Report NEP-POL-2026-01-26

This is the archive for NEP-POL, a report on new working papers in the area of Positive Political Economics. Eugene Beaulieu issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Jesús Fernández-Villaverde & Tomohide Mineyama & Dongho Song, 2026, "How Globalization Unravels: A Ricardian Model of Endogenous Trade Policy," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 34672, Jan.
• Romain Biard & Mostapha Diss & Salma Larabi, 2026, "A weighted mechanism for minority voting in sequential voting," Working Papers, CRESE, number 2026-01, Jan.
• Eggers, Andrew C. & Li, Zikai & Rubenson, Daniel, 2026, "Strategic voting or confounding?," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number vtbw7_v1, Jan, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/vtbw7_v1.
• Julia Cagé & Edgard Dewitte, 2025, "It Takes Money to Make MPs: Evidence from 160 Years of British Campaign Spending," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05446470, Oct, DOI: 10.1017/S0022050725100934.
• Erickson, Jacob, 2026, "The Fake Friend Dilemma: Trust and the Political Economy of Conversational AI," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number 4ahj9_v1, Jan, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/4ahj9_v1.
• Zafer Kanik & Zaruhi Hakobyan, 2026, "Strategic Expression, Popularity Traps, and Welfare in Social Media," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2601.01370, Jan.
• Navin Kartik & Elliot Lipnowski & Harry Pei, 2025, "Replacement and Reputation," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2512.13351, Dec.
• Edward, Caesar, 2026, "The Geometry of Power: Path Integrals in the Dynamics of Political Regimes," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number t9pur_v1, Jan, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/t9pur_v1.
• Ignacy Nieweglowski & Aviv Yaish & Fahad Saleh & Fan Zhang, 2025, "PoliFi Tokens and the Trump Effect," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2512.06036, Dec.
• Grimm, Sonja & Weiffen, Brigitte & Mross, Karina, 2025, "How democracy promoters respond to global autocratisation," IDOS Policy Briefs, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn, number 34/2025, DOI: 10.23661/ipb34.2025.
• Dilger, Alexander, 2025, "Formen und Risiken politischer Brandmauern," Discussion Papers of the Institute for Organisational Economics, University of Münster, Institute for Organisational Economics, number 12/2025, DOI: 10.17879/41968693354.