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Natan Skigin

@natanski.bsky.social
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• Asst. Prof. at UGA (@ugaintl.bsky.social) • Researching violence, migration, identity, and democracy in Latin America • Website: natanskigin.com

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
How can support for police violence be countered? 👮 A new study suggests we should listen more to the mothers of victims! ➡️González & @natanski.bsky.social in @ajpseditor.bsky.social
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
For those with means, or connections to libraries with means, my new co-authored book "Youth Wings of the Populist Radical Right" can now be bought with a 30% rebate. Still, probably, you are better off waiting for the paperback - which often takes 1-1.5 years.
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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
“Just collect more data” is one of the most common responses to uncertainty in quantitative research. But in a lot of social science, that advice is impossible—or even misleading. Our new working paper asks: when has a study reached its information limit? Check it out here: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Natan Skigin @natanski.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨 Thrilled to share our new article in AJPS (w/ Yanilda González)! How do competing narratives shape support for police violence? Using a nationwide survey experiment in Brazil, we show that victims’ counternarratives boost empathy and reduce support for police killings—even among right-wing voters
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Seth Jolly @sethkjolly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I'm thrilled to share the latest @chesdata.bsky.social paper "A Global Scale of Economic Left–Right Party Positions: Cross-National and Cross-Expert Perceptions of Party Placements", out now at JOP, where we compare expert ratings from Europe, Latin America, Australia, Israel, Canada, & the US.
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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
📢 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Science. We seek a scholar in AP, CP, PE, or IR who applies frontier methods of statistics and data science to substantive questions in their area of expertise. apply.interfolio.com/189477
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Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
¡¡VOLUME 24, ISSUE 1 IS NOW OUT!! doi.org/10.1017/S153... www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Incl. work by @elliotaposner.bsky.social, @excubs.bsky.social, @roselynhsueh.bsky.social, @andresuribe.bsky.social, @phillegitimate.bsky.social, @natanski.bsky.social, @stephanieternullo.bsky.social...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Finally got to @gelliottmorris.com's piece this week on how poll question wording dramatically affects responses. It's excellent. This is classic stuff in the political behavior subfield of poli sci, but we don't hear enough about it in punditry. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...
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Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies
Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Great blog post by @gelliottmorris.com which is backed by decades of academic research. How you ask a question impacts how people answer the question! This has important consequences for how to think about puic opinion and how to treat opinion polls. Short 🧵
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Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies
Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.
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Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
New article by Ayelén Vanegas. It explores how redistributive attitudes react to citizens' evaluations of policy results. It is a fascinating analysis of the conditions under which beneficiaries of social policies cease to support them. Fantastic work. www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Please share - multiple summer 2026 in-person undergrad internship opportunities at @pewresearch.org! - religion - digital - social trends - data journalism - global - news - internet - AI - admin - race - science - methods - politics Apply soon! pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
The summer undergraduate internship is a paid opportunity during the summer of 2026. Interns are expected to work a minimum of 30 hours/week and are paid $18.50/hour. This internship is available to undergraduate students with an interest in public opinion, survey research, and data science.   

Pew Research Center is an office-based workplace, with all staff working in the Center’s Washington, D.C., office three core days weekly (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).  Staff have the flexibility to work remotely up to two days per week. A modest relocation stipend is available for candidates who need it.  

 

Internship dates: June 1-Aug. 14, 2026 (with alternative dates of June 15-Aug. 28, 2026 also available) 

 

Education/Training/Experience 

College students who are pursuing a bachelor’s or associate degree and have completed a minimum of two years (in other words, rising juniors and seniors).
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Political Psychology @ispp-pops.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
What does everyday peacebuilding look like? Rincón-Unigarro et al. examine a Colombian city's annual mixed-race festival as a large-scale collective action to build trust and social cohesion through shared cultural expression and communion. Read the full piece online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
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Natan Skigin @natanski.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Our new paper!
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 19/12/2025
#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - Preemptive multipartism and democratic transitions - cup.org/4qhmLPo - @natanski.bsky.social & @aperezli.bsky.social #FirstView
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Anibal Perez-Linan @aperezli.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Sometimes a divided opposition is not a good sign for dictators. We explain this with @natanski.bsky.social
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I'm re-upping our new open access article on why armies shoot their own soldiers in light of recent reports that more than 100 Russian officers have been confirmed as ordering the execution of their own soldiers in more than 12,000 reported incidents www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Fratricidal Coercion in Modern War | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Fratricidal Coercion in Modern War - Volume 79 Issue 1
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Measuring the Ideology of Political Parties Worldwide vrollet.github.io/files/Ideolo...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Experimental participants to us
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Ilayda B. Onder @ilaydaonder.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We’re accepting submissions for Fall 2025 until August 14. If you’re on the market, it’s a great chance to practice your job talk with an audience! We also welcome paper presentations. Apply here: iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Junior Scholars in Quantitative Conflict Workshop Submission
We are now accepting submissions for the Fall 2025 sessions of the Junior Scholars in Quantitative Conflict Workshop! This virtual workshop provides a supportive space for junior scholars (PhD candida...
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
ND grad students killing it this year! A 2nd discipline-wide diss prize: The @apsa.bsky.social political psychology award goes to the amazing @natanski.bsky.social Natan Skigin for “Challenging Stigma from Below: How Human Rights Movements Contest Repressive States and Shape Democratic Citizenship.”
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Yusaku Horiuchi @yusakuhoriuchi.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The Experimental Research section of the American Political Science Association (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social) invites research proposals from post-prospectus PhD students for its Experimental Research Early-Career Fellowship program. Share this post! @apsa.bsky.social, @poscresearch.bsky.social
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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
New visualization tool alert! The vayr package version 1.0.0 is now on CRAN. It contains position adjustments for ggplot2 that help with overplotting in pleasing ways. My favorite is position_sunflower(). - install.packages("vayr") - alexandercoppock.com/vayr #rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz
position_jitter()position_jitter_ellipse()position_sunflower()position_circlepack()
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Omar García-Ponce @garciaponce.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
1/ I just published a new article titled “Criminal Violence, the State, & Society” in the Annual Review of Political Science, which examines the growing political science research on criminal violence over the past 15 years. Link 👉https://go.shr.lc/3GnoH7f Here is a summary of some key insights...
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Having published a book recently, I found it sometimes hard to understand how the process worked (and luckily, had very kind mentors who helped). I have uploaded a short document detailing how my experience went, in case others find it helpful: www.vicentevalentim.com/_files/ugd/a...
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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
New research by @natanski.bsky.social & Guillermo Trejo reveals a stark increase in violence against journalists in militarized regions of Mexico amid the War on Drugs, driven by local government and cartel interests in criminal governance. loom.ly/K5LVzgI
Graph showing the rise in number of journalists killed in the wake of the War on Drugs.
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Omar García-Ponce @garciaponce.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
New important research by Guillermo Trejo & @natanski.bsky.social on violence against local journalists in Mexico's drug war. "Silencing the Press in Criminal Wars: Why the War on Drugs Turned Mexico into the World’s Most Dangerous Country for Journalists" Link here: bit.ly/4h1R74j
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Justin de Benedictis-Kessner @jdbk.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Are Democratic leaders making cities more dangerous than Republicans? Trump + others have repeatedly made claims like this. New paper in Science Advances w/ @chriswarshaw.bsky.social, Dan Jones & Matt Harvey shows that, in short, the answer is no.
Abstract of article titled "The partisanship of mayors has no detectable effect on police spending, police employment, crime, or arrests"
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Mariana Llanos @millanos.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
elpais.com/america/2025... De @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social y Veronica Zubillaga. Muy buena lectura
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¿Quién democratiza a quién? La sociedad organizada y la lucha silenciosa por el cambio en Venezuela
La falta de coordinación sostenida en la estrategia de la oposición ha contribuido a apuntalar al chavismo en el poder
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Happy to share a new working paper "Calculation and Conscience: Motivations for the Substantive Representation of Ethnic Minorities" (with Stepahnie Zonszein, Apurav Bhatia and Will Dinneen). See osf.io/preprints/os...
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 08/01/2025
The course websites for my Spring 2025 causal inference and data visualization classes (both with #rstats) are live! evalsp25.classes.andrewheiss.com datavizsp25.classes.andrewheiss.com
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Program Evaluation for Public Service – Program Evaluation
Combine research design, causal inference, and econometric tools to measure the effects of social programs
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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
In a democracy, when and where should majorities rule? And when should their powers be limited? Steve Levitsky and I propose a framework to think through these questions in a new piece in the January 2025 issue of 'Journal of Democracy' muse.jhu.edu/article/947880
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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Silencing the Press in Criminal Wars: Why the War on Drugs Turned Mexico into the World’s Most Dangerous Country for Journalists @poppublicsphere.bsky.social Guillermo Trejo @natanski.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Silencing the Press in Criminal Wars: Why the War on Drugs Turned Mexico into the World’s Most Dangerous Country for Journalists | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Silencing the Press in Criminal Wars: Why the War on Drugs Turned Mexico into the World’s Most Dangerous Country for Journalists
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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Just published on APSR First View: "The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey" by Donald Green and Oliver Hyman-Metzger. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Camilo Vicente Ovalle @camilovicenteov.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
25 años después, fue el Estado: la Corte Interamericana condena a México por la desaparición del zapatista Antonio González - elpais.com/mexico/2024-...
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25 años después, fue el Estado: la Corte Interamericana condena a México por la desaparición del zapatista Antonio González
El tribunal internacional sanciona al país por el caso de un miembro del EZLN y del PRD que fue desaparecido por grupos paramilitares en Chiapas en 1999
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/12/2024
Breaking News: A massacre ordered by a gang leader left more than 100 people dead in Haiti’s capital, a rights group said.
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Massacre in Haiti Ordered by Gang Leader Leaves Over 100 Dead, Rights Group Says
The killings in a Port-au-Prince slum, which appeared to target practitioners of voodoo, were ordered by a gang leader, a human rights organization said.
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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Congratulations to Weatherhead Scholars Program Postdoctoral Fellow @natanski.bsky.social on receiving the 2024 Kellogg Dissertation Award! loom.ly/Oik-ECI
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Natán Skigin Wins 2024 Kellogg Dissertation Award | Kellogg Institute For International Studies
On Friday, Nov. 22, former Kellogg PhD Fellow Natán Skigin was awarded the 2024 Kellogg Institute Award for Distinguished Dissertation on Democracy and Human Development for his dissertation “Challeng...
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I just gave a guest lecture in @chflachsland.bsky.social's "Policy Process class" on (right-wing) populism. I hope the students enjoyed it as much as I did. Here are my slides -- perhaps they are of interest to some of you. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gho7v...
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Mathias Poertner @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
🎉 Thrilled that my new book, *Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America*, is finally out! 🎉 @cambridgeup.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/us/universit... A brief summary: 1/n
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
New notebook: Sample Size Calculations in #RStats : Money and Power arelbundock.com/posts/money_...
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Natan Skigin @natanski.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I am honored to have received the 2024 Kellogg Award for Distinguished Dissertation on Democracy and Human Development. My dissertation shows how grassroots human rights groups—including grassroots victims' voices—contest repressive states, foster solidarity, and mobilize demands for accountability
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
From 2025 BJPolS will be a fully #OpenAccess title which means new articles are published as Gold Open Access under a Creative Commons licence. You can find your open access options here - cup.org/4hWjxxI And in 2025 BJPolS will publish continuously (no issues).
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
A good way to support pro-democracy forces in Israel is to subscribe to Haaretz. It can teach the USA mainstream media a lesson or two about having a spine.
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 22/11/2024
From the archives: Have you (like me!) wondered what the ATT means and how it's different from average treatment effects? I use #rstats to explore why we care about (and how to calculate) the ATE, ATT, and ATU #polisky #episky #econsky www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/03...
Mirrored histogram showing “weird” parts of the population: treated people who were unlikely to be treated, and untreated people who were likely to be treatedMirrored histogram showing pseudo-populations of treated and untreated people that have been reweighted to be more comparable and unconfoundedTable showing potential and realized outcomes for 9 simulated people Before we calculate these different treatment effects with the realized outcomes instead of the hypothetical potential outcomes, let's look really quick at the practical difference between the true ATE, AT 1, and ATU. All three estimands are useful for policymaking!
The ATE is -15, implying that mosquito nets cause a 15 point reduction in malaria risk for every person in the country. This includes people who live at high elevations where mosquitoes don't live, people who live near mosquito-infested swamps, people who are rich enough to buy Bill Gates's mosquito laser, and people who can't afford a net but would really like to use one. If we worked in the Ministry of Health and wanted to know if we should make a new national program that gave everyone a free bed net, the overall reduction in risk is -15, which is probably pretty good!
The ATT is -16.29, which is bigger than the ATE. The effect of net usage is bigger for people who are already using the nets. This is because of underlying systematic reasons, or selection bias. Those using nets want to use them because they need them more or can access them more easily-they might live in areas more prone to mosquitoes, or they can afford to buy their own nets, or something else. They know themselves and understand some notion of their personal individual causal effect and seek out nets. If we removed access to their nets, it would have a strong effect.
The ATU is -13.63, which is smaller than the ATE. The effect of net usage is smaller for people who aren't using the nets. Again, this is because of selection bias. Those not using nets are likely not using them for systematic reasons-they live far away from mosquitoes, they've received a future malaria vaccine, they have some other form of mosquito abatement, or something else. Because they can read their own minds, they know that mosquito net use won't do much for them personally, so they don't seek out nets. If we expanded access to nets to them, they wouldn't benefit
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.6.1 for #Rstats is out! It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG. And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
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Laia Balcells @laiabalcells.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Starting the day with terrific news: my paper with Sergi Martínez (EAFIT) and Ethan vanderWilden (U of Wisconsin) on far-right normalization and discounting of their extreme positions has been conditionally accepted at Political Science Research and Methods (PSRM). I believe it's very timely.
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Weverthon Machado @weverthon.com · 24/07/2024
📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results. I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this! ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2
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Reveal a ggplot incrementally
Provides functions that make it easy to reveal ggplot2 graphs incrementally. The functions take a ggplot2 object and return a list of plots showing data incrementally by panels, layers, groups, the va...
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Matt Blackwell @mattblackwell.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Reminder that I have a textbook on an introduction to mathematical statistics and regression, designed for first year PhD students in poli sci, but maybe useful to others. Let me know if you use it and have feedback! mattblackwell.github.io/gov2002-book/
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Natan Skigin @natanski.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
Yes! 🎉I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the University of Georgia (@universityofga.bsky.social) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics next Fall!
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Katharina Lawall @katharinalawall.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
🚨Do echo chambers polarize? Yes! 🚨Very excited that our paper “The Polarizing Effect of Partisan Echo Chambers” w @sarahobolt.bsky.social and James Tilley has been published FirstView at APSR! Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Thread 👇1/n
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