Free riders

I remember hearing something like, if as a social scientist you can't think of 4-5 alternative explanations for a finding then you're probably in the wrong business. Source?

Public opinion on sensitive issues changes more through one age cohort being replaced by another than through individuals changing their minds. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Well, it seems the results in the annex are way more nuanced than the authors Jørgen Carling make it sound. IN some locations the effects are Zero, in some negative and some also positive.

If you ever get the sense the people who run the country don't care about it, you'd be right

A very positive development in Europe and I don't think this has been reported much in the media during the last few decades.

The suicide rates among young people declined in many European countries.

Today we are launching the Migration Communication Campaigns Database, an open access interactive database with 300+ #migration campaigns.

This is the first outcome of an ambitious two-year project with James Dennison, Mariana Carmo Duarte, and myself.

migrationpolicycentre.eu/campaigns

That Deaton thing feels like part of a broader…open.substack.com/pub/sankaran/p…

New publication alert! In my latest paper I examine the factors that contribute to immigration and integration policy restrictiveness, as well as policy liberalisation in France. Centre Migration, Diaspora, Citizenship & Identity
link.springer.com/article/10.105…

'If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions'

I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance.

Why? I'll tell you why

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Unfortunate so many still see the Indo-Pacific tilt as a Brexit symbol to be torn down. Yes, its origins lie there. But analysis of indivisibility btwn Euro-Atlantic & IP was and remains correct. Retreating from IP will replicate 2016-20 mistakes (ignoring EU) again, in reverse.

Some new descriptive work on what *citizens* think we should do about the far-right.

doi.org/10.1177/135406…

Tomorrow the European Parliament will vote on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. What are the main challenges ahead of its implementation? And what can we do about them?

Looking forward to this evening discussion with HSS Europe and Loredana Teodorescu in Brussels!

The new chair of Young Labour is seemingly the son of Gary Lubner, who donated £4.5 million to the party.

I can't help but feel if that was the Tories it would somehow be a major issue for the Guardian, LBC &, dare I say, Young Labour...

We need a whole new party system, & PR.

Construction of the Italian centres for asylum seekers transferred to Albania has begun, but there are still important legal, ethical, and practical concerns with this plan.

I discuss these concerns in an interview with Henk Dheedene [De Tijd].

tijd.be/politiek-econo…

Good, wide ranging reflection by Leo Varadkar on his time in government. Most interesting was his comment that he’d been too cautious, and that advice from civil servants, academics was too conservative.

Meta-analysis: After controlling for cognitive ability, the effect of beauty on professional success vanishes for all occupations except sex workers. econstor.eu/handle/10419/2…

After 5 years in the making, Daniel Auer and my article 'Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy' is out in International Studies Quarterly!

academic.oup.com/isq/article/68…

Argument: because migrants are liberals, mass emigration can cause democratic backsliding.

Politikwissenschaft Universität Hamburg WZB

During a solar eclipse, the gaps between leaves on trees act as multiple pinhole cameras,

and each gap projects its own crescent-shaped image of the eclipsed sun onto the ground.

📹gottigreen

Happy to share two additions to Journal of Politics @[email protected]'s 'Just Added' collection🙂

Field experiment on negative identities with Dr Katharina Lawall Florian Foos & Joshua Townsley, PhD
doi.org/10.1086/730718

Meta analysis with Elizabeth Simon on education & in-group biases
doi.org/10.1086/730745