Join us on Monday, Oct 20 (18:30–20:00) with @leaelsaesser.bsky.social for “Wer sitzt (nicht) im Parlament? Wahlen und ungleiche Repräsentation im Bundestag?” opening our Money & Politics public series in Marburg. Venue: Historischer Rathaussaal. Talks in German. More: inq-dp.eu/index.php/ev...

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest July 2025 - Clientelistic and progrmmatic appeals in 🇧🇷 - Social status & far-right voting in Western Europe - Absence of causal effect of wealth on political participation in 🇸🇪 - High campaign costs and wealthy politicians - The politics of small business owners

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest April 2025 - Pledge Fulfillment in 🇨🇦 🇦🇹 🇨🇿 🇸🇰 🇸🇪 - Geographic representation in 🇩🇪 - Unequal responsiveness in 🇪🇺 - Housing crisis in 🇵🇹 - Subjective local inequality in 🇺🇸

Maps upgrade! 🗺️ We expanded our maps of inequality page to include additional data on the spatial distribution of election results, rent prices, and education levels across Marburg. Explore: inq-dp.eu/index.php/ma...

Join us for the 'Distributive Politics in the Global South' workshop (Marburg | Sept 19-20). We’ve gathered a great team of researchers to discuss recent work on clientelism, representation, inequality & much more. Check out our program: tinyurl.com/4bxrpxkf #DistributivePolitics #GlobalSouth

🏛️💰📋The second post in our local spending series is out! From budgeting to procurement and singular disbursements, "Walking the Maze" provides a roadmap for understanding the basics of these core processes across different countries. Check it out shorturl.at/cquU4

📢 Dive into our newest blog post, "Where do they spend it?" 💰🏙️🏠💉🚌 It marks the kickoff of our Local Spending Series. In this initial post we discuss some of the challenges and potentials of using local government financial data inq-dp.eu/index.php/20...

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest #13 - Unequal responsiveness to men and women in 43 countries - Billionaires in politics across the world - Identifying widespread corruption in 🇨🇿 - Policy returns and voters’ support for politicians in the 🇺🇸 - Civic duty and turnout in 🇪🇸

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest # 12 -  Citizens’ reactions to high-profile corruption trials  in Brazil  - Class and spatial inequalities in Brazilian cities - Citizens’ lobby in the Netherlands -  Clientelism in Africa -  Fiscal preferences in Mexico

IDP's new blog post is on @letmeni.bsky.social's recently published paper! Leveraging an unexpected event during survey fieldwork, shows that judicial inconsistency in a 🇧🇷corruption trial decreased trust in courts and made citizens less willing to report corruption to authorities shorturl.at/dhtIT

👇👇👇 Check out IDP’s Research Digest #11