Schöll, Nikolas; Gallego Dobón, Aina; Le Mens, Gaël(Wiley, 2024)
This article studies how politicians react to feedback from citizens on social media. We use a reinforcement-learning framework to model how politicians respond to citizens’ positive feedback by increasing attention to ...
Schöll, Nikolas; Kurer, Thomas(Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Does technological change fuel political disruption? Drawing on fine-grained labor market data from Germany, this paper examines how technological change affects regional electorates. We first show that the well-known ...
Gallego Dobón, Aina; Kurer, Thomas; Schöll, Nikolas(University of Chicago Press, 2022)
The nascent literature on the political consequences of technological change studies either left-behind voters or successful technology entrepreneurs (“superstars”). However, it neglects the large share of skilled workers ...
New digital technologies are transforming workplaces, with unequal economic consequences depending on workers skills. Does digitalization also cause divergence in political preferences? Using an innovative empirical ...
