Cristy Ramirez

Con el último comunicado por parte de Estados Unidos demuestra que Panamá queda en medio de un conflicto entre dos potencias y están usando al país para mandarse mensaje el uno al otro. @panamaendirecto

#Análisis y Comentarios | En Panamá la justicia no funciona como debe funcionar. Acelerar un proceso porque suena bien políticamente, le termina haciendo daño al proceso y después no hay justicia porque los casos y los procesos no se arman como se deben armar, opina @cristyramirezp. @EdwinECabreraU @Gonzalolazzari @icardreyes @joylazarusl panamaendirecto.com @ARCA_Media 97.7FM #PanamaEnDirecto YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=kOjLXD…

Democracy and business are often treated as separate domains. Instead, in a new piece for @mitsmr, @julie_battilana, @lramarajan98, Matthew Lee and I argue that business leaders have a rational interest—not just a civic duty—in defending democracy. 👇👇 sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-bu…

.@AndresVelasco, Decano de la Escuela de Políticas Públicas de la @LSEnews en seminario en la #CEPAL: El Consenso de Londres permite ⤵️ 🔹Identificar lo que no funciona en política económica. 🔹Diferenciar entre principios y políticas: la política económica que se aplique en un lugar depende de las condiciones particulares. 🔹Identificar principios para, a partir de ellos, ofrecer políticas que son proposiciones condicionales. 🔹Revelar la importancia de las narrativas en los debates políticos y económicos.

Thrilled to share that my paper with @MattGrossmann and Caleb Lucas is now out at American Politics Research. In it, we introduce CongressData, a novel repository of 1,300+ variables on the US Congress. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15…

I am very happy to share that our paper, “Ideological Alignment and Evidence-Based Policy Adoption,” is now published in the American Economic Review (#AER). This is a hugely ambitious project that has taken more than four years of work together with an amazing team of co-authors. We conducted a nationwide #RCT involving over 5,000 real local politicians, as well as national think tanks, newspapers, and a leading global academic institution, to answer a simple but very important question: does the political “colour” of the messenger influence policy implementation? One of the central challenges of the #evidence-based policy agenda is turning evidence into actual policy. From my experience in politics, this is far from straightforward: evidence has limited value if it does not translate into policies that improve people’s lives. Why is it so difficult to persuade policymakers to adopt policies with strong empirical backing? If the evidence is there, why are these policies so rarely implemented? 🔬 In our study, we address this by sending identical information about an evidence-based policy to local policymakers, introducing variation only in the #messenger of the policy: a non-ideological research institution versus think tanks and newspapers with clear ideological leanings. The policy itself is a recommendation - strongly supported by evidence- that improving a municipality’s Wikipedia page increases tourism. We find that policy adoption increases by 65% when the information comes from a source perceived as ideologically aligned with the policymaker. In contrast, ideologically opposed institutions have no effect. Publishing in what is arguably the world’s leading academic journal is a dream for any economist. For me - having stepped away from academia for politics - the joy is even greater. 🙏 I am deeply grateful to all my incredble co-authors for their generosity of offering me the opportunity to share this project with them, and for everything I have learned throughout this process. I also want to thank all the collaborators and RAs that have contributed, as well as across institutions, including eldiario.es, El Mundo, Alternativas, FAES, and FEMP, as well as the support from the Social Research Call of La Caixa and the Wikimedia Foundation. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… @IEuniversity @iespega @EnricoLetta @manuelmunizv @Borjamonde @JuanSantalo

BREAKING: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat to Peter Magyar after "painful" election result, ending 16 years in power. apnews.com/article/hungar…

#Hungary | The architect of Europe's "illiberal democracy" has been voted out, despite #Trump's support & U.S. @VP visiting Budapest and documented Russian interference. This matters beyond #Hungary. @PM_ViktorOrban was Putin's closest EU ally and the model for MAGA's vision of governance. Combined with recent setbacks for the populist right in #France, #Italy, and #Slovenia, the result suggests the illiberal project inside democratic systems has a ceiling when voters mobilize.

Polling stations have now closed in Hungary. I fielded a pre-election survey among Hungarians up until yesterday (1065 respondents). When asked if they had to choose between Tisza and Fidesz to form the next government, 57% selected Tisza, and the rest Fidesz (the current govt).

Nature meta-research project puts claims in social-science papers. I'm interested in Econ and Psych so I focused on that: Econ had about the same rate of "not reproducible" analyses as Psych and a worse rate then Political Science. nature.com/articles/d4158…

What happens to Latin America if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed? I made a map. boz.substack.com/p/what-happens…

🚨The 5th Women in Political Economics Workshop is coming! 📍WU Vienna 📅24–25 September '26 ⏰Deadline: 31 May '26 💸No fees Open to all career stages, from PhD students to tenured faculty. Submit your paper or extended abstract 👇 jotform.com/form/260773364… Spread the word!

Many of us, liberal Europeans, spent decades pushing back against the European extreme left's cartoon version of America ( it's all oil/ imperialism/getting rich at the expense of others) and then one dumb administration walks in and performs the caricature to perfection.

El instituto V-Dem evalúa la democracia en todo el mundo. Estos son los países con los *peores* indicadores en América Latina y el Caribe: 1. Nicaragua 2. Venezuela 3. Cuba 4. El Salvador

The French center might hold after all ..

Democratic institutions are more than a set of abstract rules. They are run by people, and it is those people whom voters are fuming against, @AndresVelasco explains. bit.ly/489OJ98

Fascinado con este gráfico de @jburnmurdoch y con ganas de que haya más investigación al respecto.

These were mayoral 🇫🇷 elections, so any national extrapolation is of course hazardous. But if you go by voting in towns with > 100,000 population, one cautious conclusion is this : the broad non-populist centre can hold

How can the EU still operate as a Union when one of its members systematically sabotages it from within? That Orbán’s people feed Moscow every detail of EU Council meetings surprises no one. Yet this breach of loyal cooperation is so grave it endangers the Union itself. The EU can’t expel a rebellious member state but its members could at least trigger the sanctioning mechanisms that already exist.