1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest August 2025 - Politician beliefs about voters - Self-assessment and solidaric behaviour - Voters’ evaluation of politicians’ corruption - Inequality and party manifestoes in OECD - Voter sexism and women candidates

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 June 2025 - Motivations for campaign contributions in 🇨🇴 - Abolition of compulsory voting in 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁶󠁬󠁧󠁿- Policy ideas and law-making in the 🇺🇸 - Teenagers’ political efficacy in the 🇳🇱 - NIMBYism in 🇨🇭

1/6 📰🧐 Politician quality in 🇮🇳 - Economic deprivation & right-wing support in Western Countries - Campaign limits and organized interests in 🇧🇷 - Perceptions of immigrant integration & support for redistribution in high-income countries- No political ambition class gaps in the Americas

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...

New Blog Post! 📝 Oliver Platt writes about the concept of class and its importance for regional inequality and voting behavior. To illustrate, the post includes interactive maps and data plots 🗺️📊 Read more: inq-dp.eu/index.php/20...

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest March 2025 - lockdowns and support for Trump in the US - left parties and redistribution - electoral role of candidate education - tax preferences in Latin America - City councillors’ roll-call voting in Chicago and Toronto

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest February 2025 - Genetics & political participation in 🇺🇸🇸🇪 - Historical formation of african borders - Colonial mapmaking & ethnic identity - Occupational backgrounds of MPs in 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇸🇪 - Economic inequality & right-wing support in 🇸🇪 (1/1)

New blog post series! 📝 As the federal elections in Germany approach, we’re excited to share a series of three blog posts on topics related to the election. All three posts are written by students from one of Eva Wegner’s courses. Read more: inq-dp.eu/index.php/bl...

1/6 📰🧐 IDP Research Digest January 2025 - Political responsiveness in 🇩🇰 & 🇳🇱 - Populist parties & congruence in 🇩🇪🇳🇱🇮🇹🇸🇪 - Effect of income on turnout in 🇳🇴 - Returns to office in 🇩🇰 - Electoral effects of coal phase-outs in 🇩🇪

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest December 2024 - Responsiveness to poor people in 🇧🇪🇩🇪🇨🇦🇨🇭 - Rental market risk and radical right support in 🇩🇪 - Exploitation of migrants in 🇮🇹 - Perceptions of social mobility in 🇪🇺 - Electoral incentives for public housing in 🇩🇪

📰🧐 Research Digest November 2024 - Local portfolios in 🇩🇪 municipalities - Support for radical right in rural 🇵🇹 - Attitudes towards disaster assistance in the 🇺🇸 - Election timing and minority candidate success in California - Politicians’ theories of elections and voting

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest October 2024 - Gender quotas & political knowledge - Socioeconomic status self-deception - Preferences for models of representation - Policy congruence & knowledge - Procedural knowledge of local politicians

2/6 🧵In EJPR, @gventurini.bsky.social studies the effect of quotas on political knowledge with quasi-experimental design. Finds that introduction of quotas in Western Europe has strong effect on closing gender gap in political knowledge for young women by around 30% tinyurl.com/5n9byyre

3/6 🧵 In PP Melita, Alcañiz‐Colomer, Matamoros‐Lima, Ríos & Moya study how overestimating one’s SES affects attitudes. Using several surveys (ISSP & in 🇨🇱🇪🇸🇺🇸) they find that it leads to more system justification and less support for redistribution doi.org/nq7n

4/6🧵 In EJPR, Mongrain, Junions & Brack study congruence in representational style between citizens & MPs across 13 countries. MPs prefer trusteeship whereas citizens’ preferences are concentrated between the two extremes. Citizens' preferences are driven by ideology, but not MPs’ doi.org/nq7m

5/6 🧵In Political Behavior @jacklucas.bsky.social, @liorsheffer.bsky.social & Peter John Loewen find congruent politicians have more accurate perceptions of their constituents' perceptions in 🇨🇦. Learn more about the implications of their findings: doi.org/nq7j

6/6 🧵In APSR, Auerbach, Singh, & Thachil study procedural knowledge of politicians in small towns. Survey in 🇮🇳. Results show low levels of procedural knowledge on how to govern. Also show positive association between procedural knowledge & politicians’ effectiveness in office. doi.org/nq7h

You care about inequality? Join us on the 28 & 29th of October in Marburg and Gießen at the “Globale Mittelhessen” film festival. We watch and discuss “Tax Wars”, a movie about tax evasion, powerless governments and the fight for a more equal society. Find details here: tinyurl.com/d7zt44cr

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest September 2024 - Basic income and voting - Unintended electoral effects of land reform - Transparency and redistribution - School spending and electoral incentives - Responsiveness to comments

2/6 🧵 In @ajpseditor.bsky.social , Hirvonen, Schafer, & @jannetukiainen.bsky.social show effect of basic income policy on participation. Increases voting by ca 7 ppts among infrequent voters (marginal voters). Effect persists. Operates via increases in trust & efficacy. tinyurl.com/4psm3rcx

3/6 🧵 In @thejop.bsky.social Albertus & Schouela study electoral consequences of land reform in 🇵🇹 exploiting arbitrary allocation due to soil mismeasurement. Communists implementing reform didn’t reap benefits as eligible non-beneficiaries & those non-eligible voted against doi.org/nkn3

4/6 🧵In @thejop.bsky.social, @jannetukiainen.bsky.social & Dunaiski study the impact of income transparency policy on support for redistribution. Looking at the 🇫🇮 tax day they find that it decreases top earners support for redistribution, while it increases among the young: doi.org/nknz

5/6 🧵In @thejop.bsky.social, @brianhamel.bsky.social study school spending & electoral incentives. Spending & electoral data in 🇺🇸. Results show allocation bias towards schools in competitive & supportive districts, especially when parents are a large part of the electorate. doi.org/nkn4

6/6 🧵In @ajpseditor.bsky.social ky.social, Sahn examines responsiveness to comments at public planning meetings. Meeting minutes & admin data in 🇺🇸. Results show approvals are generally responsive to the public, but especially to preferences of white commenters & neighborhood groups. doi.org/nkn2

Enjoying the last rays of summer at our 'Distributive Policies in the Global South' workshop last week. Thanks to all our participants for the great discussions, reflections and exchange of ideas. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! tinyurl.com/38tkd5rt

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

🎓💻✊Our latest blogpost is online! Check out “Young, Academic, Precarious? Taking a closer look at the working conditions of student assistants” to learn about their struggle for labour rights and differences within Germany. shorturl.at/bgBK9

The tightening of the #WissZeitVG at German universities further worsens the situation of postdocs. A genuine reform of our academic system is imperative. Otherwise, Hanna will be gone soon. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #Ampelkoalition #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan   www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/wissz...

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest #20 - Disaster relief & voting in 🇯🇵 - Interaction of economic & political inequality in Latin America - residential environmental inequality in 🇩🇪 - Fiscal implications of the radical right in 🇪🇺 - Age-related turnout gap in 🇪🇺

2/6 🧵In Political Behavior, Fukumoto & Kikuta study effect of disaster relief on voting in Japan. Using rainfall as IV for disaster relief, they find substantial effect on support for governing parties. Suggests retrospective voting behavior. tinyurl.com/5emxf64v

3/6 🧵IDB WP by Fergusson, Robinson & Torres study puzzle of why (non-elite) political newcomers have not reduced economic inequality? Using RD on municipal elections they find narrowly elected newcomers have little effect, particularly where economic inequality is high. shorturl.at/pzIX3

4/6 🧵 In Urban Studies @ckoenig.bsky.social studies residential environmental inequality (EI) in 🇩🇪. Spatial granular data from 186,000 neighborhoods across large municipalities. Areas with higher share of foreigners further from green areas & more exposed to air pollution doi.org/mhk8

5/6 🧵  In the @jeppjournal.bsky.social, Elsässer & Röth analyse PRRPs in 🇪🇺. Using mixed effects models they find that PRRPs in government have significantly and substantially higher public deficits than governments without PRRPs & similar socio-economic starting conditions.https://doi.org/mhk7

6/6 🧵In Pol. Stud., Angelucci, Carrieri & Improta analyse determinants of the age-related turnout gap. Survey & electoral data in EU. Results show that substantive & descriptive representation in national parliaments & prioritisation of postmaterialist values reduce the gap. doi.org/mhk9

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest #19 - State responses to protest in 🇲🇽 - Party broad-appeal responsiveness - Electoral returns of infrastructure investment in 🇧🇷 - Elites misperception of voter opinions - Voter preferences & party positions in the 🇪🇺 and the 🇺🇸

2/6 🧵In Democratization @hsulli.bsky.social studies when the state responds to protests with concessions in 🇲🇽. Using newspaper based original data on protests and responses, finds that there are more concessions where state capacity is stronger doi.org/mgh6

3/6 🧵 In @wepsocial.bsky.social, Tromborg & Jensen study if parties proposing appealing a broader electorate with disparate promises are less responsive. Party data from Western countries shows that their measures of broadeness does not affect welfare policy responsiveness doi.org/mgh8

4/6 🧵In @thejop.bsky.social @victoraraujo.bsky.social Arretche & @pberamendi.bsky.social study infrastructure programs’ electoral returns. ITT & Fuzzy RD using electrification scheme prior to 🇧🇷 2006 elections. Reward in 2010, with spillover to education. Persists until 2022 doi.org/mgh4

5/6 🧵 [email protected], Furnas & @timlapira.bsky.social use surveys of unelected elites & voters to study misperceptions of public opinion. Strong misperception but non-partisan. Elites believe opinions correspond to own policy preferences. tinyurl.com/2kck4aff

6/6 🧵 In EJPR, @dweisstanner.bsky.social & Jensen study the discrepancy between voter preferences&party positions.Uses survey data and party manifestos from 🇪🇺 and US.Political mobilization of low-income citizens in elections&through trade unions counters inequality in policy congruence. doi.org/mghv

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest #18 - Politics of land use in the 🇺🇸 - Politicians’ extra-parliamentary activities in 🇩🇪 & 🇬🇧  - Support for redistribution in the 🇺🇸 - Representation and occupational background of local politicians in 🇩🇪 - Women’s under-representation in the 🇺🇸 republican party

2/6 🧵 In ARPS, Brouwer & @trounstine.bsky.social review research on history, power distribution & consequences of politics of land use regulation. Literature focus on US. Call for further research on activism demographics, clashes of powerful interests & regulatory process. doi.org/mdmw

3/6 🧵 Chapter in new book about lobbying by @karstenmause.bsky.social and Geys. Review of literature on MP side-jobs and lobbying. Some (mixed) evidence that side-jobs reduce parliamentary activity. Few studies on conflicts of interests, mostly from individual case studies doi.org/mdmv

4/6 🧵  In PSRM @shirraviv.bsky.social & Margalit ask: what redistributive policies do citizens consider when asked about inequality reduction? Original survey & experiment in the US. Informing about concrete redistributive measures boosts support for government action doi.org/mdmt

5/6🧵Using original data @sebastianjblock.bsky.social @martingross.bsky.social @donyhu.bsky.social &Jan Velimsky find that 🇩🇪 local politicians are more likely to submit parliamentary questions on topics related to their occupational background than councillors with a different background doi.org/mdms

6/6 🧵 In APSR, @profkarpo.bsky.social, @jrpjrpjrp.bsky.social, Monson & Aldrich study US female underrepresentation. Vignette experiments & original data on candidates self-presentation. Conservative Republicans favour candidates with male self-presentation independent of sex. doi.org/mdmz

🏛️💰🏙️ Our first blog post of the year is live! Dive into the third entry of our local spending series, “In control? Considering local autonomy in distributive politics research”, to learn about challenges and opportunities that arise from local government constraints shorturl.at/jNTY3

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest #17 -  Lawyers as lobbyists in the 🇺🇸 - Responsiveness to bribery-reporting in Africa - Elite control and development in Brazilian municipalities - Descriptive representation and party building in 🇧🇷 - Policies advanced by the democratic party in the 🇺🇸