Conditionally accepted at the APSR (w/ @scottclifford.bsky.social & @patrickpliu.bsky.social): Why does political information so often change beliefs but NOT attitudes? We highlight the role of belief relevance, or the extent to which beliefs bear on attitudes.
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Krzysztof Krakowski @kkrakows.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Just finished reading the superb book "The Making of International Status" by @mduque.bsky.social and wrote a short note for @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social about it here: www.prio.org/journals/jpr... Excellent piece of work! By far my favorite IR book so far (although it's far more than IR...) 🙂
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The Making of International Status – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
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Omar García-Ponce @garciaponce.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"Midterms" by Adam Przeworski open.substack.com/pub/adamprze...
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Midterms
The question we face in the US today is whether a party in office which is supported by 40 percent of survey respondents can win an election.
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Fascinating new paper by and @elena-amaya.bsky.social and Robert Braun on the role of folklore in shaping far-right support in Weimar Germany: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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
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Santiago Sanchez-Pages @sanpages.eurosky.social · 12/02/2026
Exciting project joint with @cubel.bsky.social and Mariele Macaluso.
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A new publication at www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We find that religious markers (esp. beards) can reduce perceived trustworthiness in Turkey. (That's why you often see me clean shaven ;-)
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Religious markers reduce perceived trustworthiness in a Muslim-majority country | PNAS
First impressions often hinge on visible cues, leading people to infer the trustworthiness of strangers from their appearance and dress. While reli...
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Recently accepted by #QJE: “Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict,” by Gehring (@kaigehring.bsky.social) and Schaudt (@paulschaudt.bskz.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict*
Abstract. We provide quasi-experimental evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate drought-induced co
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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Using surnames, we show that colonial-era hierarchies continue to shape access to Colombia’s best schools and elite social networks, limiting intergenerational mobility through both education and marriage. Read today's article to learn more:
Historical ancestry and access to school quality today
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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
New OA In ESR How do institutions and social norms affect tax payment? @lucaspasin.bsky.social #Aaszekely @squazzoni.bsky.social find that in low-quality institutions contexts, social norms can trigger vicious cycles of evasion, even when evasion is socially disapproved doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf057
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An experimental study on institutions and social norms of tax payment
Abstract. The production of public goods, which are fundamental to well-functioning societies, requires the payment of taxes, but taxpayers have clear ince
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OlhaZadorozhna @olhazadorozhna.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
1/ 🎙️ New episode of Policy Implications! I talk with @plvezina.bsky.social about Ukrainian refugees in Poland who aren’t just workers, but entrepreneurs creating new businesses and even boosting Polish firm creation. This season is supported by @econ4ua.bsky.social and Kozminski University 💛💙
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Diana O'Brien @dzobrien.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🚨Free book alert (for 2 weeks)! In her new CUP Element, @caglayanbaser.bsky.social shows that rebel groups with♀️combatants are seen as more gender-equal, democratic and morally legitimate, even when they perpetrate violence. This increases public support for government sponsorship of rebel groups!
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
can't wait to dig into the data with @tommasopavone.bsky.social. This is probably one of the largest survey experiments ever run in Slovakia, a country you will not find analysed in the big journals very often
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Costin Ciobanu @costinciobanu.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Happy to see my article with @joostvanspanje.bsky.social on the short-term political consequences of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy announcement published in @psrm.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
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Victor Gay @victorgayeco.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
There is growing interest in HPE about social conflict in the run-up to the French Revolution. In a new article at Data & Corpus, I describe the Jean Nicolas Database, a database of 8,516 rebellions in France (1661-1789) 👉Article: doi.org/10.46298/dc.... 👉Database: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... 🧵1/6
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Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
🚨NEW WORKING PAPER🚨 Why are many Latino immigrants *not* naturalizing, learning English, and participating in American politics? We provide new theory and evidence across 3 surveys and an instrumental variables approach to show how migration motives shape immigrant integration. tinyurl.com/3expvu8e
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Melissa Sands @msands.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Can Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) extract features of urban neighborhoods from street-view images? New with Paige Bollen (OSU) and @joehigton.bsky.social (NYU): Sometimes, but the models better recover national assessments that local ones, even w/additional prompting (which can make things worse!)
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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Carl is a fantastic researcher & knowing him well as a colleague, he will be an amazing mentor. Plus those look like very good postdoc positions. Please apply.
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Pierre-Louis Vézina @plvezina.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We got a new paper out on Ukrainian #refugee entrepreneurs in Poland, with Cevat Giray Aksoy and Piotr Lewandowski. Check it out here: cevatgirayaksoy.com/wp-content/u... and see below for a THREAD!!! 👇 #EconTwitter
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Difficult to grasp how the crisis of UK universites - largely caused by bad policy and bad management - is not treated as a massive national problem that requires government involvement to help solve the issue. Product of a discourse in which parties don‘t want to be seen as appealing to graduates?
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Graeme Blair @graemeblair.com · 01/12/2025
New data release from the Deportation Data Project: Every ICE arrest, detainer request, and book-in to detention nationwide between September 1, 2023 and October 15, 2025. deportationdata.org/news/2025-12...
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Deportation Data Project
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 26/11/2025
#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Population Displacement and State Building: The Legacies of Pashtun Resettlement in Afghanistan - cup.org/4rgO1il - David B. Carter, @austinlw.bsky.social & Luwei Ying #FirstView
Logo featuring the text "IO" in white on a dark blue background with the hashtag "#OpenAccess" below in white.
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NBER @nber.org · 13/11/2025
Adaptive persistence of elite families despite regime change, alongside lasting regional scarring, highlighting the role of cultural transmission for social mobility, from Carol H. Shiue and Wolfgang Keller www.nber.org/papers/w34451
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Marina Duque @mduque.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Ever wondered why some countries get recognition while others struggle to be seen? My book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 is finally out in the world! 📘 academic.oup.com/book/61560
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The Making of International Status
Abstract. With great power rivalry on the rise again, many worry that struggles for status among states could lead to war. As a growing consensus indicates
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King's QPE @kingsqpe.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
📣Call for papers now open for our annual Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration. Rome🔥, May 28-29, 2026. More details below👇
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
This will spark some great papers: an open digital dataset of roads in the Roman Empire www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
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Oko.press RSS @okopressrss.plsky.eu · 03/11/2025
Państwo z palcem na spuście: dlaczego Brazylia toleruje przemoc policji i co to mówi o demokracji? - oko.press/dlaczego-brazylia-toleruj…
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Państwo z palcem na spuście: dlaczego Brazylia toleruje przemoc policji i co to mówi o demokracji?
Dopóki społeczna zgoda na przemoc policyjną będzie trwała, takie będą się powtarzać – w imię bezpieczeństwa, zemsty, polityki
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Krzysztof Krakowski @kkrakows.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel
Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide
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Andrea Ruggeri @andrearuggeri.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
At La Statale Milano in the Social & Political Sciences Dept. with NASP graduate school & EPRA Hub we have organised a new seminar series: Milan Conflict Research Seminars (MiCoReS). Here this term programme.
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Krzysztof Krakowski @kkrakows.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Worth checking out: preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...
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Real-World Sanctioning of Stigmatized Political Preferences
A growing body of literature is preoccupied with the role of norms for democratic outcomes. Yet, given the inherent difficulties in observing social sanctions, we lack real-world evidence of whether a...
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Journal of Peace Research @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📢 New publication! 📢 Does political violence backfire in mature democracies? In this article, @kkrakows.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and @juansemorales.bsky.social (Wilfrid Laurier University) examine how the January 6 US Capitol Attack affected public support for US politicians.
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Volha Charnysh @vcharnysh.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Looking for rising stars in Historical Political Economy? 🌍📚 Check out this year’s job market candidates: www.broadstreet.blog/p/hpe-candid...
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HPE candidates on the job market
Job market season is here.
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Robert Vief @robertvief.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
🚨 New paper: “Does Rent Control Turn Tenants Into NIMBYs?” in the Journal of Politics (JOP) (joint work with @anselmhager.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social) 👉 Have a look over here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Most important findings in this thread: 1/11
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Neeraj Prasad @neerajprsd.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🚨🚨🚨Announcing a special issue on “Political Violence in Democracies” published by @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social and edited by @andrearuggeri.bsky.social, U Daxecker, and me. In this very long 🧵, I will introduce the special issue with its 14 articles. doi.org/10.1177/0022...
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Political violence in democracies: An Introduction - Andrea Ruggeri, Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, 2025
It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...
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