Simon Chauchard
Social scientist @uc3m @ic3jm.bsky.social & http://pimlab.org | political behavior, misinfo., identity (PI ERC POLARCHATS) | Before: Dartmouth, SIPA, Leiden | Works on 🇮🇳🇧🇷
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- Reposted by Simon Chauchard📢In our #NewIssue (29.3)!📢 Up close and personal: how size affects politics in 65 Greek island municipalities 🔓Read the article by @vtsagkr.bsky.social & W. Veenendaal here #OpenAccess 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Simon Chauchard🎥 Pablo Beramendi (Duke University) on Our Master’s in Social Sciences 🎥 He discusses the strengths of our program and the vibrant academic community around IC3JM. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMX9... Apply! 👉 www.uc3m.es/master/socia...
- Reposted by Simon Chauchard📢 Job Alert | Political Science The Social Sciences Dept. at @uc3m.es is hiring a 2-year fixed-term faculty position in Political Science. 📅 Deadline: June 14, 2025 🚀 Start date: Jan 1, 2026 📬 Questions? socialsciences.department@uc3m.es 🔗 Full call & application: www.uc3m.es/ss/Satellite...
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardOpinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
- Reposted by Simon Chauchard‼️On Friday, Vicky Fouka on "Structural Transformation and Value Change: The British Abolitionist Movement"‼️ Join us at 12.30 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardPOQ is now accepting submissions for its 2026 Special Issue “Advancing Public Opinion Research Across Countries and Contexts.”🧵
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardFor our penultimate seminar of the spring, please join us on April 22 as we welcome @sumitra.bsky.social (American University) to discuss "Countering Misinformation Early" (in partnership with @southasiacenter.bsky.social & Penn Political Science Dept) Read More: casi.sas.upenn.edu/events/sumit...
- Reposted by Simon Chauchard🚨 Editor of Open Science - call for applications At the EJPR we are looking for one Editor of Open Science, to help us develop new OS initiatives - including registered reports (RRs) Interested? Check out the call below! DL April 17 Please repost for N and diversity 👇👇👇 Reach out for any Q
- Reposted by Simon Chauchard"I really think we all need to be speaking up right now. . . . I think this would be so much stronger if many more of my fellow presidents were speaking up." - Chris Eisgruber www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...?
- We wrote on the topic of proxyism and (male) elite capture in rural Indian for the @thejop.bsky.social blog! (with @alyssarheinze.bsky.social & Rachel Brulé) See post here: ubwp.buffalo.edu/jopblog/ Full article: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardMy article with U Daxecker titled "Demanding Violence, Punishing Peace: Support for Party Violence in India" has been accepted for publication by The Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social. Below is a 🧵explaining the argument, the empirical case, and many thank you(s). doi.org/10.1086/736113
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardLooking forward to this, next week! 'The Impact of AI on (Mis)Information' asc.upenn.edu/cind2025, w/ @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social @hwaight.bsky.social @jolukito.bsky.social @lexipalmer.bsky.social Kaicheng Yang @ekvraga.bsky.social Kiran Garimella & Jennifer Allen + @ylelkes.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu
- Just published at @thejop.bsky.social, our (mainly= descriptive piece on (gender) political inequality among elected officials in India. (with Alyssa Heinze and Rachel Brulé) ! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardNEW - Ignoring Women’s Performance: A Survey Experiment on Policy Implementation in Argentina - cup.org/4clGHLw - @gustavodiaz.org, @viroliveros.bsky.social, Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro & Matthew S. Winters #OpenAccess
- 🚨Finally in print: our (with Kiran Garimella) methods piece on how to do research on WhatsApp and collect WhatsApp data using donations. "Whatsapp Explorer: A data donation tool to facilitate research on WhatsApp" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardUnidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
- Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardDeadline is in three days. Come join us in Norway for EuroWEPS 11. Happy to answer any questions about the workshop.
- Reposted by Simon Chauchard⏰⏳ Final days to apply! 📢 Don’t miss the chance to apply for one of the 4 full scholarships for the Master in Social Sciences (IC3JM - UC3M)! 🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2025 🔗 Apply now: www.uc3m.es/master/socia... Please share with anyone who might be interested!
- Reposted by Simon Chauchard🚨🚨New Publication🚨🚨🥳 🗳 How does serving as a poll officer influence future turnout, particularly among women? In a recent article at @bjpols.bsky.social with @tonirodon.bsky.social, we explore this question. 🧵
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardDon't miss this opportunity! Contact us if you need further information!
- 📢 Scholarship opportunities for our prestigious two-year interdisciplinary Master's program in Social Sciences! 💡 Available scholarships: ✅ 4 full scholarships 🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2025. ✅ 3 tuition waiver scholarships 🗓 Deadline: May 31, 2025. 🎓 Apply now! 🔗 www.uc3m.es/master/socia...
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardGUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia. Here is How We Would Respond. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
- Reposted by Simon Chauchard‼️On Friday, @andyguess.com on "The Effects of Political Recommendations on Social Media‼️ Join us at 12.30 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardThe ADL is proudly and openly allied with antisemites and fascists who are taking an axe to our democracy and hurting all of us. Full stop.
- Also a masterclass in truncating Y-axes :)
- Helpful NYT article showing 30 exclusion restriction violations for studies claiming covid is an instrument for their preferred x variable nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/09/upshot/covid-lockdown-five-year-charts.html
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardSolidarity with colleagues in Leiden who are the first to strike against the severe budget cuts to our universities. Other universities to follow in the coming days, UvA next Monday 👊🟥
- Reposted by Simon Chauchard🔹 Catherine E. De Vries (Bocconi University), member of the IC3JM Scientific Committee, shares her perspective on what makes our master's program in social sciences unique. 📢 Scholarship opportunities! ✅ 4 full scholarships ✅ 3 tuition waiver scholarships 💥 Apply now! www.uc3m.es/master/socia...
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardHere’s the reality: This government—despite what they’d have us believe—cannot simply do whatever it wants. The moment we accept that bullshit, we become complicit in this blatantly authoritarian move by the president and his administration. With a loud, collective voice, we must say: fuck this!
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- Reposted by Simon Chauchard“By firing us, you’re going to cut down on how much revenue the country brings in,” said an axed IRS specialist who’d been brought in to audit complex tax returns filed by large corporations and wealthy individuals. “This was not about saving money.” By @andykroll.bsky.social
- Interesting piece. "the battleground over U.S. politics won’t be entirely in courts or in Congress — it’ll be in financial markets as well. And, it promises to be a hell of a fight." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardVery happy that my paper has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social! Do insurgents help or hurt genocide targets? Contrary to common belief, I find that insurgent presence reduced Jewish victimisation during the Holocaust in France. Here's what I discovered 👇 1/6
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardWhen Donald Trump threatens student protests, consider why: throughout modern history, student movements have repeatedly been the catalyst that toppled dictatorships. Authoritarian leaders fear campus activism precisely because it works. Below is a list of 36 student-led pro-democracy movements.🧵
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardAs another Trump-induced market crisis unfolds from tariffs, it's time we ask "What's the Matter with Billionaires?" I've run the numbers. Billionaires do better under Dems. So why do billionaires keep supporting GOP policies against their economic interests? See my latest piece on why. (TLDR 🧵⬇️)
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardMany congratulations to @priyadarshi-amar.bsky.social, who just defended a stellar joint poli sci and econ dissertation on the often surprising and unintended effects of electoral rules in India's villages. Hire Priyadarshi! He's on the job market.
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardOf course the main story is Trump’s authoritarianism. But the secondary story is that some university presidents and donors called for this. They went on the news and in front of Congress to claim their students were violent antisemites, funded by Iran, who don’t deserve speech rights
- Exactly. We are now paying the tab for democratic elites' obsession with electoral strategizing, and their related distrust for the streets, student protests or any kind of contact with radical anything...
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardA fundamental problem is the Democrats are utterly committed to the fallacy that public opinion polls are politics. This has destroyed their ability to actually do politics. 1/
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardZelenskyy showed more courage and intestinal fortitude today than the entire Republican Party since 2016. It's shocking to see someone refuse to bend the knee and become a supplicant.
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardNo, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
- Reposted by Simon Chauchard🚨In a new working paper @simonchauchard.bsky.social & I argue that integrating the state can weaken support for redistribution. The bureaucratic state is a pivotal actor in historically ranked societies like US & India, where high status groups have used the state to maintain social hierarchy
- 🚨Grrrreat opportunity to join a 2-year research master with us!!! Ideal for students looking for great (and almost free) pre-PhD training. Also: not in the US :)
- 📢 Scholarship opportunities for our prestigious two-year interdisciplinary Master's program in Social Sciences! 💡 Available scholarships: ✅ 4 full scholarships 🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2025. ✅ 3 tuition waiver scholarships 🗓 Deadline: May 31, 2025. 🎓 Apply now! 🔗 www.uc3m.es/master/socia...
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardCongratulations to @simonchauchard.bsky.social, @sumitra.bsky.social, and Niloufer Siddiqui, who received the 2025 Rajni Kothari Award for best paper on South Asian Politics for "Misinformation and support for vigilantism: An experiment in India and Pakistan" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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[Not loaded yet] - Finally in print @thejop.bsky.social, our piece (With A.Heinze and R. Brulé) "Who Actually Governs? Gender Inequality and Political Representation in Rural India" www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... We show that women continue to be disadvantaged in decision-making processes AFTER election
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardThis is tomorrow... Looking forward!
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardFrom the experience of the successful grassroots fight against Netanyahu's attempt at judicial overhaul, I cannot stress enough three points: 1. Civil society should not assume that opposition politicians will take the lead. In Israel, politicians were not the ones leading the fight. CS was.
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardTime for some Streisand effect
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardThe call for applications for the doctoral Summer School on "Challenges to Electoral Democracy" is still open!! The application deadline is February 17. More information here: www.chairedemocratie.com/files/sites/...
- 📣Summer school on "Challenges to Electoral Democracy", Paris, July 1-5, 2025📣 Organized with @rdassonneville.bsky.social Guest speakers: @ainagallego.bsky.social @florianfoos.bsky.social @sldelange.bsky.social @simonchauchard.bsky.social @jrovny.bsky.social More info👇
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardResearchers paid nearly $9 billion to publishers between 2019 and 2023 so you could read our work. Why? Why??
- Great line-up at the IC3JM seminar this spring :)
- Ready for another outstanding semester in our Permanent Seminar series: @amaliaab.bsky.social @andyguess.com @adasgupta.bsky.social @dnaurin.bsky.social and many more!! Please, be tuned!
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- Reposted by Simon ChauchardRemember, just one month left to send us your submissions to the Junior HPE Workshop. I can promise great papers, a lot of historical data analysis, and thorough feedback. Don't miss the opportunity!
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardPoetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
- Reposted by Simon Chauchard🎓 The application period for the Master's in Social Sciences at IC3JM is now OPEN! 🌍 Join a top-tier program with international faculty, rigorous training, and a vibrant academic community in Madrid. 🔗 Apply now: www.uc3m.es/master/socia... #SocialSciences #UC3JM
- Reposted by Simon Chauchard📣Summer school on "Challenges to Electoral Democracy", Paris, July 1-5, 2025📣 Organized with @rdassonneville.bsky.social Guest speakers: @ainagallego.bsky.social @florianfoos.bsky.social @sldelange.bsky.social @simonchauchard.bsky.social @jrovny.bsky.social More info👇
- Reposted by Simon Chauchard"Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-checking policies" www.france24.com/en/live-news...
- Reposted by Simon ChauchardThese are some beautiful reflections by Pepe Mujica, the former Uruguayan president who is in his deathbed. The most decent and honorable -- the most human -- head of state of my lifetime. archive.is/Kil4J
