"if anything employment outcomes are worsening more rapidly for those with fewer skills looking for blue-collar jobs than the highly skilled seeking knowledge work" on.ft.com/43eYeRZ @jburnmurdoch.ft.com as ever doing the essential work. It's not just AI. And education still matters

🚨New Open-Access Research Alert 🚨 Why do we assume that certain people we meet are more or less similar to us politically? Using data from the UK, Canada, and Germany, @seonghuilee.bsky.social and I explore this question in our new article in @wepsocial.bsky.social. Check it out online now below.

🌅📙 64.3 Governments implement public input with deliberative #MiniPublics @avkevins.bsky.social & J.Robison investigate whether people see these groups as legitimate using surveys in 🇬🇧 to understand public support for #ClimareAssemblies 🔗https://buff.ly/iggUFJM

🚨New Open-Access Publication!🚨 In "When Caring Comes at a Cost", @naomilightman.bsky.social and I explore the effects of paid and unpaid caring on wellbeing and examine whether social expenditure plays a role in shaping those effects. Check it out paywall-free in JESP: tinyurl.com/2yptx6kj

🚨Now officially in print!🚨 Do the (partisan) origins of climate assemblies affect public support for these assemblies? Using original UK survey data, Joshua Robison and I explore this question in a new EJPR article. Check it out open access here: doi.org/10.1111/1475...

On Friday, I had the pleasure of hosting an event on “Life in Politics,” sponsored by the @lborocrcc.bsky.social and the @lborouniversity.bsky.social Department of International Relations, Politics and History.

New paper out at @cpsjournal.bsky.social! With Ian McAllister, we examine how party competition and party positions condition the presence and size of an age gap in voting for the left. A short 🧵 below! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New #OpenAccess study 🚨 What types of people are more or less satisfied with social care in the UK - and how might age and ideology interact to shape satisfaction levels? Naomi Lightman and I explore these questions in a new, open-access IJSW article: doi.org/10.1111/ijsw...

Whenever there is a significant preference gap between lower-and higher-income groups–politicians’ perceptions of what citizens want are skewed towards the preferences of higher-income voters on socio-economic issues ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The super election year is ending, with many winners and losers. Our new @thejop.bsky.social paper, (@henrikseeberg.bsky.social, @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social ) asks: How do winning and losing candidates see elections? Spoiler: Losers are more concerned about fairness. Link: doi.org/10.1086/734240

🚨New Tool: paper-picnic.com The latest published political science research (and research in adjacent fields) every Friday. No alert chaos, no registration, no clutter. Powered by @crossref.bsky.social

🚨New #OpenAccess study🚨 Do the (partisan) origins of climate assemblies affect public support for these assemblies? Using original UK survey data, Joshua Robison and I explore this question in a new EJPR article. Check it out open access here: doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Our latest #OpenAccess workfare study now has full citation details in Comparative Political Studies! Click below to see @alexanderhorn.bsky.social, Kees van Kersbergen, and I examine how the shift from "welfare" to "workfare" may have shaped related policy attitudes. tinyurl.com/579zzz67

free book in honor of Kees van Kersbergen! For the Festschrift (eds. Green Pedersen/Jensen/Vis) @avkevins.bsky.social & I wrote "Ever the committed egalitarians – or the end of Scandinavian exceptionalism? Equality and welfare state preferences among voters and parties" @ politica.dk/boeger/no-no...