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Timo Seidl
@Timo_Seidl
Post-Doc @eif_univie, PhD @EUI_EU, #firstgen Digital Capitalism - Ideas in History - Text-as-Data - EU Digital Agenda
May 15, 2020 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
Interested in the politics of digitalization? Then I might have 2 papers for you. The 1st helps understand when platform companies like Uber are regulated – and when they are not. The 2nd explains why the EU adopted the GDPR despite fierce resistance by business interests

Thread ImageImage The first paper looks at two attempts by New York’s Mayor Bill de Blasio to put a cap on the growth of Uber. The first bill failed spectacularly – the second one was successful, despite being proposed in the same city, by the same mayor and only 3 years apart. Why?