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Mads Dagnis
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When Nature Strikes: Which Regimes Exploit Natural Disasters for Fiscal Expansion?
This study examines how different types of regimes use performance-based legitimation after severe natural disasters. While prior research has evaluated emergency relief, broader fiscal responses rem....
doi.org
When Nature Strikes: Which Regimes Exploit Natural Disasters for Fiscal Expansion? A new article in Governance with Suen Wang examines this question. We find that hybrid regimes do, while democracies and autocracies do not.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove...
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove...
Do gender quotas increase voting attendance in the European Parliament? Using monthly roll-call data and a generalised DiD, we find that quotas:
✨ raise women’s attendance by 2% points, especially in gender-salient areas;
⬇️ lower men’s attendance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....:
✨ raise women’s attendance by 2% points, especially in gender-salient areas;
⬇️ lower men’s attendance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....:
Do gender quotas increase legislative voting attendance? The case of the European Parliament
Research on gender quotas in the European Parliament has grown markedly. Yet we do not know how quotas influence participation in plenary votes and how these effects differ across policy domains. W...
www.tandfonline.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Do gender quotas increase voting attendance in the European Parliament? Using monthly roll-call data and a generalised DiD, we find that quotas:
✨ raise women’s attendance by 2% points, especially in gender-salient areas;
⬇️ lower men’s attendance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....:
✨ raise women’s attendance by 2% points, especially in gender-salient areas;
⬇️ lower men’s attendance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....:
Tierpark in Berlin:
December 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Tierpark in Berlin:
Trianglen by night.
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trianglen by night.
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How did covid lockdowns affect different sectors of voluntary civil society and segments of volunteers? We Use a four wave panel running from April 2020 to april 2021 to answer these questions in "Locking Down Civil Society: The Impact of COVID-19" in Voluntas:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Locking Down Civil Society: The Impact of COVID-19 - VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
This paper examines patterns of volunteering during COVID-19 in different areas of civil society and demographic groups in Denmark. The aim is to understand how differences in the areas of civil socie...
link.springer.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
How did covid lockdowns affect different sectors of voluntary civil society and segments of volunteers? We Use a four wave panel running from April 2020 to april 2021 to answer these questions in "Locking Down Civil Society: The Impact of COVID-19" in Voluntas:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The season’s first snowfall:
November 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The season’s first snowfall:
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Methods don’t make meaning. Theory does.
Better methods won’t eradicate the slot machine.
Put the tools to the use of theory.
Thanks to @lseimpactblog.bsky.social for featuring my post.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Better methods won’t eradicate the slot machine.
Put the tools to the use of theory.
Thanks to @lseimpactblog.bsky.social for featuring my post.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Quantitative political science shouldn’t favour tools over meaning - Impact of Social Sciences
Has the fetishization of quantitative tools obscured the wider context and meaning of in political science?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Methods don’t make meaning. Theory does.
Better methods won’t eradicate the slot machine.
Put the tools to the use of theory.
Thanks to @lseimpactblog.bsky.social for featuring my post.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Better methods won’t eradicate the slot machine.
Put the tools to the use of theory.
Thanks to @lseimpactblog.bsky.social for featuring my post.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Gender Differences in Economics Seminars
(Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...
www.aeaweb.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
This week we’ll feature three sections to provide more information about the conference.
🔝 This time: Public Opinion, Political Communication & Political Methodology
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This week we’ll feature three sections to provide more information about the conference.
🔝 This time: Public Opinion, Political Communication & Political Methodology
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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
epssnet.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
This week we’ll feature three sections to provide more information about the conference.
🔝 This time: Public Opinion, Political Communication & Political Methodology
🧵
This week we’ll feature three sections to provide more information about the conference.
🔝 This time: Public Opinion, Political Communication & Political Methodology
🧵
When Nature Strikes: Which Regimes Exploit Natural Disasters for Fiscal Expansion? A new article in Governance with Suen Wang examines this question. We find that hybrid regimes do, while democracies and autocracies do not.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove...
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove...
When Nature Strikes: Which Regimes Exploit Natural Disasters for Fiscal Expansion?
This study examines how different types of regimes use performance-based legitimation after severe natural disasters. While prior research has evaluated emergency relief, broader fiscal responses rem....
doi.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
When Nature Strikes: Which Regimes Exploit Natural Disasters for Fiscal Expansion? A new article in Governance with Suen Wang examines this question. We find that hybrid regimes do, while democracies and autocracies do not.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove...
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove...
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📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference.
🔝 This week: Comparative Politics & International Relations
Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference.
🔝 This week: Comparative Politics & International Relations
Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
epssnet.org
September 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference.
🔝 This week: Comparative Politics & International Relations
Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference.
🔝 This week: Comparative Politics & International Relations
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📚🏛️Welcome back to campus! Join us at our Open House next week to meet our faculty and fellow Europeanists 🇪🇺 Discover what CES has to offer!
🗓️ Sep 10, 4:30-6:00pm
📍Adolphus Busch Hall
🗓️ Sep 10, 4:30-6:00pm
📍Adolphus Busch Hall
September 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
📚🏛️Welcome back to campus! Join us at our Open House next week to meet our faculty and fellow Europeanists 🇪🇺 Discover what CES has to offer!
🗓️ Sep 10, 4:30-6:00pm
📍Adolphus Busch Hall
🗓️ Sep 10, 4:30-6:00pm
📍Adolphus Busch Hall
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New study out today—“Is the Urban-Rural Divide Affectively Polarised?“ finds a substantial political cleavage between urban and rural populations in multiple European countries. Place-based affective polarization is associated with voting along liberal vs nationalist divide #PoliticalScience
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August 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New study out today—“Is the Urban-Rural Divide Affectively Polarised?“ finds a substantial political cleavage between urban and rural populations in multiple European countries. Place-based affective polarization is associated with voting along liberal vs nationalist divide #PoliticalScience
Det er jo ligesom i 2006, hvor den daværende finansminister sagde, at "faktisk går det så godt, at Danmark snart ejer hele verden"... www.dr.dk/nyheder/peng...
Dansk økonomi trodser verdens kriser
Der er udsigt til vækst og flere penge til forbrug de kommende år, viser prognose fra regeringen.
www.dr.dk
August 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Det er jo ligesom i 2006, hvor den daværende finansminister sagde, at "faktisk går det så godt, at Danmark snart ejer hele verden"... www.dr.dk/nyheder/peng...
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Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.
EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
August 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.
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Very insightful update on the EU Commission’s new structural funds proposal. There already has been quite some renationalization in previous funding rounds, but the outright move away from regional funding would be quite a change to our understanding of EU governance.
It seems that the Commission will indeed propose one big fund to cover all existing structural funds and the CAP and to organise the payout from this fund via a single national plan That would mean a huge departure from how the EU budget and the MFF negotiations have worked so far.
Here is why:
Here is why:
July 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Very insightful update on the EU Commission’s new structural funds proposal. There already has been quite some renationalization in previous funding rounds, but the outright move away from regional funding would be quite a change to our understanding of EU governance.
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Out now🎉 - Evidence (from distribution analyses and machine learning models on EES 2014-2024 data) of strong similarities and growing convergence in EU public opinion, particularly on economic issues. Common right-ward shifts on immigration, yes - but underlying drivers still vary. shorturl.at/KCx0S
June 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Out now🎉 - Evidence (from distribution analyses and machine learning models on EES 2014-2024 data) of strong similarities and growing convergence in EU public opinion, particularly on economic issues. Common right-ward shifts on immigration, yes - but underlying drivers still vary. shorturl.at/KCx0S
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💸CBS-Princeton in Money in Politics conference starting in ~12 hours 💸
Thrilled to welcome so many excellent scholars to EGB for the CBS-Princeton Money in Politics this Thursday and Friday. www.cbs.dk/files/cbs.dk... We are looking forward to two days of great presentations and discussions. Watch this space for some timely updates
www.cbs.dk
June 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
💸CBS-Princeton in Money in Politics conference starting in ~12 hours 💸
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In Denmark, most intergenerational mobility variation is due to family location choices and random factors. Urban areas promote greater upward mobility than rural ones. New research brief from @durlauf.bsky.social (@harrissocial.bsky.social)and co-authors.
#EconSky
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#EconSky
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Understanding the Heterogeneity of Intergenerational Mobility across Neighborhoods | Becker Friedman Institute
Recent research has uncovered substantial differences in intergenerational mobility across neighborhoods, in countries and continents around the world. In some neighborhoods, children from low-income families grow up to join the middle class (and beyond), while in other, nearby areas, children from comparable backgrounds are more likely to remain trapped in poverty. It is unclear, however, Read more...
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March 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In Denmark, most intergenerational mobility variation is due to family location choices and random factors. Urban areas promote greater upward mobility than rural ones. New research brief from @durlauf.bsky.social (@harrissocial.bsky.social)and co-authors.
#EconSky
ow.ly/rw9q50UnGnR
#EconSky
ow.ly/rw9q50UnGnR
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Still six days to the application deadline for the V-Dem Directorship position!
📢Applications Open for New Director of the V-Dem Institute
V-Dem Institute and the Dept. of Political Science, University of Gothenburg is looking for a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Political Science & Director of the V-Dem Institute.
To application: shorturl.at/9rvmx
📆 March 27, 2025.
V-Dem Institute and the Dept. of Political Science, University of Gothenburg is looking for a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Political Science & Director of the V-Dem Institute.
To application: shorturl.at/9rvmx
📆 March 27, 2025.
March 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Still six days to the application deadline for the V-Dem Directorship position!
Can gender quotas in parliament drive broader gender equality in state institutions? Analyzing 160 countries over 40 years, we find that quotas increase women’s access to state jobs — but only in democracies, not autocracies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#GenderQuotas #Democracy #Autocracy
#GenderQuotas #Democracy #Autocracy
Contagious representation? How regime type conditions the effect of legislative gender quotas on equal access to state jobs
This study examines the “contagious” effect of legislative gender quotas on gender-equal access to jobs in state institutions, and how this effect varies across regime types. Combining theories on ...
www.tandfonline.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Can gender quotas in parliament drive broader gender equality in state institutions? Analyzing 160 countries over 40 years, we find that quotas increase women’s access to state jobs — but only in democracies, not autocracies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#GenderQuotas #Democracy #Autocracy
#GenderQuotas #Democracy #Autocracy
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As an ally to the US, Denmark sent soldiers to Afghanistan and Iraq, had the second highest casualties per capita in Afghanistan. Trump is explicitly threatening a country that thought of itself as (one of) the US strongest ally.
Trump on Greenland: "Denmark is very far away. A boat landed there 200 years ago or something and they say they have rights to it. I don't know if that's true. I don't think it is, actually ... we really need it for national security ... maybe you'll see more and more soldiers go there."
March 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
As an ally to the US, Denmark sent soldiers to Afghanistan and Iraq, had the second highest casualties per capita in Afghanistan. Trump is explicitly threatening a country that thought of itself as (one of) the US strongest ally.
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Endelig fikk jeg skrevet ned kronikken som har tatt opp mye plass i hodet mitt de siste par ukene:
www.vg.no/nyheter/i/gw...
www.vg.no/nyheter/i/gw...
Meninger: Professor Carl Henrik Knutsen: – Mer sannsynlig enn ikke at det amerikanske demokratiet vil overleve Trump
Trump og hans støttespillere undergraver demokratiet, og det er en reell fare for demokratisk sammenbrudd. Det er likevel gode sjanser for at demokratiet overlever, men det krever mot-mobilisering.
www.vg.no
February 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Endelig fikk jeg skrevet ned kronikken som har tatt opp mye plass i hodet mitt de siste par ukene:
www.vg.no/nyheter/i/gw...
www.vg.no/nyheter/i/gw...