NEW: my column this week is about the coming vibe shift, from Boomers vs Millennials to huge wealth inequality *between* Millennials.

Current discourse centres on how the average Millennial is worse-off than the average Boomer was, but the richest millennials are loaded 💸🚀

Today at the Politics of Inequality conference, David Weisstanner and me will present “Winning with Equality: How Left-wing Parties Attract Votes but Amplify Electoral Cleavages“

Joint work with Carsten Jensen. Excited to hear what people think and about the panels during the next 3 days!

𝐃𝐨 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐱𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬?

Using a survey experiment in 🇩🇪🇪🇸🇬🇧🇮🇹, Björn Bremer and I study attitudes towards taxation in a new JEPP article.

#OpenAccess Paper: doi.org/10.1080/135017…

🧵about the findings below:

Thanks for organising the great workshop on survey experiments in many areas of political science and trade-offs with Sharon Baute David Weisstanner Marius R. Busemeyer Isabelle Stadelmann Rebeka Sträter and others ☺️

Why do we dislike inflation?

🚨New paper for The Brookings Institution revisits this long-standing question, already asked by Robert J Shiller in 1997, with current data and survey methods. Some key findings:🧵 1/10
socialeconomicslab.org/research/worki…

Frank Bandau and I analyze whether governments experience electoral consequences after PIT and VAT tax reforms in a new Electoral Studies publication.

Below is a thread summarizing our findings.

Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.elec…

I just published a lit review on the impact of public opinion on political behavior, politics, and policies. It focuses on CPE research. Here is a thread that summarizes the main points.

Open access: doi.org/10.1007/s41358…

We are hiring: The political science department at the University of Geneva is looking for a PhD candidate in political behavior: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
French for teaching required, otherwise free to work on any topic of interest!

New article on place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society, out in Electoral Studies.

If you study spatial inequalities, rural resentment, and/or generally cleavage politics, this might be of interest!

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Beyond excited to see my amazing co-author Elizabeth Evans's and my book Disability and Political Representation in the flesh!

Thank you to all the disabled politicians and representatives of Disabled People's Orgs who shared their experiences with us over the past 5 years. [1/2]

High-trust societies are known to foster inclusive institutions. But does trust also shape our attitudes towards the welfare state? Ari Ray and I examine this question in a new article. in Political Psychology (1/7)

tinyurl.com/2teduv2r

NEW 🧵:

American politics is in the midst of a racial realignment.

I think this is simultaneously one of the most important social trends in the US today, and one of the most poorly understood.

Now out in Journal of Politics @[email protected]. In our new article, Denis Cohen | @[email protected] Werner Krause and I provide a new framework, method and data set to analyze vote switching between political parties. We also show how mainstream party convergence affects patterns of vote switching.
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

My book “How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA” was published last week Oxford Academic:
bitly.ws/3f3nY

A thread on its key arguments and why you may want to ask your library to get a copy (or get a copy yourself...👇). 1/n

Je höher die Krankenkassen-Prämienbelastung bzw. je höher der Prämienzuwachs, desto höher die Zustimmung zu #AHV13 auf Gemeindeebene.

Nach der Abstimmung ist vor der Abstimmung... #KostenbremseInitiative #PrämienEntlastungsInitiative
#CHvote #abst24

Excited to share our article just out in British Jnl Poli Sci #OpenAccess . The first meta-analysis of the evidence of a causal association between economic #insecurity and #populism provides a definite answer confirming that economic insecurity is a robust cause. Manuel Serrano-Alarcón Alex Moise…

Interested in survey measures for policy priorities and trade-offs (social policy or other fields)? This article Journal of Politics @[email protected] may be of interest to you.
Joint work with Macarena Ares Matthias Enggist and Michael Pinggera from the European Research Council (ERC) welfarepriorities-project IPZ - Political Science UZH .

Please consider donating to help our brilliant and kind colleague Paulo who is an environmental scholar from Oxford battling cancer
gofundme.com/f/paulos-termi…

🧵1/ Excited to share my latest paper out at PSRM Journal 'Attitudes toward automation and the demand for policies addressing job loss: the effects of information about trade-offs' w/ Peter Loewen, Bart Bonikowski, Sophie Borwein, and Blake Lee-Whiting. Open access here: bit.ly/49gEWg3