This is an important finding on targeted labor adjustment schemes: Compensation brings attention to the disruptive events that give rise to it (e.g. trade liberalization). The result is that trade adjustment can have a net negative electoral impact.

In another new study in Perspectives on Politics, krzysztof pelc and I report a similar finding: those who perceive themselves as political outliers in their neighborhood are less likely to donate blood. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

"By suppressing our weak, temptation-riddled selves, might we end up thinner but also, somehow, better people? The question 'better according to whom?' remains unanswered." krzysztof pelc wonders if Ozempic can function as a means of self-improvement. lareviewofbooks.org/article/ozempi…

Imagine a drug that could erase your passion for online shopping. Should you take it? Ozempic users report lifelong cravings disappearing overnight. Some then regret their past yearnings. I wrote about what it means to choose freely in Los Angeles Review of Books bit.ly/3WZAkb6

Ozempic is a drug against addiction. krzysztof pelc asks if it's also a drug for virtue. "When our fundamental desires change, it becomes very difficult to say whether we are authoring our future improved self, or betraying it by becoming someone we are not." lareviewofbooks.org/article/ozempi…

Prof krzysztof pelc has published 2 recent papers: 'Taking One for the (Other) Team: Does Political Diversity Lower Vaccination Uptake?' Political Behavior ow.ly/Mzq450RXXc8 'Does Political Diversity Inhibit Blood Donations?' Perspectives on Politics ow.ly/H4vf50RXXc9

I've been reading Thomas Hale's provocative & thoughtful (those rarely goes together...) "Long Problems", about politics on different time scales. What all the nice reviews don't mention is how beautifully written it is. A total joy. Blavatnik School of Government press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

In thinking of the ratio in IR of (how much we should know / how much we do know), the international tax regime wins by a landslide. This piece helps.

Heading to the Environmental Politics & Governance #EPG conference in Québec City on a shiny new Via train. Currently crawling at 30km/h "due to extreme heat." #lethal_irony☀️

New article now online AJPS! Sung Eun Kim, Grace Zeng, and I show that China has systematically used the enforcement of health and safety standards to punish countries with which it has political tensions. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

"We find that the measure of ideological distance consistently appears negative across the models even with a subset of liberals or conservatives, respectively. Notably, we find that the effects remain substantial when we estimate the models separately with individuals who