In the new issue of MAD css.ethz.ch/en/publicati..., I have a brief analysis of campaign financing in Moldova's 2025 parliamentary elections, looking at broad patterns of income and spending, including a very superficial analysis of the relationship between campaign spending and electoral returns.
🌟 New article 🇲🇩
👤 Sergiu Lipcean @sergiulipcean.bsky.social
👉 Campaign Financing in Moldova’s 2025 Parliamentary Elections
📗 Open access in: Moldovan Analytical Digest
🔗 css.ethz.ch/en/publicati...
❓ @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social and @sergiulipcean.bsky.social ask: If the European Commission consults more stakeholders, are its proposals less likely to be changed by legislators?
✅ Bottom line: Yes, but it depends
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🌟 New article
👥 Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social & Sergiu Lipcean @sergiulipcean.bsky.social
👉 Does public participation in supranational policymaking enhance the European Commission’s legislative agenda-setting success?
📗 Journal of European Public Policy
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
For those interested in the effects of direct public funding of political parties on various dimensions of political activity, a brief review.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New thread on @sergiulipcean.bsky.social 's critique of panel data methods in an influential study of political corruption:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
tl; dr: simpler models are better than "causal" models if you don't know the DGP.
let's go... 🏎️⚡
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