@Uni_Corvinus PE Fmr Director UCSD Law&Politics & Post-Doc UniWien 📝 OECD Comp Institutions/PE/Voting & populi* 👨🏫Policy/Legal Analysis, Research Methods
Budapest, Hungary
Joined September 2018
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Ever since I started graduate school it has been my dream to publish in @jepp_journal. It's been quite the journey, but now I, WCM, and @HannaEBack have done so. We explore connections between government ideology and labour policy reforms tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
My recent research on Italian politics but written in non-academic English. I also extend the argument to other nations including some recent observations from Hungary
theloop.ecpr.eu/italys-five-…
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Every bit the free speech lover Musk is and with his friends and family now owning virtually every media outlet in the country, Orban's Hungary ranks slightly below Sierra Leone in terms of freedom of press.
Meanwhile, the 2024 ranking puts Romania slightly above the US.
Honored to be asked to lead this workshop for @OPUSinitiative
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A cautionary tale for valence populists entering government. I focus on M5S but include a discussion of CEE and Southern European (valence) populists in power.
TLDR: without an ideological core, such parties are more harshly judged on their performance
doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2025.100…
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Incredibly happy to see my paper forthcoming in @QJEHarvard! I quantify how much of worldwide growth and poverty reduction can be accounted for by education over 1980-2019. A quick summary 1/9 👇
Still using the party family approach to #nicheparty analysis? Don't worry, it is a valid approach when studying party issue responsiveness (but not the commies) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Open Access thanks to @uni_corvinus
Finishing the issue diversification trilogy (center-right & nationalist parties can gain from a more diverse issue agenda; green & center-left not) 4 years later
Opposite effect for Ethno-Regional parties: issue diversification is not a successful strategy
doi.org/10.1080/17449057.202…
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🇦🇹 Austrian parties have finally formed a new govt – on their 3rd bargaining attempt.
📘 Based on @EJPRJournal research, @MeBergman2 and Wolfgang C Muller argue that time spent bargaining is an investment in future govt policy productivity 📈.
bit.ly/4jK0Zku
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NEW ARTICLE!
Even after the end of a government, voters still ideologically associate cooperating parties with one another.
Find out more in this paper by @MeBergman2 and @Svenja_Krauss
@uni_corvinus
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Jeffrey Sachs Brings Real Politics to the EU Parliament @mvdschulenburg
When people ask me when I realized that Trump would win, I always say the week before when my sister showed me her TikToxic.
Tiktok boosted Republican messages 11.8% more than Democrat messages during the 2024 U.S. Presidential Race according to this new preprint that employed bots to view ~394,000 videos: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.17831
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Thanks Ezra -- a good spot indeed.
This is a good spot to drop this cool visualization, about how our political system could reflect way more ideological complexity than it does now, and our politics would be healthier if it did: nytimes.com/interactive/2025…
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Here's a provocative new paper
"Confronting the New Gatekeepers of Experimental Political Science"
doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2024-7…
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I have repeatedly made this point, again and again and again:
The vast majority of waste, fraud, abuse, and overbearing, job-killing regulation is not in the federal government. It's the planning bureaucrats in your local city hall and zoning board.
