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nikita zakharov @nikitaz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Our new paper on propaganda in Russia is out! 📢

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Vladimir Zabolotskiy @zabolotskiy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

2+ years in the making, and our paper “Fear, soft propaganda, and the demand for government intervention” is finally out in the European Economic Review 🎉 Thanks to @nikitaz.bsky.social, @timfrye.bsky.social, Koen Schoors and Katya Borisova for being amazing coauthors 🔻Old thread + new link below

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nikita zakharov @nikitaz.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

🚨Publication alert🚨 We know terrorist attacks often make the public more anti-immigrant. But what about politicians? In our new publication in the Journal of Peace Research with Hana Jomni, we examine changes in immigration sentiment in EU parliamentary speeches over the last 10 years... ↓↓↓

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🚨 the best state policy & public opinion database is now online. ~200 (!!!) state policies and 80 public opinion series on abortion, labor, taxes, environment, guns, education… dynamicdemocracy.shinyapps.io Massive public goods provision from @devincaughey.bsky.social & @chriswarshaw.bsky.social

Welcome to the Dynamic Democracy App
This app lets you manipulate, explore, and download the Dynamic Democracy datasets with information on state policies and public opinion assembled by Devin Caughey and Chris Warshaw. Click on the triangle next to each category for more details.
• State Policies: This dataset includes information on approximately 200 policies in place in at least one state between 1936 and 2024.
• State Policy Ideology : Measures summarizing aggregate policy outputs in each state/year between 1936-2024.
• Public Opinion: Measures summarizing state publics views on approximately 80 issues, covering 1936-2024.
• Mass Ideology.: Measures of state publics' economic and cultural ideological preferences, 1936-2021.
• Policy Proximity.: Measures of how closely state policies match public preferences.

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Got this really cool, ghostly picture by accident the other day in Dillon Beach, CA. It is a Heermann's gull with both it's shadow and reflection. #birds

Juvenile Heermann's gull (very dark all over) in flight, flying over very very shallow water. Flying to the right maybe two feet off the ground. It's shadow is to the right. Just below the shadow is a reflection on the sheen of water.

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Vladimir Zabolotskiy @zabolotskiy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🚨 New working paper: War, Propaganda, and Russian Fatalities in Ukraine @ifomichev.bsky.social and I study how Russian fatalities in the Russia–Ukraine war affect engagement with propaganda on social media in soldiers’ hometowns. Here's what we find 🧵 #workingpaper #ukraine #russia #propaganda

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War, Propaganda, and Russian Fatalities in Ukraine

This article examines how military losses shape public engagement with propaganda. We combine data on Russia's military losses in its war against Ukraine with u

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Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Why do autocrats alternate between cracking down on media and allowing some freedom? This fascinating new @cesifo.org paper by Günther Schulze and @nikitaz.bsky.social reveals the logic — and the electoral cycles — behind modern repression. #EconSky 1/9

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Vladimir Zabolotskiy @zabolotskiy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

🚨 Ever wondered how fear and misinformation shape demand for government intervention? Our new @cesifo.org working paper provides some evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. Check out the link and a short thread below! 🧵 #workingpaper #covid #covid19 #russia www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...

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Fear, Soft Propaganda, and the Demand for Government Intervention: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Russia

We explore the impact of fear on demand for government intervention. Our empirical strategy takes advantage of a unique quasi-experiment: During our survey in Russia, a very popular television program...

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