Maria Puolakkainen

How have guerrilla and paramilitary groups affected local politics and #servicedelivery in #Colombia? So excited to present on the @LasaSubnatPolit and policy panel at @LASACONGRESS this Saturday at 2 pm UK time (9am EDT)! It will be my first academic conference as an author!

@rduartegonzalez @FIU @fiu_sipa @YaleCowles Many many congratulations!!

After a long job market spanning multiple disciplines, I am glad to share I will join @FIU & @fiu_sipa as an Assistant Professor of Economics in 2027, after a postdoc at the Cowles Foundation at Yale (@YaleCowles) with their new Political Economy program! cowles.yale.edu/political-econ…

@dsanco I admire her so much, what a loss.

Rosemary Thorp, economic historian from Oxford, died this morning. She was such an amazing woman and I learnt so much from her!

This looks fabulous! @BMagaloni and @AdamPrzeworski.

🚨 Exciting news! Today, we’re launching DMV-WEPS — the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) Workshop in Empirical Political Science — together with Alicia Cooperman and @ricarthuguet. sites.google.com/view/dmv-weps/…

@SlaterPolitics @umichpolisci Thrilled to see students reading @naomukoyama!

Stackable syllabus! The State in Comparative and World Politics Autumn 2025, @umichpolisci

@hillaryvipond This is great -- but how did they stay awake writing this? :)

I am so excited about this paper on the decline of wool in Vermont I can't even post it. Look at this, she can count the sheep!!

@MariaBe45600461 @LACOxford @OSGAOxford @ODID_QEH Felicidades y bienvenidos a Oxford!

Career update! 🌟 🎉 I'm absolutely thrilled to share that I'll be joining the University of Oxford as Departmental Lecturer in the Political Economy of Latin America! Can’t wait to learn from this wonderful academic community at @LACOxford @OSGAOxford @ODID_QEH

My @cps_journal article is now out with issue and page numbers! New article from our latest issue (Issue 8, 2025): "Outsourcing Machines. How Programmatic Parties Include Clientelistic Strategies" by Gonzalo Contreras @gontrerasa.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

@JohnHolbein1 Do you know what is updated in this new version? Worth reading again?

Difference-in-differences for practitioners from the diff-in-diffs dream team!

¿Nos ayudan a difundir esta convocatoria abierta? Hasta el 20 de julio de 2025, pueden enviar artículos para participar en el dossier “Juventudes globales. Protestas, organizaciones y activismos estudiantiles internacionales y transnacionales desde América Latina y el Caribe, siglos XIX - XXI” que va a publicarse en la revista "Cahiers des Amériques latines". Este dossier recibe artículos producidos desde distintas disciplinas de las ciencias sociales (antropología, sociología, historia, geografía, ciencia política) que indaguen en las protestas, organizaciones y activismos estudiantiles internacionales y trasnacionales que se impulsaron desde América Latina y el Caribe en los siglos XIX, XX y XXI. Cabe señalar que en las reflexiones habrá que tener en cuenta los múltiples determinantes y facetas de lo social (el tríptico class, gender, race, al cual se pueden agregar la etnicidad, la nacionalidad, la religiosidad y la edad como construcciones sociológicas). ► Pueden leer la convocatoria completa en: - journals.openedition.org/cal/19742 - bit.ly/40PasA8 - bit.ly/3PV1N8S ► Por dudas o consultas pueden escribir a romain.robinet@univ-angers.fr y nicolasdip@filos.unam.mx ► Se reciben contribuciones en español, inglés, francés y portugués. Se agradece mucho la difusión

Para aquellos colegas analistas de datos que estaban interesados en el análisis espacial de los resultados electorales, les comparto el código para minar los datos del CNE y los shapefiles base para descarga: github.com/pablovelascoec…

Finland: where attempts at vote buying in come wrapped in blue foil. Stokes was right — but forgot to model the chocolate elasticity of voter compliance.

Join us for the 2025 Brazilian Studies Programme Annual Conference. Register on eventbrite: eventbrite.com/e/2025-bsp-ann… 📅 Date: Tuesday, March 25th 🕘Time: 9am - 6pm 📍Where: Mordan Hall, St Hugh’s College

How will global trade rewire following "Liberation Day"? For the past few days, @ViktorStojkoski and I have been working on a new global trade simulation. This network shows our most recent run of the model. Our current forecast is that trade will hollow out around the US--except for Mexico and Canada--and reconfigure around China and Germany. In this scenario, countries like Japan, Brazil, and South Korea gravitate towards China, whereas France, Italy, and the Netherlands gravitate towards Germany. While this network presents an aggregate view, our model also provides sectoral resolution, which we plan to make available in the future. Some of the trends we anticipate here are France becoming even stronger in the exports of aircraft and East and South East Asia losing some of their footwear exports to Mexico, The Caribbean, and Central America. Stay tuned and enjoy this network. More is coming soon.

🚨 Call for applications - Research Assistant 🚨 Valeria Rueda and I are recruiting someone to work on projects on "Violence and narratives in Colombia" Looking for students interested in pol econ/dev, with a good knowledge of Colombian history Deadline: April 15

.@alicekrozer y yo estamos encantados de compartir la convocatoria para el segundo encuentro de posgrados que estudian los temas de las élites, la riqueza y el poder en México. La fecha límite de entregar los solicitudes es 15 de abril. #elites #desigualdad @CIDE_MX @elcolmex

@EllaWTuominen @ymyymmr @PaLSPPG @SOBP Exciting research!

Got to present the incredible work by @ymyymmr that I'm currently continuing concerning the impact of anxiety increasing (threat of shock) and reducing (benzodiazepine) study manipulations on avoidance at the @PaLSPPG weekly seminar this week🙌 Next up: Toronto and @SOBP meeting!

Sebastián Raphael's work "From One-Party Rule to the Presidential-Military Complex: Evidence from Five Mexican Presidencies", examines the relationship between presidential goals and military mandates in Mexico, with excellent comments from Prof. Timothy Power.

@JuliaLodoen's paper "In Democracy’s Shadows: How Institutions Created under Democratic Regimes Strengthen Authoritarian Repression" stimulated conversation on institutions of violent repression in URU and ARG before authoritarianism, superb comments by Laurence Whitehead.

Pablo Pizarro shared his paper "Gender, Leadership, and Experience in Prosecutorial Decisions: Evidence from Chile", with exciting results on the decisions of female prosecutors in Chile. Excellent comments from Prof. @egocantos stimulated conversation on theory.