The Public Governance workshop is an online seminar series focused on state of art research in political economy that uses non-traditional data and data-intensive methods.

The workshop gives a platform for the research on the role of governance in designing and developing better policies. Key features are the political environment, the role of the media, the engagement of stakeholders such as civil society and firms, the market structure and level of competition, and the independence of public regulators, among others. Particular emphasis is placed on research with NLP methods due to the proven usefulness of transforming text into data for further econometric analysis.

Periodicity: Mondays from 17h30 to 19h.

To attend, please contact:

Vladimir Avetian: vladimir.avetian@dauphine.psl.eu

Edgar Jimenez Bedolla: edgar.jimenez-bedolla@dauphine.psl.eu

Upcoming sessions

Past sessions

2026-02-02 17h30

Melanie Xue (London School of Economics)

Enlightenment Under Autocracy: The Origins of Liberalism in China

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2026-01-19 17h30

James P. Cross (University College Dublin)

Fair Representation in Parliamentary Summaries: Measuring and Mitigating Inclusion Bias

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2026-01-12 17h30

Vitalia Eliseva (Paris School of Economics)

The Market for Stories: How Market Consolidation Shaped Narratives in US History Textbooks [with Pedro Aldighieri]

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2025-12-15 17h30

Roman Senninger (Aarhus University)

The Politics of Evidence Selection

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2025-11-17 17h30

Dastan Jasim, ACSS Institutite (PSL University)

The Kurdish Case for Democracy - Political Culture in the Absence of a State

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2025-11-10 17h30

Avaro La Parra-Pérez (Weber State University)

Revolving Doors Under Democracy and Autocracy 

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2025-10-27 17h30

Guillermo Woo-Mora (Paris School of Economics)

Moral Force, Contagious Force: Partisanship, Populist Leadership, and Public Health Compliance during COVID-19

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2025-10-20 17h30

Joseph Emmens (MIT)

Teams and Text: Disentangling Team Knowledge Production

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2025-10-13 17h30

Giuseppe Musillo (Tilburg University)

State Repression, Memory, and Social Capital (by Capozza, Giugovaz, and Musillo)

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2025-10-06 17h30

Ali Bakhtawar (Aix Marseille School of Economics)

Lawfare in Action: Evidence from Anti-Corruption Trials in Pakistan

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2025-09-29 17h30

Natalia Vasilenok (Stanford University)

Reading Orwell in Moscow

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2025-09-15 17h30

Alena Gorbuntsova (University of Chicago)

Nation Building or Empire Building? Evidence from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

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2025-07-07 17h30

Prashant Garg (Imperial College Business School)

Retrieving and Generating Data using LLMs

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2025-06-23 17h30

Carlos Molina (University of South Carolina)

Social Influence and News Consumption (joint with Alex Moehring)

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2025-06-16 14h

Ruixue Jia (UC San Diego)

Knowledge Suppression and Resilience under Censorship: Three-century Book Publications in China (w. Ying Bai and Jiaojiao Yang)

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2025-06-09 17h30

Luca Braghieri (Bocconi University)

“Behavioral and Information Frictions in News Consumption: Evidence from Social Media” Rescheduled date TBA

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2025-06-02 17h30

Nathan Canen (University of Warwick)

Multidimensional Learning in Committee Deliberations (joint work with Perry Carter and Matias Iaryczower)

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2025-05-26 17h30

Matteo Grigoletto (University of Bern)

Censorship in Democracy (with Marcel Caesman, Janis Goldzycher and Lorenz Gschwent)

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2025-05-05 16h

Adriana Bunea (University of Bergen)

Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text-as-Data Approach.

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2025-04-07 17h30

Mikhail Galashin (UCLA)

Market for Answers: Integrating Сommunity Information in Survey Design (with Alena Buinskaya)

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2025-03-24 17h30

Desmond Ang (Harvard Kennedy School of Government)

World War I and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan (with Sahil Chinoy)

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2025-03-17 17h30

Matteo Grigoletto (University of Bern)

Censorship in Democracy (with Marcel Caesman, Janis Goldzycher and Lorenz Gschwent)

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2025-03-10 17h30

Hannes Mueller (Barcelona School of Economics)

Breaking the Echo-chamber: Social Media Networks and Political Conflict

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2025-03-03 17h30

Emily Silcock (Harvard University)

The effect of policy narratives on economic outcomes: The case of welfare stigma

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2025-02-24 17h30

Aakaash Rao (Harvard University)

Politicians, News Media, and the Culture War (with Shakked Noy)

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2025-02-17 17h30

Chloe Ahn (University of Pennsylvania)

[Study 1] International Source of Hostility Toward Refugees, & [Study 2] Cultural Backlash to Globalization: Evidence from K-Pop

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2025-02-10 17h30

Marcel Caesmann (University of Zurich)

Going Viral: Protests and Polarization in 1932 Hamburg (joint with Bruno Caprettini, Joachim Voth and David Yanagizawa-Drott)

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2025-02-03 17h30

Eleonora Alabrese (University of Bath)

Politicized Scientists: Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter (joint with Francesco Capozza and Prashant Garg)

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2025-01-26 17h30

Viktor Malein (Lund University)

Economic Modernisation and Democratization: Evidence from 1917 Russian Revolution

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2024-12-16 12h15

Fatjon Kaja (University of Amsterdam)

Refraiming Corporate Purpose: A Historical Perspective

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2024-09-16 17h30

Yaroslav Prokhorskoy (ESSEC)

Beneath the Ban of Abortion: Evidence from the USSR (with Sultan Mehmood and Hosny Zoabi)

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2024-06-03 17h30

Berkeren Büyükeren (EIEF and LUISS)

Endogenous Local Government Formation and Nation Building (joint with Serhii Abramenko)

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2024-05-06 17h30

Lena Song (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Making Public Law (joint with Elliott Ash, Aniket Kesari, Suresh Naidu, and Dominik Stammbach)

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2024-04-08 17h30

Arianna Ornaghi (Hertie School)

The Returns to Viral Media: The Case of US Campaign Contributions (with Johannes Böken, Mirko Draca, and Nicola Mastrorocco)

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2024-03-18 17h30

Gísli Gylfason (Paris School of Economics)

From Tweets to the Streets: Twitter and Extremist Protests in the United States

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2024-03-11 17h30

Rosanne Logeart (Paris School of Economics)

Does Access Mean Success? Connection to Policy-Makers and Lobbying Success of Political Actors

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2024-03-04 17h30

Kai Gehring (University of Bern)

Analyzing Climate Change Policy Narratives with the Character-Role Narrative Framework (with Matteo Grigoletto)

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2024-02-19 17h30

Jaime Marques Pereira (Lancaster University)

Trumping the News: A High-Frequency Analysis

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2024-02-12 17h30

Masahiro Kubo (Brown University)

French (with Guillaume Blanc)

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2024-02-05 17h30

Sulin Sardoschau (Humboldt University)

Public Signal and Private Action: Right-wing Protest and Hate Crimes against Refugees (joint with Annalí Casanueva Artís)

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2024-01-29 17h30

Agustina Martínez (University of Leicester)

Hate in the Tropics. Bolsonaro's Triumph and the Surge of Online Hate Speech in Brazil (with Diego Marino Fages)

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2024-01-22 17h30

Alexey Makarin (MIT Sloan)

The Political Economic Determinants of Nuclear Power Investment: Evidence from Chernobyl (with Nancy Qian and Shaoda Wang)

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2023-12-04 17h30

Ulrich Matter (University of St. Gallen's SEPS-HSG)

Who Owns the Online Media (with Philine Widmer)

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2023-11-27 17h30

Joao Pereira dos Santos (ISEG & Queen Mary University of London)

The Electoral Impact of a Large Return Migration Shock in a Nascent Democracy (with Miguel Fonseca and Susana Peralta)

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2023-11-06 17h30

Florencia Hnilo (Stanford University)

Scars of the Gestapo: Remembrance and Privacy Concerns

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2023-10-30 17h30

Alexander Yarkin (LISER & UC Davis)

Lobbying for Industrialization

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2023-10-23 17h30

Kritika Saxena (University of Groningen)

Religiously-Inspired Baby Boom: Evidence from Georgia

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2023-06-19 17h30

Milena Djourelova (University of Chicago)

Experience, Narratives and Climate Change Beliefs

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2023-06-05 17h30

Carlo Schwarz (Bocconi University)

The Effect of Content Moderation on Online and Offline Hate: Evidence from Germany's NetzDG

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2023-05-22 17h30

Julian Dyer (University of Exeter Business School)

Words as Data: Evidence on Cultural Convergence and Change

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2023-04-17 17h30

Apurav Bhatiya (University of Birmingham)

Do Enfranchised Immigrants Affect Politicians' Behaviour?

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2023-04-03 17h30

Clément Gorin (University of Toronto)

The Emergence, Growth, and Stagnation of Cities: France 1760-2020

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2023-03-20 17h30

Léo Picard (University of Basel)

Political Metaphors in U.S. Governor Speeches (with Dominik Stammbach)

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2023-03-06 17h30

Michael Poyker (University of Nottingham)

Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System

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2023-02-20 17h30

Peiyuan Li (University of Colorado Boulder)

Who Lost (or Won) China? Land Reform and War Mobilization

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2023-02-06 17h30

Miao Ben Zhang (University of Southern California)

The Cost of Regulatory Compliance in the United States (with Francesco Trebbi)

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2023-01-16 17h30

Nikita Melnikov (Nova School of Business and Economics)

Mobile Internet and Political Polarization

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2023-01-09 17h30

Annalí Casanueva Artís (PSE)

Can chants in the street change politics’ tune? Evidence from the 15M movement in Spain

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2022-12-05 17h30

Gloria Gennaro (UCL)

Immigration and Social Distance: Evidence from Newspapers during the Age of Mass Migration

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2022-10-17 17h30

Christina J Schneider (UC San Diego)

Globalization and Promissory Representation

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