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

🚨New publication with Kristijan Kotarski: Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488

"In a campaign for water efficiency, Amazon, the biggest owner of datacentres in the world, chose to account for only a smaller water usage figure that does not include all the ways its datacentres use water to minimise the risk to its reputation." #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Nice + accessible overview of my @jepsjournal.bsky.social paper on validating populism treatments, showing that some “thin” populism treatments also affect perceptions of host ideology. Also makes broader point about validating conjoint treatments #Openaccess paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Starting in Obama's first term and continuing through the presidencies of Obama, Trump, and Biden, the relationship between income and presidential vote has switched. Connected to this, the relationship of education and racial resentment with Democratic voting has become much stronger.

The last time I posted the income relationship to presidential vote among White respondents to the @electionstudies.bsky.social ANES, people asked for additional estimates among all voters. Updated estimates here:

🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

“That fund will be invested and designed to pay out about 4% annually, which will be divided among the HBCUs to help stabilize their budgets. The 8 Ivy League schools received $5.5b from the 1,000 largest US foundations compared to $45m for the 99 HBCUs in 2019.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/b...

The Newest Face of Long-Term Unemployment? The College Educated. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year: “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”

The comments under this piece are… either uplifting or weighing on you, depending on the perspective.

Millions of dollars worth of contraceptives destined for low-income countries were destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration.

📘 64.4 How do welfare systems shape views on immigration? A 🇪🇺 study from @alinavranceanu.bsky.social & @bpetrova.bsky.social finds: Generous welfare → more positive attitudes toward immigrants Welfare cuts → increased hostility (evidence from 🇩🇰) Read more:

Signs bearing President Trump’s name have gone up at major construction projects. They were financed by the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law which he passionately opposed ahead of its passage.

Every time I reread this book, I am struck by how utterly heartbreaking it is.

Trump’s attacks on renewables sector quash nearly $19bn worth of projects on.ft.com/47EBJcg

150 pages of comp grading for 3 students make me wonder how my advisors graded at least 280 pages when my (unusually large) cohort took the exam in 2014... Not to mention handling our entire job market packages (CVs, cover letters, teaching statements, research statements, and diversity statements)

Measuring intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in China and Russia during the transition to market economies, using new Markov chain methods, from Kristina Butaeva, Lian Chen, Steven N. Durlauf, and Albert Park https://www.nber.org/papers/w34124

Rising Young Worker Despair in the United States: David G. Blanchflower; Alex Bryson

🤷Why do Americans' views on social spending move in parallel across policy areas? ➡️ @steven-vanhauwaert.bsky.social @cbwlezien.bsky.social & R Carlin show spending mood reflects shared preferences and responsiveness to overall spending and presidential party cup.org/3HdCwX3 #FirstView

New Cambridge Element 'Voters' Perceptions of Party Brands' by @fortunato.bsky.social, Thiago N. Silva & Laron K. Williams is now free to read for 2 weeks. cup.org/4mkBibw #cambridgeelements #politics

I’ve always found the incredible faith and optimism that (some) Americans seem to have in the future striking and deeply impressive. This piece reflects a different reality (that some in the US grapple with more often). Thought-provoking.

How do federal and state governments drive innovation in the US? My new paper @cjres.bsky.social shows how the 'Polycentric Innovation State' with multi-level, place-based policies is reshaping regional growth in places like Michigan and Maine academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...

More than 40 percent of U.S. citizens are in some form of medical debt. These Americans explain why they left for Italy, South Korea and France, after crippling debt or a lack of coverage left them afraid to seek medical help at home.

I’ve got a new working paper with @danielavidart.bsky.social, hot off the press. We develop a new method for measuring the risk preferences of agents in the past, and apply it to the U.S. from 1890-1920. Check it out! Feedback is welcome. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/chcof...

NEW - Cleaning up Politics: Anti-Corruption Appeals in Electoral Campaigns - cup.org/4msGB8X "Surprisingly, a clean disciplinary record does not substantively enhance a candidate’s anticorruption appeal..." - Sofia Vera #OpenAccess

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load 📄 European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019 @europeansocreview.bsky.social What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

The effect of unions on wages has been a classic topic of interest in economics for over a century. Do unions raise wages? Well, it turns out, there's a lot of heterogeneity in union wage effects! Some unions decrease wages, some raise wages, and some have very little impact.

Do men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9 
doi.org/10.1177/1065...

From the ANES 2020: Should federal spending on #SocialSecurity be increased, decreased, or kept the same? Weighted totals: 55.8% increased, 4.4% decreased, and 39.9% kept the same. See the ANES Question Search: electionstudies.org/data-tools/a...

In their piece for the #EGEssaySeries, @davidautor.bsky.social, @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, and Gordon Hanson break down the China trade shock of the early 2000s, its impacts on manufacturing and the labor market, and how it has shaped U.S. politics. Learn more ⬇️ equitablegrowth.org/how-the-chin...

‼️Our new paper with magnificent colleagues @alinazumbrunn.bsky.social @antonialang.bsky.social‬ on how place experience shapes place-based (rural/urban) identity is now out at the Journal of Rural Studies! 👇 (1/5)

🗺️ Introducing our new #DPI Map The redesigned map offers enhanced insights into global Digital Public Infrastructure (#DPI) initiatives and ecosystems, featuring new time-stamped data and a dataset optimised for quantitative analysis. 🔗 Discover it here: dpimap.org

"The annual income needed to afford monthly payments on a median-priced home in the US was $126,670 in 2024—a 60% jump from $79,330 in 2021, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Meanwhile the US median household income was $80,610 in 2023"

Solar is EU's biggest power source for first time Solar booms that no one saw coming --Netherlands and Hungary --- are now over 40% solar, higher than Spain! Installation boomed once policy became supportive few years ago @palmapolyak.bsky.social @janfichtner.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/0894...

New review article! Supply-side policies in coal transitions and country vulnerabilities: a systematic literature review by @paoyanguas.bsky.social, @andreafurnaro.bsky.social, Nicolas Malz, Lisa Wijayani & @paoyuoei.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy, Greg Ip writes.

Happy to see this paper out in the July issue of CP! Using the case of abortion policy, I argue that clientelistic parties engage in strategic, mutually beneficial interactions with influential interest groups when material exchanges no longer guarantee office.

The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.

This executive order is interesting to read in full. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

This is a fantastic opportunity for ECRs working on economic inequality / poverty and mobility. The Stone Center offers exceptional working conditions, an incredibly supportive environment, and great mentorship from senior scholars. Consider applying!

FYI. The most recent summer school season focuses on how the government influences the economy.

📢 Europe's Changing Protest Landscape Protests have grown more fragmented in recent years. New actors, claims, and tactics have emerged. A special issue @jeppjournal.bsky.social ‪with an introduction by Swen Hutter & @sophiahunger.bsky.social provides insights. www.wzb.eu/en/news/euro...

An academic, waiting for a university administrator to reply to an urgent international-tax-question email before the end of the fiscal year, after her department, her “foreign” service provider, and her coauthor have all reached out for an update within hours of one another. 👇