The 1️⃣article of our 5️⃣0️⃣Anniversary Special Issue "Debating European Politics: Advances and Perspectives" is out!🎉 "The rise of populism and the new cleavage" by Hanspeter Kriesi, describing contemporary populism is likely to be a temporary phenomen. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2025.2591874

Europe’s housing crisis is worsening while progressives stay silent. DPIR's @tabouchadi.bsky.social argues in @theguardian.com that we need bold policies that make homes affordable, fair and a social right again:

New publication w/ my friend & amazing coauthor @fedetrastulli.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 doi.org/10.1017/S147... We explore: Who considers which political issues as important & how is this related to sociodemographic/socioeconomic variables?

Now out @apsrjournal.bsky.social with page numbers! 🫒 We advance a new argument on how economic crises fuel support for far-right parties in left-behind places by tapping into long-standing community narratives shorturl.at/bA55v @catherinedevries.bsky.social

🚨New Publication🚨 Using the entire #Canadian Election Study (1965–2021), I examine voter turnout by class, education, & income over time & test whether the offerings of political parties impact these relationships. Available #OpenAccess in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social #polisky doi.org/10.1017/S000...

🚨 New publication 🚨 With @pgraefe.bsky.social & @sjkiss.bsky.social in @csa-scs.bsky.social Does the public sector vote differently and hold differing political attitudes than the general public? Available #OpenAccess #polisky doi.org/10.1111/cars...

🚨 New(ish) Book Alert 🚨 While somewhat overstating the importance of the "working class" to the support bases of far-right parties, this new book is particularly innovative in bringing political processes into the explanatory models.

How much competition within the right field? ❗Segmentation is eroding, especially among young voters❗ New article out by @siljahausermann.bsky.social ‪@dpzollinger.bsky.social @mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself @ipz.bsky.social @wepsocial.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj A short 🧵 1/7

Our article with @lindawhite.bsky.social , @philtriadafilos.bsky.social, and Jim Farney is now available in Publius: The Journal of Federalism! academic.oup.com/publius/adva... 🧵👇

Very happy to see my paper, "Unconditional Loyalty: The Survival of Minority Autocracies", finally out in the American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social Quick thread below🧵

My take on the broader implications of the outcome of Polish presidential elections published in the Guardian today. ps. this is not the title I chose… 👇🏽 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What do tax cuts for the rich do? They increase inequality. They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment. "Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."

Delighted that my paper with @kevincunning.bsky.social on "Still second-order national elections? Evaluating the classic model after the 2024 European elections" has just been published by @wepsocial.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... 1/

🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social ❓Political implications of labor market transformation Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city. Deadline: May 18, 2025. tinyurl.com/postdoczurich #polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo

I'm often asked: What motivates Danielle Smith to do the radical things she does? After all, many of her actions fly in the face of public opinion, the constitution, conservative ideology, and her own public commitments. I used to equivocate. I'm about ready to call it.🧵

People have real problems believing Reform voters don't come from Labour, if not recently, then in the past. A small proportion do, but let's look at how far back you'd have to go now ...

How and why actual class decline leads to far-right party support: our new blog post for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social with @a-gugushvili.bsky.social and Tim Vlandas, based on our Political Behavior article blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

A year ago, @simonvanteutem.bsky.social and I wrote about what the Tories could learn from other European parties. We predicted that if they continued their anti-immigration and culture wars course they would be cannibalized by the far right. That happened today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"This paper studies whether working from home (WFH) affects workers' performance in public sector jobs... we find that WFH increases productivity by 12%." @afenizia.bsky.social Evidence that administrations that reject WFH harm efficiency. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This must be the first time in postwar history that a single person determines the election outcome in another country. #TrumpEffect

Democrats today: "For god's sake, don't use big words like oligarchy. Voters won't understand it." FDR in 1932:

▶️ Do far-right wins fuel disinformation fears? 😮 @kgattermann.bsky.social, @elskevdhoogen.bsky.social and @claesdevreese.bsky.social show that strong far-right showings in the 2024 EP elections heighten public concern about disinformation 👇

Were wealthy donors key to Trump’s campaigns in 2016 and 2020? I'm thrilled to announce a new paper in which Sean Kates, Eric Manning, Tali Mendelberg and I analyzed data on 108 million (!) homeowner-voters. See “Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base.” Open access: cup.org/4cfm0Az 🧵 1/

Our new numbers on Trump’s approval ratings are top of The Economist website this afternoon www.economist.com/united-state...

🪞 Mirror, mirror on the wall, which cleavage is the strongest of all? 🪞 Mirko Crulli and Vincenzo Emanuele investigate whether old class divides still matter in Western Europe or if a globalisation cleavage has taken over. The answer? Multiple cleavages coexist, but class and GAL/TAN stand out 👇

Outstanding. More.

My new piece for @theconversationca.bsky.social. Last week, DOGE agents entered the FDIC. It is not yet clear what they will do, but Project 2025 calls for repealing the parts of Dodd-Frank which govern the regulation of too-big-to-fail banks. This would be a disaster for global financial stability.

The CPC needs to be very careful here. Politicizing the judicial appointment process is not a road any country should go down. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Why have multiculturalism policies been so durable in Europe, despite the ascent of civic integration policies and right-wing populist parties? Daniel Westlake, Keith Banting and I have some thoughts: The puzzling persistence of multiculturalism policies in Europe www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5AV3Y...

Even if you cannot save U.S. academia, you can help U.S.-based academics. Here are four ways to help, depending on your position.

In this dissertation, I study the political economy of pre-10am April 7, 2025.

Some effective medicine right there

Exceptionally long, but familiarly pompous and uniformed, puff piece on the “good” nativism of Mette Frederiksen in Denmark. Completely ignores most basic data and, of course, any academic research. Some quick points 🧵

Great piece on ‘Cataclysmic Capitalism’’ today by @jksteinberger.bsky.social that proves a (chilling) answer to my question yesterday: why isn’t capital pushing back on Trump’s tanking of the economy?

@catherinedevries.bsky.social is bang on, e.g. "Europeans must decide whether they’re willing to bear the costs of shaping their future, or risk having it shaped for them" This is a must-read. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

STOCKS TANKING AFTER TARIFF NUMBERS REVEALED

Surprised to see @economist.com on the ‘politicians should be allowed to do crimes without consequences’ team. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Very pleased to share here that our co-edited book The Working Class and Politics in Canada is available for pre-order in hardcover at the link below. We argue there has been a tendency in Canada to talk about workers & the working class in superficial ways (or not at all). Still, in recent... 1/4

This should be etched on the DOGE letterhead

New, from me: Elon Musk is the biggest loser in Wisconsin. His brazen effort to buy a state supreme court did not just fail - it undermined his image of political kingmaker. This is the clearest indicator that voters are angry with Trump/Musk agenda. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

For the second time in the last 24 hours, Trump suggests that he thinks he will be putting tariffs directly on fentanyl smuggled into the United States illegally.

Congratulations, boss, you've done it: You're bigger than covid.

For the @economist.com, I wrote about the Le Pen verdict. In liberal democracies, the law needs to be applied even if that strengthens the far right. But here, we should not just assume that this will help the RN. On the contrary. It's a good moment for democracy. www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Online first: "Political support in times of progressive policy change and radical-right populist party success" by @paulvierus.bsky.social & @conradziller.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky #academicsky

Hi everyone! I'm teaching causal inference for education policy class in the fall. It's for students with basic stats training but not advanced. Does anyone else teach something similar? Any fun ideas on how to teach it?

For the first time on the model, the Liberals have passed the 200 seat mark canadianpolling.substack.com/p/e-25-liber...

Canada is not messing around.

New👇post summarizes main arguments from our Sociology paper (w. @mikesavagelse.bsky.social, @marentoft.bsky.social): how different strands of #class analysis can be easily mobilized to study #wealth and #asset inequalities in its various forms & shapes.💰🏰💸 Original paper: doi.org/10.1177/0038...