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I wish people spent more time thinking about the current wave of authoritarianism and fascism as something inherently embedded in our system of neoliberal capitalism instead of falling back on lazy ideas of a "backlash" against progressive change.

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“As requested in his final testament, the tomb will not be decorated and will be inscribed only with his papal name in Latin: Franciscus.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Politicians share similar climate policy views with citizens, but are slightly less supportive. Crucially, they underestimate public support for climate policies, potentially limiting climate action www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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NEW: Fossil fuel firms like Chevron and Exxon owe the world trillions of dollars. Today in @nature.com, @jsmankin.bsky.social and I show economic losses from rising heat waves directly traceable to these firms, providing scientific support for climate accountability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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What are the political consequences of long-term population loss? In a new paper for German Politics @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social, Hendrik Träger and I find that East German places more affected by depopulation provided stronger support for the AfD in recent state elections.🧵👇 shorturl.at/cujwa

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Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech: “How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”

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New paper with Martin Wolf on Fiscal Stagnation. Key insights: 1) High public debt may push the economy into fiscal stagnation, a persistent state of low growth and high fiscal distortions. 2) Pro-growth policies are crucial to exit stagnation, but they require credibility.

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Migration data lets us study responses to environmental disasters, social change patterns, policy impacts, etc. But public data is too coarse, obscuring these important phenomena! We build MIGRATE: a dataset of yearly flows between 47 billion pairs of US Census Block Groups. 1/5

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I am incredibly honored that my paper "Shaping institutional change in skill formation", which is my first-ever PhD project, has received the @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy& Welfare Best Paper Prize and has been published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Summary of "The Rise and Fall of Technocratic Democracies: Unstable Majorities and Delegation to Technocrats" by @grattonecon.bsky.social and myself. www.businessthink.unsw.edu.au/articles/tec...

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NEW: Where and how does the government spend its money? @beeboileau.bsky.social, @maxwarner.bsky.social and @benzaranko.bsky.social's new interactive tool allows you to explore where and how the government spends money, over time and across the UK. 📊 Explore the data: ifs.org.uk/calculators/...

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Very excited to see this paper, which is one of my projects ever, in print. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... It examines how slavery, partisanship, and distributive politics influenced antebellum political development through a study of the National Road.

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Four Russian journalists have been convicted of extremism and jailed for working with an anti-corruption group founded by the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, highlighting the perils of independent journalism amid an intensified Kremlin crackdown on freedom of expression.

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👣 @alinavranceanu.bsky.social & @bpetrova.bsky.social a.bsky.social show that in Western Europe, generous #welfare systems – perhaps counterintuitively – make natives more favourably inclined toward #immigrants. 💸Indeed, cutting benefits risks exacerbating anti-immigrant sentiment 👇🏾 bit.ly/4cBvypS

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Good reading if you’re into the difference between left and right populism. academic.oup.com/ser/article-...

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The lesson of the "China shock" isn't actually about trade. It's about how hard it is for workers and communities to adapt to rapid economic changes. Now Trump is trying to reshape the global economy overnight, with potentially devastating consequences. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...

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This is a really cool paper on the socialisation effects of studying at University. Surprisingly, the effects (moving in a leftward, liberal direction) are biggest for STEM students and those who move away from home to study, attend a single campus uni, and who live in ‘university towns’ and London.

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Today marks 100 years since the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s #TheGreatGatsby. So #EconSky let’s celebrate by recalling how the #GreatGatsbyCurve got its name! The subtext of my post is that policy relevant research always needs a communication strategy milescorak.com/2016/12/04/h...

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63% of U.S. adults say tax rates on large businesses and corporations should be raised. A majority (58%) also support raising taxes on household income over $400,000. www.pewresearch.org/...

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First instalment of my substack primer on right-wing populism in Europe is out. jacobedenhofer.substack.com/p/explaining...

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Like this paper? Here's another that will be right up your alley. Here, the authors merge voter files & online resumes to create a dataset of 34.5M people. They show that Dems & Reps choose distinctive career paths and employers. This leads to a lot of partisan segregation at the workplace.

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is cutting $325 million in grants that was to go to New York State, much of it destined for essential flood mitigation efforts in New York City, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office.

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Partisans often seem unwavering in their support for a politician/policy, even when faced with opposing evidence. But recent studies show that partisans can be persuaded. So how can both be true? My new @bjpols.bsky.social ky.social paper explores this Q: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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Our paper, "Building a Record" is now out at the Journal of Political Institutions & Political Economy We use amendments data from the Georgia Congress Project (www.thecongressproject.com) to examine how adoption of the 17th Amendment impacted position taking behavior in the Sneate

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China’s investments and advances in manufacturing are producing a wave of exports that threatens to cause factory closings and layoffs not just in the U.S. but also around the globe.

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Saturday, April 5th, 2025: 6+hours of uninterrupted snow in Lubbock, TX. My phone: Let me remind you of this sunset on July 12, 2022. 🤷🏼‍♀️🧐

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One challenge for trade policy, is that the benefits to consumers (like lower prices) feel vague & abstract—it's hard to see what we'd lose without free trade. Job threats feel immediate, driving support for protectionism. More recent on views on trade👇

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@budgetlab.bsky.social has new analysis out on Smoot-Hawley 2.0. Among topline findings: The average effective US tariff rate after incorporating all 2025 tariffs is now 22½%, the highest since 1909.

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While preparing a lecture on tariffs… 🐧

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An article in the @nytimes.com highlights how deeply unequal the U.S. economy remains, with extreme wealth inequality, despite how prosperous America is. Read more: myumi.ch/W6Jdr #WealthInequality #SurveyofConsumers

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Very happy to welcome @isabelmperera.bsky.social to @ttu.edu to hear her present her CUP book The Welfare Workforce. It's an incredibly timely and important book that makes a valuable contribution to existing scholarship on social policy and mental health care. www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...

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New #dataviz in @sociusjournal.bsky.social Did the occupational structure evolve in the same way in different parts of London between 1991 and 2021? In short: no, it was very much A Tale of Two Cities journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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NEW - Call Me By Your Name: The Impacts of American Human Rights Violations in Authoritarian States - cup.org/42n28bn - @onegruffydd.bsky.social "I argue that authoritarian states’ propaganda about liberal states’ violations may increase the salience of human rights norms in..." #OpenAccess

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"While the freeze did not stop aid going directly to disaster survivors, it has disrupted payments to states, local governments and nonprofits, with ramifications being felt across the country." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...

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A damning report by the DWP has revealed the grim impact cuts to the welfare system could have

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When your phone is being nostalgic at 5am. (March 27, 2021)

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🚨Why do masses support democratic backsliding?🚨 A new @AJPS_Editor paper with Yotam Margalit, @liorsheffer.bsky.social and Itamar Yakir explores this question in the Israeli context. Our findings emphasize the role of leader attachment and affective polarization. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

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Americans now live almost twice as far from work post-pandemic due to the surge of working from home. Three times as many Americans live more than 50 miles away, from Mert Akan, Jose Maria Barrero, @nickbloom.bsky.social, Thomas Bowen, Shelby R. Buckman, Steven ... https://www.nber.org/papers/w33582

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🗣️ we have a new paper and new dataset just out on the transition to the knowledge economy in advanced democracies - both OA, available here academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... and here www.knowledge-economy-index.com

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Very happy that this is out now! We find that railroad construction led to more separatism in Europe, showing strong opposition to modernization and state building among minorities. @robertovalli.bsky.social with a summary thread below👇

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NEW - Is It Still the Economy? Economic Voting in Polarized Politics - cup.org/41ZuVSb - @tmqm.bsky.social "polarization affects economic evaluation and clouds the responsibility for economic conditions, decreasing voters’ willingness to sanction the incumbent party" #OpenAccess

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"a wide body of research suggests that public backlash against the rich can lead to increased support for redistributive policies like higher taxes on the wealthy."

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When you finally make it back after 43 hours in transit (a fire in London, strong winds in Chicago, a detour to Detroit, two missed connections to LBB, and an unexpected landing in Amarillo). Spring is in full bloom on campus. 🌺

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My flight to Europe was canceled and delayed by a day, an explosion on campus interrupted an important meeting, two connecting flights suffered delays, and a fire in London completely derailed the trip back to the US, but that one sunny day in Lisbon was beautiful. ☺️

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