“One report (found) that only 8 percent of users actually double checked an AI’s answer. Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80 percent of the time — a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”
This show was a blast. @andrewmueller.bsky.social was on absolutely cracking form, and it is always a pleasure to hang out with the brilliant @anandmenon.bsky.social
There is a special place in hell for reviewers who ask for more revisions after you've done everything they originally asked of you #Reviewer2 #academia #polisky
For anyone trying to make sense of the attempted erosion of democracy in the USA, this paper offers a very interesting, historically-derived framework: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I think I speak for most of Northern Europe when I scream "I CAN'T BLOODY WAIT FOR WINTER TO END!!!!!!!" 🥶🥶🌧️😬
I have a new article just published in Political Studies: What is Centrism? Open access here: doi.org/10.1177/0032...
Quite aside the shocking moral disregard for women's lives, the report cited here v dramatically underestimates the economic contribution of women's unpaid labour, leading to a deeply fallacious conclusion about women's monetary value.
It's what happens when men make decisions without women present
Netflix is suggesting I want to watch "Witty Mid-Life-Crisis Comedy Series" 🤨
Research article titled "Complex, Conditional, and Contested: Substantive Representation and Representative Claims in French Parliamentary Debates" by Rainbow Murray.
📣 Out on #FirstView 📣
In "Complex, Conditional, and Contested", @rainbowmurray.bsky.social analyzes representative claims to explore the relationship between descriptive and substantive representation of women in France 🇫🇷
🌟 Available #OpenAccess 🌟
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Flowchart titled “Should you attend that meeting?” with decision nodes leading to “Decline!” in all cases.
Behold: a genuinely useful flowchart #AcademicChatter
The full article, entitled "Complex, Conditional, and Contested: Substantive Representation and Representative Claims in French Parliamentary Debates", is available free of charge and Open Access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @politicsgenderj.bsky.social
Crucially, I find that support for the substantive representation of women is often restricted to representative claims that uphold the gendered and racialized status quo (eg portraying women as victims), while claims that empower women face greater resistance.
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Sometimes women cross party lines to work together, while ideological differences emerge between women sharing descriptive traits. Contradictory & contested visions of women's interests are advanced by actors who qualify as descriptive and substantive representatives of women.
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I ask 3 core questions: Who is making representative claims for women? What are the claims saying? Which women are represented by the claims?
I find that the substantive representation of women is complex & full of contestations, & is not always clearly divided along gendered or partisan lines.
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📢 New publication! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In this article, just published in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social, I look at representative claims made on behalf of women in French parliamentary debates.
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BTW, any UK outlets that want a British based Chilean (party and electoral) politics expert, need look no further than our fab @qmulsse.bsky.social colleague @sajuria.com
Re-reading @colmpm.bsky.social’s marvellous “Futures of Socialism”. A very different experience to reading the proof in 2023 and having a horrible feeling of dread, as opposed to now where you go “well, yeah, my worst fears have been realised and exceeded”.
If you are interested in Dutch politics and/or the rise of the far-right in politics then you should follow @stijntvankessel.bsky.social because he really knows what he's talking about AND he has great plants
"‘Whatever It Takes?’ The Policy Implications of Supporting Ukraine".
What does supporting Ukraine mean in practice?
What are the implications for national security, tax policy, EU relations, energy security & more?
28 Oct 12:00 at @mileendinstitute.bsky.social.
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The co-optation of the themes of the far-right by mainstream parties, in the Netherlands as elsewhere, only serves to normalise the far-right's agenda and strengthen far-right parties electorally. You cannot defeat the far-right by becoming more like them.
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @rainbowmurray.bsky.social and Nik Gowing on the day's stuff, plus regular panellist Julie Norman on the new book she has co-written on Gaza. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Great to speak to @greenmirandahere.bsky.social for today's FT Inside Politics about the latest finding from our politics of (im)patience project, w/ @karlpike.bsky.social and @philipjcowley.bsky.social.
www.ft.com/content/e984...
If you think this proposed organisational model will work (or, indeed, last very long in reality rather than appearance), then you might want to google 'Robert Michels and "iron law of oligarchy"'.
In sum: French politics is in a real mess. Asking the outgoing PM to return to the job he just quit is not going to fix the mess. Casual spectators can enjoy the plot-twists 🍿👀, Brits can compare the longevity of French PMs to 🥬, but for many in France the situation is actually one of despair 😞 /end
Understandably the Left are very peeved. They hoped they might get one of their own as the next PM. They did not. They hoped they could overturn the pension reform. They cannot. No surprise then that some have threatened to no-confidence Lecornu immediately, while others refuse to rule it out 12/
What the Left really want it to overturn the bitterly opposed pension reform from 2023 that raised the retirement age to 64. There were hints this week that pensions were back on the table - turns out Macron is not willing to scrap the reform, only to delay it until after the next election 11/
Lecornu has offered meaningful parliamentary input into the budget & promised not to use constitutional clause 49.3 to force the budget through without a vote. He has also offered to soften the targets for deficit reduction, which would mean less austerity but more debt. Will it be enough? 10/
Mainstream parties don't need to agree on everything but they do need to find enough common ground to pass a budget. Urgently. Their failure to do so previously has left a string of ousted prime ministers in its wake. What can Lecornu do to succeed where all others have failed? 9/
So no surprise that the far-right & far-left are calling for elections & promising to vote down the government before its members are even announced. & Macron is relying once again on fear of the extremes to try & force everyone else to fall in line behind him. It's become his signature move 8/
But what this week of discussions HAS demonstrated is that there is, in fact, one thing uniting all moderate parties - the fear of another snap election. Because polls suggest the far-right would win & the moderates could all lose seats. They don't want that. & the extremist parties want it a lot 7/