The AGI race and existential risk
(with Ethan Bueno de Mesquita and Wioletta Dziuda)
Competition can make the race for AGI less safe (Harris School, 22 June 2026)
Values as luxury goods and political behavior
(with Benjamin Enke and Alex Wu; Journal of the European Economic Association, 2025)
Why Aren’t You Voting in Your Financial Self-Interest?
(Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times, September 14, 2022)
Is America Too Rich for Class Politics?
(Eric Levitz, New York magazine / Intelligencer, September 29, 2021)
America split itself into tribes over abortion, climate change and immigration
(MarketWatch, May 3, 2022)
Plus les électeurs sont riches, plus les valeurs morales ont de l’importance
(Pauline Grosjean, Le Monde, May 14, 2022)
Moral als Luxusgut (Benjamin Enke and Mattias Polborn, FAZ, 25 October 2022)
Political competition in legislative elections
(with Stefan Krasa; American Political Science Review, 2018)
New model of polarization sheds light on today’s politics
(Vanderbilt University / Newswise, October 3, 2018)
Policy divergence and polarization:
(LSE American Politics and Policy blog, March 3, 2014)
(University of Illinois News Bureau, August 6, 2012)
Learning and coordination in the presidential primary system
(University of Illinois News Bureau, August 4, 2015)
Why a move to a simultaneous Presidential Primary system might be counter-productive
(American Politics and Policy blog, July 28, 2015)
Primaries and the New Hampshire effect
Our 2006 JPubEc paper is referenced in the Sept. 27, 2011 show of the Colbert Report. Unfortunately, I don't have a video link
Media Bias