Jordi Suñé Morales
Biographic Data
| ID | 284144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jordi Suñé Morales |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jordi Suñé |
| FAMILY NAME | Morales |
| SIGNATURE | MORALES J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7397-6843 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Violence against journalists and freedom of the press
Does political violence backfire in mature democracies? Evidence from the Capitol insurrection in the USA
Does political violence around election times decrease support for political elites associated with violent actions? We address this question in the understudied context of a mature democracy, where established electoral processes, effective accountability mechanisms, and a vibrant civil society are likely to reduce the appeal of violence. In this context, we hypothesize that political violence during election periods decreases support for politi…
Jam-Barrel Politics
This paper studies the executive-legislative exchange of centrally allocated benefits (jam) for legislative support in Colombia using data from road building projects, legislative roll-call votes, and a leaked database which uncovered the assignment of road contracts to individual legislators. We draw hypotheses from a model in which an executive spreads jam to sway legislators. We document that assigned projects had excess costs, legislators tar…
Sharing News Left and Right
On 20 October 2020, prior to the US presidential election, Twitter modified its user interface for sharing social media posts. In an effort to reduce the spread of misinformation on the platform, the new interface nudged users to be thoughtful about the content they were sharing. Using data on over 160,000 tweets by US news media outlets, we show that this policy significantly reduced news sharing, but that the reductions varied heterogeneously b…
Can ❤s Change Minds? Social Media Endorsements and Policy Preferences
We investigate the effect of social media endorsements (likes, retweets, shares) on individuals' policy preferences. In two pre-registered online experiments ( N = 1,384), we exposed participants to non-neutral policy messages about the COVID-19 pandemic (emphasizing either public health or economic activity as a policy priority) while varying the level of endorsements of these messages. Our experimental treatment did not result in aggregate chan…
Violence Against Politicians, Negative Campaigning, and Public Opinion
It is commonly viewed that violence against politicians increases support for the victim’s party. We revisit this conjecture drawing on evidence from an assassination of an opposition politician in Poland. First, we analyze engagement with Twitter content posted by opposition and government politicians using a difference-in-differences framework. Second, we use a public opinion survey collected in the days around the attack and compare party pref…
Perceived Popularity and Online Political Dissent
On October 31, 2013, thousands of Twitter accounts, automated to actively retweet President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, were unexpectedly closed by the social media platform. I exploit this event to study the relationship between perceived popularity on social media (amplified through the use of bot accounts) and online political expression. The analysis uses more than two hundred thousand tweets spanning six months around the event and employs …
The impact of internal displacement on destination communities
Jo sóc armat. Reivindicant la identitat cristiana i local
En este artículo nos proponemos analizar las motivaciones de un grupo de participantes de las procesiones de Semana Santa conocidos como los 'armats' de una población de la costa catalana. Esta cofradía está formada por un grupo de unos treinta hombres. Van caracterizados com si fueran soldados romanos y acompañan a la figura de Jesucristo en las procesiones que rememoran su muerte. La identidad fuerte del grupo, conseguida a partir de un funcion…
The impact of internal displacement on destination communities
Violence Against Politicians, Negative Campaigning, and Public Opinion
It is commonly viewed that violence against politicians increases support for the victim’s party. We revisit this conjecture drawing on evidence from an assassination of an opposition politician in Poland. First, we analyze engagement with Twitter content posted by opposition and government politicians using a difference-in-differences framework. Second, we use a public opinion survey collected in the days around the attack and compare party pref…
Perceived Popularity and Online Political Dissent
On October 31, 2013, thousands of Twitter accounts, automated to actively retweet President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, were unexpectedly closed by the social media platform. I exploit this event to study the relationship between perceived popularity on social media (amplified through the use of bot accounts) and online political expression. The analysis uses more than two hundred thousand tweets spanning six months around the event and employs …
Does political violence backfire in mature democracies? Evidence from the Capitol insurrection in the USA
Does political violence around election times decrease support for political elites associated with violent actions? We address this question in the understudied context of a mature democracy, where established electoral processes, effective accountability mechanisms, and a vibrant civil society are likely to reduce the appeal of violence. In this context, we hypothesize that political violence during election periods decreases support for politi…
Sharing News Left and Right
On 20 October 2020, prior to the US presidential election, Twitter modified its user interface for sharing social media posts. In an effort to reduce the spread of misinformation on the platform, the new interface nudged users to be thoughtful about the content they were sharing. Using data on over 160,000 tweets by US news media outlets, we show that this policy significantly reduced news sharing, but that the reductions varied heterogeneously b…
Can ❤s Change Minds? Social Media Endorsements and Policy Preferences
We investigate the effect of social media endorsements (likes, retweets, shares) on individuals' policy preferences. In two pre-registered online experiments ( N = 1,384), we exposed participants to non-neutral policy messages about the COVID-19 pandemic (emphasizing either public health or economic activity as a policy priority) while varying the level of endorsements of these messages. Our experimental treatment did not result in aggregate chan…
Jo sóc armat. Reivindicant la identitat cristiana i local
En este artículo nos proponemos analizar las motivaciones de un grupo de participantes de las procesiones de Semana Santa conocidos como los 'armats' de una población de la costa catalana. Esta cofradía está formada por un grupo de unos treinta hombres. Van caracterizados com si fueran soldados romanos y acompañan a la figura de Jesucristo en las procesiones que rememoran su muerte. La identidad fuerte del grupo, conseguida a partir de un funcion…
The impact of internal displacement on destination communities
Perceived Popularity and Online Political Dissent
On October 31, 2013, thousands of Twitter accounts, automated to actively retweet President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, were unexpectedly closed by the social media platform. I exploit this event to study the relationship between perceived popularity on social media (amplified through the use of bot accounts) and online political expression. The analysis uses more than two hundred thousand tweets spanning six months around the event and employs …
Violence Against Politicians, Negative Campaigning, and Public Opinion
It is commonly viewed that violence against politicians increases support for the victim’s party. We revisit this conjecture drawing on evidence from an assassination of an opposition politician in Poland. First, we analyze engagement with Twitter content posted by opposition and government politicians using a difference-in-differences framework. Second, we use a public opinion survey collected in the days around the attack and compare party pref…
Can ❤s Change Minds? Social Media Endorsements and Policy Preferences
We investigate the effect of social media endorsements (likes, retweets, shares) on individuals' policy preferences. In two pre-registered online experiments ( N = 1,384), we exposed participants to non-neutral policy messages about the COVID-19 pandemic (emphasizing either public health or economic activity as a policy priority) while varying the level of endorsements of these messages. Our experimental treatment did not result in aggregate chan…
Jam-Barrel Politics
This paper studies the executive-legislative exchange of centrally allocated benefits (jam) for legislative support in Colombia using data from road building projects, legislative roll-call votes, and a leaked database which uncovered the assignment of road contracts to individual legislators. We draw hypotheses from a model in which an executive spreads jam to sway legislators. We document that assigned projects had excess costs, legislators tar…
Sharing News Left and Right
On 20 October 2020, prior to the US presidential election, Twitter modified its user interface for sharing social media posts. In an effort to reduce the spread of misinformation on the platform, the new interface nudged users to be thoughtful about the content they were sharing. Using data on over 160,000 tweets by US news media outlets, we show that this policy significantly reduced news sharing, but that the reductions varied heterogeneously b…
Does political violence backfire in mature democracies? Evidence from the Capitol insurrection in the USA
Does political violence around election times decrease support for political elites associated with violent actions? We address this question in the understudied context of a mature democracy, where established electoral processes, effective accountability mechanisms, and a vibrant civil society are likely to reduce the appeal of violence. In this context, we hypothesize that political violence during election periods decreases support for politi…
Violence against journalists and freedom of the press
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