This is kind of like the famous Borges short story but instead of making the map of the empire so large it is useless they rename everything on the map “EMPIRE” to make it useless

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Everyone stop what you're doing and read my paper with @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social and Zion Little modeling preregistration as pre-play cheap talk. We ask how preregistration affects behavior like p-hacking when there is no enforcement and plans must be self-enforcing osf.io/preprints/so...

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Does the Eurovision Song Contest make people feel more European? 🎤🇪🇺 Our new paper with Abel François and nicolaslagios.bsky.social, now out as a CEBRIG working paper, suggests that it does, and that the effect even shows up at the ballot box. 👇 ideas.repec.org//p/sol/wpape... 💡

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Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...

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new cat just dropped

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