A fascinating thread. (Also fantastic if you are teaching research design.)

More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump admin shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program, according to the latest industry data. That is the highest pace of foreclosures for VA loans in a decade.

It is out! We find that linked fate (or lack thereof) helps explain 2024 Trump support in young Latinos. @mattlamb.bsky.social @landgravephd.bsky.social spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Do the clothes make the candidate? In my paper with Steven Perry, we find candidates who dress more formally were perceived as more politically sophisticated, & indirectly had increased support. The text complexity of candidate messages had no effect. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My @nytopinion.nytimes.com piece discusses the failures of Trump's strategy to create manufacturing jobs--but puts it in the broader context of the previous failures to achieve this goal and why it isn't the right goal to start with. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/o...

This is exceptionally interesting. "Each $1,000 increase in maximum EITC benefits cut voter turnout by 0.5 percentage points, reduced Democratic identification by 1.8 points, and raised Republican identification by 1.1 points." The mechanisms point toward the importance of environmental factors.

"Those with an immigration background from established democracies are more likely to support green parties than those from (post-)authoritarian regimes. [...] immigrants build on experiences from their origin country when participating in politics in their host country."

Ukraine war briefing: Children ordered to leave key Ukrainian stronghold as Russians advance

I have a new story with @rebeccafelliott.bsky.social on how Meta and others, seeking power for data centers, are building their own power plants. These projects have transformed places like New Albany, Ohio, where farmland has given way to industry. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

When you have nice colleagues. :)

"AI is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world. For years, the work of African data labelers has been more or less “ghost work,” the unseen, hidden labor that lets American tech companies build their products." www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

This will be the 3rd edition. If you study pol. behaviour and work on #CEE, this is the right place to present your research. Dates: June 25-26. Discussants include @simonhix.bsky.social & @eliasdinas.bsky.social. Highlight: roundtable on dem. erosion with H. Kriesi, M. Svolik & N. Wunsch.

🚨New version of paper🚨 osf.io/preprints/os... How do oligarchs shape policy outcomes in developing democracies? I argue they do so through informal networks of legislators personally linked to them. Using unique quantitative & qualitative evidence from Ukraine, I show that:

🌀 👣 @alinavranceanu.bsky.social & @bpetrova.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 👇🏾

The Biden Admin directed hundreds of billions to clean energy/manufacturing. Did these investments shift public opinion? We find that these projects are visible but not traceable: People notice nearby investments, but connect them to Governors, not Biden. Thread 👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Left vs Right is becoming personal 🔴🔵 New cross-national evidence by N. Lin, L.P. Santoso & R.T. Stevenson shows voters in Western democracies are developing emotional attachments to the Left and Right as social groups, but how will this impact voting?

In this Element, @fthames.bsky.social + @ladyprofessor.bsky.social takes a large-N approach to exploring whether inequality variation in states at conflict leads to variation in women's health outcomes. Free to download now! 2/ www.cambridge.org/core/element...

William Shakespeare, 400 years ago. 👏

Look at how being diagnosed with cancer impacts people's involvement in crime!

Major loss of manufacturing jobs during Trump 2.0's first year in office. Unsurprisingly, clean energy manufacturing hit especially hard ... www.eenews.net/articles/us-...

📢 Publication alert: Governments are investing in digitalization intensively, but we know little about who supports this policy. We investigate this question in this new article with Alex Kuo, @retobuergisser.bsky.social, and @siljahausermann.bsky.social published at JEPP doi.org/10.1080/1350... 🧵

New article by Ayelén Vanegas. It explores how redistributive attitudes react to citizens' evaluations of policy results. It is a fascinating analysis of the conditions under which beneficiaries of social policies cease to support them. Fantastic work. www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

Copies arrived, finally! Thanks @oxunipress.bsky.social Thanks to all contributors to this thoughtful volume.

Excited to share my latest article, in first view at Political Research Quarterly: doi.org/10.1177/1065...

We are looking for a postdoc!

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...

Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

The president of Bulgaria, who has been in office for the last 9 years and has had to appoint 7 caretaker governments, just resigned. The country is currently governed by a caretaker government in anticipation of the parliamentary elections scheduled for March / April. www.dw.com/bg/rumen-rad...

ACA Signups Drop over 800,000 in 2026, as consumers face increase in premiums siftingandwinnowing.substack.com/p/aca-signup...

📣Thrilled to share our new article with @beckerbastian.bsky.social in JESP on attitude polarization around UBI. We show that despite high aggregate support for UBI, attitude polarization over policy design strongly shapes its political feasibility. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said it is dissolving the 58-year-old nonprofit umbrella organization that oversaw government funding for PBS and NPR.

On the 34th anniversary of the end of the USSR, I’m reposting my article from earlier this year, which argued that we should have understood the moment as liberation rather than only as collapse: www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...

Cutting the funds to deliver 116,000 medical kits to treat victims of rape saved U.S. taxpayers $2 million. But it meant many women in eastern Congo could not longer get the pills they needed to prevent medicine, HIV, and deadly sexually transmitted diseases. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

"Now, those symbols of economic progress — mortgages and car payments, property taxes and tuition costs — are bills that thousands of Tyson workers won’t have an income to pay." apnews.com/article/tyso...

Um, ok... This paper forthcoming at the JOP provides evidence that rent control in Germany actually made tenants MASSIVELY *less* NIMBY. This result was in the opposite direction of the authors' pre-registered expectations. And the effect sizes are, truly, massive.

Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions. 👇Share this thread, share the report! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...

My study of 🇪🇺 public opinion is now published! Check it out if you want to know how attitudes towards European integration really covary with political ideology, which policy views predict EU support, and how party positions structure public opinion. www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

“Faculty will be required to submit the materials to department chairs, university administrators and ultimately the Board of Regents for their review and approval.” www.texastribune.org/2025/12/01/t...

New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies. Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇

How Texas Tech is incentivizing us to complete grading on time.

Two million Americans will lose access to food stamps next year. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

It's no secret that going to college can be very expensive, with tuition costs rising faster than financial aid. But what's causing that price tag to rise so quickly?

Is upward mobility a solo journey, fuelled by talent and hard work? Or is it an inherently relational process, shaped by enduring connections to one’s class and family origins? Malik Fercovic explores in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

📣 Upcoming seminar: Standard measures of poverty and income inequality often overlook how sharply the cost of living varies across places. Dr Beatriz Jambrina Canseco uses the case of Spain to explore this issue. 🎟️ Register in-person: buff.ly/zioZK79 💻 Register online: buff.ly/dUYC6ys

💡 How does moving to opportunity reshape political behavior? 🗞️ In our new BJPolS paper, @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that residential relocations that increase access to opportunity foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left. 👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65

New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝 We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

One of those evenings you spend glued to your phone…

How can we compare the size and structuring power of different cleavages over time? Check out @jacobgunderson.bsky.social 's great paper and dataset for scholars working on cleavages at the party system level! The latest from @dpzollinger.bsky.social and I's Special Issue in @wepsocial.bsky.social.

NEW - Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos "moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties" - @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social #OpenAccess