political science @IPZ_ch @URPP_Equality | fellow @EXCInequality | occupational change, social hierarchies, political behavior
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Feeling gloomy about inequality? 😩 Join @mariusbusemeyer's URPP public lecture to find out why your perceptions might be just as skewed as the system itself.
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Jeffrey Yusof: Behavioral Economist presenting important evidence on why, despite the large role of “market luck,” there remains resistance to income redistribution.
Website: sites.google.com/view/jeffre…
JMP: drive.google.com/file/d/1vVw…
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#JMP Alert #EconTwitter
Restful activities can boost productivity, allowing you to earn more by working less. But do people get this trade-off right? In my JMP, we show they don’t.
lexischubert.github.io/uploa…
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Only a few days left to submit your abstract for our #ecprjs25 workshop!
If you study #labor 🛠️💼🩺, #workplaces, #firms🏭 + #politics🏛️, join @BPalier and I to discuss how changes in the world of work impact democratic politics.
Below a teaser.
ecpr.eu/Events/Event/Worksho…
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📚 Our book on the transformation of the Left in emerging knowledge societies is out 📚
OPEN ACCESS tinyurl.com/ahuxx6d6
🧵 on key findings. Today: the voters
@IPZ @UZH @CUP_PoliSci
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🚨 New Working Paper 🆕
Discussions about new disruptive technologies often have a tone of inevitability. For example, it is popular to attempt to estimate the number of jobs which will be automated in the future, because technology is expected to advance at a certain rate. 1/
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In light of the UK extreme-right (ER) riots & Tommy Robinson's role in them, our conditionally accepted @BJPolS paper w/@FlorianFoos shows a causal effect of media exposure to extreme right actors, incl. Robinson, on support for extreme right views: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ur… 1/11
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Heading to ASA to present a paper on what determines social status in Britain using a new conjoint experiment that had people 30,720 status judgements (screenshot below)
Very interesting new evidence on intergenerational mobility and anti-system support using Diagonal Reference Models.
Great paper by Andrew McNeil (@ucl) in @SASE_Meeting's Socio-Economic Review. academic.oup.com/ser/advance…
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🚨New article❗️
Where has everyone gone? Depopulation and voting behaviour in Spain @EJPRjournal with my brilliant coauthors @alsanchezgarcia @iMariathin ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com… @PolitiquesUPF
🚜Does depopulation change electoral support? Which party benefits from it?🧵
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Very excited that my paper with @SattlersThomas is now published in @AJPS_Editor. We contribute to a big controversial debate: Does austerity fuel populism? Our answer: Yes, it does especially among the most vulnerable part of the workforce. Enjoy it!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Happy to see our review essay on the political economy of AI published today! Musckaan Chauhan & I argue for greater attention to macro factors, as well as for how AI's distributional impact may differ from other forms of automation link.springer.com/article/10…
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Are you an early career researcher working on digitalization and technological change? Please apply for this one-day conference 👇
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New article on place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society, out in @ElectoralStdies.
If you study spatial inequalities, rural resentment, and/or generally cleavage politics, this might be of interest!
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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This paper by my amazing coauthor and friend Loreto Cox just came out. It shows how unmet expectations about labor market outcomes associated with higher education are consequential for policy preferences, particularly for demand for government. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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I am delighted to see my article on the electoral risks of austerity published in print at @EJPRjournal.
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com…
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New article in @EJPRjournal with @Carsten80554073.
We use election surveys going back to the 1960s to show that inequality in policy congruence varies depending on the political mobilization of less affluent voters (through unions & turnout).
doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12…
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I am excited and honored to receive this prize, and grateful to everyone who helped along the way. Special thanks to the @IPZ_ch community, to my advisor @SiljaHausermann , and to the jury for engaging with the thesis. 🙏🙏🙏
✨ Exceptional ✨ Elegantly crafted
🏆 @dpzollinger claimed our 2023 Jean Blondel PhD Prize for her thesis 'Structural Change, Identity Formation, and Cleavage Consolidation in 21st Century Politics', completed at @IPZ_ch 🙌
📰 More: ecpr.eu/news/news/details/71…
@UZH_en #ECPRPrizes
ALT Delia Zollinger's elegantly crafted thesis claims our 2023 Jean Blondel Prize