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Adam Przeworski
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Thank you Rodrigo.
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@AdamPrzeworski Here you go, more readeable format :) P.S: fan of your work and legacy
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First time I tweet something personal. When I was 4, a bomb fell 10 meters away from me and the memory remained indelible. I am thinking about the future of Ukrainian 4 year olds.
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This is my current understanding of the value and the essence of democracy, in 350 words.
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Final blow to the myth that counter-majoritarian institutions protect rights. Depends on who is on the Court.
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Adam Przeworski
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Unfortunately, Andrew, I am less certain today than I was 17 years ago.
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I realized that I may care more about futbol than politics. And I believe that the final will be Brasil-France, 50/50.
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Hay algo perverso en la izquierda antiamericana en América Latina: "Los yanquis lo hicieron, entonces es legítimo hacerlo". Se utiliza para justificar las violaciones de los derechos humanos y las atrocidades rusas en Ucrania.
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I do not know how but my theoretical nose tells me that Putin will go:
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Part IV of Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942) is the best political science text ever written.
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Sorry, Gerry, but this list ignores Marxism, notably Poulantzas, as well as early O'Donnell. See my The State and the Economy under Capitalism (Harwood, 1990).
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Gerardo L. Munck
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Since Weber, the study of the state has become more and more refined and complex. Here are 10 concepts or conceptual distinctions all social scientists interested in the study of the state should understand. References in 🧵
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A brilliant paper. Answers questions I wondered about for a long time. Exceptionally thorough.
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Here is the paper discussed in the article:
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China reminds me of an old Soviet joke: A man distributes leaflets on Red Square. A policeman grabs one, look at it, and exclaims: "What are you doing? Nothing is written!" The man replies: "Why write? Everybody knows."
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Prigozhin's rebellion was not an attempt at a coup but a pronunciamento, an old Spanish tradition.
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This must be a joke.
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Democracy Index 2021 Top 10 Countries Norway🇳🇴🥇 New Zealand🇳🇿🥈 Finland🇫🇮🥉 Sweden🇸🇪 Iceland🇮🇸 Denmark🇩🇰 Ireland🇮🇪 Taiwan🇹🇼 Australia🇦🇺 Switzerland🇨🇭 @TheEconomist
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The Polish election is the first instance of a backsliding government defeated having had completed two terms. Moreover, average income increased 31% during past 8 years. I did not expect it.
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Note that this index considers only corruption in the public sector, which biases it in favor of countries where the public sector is smaller. I wonder how the US would rank on corruption in the private sector.
@anticorruption
Transparency International
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🔵 OUT NOW! We analysed 180 countries to see how they scored in the fight against corruption. Check out your country’s score! #CPI2023
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Economic deprivation combined with dissension within elites leads to political overthrows. Obviously, the painful question is how many people will die in the meantime.
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The US invaded or bombed many countries. But one has to be a moral idiot to invoke it to condone Putin's atrocities; any war, anywhere.
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Why did democracies react slower than autocracies to the pandemic? Was it because they had to consider individual rights? See Covid_Paper at
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The combination of capitalism and nationalism will kill many people. The obvious solution to the scarcity of vaccines is to buy out Pfizer's and Moderna's property rights and let anyone produce it.
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Corruption is a systemic problem. But this is corruption of public officials. What about corporate corruption?
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Gerardo L. Munck
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Latin America has, with few exceptions (Costa Rica, Chile, Uruguay), corrupt democracies, in which political actors, civil servants, security agents, members of the judiciary, participate actively or passively in acts of corruption. Corruption is a systemic problem for democracy.
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Here is my, quite bleak, take on "The Future of Social Democracy:
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Some fundamental issues about democracy raised by Kelsen and Schumpeter. See
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Sí, las investigaciones muestran que todo importa y nada importa mucho.
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Gerardo L. Munck
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There are some who say they have found 𝙩𝙝𝙚 cause of economic growth. This figure, from a handbook on interdisciplinary studies, suggests that that such an argument is hardly credible.👇 Also, the determinants of economic growth are most likely not only economic factors.
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Another thought on Poland: How does one undo backsliding without backsliding? PiS packed state institutions. If the opposition responds in kind, it will be backsliding. If it does not, it will be undermining its future electoral chances. "Restoring democracy" is a tricky task.
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The V-dem report on democracy is just a publicity stunt. See Andrew Little and Anne Meng, "Subjective and Objective Measures of Democratic Backsliding,"
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FRANCE: Someone already said it but worth repeating: If the conversation does not take place in the parliament, it does on the streets.
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Defending democracy, without illusions. A corrected version at
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Adam Przeworski
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Understanding popular support for autocracies is full of puzzles. See
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I prefer "reproducible" to "objective" in describing data. Reproducible: Given the coding instructions and the same facts, all potential coders must generate the same code.
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The US and other countries that produce covid vaccines just blocked the proposal at WTO to waive property rights. I am not imputing it as a motivation but note that eradicating the pandemic is not the market interest of vaccine producers.
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Defender la democracia:
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Poland's democracy score increased because V-Dem raters like the party that won the election; Italy's decreased because that do not like it?
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I cannot figure out why China changed the covid policy so abruptly. Some political motives must be at play but I could not solicit an explanation from people who should know. Any ideas?
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3. A Russian friend of mine once defined the Russian middle class as "those who travel abroad." If so, there is no more middle class in Russia. 4. Oligarchs lost not only some of their fortunes but also hopes and perhaps relations with their Westernized children.
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Fruit of discussions in Argentina and Chile: "Defending Democracy" at
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I was asked what is better than V-dem. Glib answer: anything, even Polity, which has issue of its own. Golden rule: the score must be reproducible by anyone who knows the coding rules and the facts. Otherwise, only biases of coders are measured.
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Adam Przeworski
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Thanks to Dalson Figueiredo for solving my problem with downloading the WID dataset, which is not user friendly.
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The best book on autocracy I have ever read, political science literature included: Hedi Kaddour, La Nuit des Orateurs.
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Adam Przeworski
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To my best knowledge what happened in the UK is the first time ever that markets reacted negatively to tax reductions. True?
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Adam Przeworski
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In principle, I am not against continuous measures of democracy (above some threshold). But I know of no continuous measure that is reproducible, that is, for which all observers exposed to the same facts must arrive at the same score.
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Gerardo L. Munck
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Quality before Quantity Democracy is a quality that regimes can have or not have. Only if a regime is a democracy can it vary in its degree of democracy. Yet most democracy indices ignore this point & treat all regimes as democratic. Fortunately, others avoid this error.👇 🧵
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5. The Minister of Defense is a former construction foreman, who orders the professional military. 6. The propaganda bubble is so brazen that it is unsustainable.
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Adam Przeworski
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A great book: Deborah Boucoyannis, Kings as Judges. Erudite, clearly constructed, slays every ideological myth about property rights.
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Adam Przeworski
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Cuestionar las credenciales académicas del profesor Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca es indignante. Es un académico reconocido internacionalmente, excepcionalmente innovador, riguroso y productivo; un destacado estudioso español de su generación. Le tengo un respeto inmenso.
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Jesús Maraña
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Cualquiera que conozca la trayectoria del profesor Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca sabe de su honestidad intachable como intelectual y como persona. Está claro que le tienen muchas ganas los inquisidores de la política, la universidad y los medios.
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1. There are parents who lost their sons and many who will fear losing theirs. 2. Russians will suffer not only a sudden loss of purchasing power but shortages and irregular services.
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Adam Przeworski
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Died Angel Flisfisch, a leading protagonist in Chilean return to democracy. Wise and courageous, a rare combination.
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Luo's and my paper on the dynamics of backsliding is finally out from QJPS. It is accessible here and readable without going into the math.
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Adam Przeworski
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Excellent. Thanks, Gerry.
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Gerardo L. Munck
1 year
As @AdamPrzeworski noted, many concepts used in the study of the state draw on a Marxist approach and characteristically focus on the relationship between the state and the capitalist class. Here is a list of 10 such concepts or conceptual distinctions. References in 🧵
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According to Freedom House (see Washington Post, March 9), the number of countries where democracy scores declined in 2022 was the lowest in 17 years while the number where these scores increased rose. Compare with V-Dem and decide what to think about expert ratings.
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Boese et al (Democratization 2021), using V-Dem, claim that "once autocratization begins, only 1 in 5 democracies manage to avert breakdown." Weyland (PSQ 2022), studying cases, claims that "only 1 in 3 of populist governments effect significant democratic deterioration. "
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Congratulations!!!
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ALACIP
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ALACIP informa que el II Premio de Trayectoria Académica 2024, destinado a reconocer colegas que hayan realizado contribuciones de relevancia en el estudio de la política en América Latina, fue otorgado, por unanimidad del jurado, a Argelina Cheibub.
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Arsenal, with tears: It is over for this year. But next year!!! Is it not like democracy when your party loses?
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En principio, no estoy en contra de medidas continuas de democracia (por encima de algún umbral). Pero no conozco ninguna medida continua que sea reproducible, es decir, por la cual todos los observadores expuestos a los mismos hechos deban llegar a la misma puntuación.
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Gerardo L. Munck
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La democracia es una cualidad que los regímenes pueden tener o no tener. Y sólo si un régimen es democrático puede variar su grado de democracia. Pero casi todos los índices de democracia-con una excepción👇-ignoran este punto y tratan a todos los regímenes como democráticos. 🧵
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An updated version of "Formal Models of Autocracy: A Critique" is available at
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Adam Przeworski
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Belgium lost against a "weak opponent." So did Spain. So did Portugal. Should France be scared?
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I just can't
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Ojo! Happy about Boric but thinking about Allende: He could not control his supporters and did not have majority in the Congress to pass their demands. Hope this situation will be avoided.
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Adam Przeworski
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For economists everything has economic causes.The causes of populism cannot be identified. See my Crises of Democracy (CUP 2019).
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Dani Rodrik
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It was a treat to talk to @MESandbu at length about where we are (and heading) in globalization, labor markets, and populism.
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Adam Przeworski
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Excellent.
@GerardoMunck
Gerardo L. Munck
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I just listened to the APSA Roundtable on Democratic Backsliding. It confirmed a concern I have had since working on democracy measures a while back. We need to be more upfront about the limitations of our global democracy indices and willing to sometimes say “we do not know.”
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The tragedy of Griezmann is that he was, I think, the best player of the tournament until he completely collapsed in the last game. Feel truly sorry for him.
@ESPNFC
ESPN FC
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Do you agree with his team of the tournament? 🤔
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Sorry, more direct link to polarization:
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My 5X17 minutes lectures on democracy. See
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Marina Ovsyannikova is a hero.
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Adam Przeworski
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Does anyone have World Inequality Database (WID) saved in Stata? If yes, please send it to me at ap3 @nyu .edu. I have been trying to save it but cannot figure it out.
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Adam Przeworski
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My two cents on the French election: Between 1/4 and 1/3 of "extremist" voters voted for the other "extreme." The French political space is clearly not unidimensional and Macron is not the center but right-wing on economic issues.
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Adam Przeworski
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Reading books was punished also by Hitler.
@itaisher
Itai Sher
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I don’t think universities should have systems that allow you to report a student for reading a book
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My two cents on measures of polarization:
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On the historical evolution of rules governing presidential elections and the US backwardness, see
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Nice paper. Shows that one cannot measure polarization without considering intensity (slope of utility functions around different ideal points). See
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Adam Przeworski
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Exceptionally clear. Clarified some of my confusions.
@anthlittle
Andrew Little
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Excited to share a new paper, or really a new enough version of a previous paper ("Directional motives and different priors are observationally equivalent") that the old title was no longer accurate. Link:
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@CatherineDVries Linz was wrong. The difference in survival rates disappears when controlled for previous military dictatorship. See Cheibub, Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy, Chapter 6.
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Question: What policies equalize incomes without affecting employment or investment; not necessarily through the fisc?
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Happy Thanksgiving, the Day of the Immigrant.
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Adam Przeworski
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One of the best books I have ever read
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Arpit Gupta
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The computational challenges of economic complexity — and whether AI could potentially address these — is really well addressed by Cosma Shalizi here, discussing the great book Red Plenty on the Soviet Union's planning challenges
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Adam Przeworski
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How about indexing wages on dividends?
@taxobservatory
EU Tax Observatory
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🚨 PUBLICATION | A Modern Excess Profit Tax Our new note presents a new way to tax excess profits. We propose to tax the rise in the stock market capitalization of companies that benefit from extraordinary circumstances. Read the whole note here 👇
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Market incentives are to require repeated vaccinations, as with the flu. Rationality of capitalism?
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Happy Thanksgiving: The Day of the Immigrant.
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This must have been generated by AI.
@yashar
Yashar Ali 🐘
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I’ve watched thousands of hours of political videos in the past 20 years and I have never seen anything like Senator Katie Britt’s rebuttal to the State of the Union.
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Adam Przeworski
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Yes, consider "Don't look up" to be a documentary. And think of negative reviewers of it as the TV characters in it.
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Victor Chernozhukov #peace 🇺🇦
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I've just finished watching the new documentary "Don't look up" on Netflix... It is amazing and psychedelic. Easily the film of the year. Plus that Russian (Leonardo DiCaprio aka Lev Smirnoff) really did an amazing job. May many more Oscars pour onto him in the New Year.
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I wonder what after Putin could be in Russia. Could it be worse? It would be interesting to hear from people who have informed views.
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Adam Przeworski
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Amazing: growth forecast without climate crisis.
@nberpubs
NBER
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Exploring the prospects for economic growth in the US and other advanced countries in the next several decades, from @ChadJonesEcon
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Adam Przeworski
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My thoughts on France, 3 years ago but still valid:
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Adam Przeworski
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@PoliSciJack @simonjhix @vdeminstitute Referring to V-dem as the best data source must be a joke.
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Adam Przeworski
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See Will Fowler, "EL PRONUNCIAMIENTO MEXICANO DEL SIGLO XIX," Estudios de historia moderna y contemporánea de méxico/issn 0185-2620, n. 38, julio-diciembre 2009
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@lambdaelse How about this?
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And he played much better unchained.
@brfootball
B/R Football
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It took 41 minutes before they noticed the chain 🤣
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Competition for stupidity. French government spokeswoman, Sibeth Ndiaye said: "The virus is spread by droplets, but does not spread through the air. In a football stadium, you are in the open air, there is no transmission by air. " Who can beat it? No Trump entries, too easy.
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Great paper. In France, access to services is conceptualized as "proximite."
@IanaDreyer
Iana Dreyer @ianadreyer.bsky.social
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Not only in Italy! :) Great work documenting, putting numbers on this.
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Scientists: Support for the innovation engine of American science: immigrants via @Change
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Adam Przeworski
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The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in collaboration with the Intelligence Unit of the Economist published in October 2019 a report on preparedness for biological threats, giving each country a score on several dimensions.
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Adam Przeworski
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Isn't there always some past map that looks like divisions at the present?
@Valen10Francois
François Valentin
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One of my biggest pet peeves: When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps. A 🧵
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Adam Przeworski
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Excellent point.
@luisfleitas78
Luis Fleitas de León
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@IzaskunZuazu @AdamPrzeworski Or we can put it this way: in most cases, political maximalism is what allows the effectiveness of the minimum rules of democracy.
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Adam Przeworski
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Consider signing this letter in support of compulsory licensing of Covid vaccines:
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Adam Przeworski
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FT against monopoly power!!!
@benphillips76
Ben Phillips
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Truth to power on Covid-19: 1) Inequality is holding back overcoming the crisis. 2) Companies need to share intellectual property & knowhow, now. That’s not an @Oxfam @MSF @amnesty or @peoplesvaccine statement. It’s not @Yunus_Centre @Winnie_Byanyima or @Pontifex . It’s the @FT !
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Adam Przeworski
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@policytensor @mgurri This equation confuses Italian fascism with German nazism. Race was not a component of the former.
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Adam Przeworski
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In Polish: W piety mierzyl, w nos uderzyl.
@juliaioffe
Julia Ioffe
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Welp. Two Russian rockets just landed inside Polish territory and killed two people. Poland, as you’ll recall, is a NATO member.
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