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USAID cuts could prompt over 500,000 HIV deaths www.dw.com/en/south-afr...

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Interview with Minerva (in Norwegian) about ideological polarization between teenage boys and girls in Norway. Read working paper here: osf.io/preprints/os...

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The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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In Norway the gender gap in support for left wing parties among high-school aged teenagers doubled in size during covid, with the increase being mostly driven by a dramatic increase in the share of teenage boys who believe "gender equality has gone too far"

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Interview with Morgenbladet (@morgenbladet.bsky.social) about my new working paper on ideological polarization between teenage boys and girls (in Norwegian). morgenbladet.no/aktuelt/2025... Read the full paper here: osf.io/preprints/os...

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New Graph📈 I found this pretty interesting: The US has a big generational divide on willingness to fight for their country if it came to a war. The young are considerably less willing to do so than the old. This is different from most other countries.

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New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈 Read: osf.io/preprints/os... Findings 🧵👇

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Lots of interesting patterns in these data from FiveThirtyEight, including: (1) Tim Walz estimated to be the most popular politician among the five shown here, (2) The huge contrast between popularity of Harris and Biden, (3) Growing gap between Harris and Trump

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#OpenAccess from our latest issue - Taxing the 1 per cent: Public Opinion vs Public Policy - cambridge.org/core/journal... - @rubenmathisen.bsky.social

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Public policy is more responsive to men's policy preferences than women's, highlighting inequalities in democratic policy making, finds @rubenmathisen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1086/729964

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New chart📈: This is probably true in many countries: People with average income cannot buy a home in the capital. Its just gotten too expensive. In Norway, 97% of homes for sale in Oslo are out of reach for a person with average income

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Congratulations to Professor Michaël Tatham & Professor Yvette Peters on the Journal of European Public Policy best paper award for “Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation”! 👏👏👏 doi.org/10.1080/1350... doi.org/10.1080/1350...

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New charts📈📊: Who has the most generous welfare states? You're probably thinking Sweden, Denmark, and Norway? Not true anymore for Sweden and Denmark (according to data from CWEP).

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New chart📈: The amount of bombs dropped on Gaza the past 6 months far exceeds the bombing of Dresden (1945), Hamburg (1943) and London (1940-41) during World War II.

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🌟 New article 👤 Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social 👉 The Influence Gap: Unequal Policy Responsiveness to Men and Women 📘 The Journal of Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1086/729964

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Datavisualization (using R) proved to be a popular course! Many thanks to course director Ruben Berge Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social and the participants! 📸 Magnus Buseth Danielsen

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One of the most shocking statistics I have found so far on the war in Gaza:

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We are offering a course on Better Data Visualization (using R) with Ruben Mathisen 14-15 February 2024 in Bergen 🇳🇴 Sign up by 1 February! @rubenmathisen.bsky.social www.uib.no/en/sampol/16...

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Hadde en interessant samtale med Magnus Marsdal på podcasten Mímir & Marsdal, om offentlig opinion, skatt på de rike, og hvem som har politisk innflytelse i Norge og USA. Hør podkasten her: podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/mag…

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Neat finding, and it made me wonder what share of the Norwegian parliament is women; et voila, via Statista, nearly half. The US Congress by contrast is at roughly Norway's 1980-levels of women's representation.

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🎆Article accepted in Journal of Politics!🎆 Public policy has responded more to the views of men than to the views of women in both the US and Norway over the past 50 years. But, while this gender gap has disappeared over time in Norway, it has changed little in the US since the 60's.

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📢 New chapter 🌟 👥 Ruben Mathisen & Yvette Peters 👉 Political Participation and Unequal Representation. Addressing the Endogeneity Problem 📗 Open Access in Noam Lupu & Jonas Pontusson eds. Unequal Democracies, Cambridge UP 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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🌟 New chapter 👥 Ruben Mathisen, Wouter Schakel, Svenja Hense, Lea Elsässer, Mikael Persson & Jonas Pontusson 👉 Unequal Responsiveness and Government Partisanship in Northwest Europe 📗 Open Access in Noam Lupu & Jonas Pontusson eds. Unequal Democracies, Cambridge UP 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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Do governments respond to public opinion? Why does inequality keep rising? Amazing new volume just dropped with so many new insights on these and other questions (I was part of two of the chapters). Best part: The whole book is Open Access! www.cambridge.org/core/books/u...

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What percentage of total national wealth is owned by the Top 1% in the Americas? Highest: 🇨🇱Chile 49% Lowest: 🇪🇨Ecuador 23%

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What percentage of total national wealth does the Top 1% in Europe own? Highest: 🇷🇺 Russia 48% Lowest: 🇧🇪 Belgium 15% Europe as whole: 🌍 26%

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The graph below shows which countries have sold weapons to Israel the past 10 years (according to the SIPRI Database). For the most recent year (2022), 51% of Israel's weapons imports came from the US, and 49% came from Germany.

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