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Mask-wearing in times of COVID has become politicized in the US. Can we leverage the salience of social ID to increase compliance w/ mitigation measures?

@christinakcc, @Lfalab, Isa Gotti, @shahbano_ijaz, @Gregoire_Philli, @mikeseese and I find that we can. (1/7) Our paper, "Taking the Cloth: social norms and elite cues increase support for masks among white Evangelical Americans" tests two strategies for increasing support for wearing face masks in public among one of the least compliant groups: white Evangelical Americans. (2/7)

I won't pretend to have expertise on Afghanistan, but I have researched migrant and #refugee integration for a few years. A 🧵: Refugees are an economic boon to their host communities, both because of the economic dynamism of refugees themselves (pnas.org/content/113/27…) and indirectly because of the positive spillovers of cash transfers to refugees (tinyurl.com/5b6da3t9).

The past few yrs have seen a proliferation of polisci scholarship on dictators' use of nominally-democratic institutions to prolong their tenure... but don't dictators also rely on coercion? This wk, we dove into @SheenaGreitens's "Dictators and their Secret Police." (2016) (1/8) Dictators face a plethora of threats when they come to power, but one typically dominates in their perception. This dominant subjective threat shapes the kind of security apparatus they design, with important implications for intelligence-gathering and violence. (2/8)

What explains the success of radical right parties in some European countries and not others? Sound like a trendy topic? Well... it is! @TerriGivens was an early voice in this debate, & this week we read her investigation in "Voting Radial Right In Western Europe" (2005) (1/7) Givens has to set the stage for her argument given the prominence of the established lit at the time. Sure, unemployment and immigration likely played a role but why the variation in radical right (RR) party success in a region equally affected by such structural changes? (2/7)