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Kim Oosterlinck

@koosterl.bsky.social
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General Director of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Professor at ULB. Research on art markets and financial history. Views are my own.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
Arms, letters, piety, and...kitties!!! [Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, Triptych of Micault Family, c. 1539-1559 (Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)]
Triptych from the chapel of the Holy Sacrament in St Michael's Cathedral in Brussels, commissioned by Jean Micault,  collector-general to Emperor Charles V, and his wife Livine Cats van Welle . Donors appear in the wings while the central panel shows  the resurrection of Lazarus,Detail of left wing of altarpiece showing a member of the Micault family kneeling in prayer in full armor, wearing on surcoat decorated with cats
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Claire Dupin de Beyssat @clairedupindb.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Aujourd'hui, double actualité à propos de mon cher Henri-Gabriel Ibels : 1- L'édition critique de ses mémoires "Promenades aux environs de 1900" est officiellement sortie ✨J'en ai réalisé l'appareil critique, et il y avait de quoi faire ! Ibels a en effet eu une vie pro et sociale riche,
Couverture des Promenades aux environs de 1900, mémoires de l'artiste Henri Gabriel Ibels, présentées et annotées par Claire Dupin de Beyssat
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Marc Deloof @financialhistory.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Some historical evidence that is unfortunately relevant today: in a paper forthcoming in @businesshistory.bsky.social, Leentje Moortgat, Gertjan Verdickt and I find that the uncertainty created by war threat negatively affected entrepreneurship in Belgium before WW I. Link: doi.org/10.1080/0007...
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Kim Oosterlinck @koosterl.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - J.R.R. Tolkien
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David Schindler @david-schindler.de · 21/12/2025
Utrecht University abolishes its English language bachelor's program in economics and replaces it with a Dutch one. They told staff (~30% international) the week before Christmas. Layoffs seem likely now. Unwarranted lobotomy is the only word I can find for it... dub.uu.nl/en/news/econ...
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Economics programme in shock after sudden cancellation of English-taught track
The Bachelor's programme in Economics & Business Economics will only be offered in Dutch from 2029 onwards, the Executive Board announced on Tuesday. The news came as a complete surprise to the econom...
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Kim Oosterlinck @koosterl.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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Florence Faucher @ffaucher.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Come and join us at the CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée: we are looking for a new assistant professor in political science working on ecological transitions. www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
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Recruitment - Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science 2026
Recruitment 2026 - Sciences Po is recruiting two Assistant Professors (tenure track) in Political Science / Politics and Policy in/of Europe and the European Union
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Marylou Hamm @marylou-h.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
An exciting opportunity to work at @sciencespo.bsky.social with the fantastic @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social team! ⬇️
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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Un changement considérable: www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...
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Le CNRS s’émancipe du Web of Science
À partir du 1er janvier 2026, le CNRS coupera l’accès à l’une des plus importantes bases bibliométriques commerciales : le
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Véronique Pouillard @veropouillard.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It is open access, yet for the persons who still enjoy reading books made of paper, this one is reissued in paperback this month at a much friendlier price than the hardback: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
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The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present
The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nineteenth century, with the aftermath of the consumers’ revolution, and reaches all the way to the present. The fashi...
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Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The Institute of History of the University of Bern is seeking to fill a full time professor position (open rank) in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods, beginning 1 February, 2027. ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
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Uni Bern: Open rank Professorship in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods
The Institute of History of the University of Bern is seeking to fill a full time professor position (open rank) in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods, beginning 1 Februa...
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Kim Oosterlinck @koosterl.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Het was een genoegen om deel te nemen aan Pompidou! www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist...
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Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Can particularly recommend the Econ History session on Friday morning 😉
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Kim Oosterlinck @koosterl.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I am very honored to have been invited to give the 2025 Hugo Helbing lecture. Il will talk about Art as an Investment in Times of Crises (1914-1945) If you want to listen, the online connection details are just below www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/ve...
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The Hugo Helbing Lecture 2025 // Kim Oosterlinck, Brüssel: Art as an Investment: The Art Market in Times of Crises (1914-1945) — Zentralinstitut für KunstgeschichteThe Hugo Helbing Lecture 2025 // Kim...
This lecture is part of the Hugo Helbing Lecture Series. ‘The Hugo Helbing Lecture – Exploring the Art Market’ commemorates the achievements of Hugo Helbing every year. It was first held in 2016 on th...
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Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte @zikg.eu · 19/03/2025
#Provenienzforschung Herzliche Einladung zur Tagung: Hugo Helbing. Auktionator, Kunsthändler, Sammler, Mäzen, Publizist, Konkurrent, Netzwerker, Bürger – ermordet 1938 22.-23.4.2025 im ZI und online via Zoom Infos und Programm: www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/ve...
Plakat der Veranstaltung: Portrait von Hugo Helbing, „Nachlass Hugo Helbing und Lydia Helbing“, in memoriam Jürgen Laue, Münchner Kunsthändler und Kunstsammler
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Kim Oosterlinck @koosterl.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Artworks are always coming and going in a museum, as they are regularly lent for exhibitions. And therefore new artworks are exhibited to replace the ones which have left. I was very pleased to see this Leda by Andrea del Sarto appear on the walls of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium!
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Amy Werbel @awerbel.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
My latest historian's take on contemporary art censorship, sigh . . .
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Seizure of Sally Mann’s photographs in Texas revives old debates about obscenity and freedom of expression
A historian of artistic censorship sees chilling similarities to 19th-century anti-obscenity crusades.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
From time to time, I bring you views about what’s happening in the United States from writers and journalists in other countries. This piece is from a columnist in Canada. Read it and let me know your thoughts.
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A view from north of the border
Friends,
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Jean Lacroix @jeanlacroix.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I had a blast! Thanks for the comments.
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Marius Gilbert @mariusgilbert.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Pour 70% des scientifiques ayant répondu à l'enquête de Nature, une des revues scientifiques les plus prestigieuses, le choix a l'air d'être fait...
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Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
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KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Researchers using digitized photos or manuscripts in any manner in theirresearch, are invited to participate in this anonymous survey of McGill University (forms.office.com/r/nuqD9ZJzFq, 8-10 min to complete). (1/2)
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Microsoft Forms
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Bruno Goosse @brunogoosse.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Le 30 janvier, la Wittockiana organise une journée d’étude en marge de l’exposition L’Atelier du faux. J'y revendrai sur No vacancies et la limite entre l’ambiguïté qui place le spectateur ou la spectatrice dans un rôle actif et la tromperie qui manipule. www.brunogoosse.be/ambiguite-tr...
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Ambiguïté trompeuse - brunoGOOSSE
30 janvier 2025, journée d’étude en marge de l’exposition L’Atelier du faux. Faux livres, fausses reliures, fausses identités, Wittockiana : Chaque jeudi, dès l’aube, la place du marché se couvre d’ét...
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Martha Bailey @marthajbailey.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
#Econsky I am excited to announce two new post-doctoral positions at UCLA. One on the m-carestudy.org and the other on the life-m.org project. Please apply! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades remains safe and intact this morning, January 8, and will be closed at least through early next week. While vegetation on the property has burned, Getty structures have been unaffected, and thankfully, both staff and collections are safe.
A view of ceiling lanterns hanging at the Getty Villa Museum
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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
It's February at The Economic Journal ❤️ Lots of great papers, long (9) and short (2). Enjoy! academic.oup.com/ej/issue/135...
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Volume 135 Issue 666 | The Economic Journal | Oxford Academic
The Economic Journal is the Royal Economic Society's flagship title, and is one of the founding journals of modern economics. The journal provides a platform for and imaginative economic research for ...
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Jeroen Puttevils @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...
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Doctoral scholarship holder for research on the financial lives of immigrants in Antwerp, 1850-1940 | University of Antwerp
YUFE vacancies
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
21th century #strawhouse addition on top of 20th century brick in Belgium. www.abitare.it/en/architect... Photo: Tim van de Velde
Timber straw earth addition on top of an old brick house.
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Kim Oosterlinck @koosterl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I am extremely pleased to see that the Apple has made its comeback on the roof of the Magritte museum!
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Kim Oosterlinck @koosterl.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I was really impressed by the Fireflies exhibition at the Art & History Museum. A collaboration between La Cambre - École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels and the museum showcasing the works of young ceramists. Some of my favorites are below but all were worth seeing!
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Kim Oosterlinck @koosterl.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
J'étais ravi de pouvoir continuer la discussion autour du patrimoine (dans le cadre du Forum de Lobby au Musée Magritte) au micro de BXFM. Le podcast est disponible ici: lnkd.in/e2B2hJsC
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P.-Guillaume Méon @pgmeon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Democratic norms can be internalized and transmitted within families. We observe that in 1940 France with @jeanlacroix.bsky.social & @koosterl.bsky.social 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core
Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act - Volume 83 Issue 2
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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
V The Observer: ‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo.. This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo
Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn from their mothers by order of the state. This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity
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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t? This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it? 1/8 @thetimes.com 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
A victim of the Terror that I did not know about!
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Museum in Baden AG reaches settlement agreement with the heirs of the former owner Jacob Goldschmidt (1896-1976) for "Fruit and Ginger Pot" by Paul Cézanne www.lootedart.com/WYQWS1169141 #Holocaust #arthistory
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SvenThe @sventhe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe. Sometimes. Here are two of them. André Juillard Blake et Mortimer à Bruxelles en 1958 (2003)
Blake and Mortimer on a walk in Brussels, smoking pipes.
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P.-Guillaume Méon @pgmeon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Wondering what to read on a Sunday? Consider this column on our paper with Nicolas Lagios on the Booker Prize in @thetls.bsky.social. www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
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The jury’s out | TLS
Is the Booker prize bad for literature? Of course it is. We don’t speak here of our own view on the matter but that of Nicolas Lagios and Pierre-Guillaume Méon – two economists who have studied the li...
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Marius Gilbert @mariusgilbert.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
La victoire de "Trusk", après une campagne dont la violence a peu de précédents, suscite-t-elle une réaction à la hauteur du déclin démocratique dont elle est le signalement tragique ? Dans cette dernière chronique, je reviens sur la sensation de dérive que chaque événement génère.
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« Après l’orage » : Vivre sur Terre ou fuir sur Mars ?
La victoire de Donald Trump aux élections américaines contribue au sentiment d’un monde divisé, piégé par une fuite en avant dont il n’arrive pas à sortir, qui souligne plus que jamais le besoin d’un ...
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Kim Oosterlinck @koosterl.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
For my friends who speak Greek. It was a great pleasure to be interviewed by Mary Adamopoulou! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Mary Adamopoulou on LinkedIn: Μουσεία και αγορά τέχνης. Σχέση αγάπης ή μίσους; Μια υπέροχη συζήτηση με…
Μουσεία και αγορά τέχνης. Σχέση αγάπης ή μίσους; Μια υπέροχη συζήτηση με έναν γενικό διευθυντή, όπως θα έπρεπε να είναι οι γενικοί διευθυντές: με γνώση…
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Marc Deloof @financialhistory.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
More than 800 Belgian communities issued their own currency during WW1, “payable by the community after the war”, because the national bank was not allowed by the German occupiers to issue francs. (h/t Raphaël Melki)
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Kim Oosterlinck @koosterl.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I just did the same!
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Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I just added my BlueSky contact to my RePEc profile. Easy to do, login, go to contacts page (see pic) and fill it in. #EconSky Thanks to @czimm-economist.bsky.social For civilians, RePEc is a valuable sharing site for research papers in economics.
Picture of Tim's RePEc contacts page with his BlueSky handle added.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
New study looks at protests against far right in 2002 French elections. Finds “larger protests reduced number of votes for Le Pen and abstention, while increasing number of votes for the incumbent president, Chirac.” Also finds “effect worked through media exposure.” nicolas-lagios.com/files/fn.pdf
Media, Spillovers, and Social Norms: The Electoral
Impact of Anti-Far Right Protests in the 2002
French Election*
Short title: Anti-Far Right Protests
By Nicolas Lagios†, Pierre-Guillaume Méon‡, Ilan Tojerow§
We study the electoral impact of protesting against the far right by investigating the demonstrations held during the 2002 French presidential elections against far-right candidate Jean-Marie
Le Pen. Instrumenting rally attendance with rainfall while factoring in that some municipalities never host protests, we find that larger protests reduced the number of votes for Le Pen and abstention, while increasing the number of votes for the incumbent president, Jacques Chirac.
We find that the effect spread out beyond the municipalities that hosted protests and worked through media exposure. Using survey data, we show that protests reduced support for the policies advocated by Le Pen. Moreover, the positive effect on voting for Chirac resulted from right-wing voters switching from Le Pen to Chirac and left-wing voters not casting a blank ballot, implying that some voters voted expressively. Finally, we show that protests reduced the
social desirability of voting for Le Pen.The figure reports the location and the size of the protests held on May 1, 2002, against Jean-Marie Le Pen. The figure shows a map of France with scattered dots across the country that vary in size in proportion to the size of the protest events.Table 2 shows the Baseline Results for The Impact of Protests on Voting Outcomes. Each column is devoted to a
different electoral outcome: Specifically, the vote share of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the vote share of Jacques Chirac, and the share of abstentions and blank and invalid ballots. larger protests reduced the far-right candidate’s vote share. More precisely, a 0.1 percentage point increase in the share of the population protesting in a municipality decreased by 2.2 percentage points the vote share of Jean-Marie Le Pen in that municipality.

In Column (2), the dependent variable is the vote share for Jacques Chirac. Here, the
number of participants exhibits a positive coefficient that is statistically significant at the five-
percent level in all specifications. Accordingly, a larger number of participants in the May 1
protests increased the share and the number of voters who cast a ballot for the right of centre
candidate. The magnitude of the effect is again substantial without being implausibly large: A
0.1 percentage point increase in the share of the population protesting in a municipality resulted
in a 4.5 percentage points increase in Jacques Chirac’s vote share. This means that in the absence of protests, Jacques Chirac would have lost 2.3 points in the second round.
Finally, Column (3) suggests that protests also affected the share of abstentions and blank and invalid ballots. The number of participants exhibits a negative coefficient statistically significant at the five-percent level, implying that a 0.1 percentage point increase in the share of the population protesting reduced the share of abstentions and blank and invalid ballots by
2.3 percentage points. In the absence of protests, the share of abstentions and blank and invalid
ballots would have therefore been 0.8 point higher.Figure 4 reports the estimated marginal effect of the number of participants on the agreement of respondents with the policies sponsored by Jean-Marie Le Pen: immigration, security,
traditional values, criticism of the political class, the abolition of the income tax, and an exit of France from the EU. The marginal effect is always negative and statistically significant at standard levels.
We also looked at two more specific measures of the position of respondents on immigration, which was the theme on which Jean-Marie Le Pen was the most salient. Specifically, respondents were asked their level of agreement with the following two statements: “there are too many immigrants” and “immigrants enrich a culture”. Here, Jean-Marie Le Pen was not explicitly mentioned. We observe that respondents in municipalities that experienced larger protests were less likely to agree with the statement that there are too many immigrants and more likely to agree with the statement that immigrants enrich a culture.

This series of findings is consistent with the models of Lohmann (1994) and Battaglini (2017) that argue that protests can raise public awareness around the issues at stake. Larger protests against Jean-Marie Le Pen might have reduced voters’ support for his policies by signalling the negative issues associated with those policies, thereby decreasing the incentive to vote for the far-right candidate.
Again, we cannot rule out that protests triggered a social desirability bias on specific policies even if an exit from the EU or a critique of the political class were sponsored by other candidates unrelated to and less stigmatized than Jean-Marie Le Pen. In any case, we return to social desirability in Section 7.3.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”
Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid:

“Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s.

Over half of those deported were US citizens.”
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I love when people from the long distant past appear in the present in this way.
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Amni Rusli @amnirusli.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Aah, the complexities of trade relationships… Let me recap what happened re Trade the last time Trump was in office; if it could be of any guidance to what we can expect these coming years. Trade restrictions are likely in sectors frequently cited by domestic firms for "dumping" or “foreign (1/n)
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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
SIOE is now on bsky! The next cool SIOE conference is in Sydney, Paris 2026, @warwickecon.bsky.social in 2027
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