YouTube video by Blavatnik School of Government
Blavatnik Book Launch: Billionaire Backlash
Have FOMO from missing the launch event of Billionaire Backlash last week? Here's the event online, with Will Hutton and Ngaire Woods. Thanks to both of them and a fantastic audience for the questions and conversation.
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A rich woman's world? Wealth and gendered paths to office
doi.org/10.1111/lsq....
Paper in @lsqjournal.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @rivb.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow @aeggers.bsky.social and Marko KlaΕ‘nja
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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World
Dani Rodrik of Harvard University will present his new book, "Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Globalβ¦
On Feb 17, our @inetoxford.bsky.social team will launch the INET Oxford Inequality Working Group, an online seminar series that invites discussion on inequality and public policy. Our first speaker: @drodrik.bsky.social presents his new book. Details & registration: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/share...
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Badly Behaving Billionaires
Podcast Episode Β· Science Of The Times Β· 29/01/2026 Β· 43m
Great to chat with Tim Coulson and Syma Khalid on The Science of the Times podcast about Billionaire Backlash and the commonalities between social and natural science.
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DPIRβs Lauren Sukin, John G. Winant Associate Professor of U.S. Foreign Policy, alongside Luis Rodriguez (George Mason) and Stephen Herzog (Middlebury Institute of International Studies), has published a new open-access article in Perspectives on Politics.
Read it now: https://ow.ly/YFRp50Y609c
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A book display in the SSL with books by and about John le Carre, the focus of a current exhibition at the Bodleian Weston Library.
Now that series 2 of BBC's 'The Night Manager' has come to an end, you might want to explore more books by the author that inspired the original series. Take a look at our pop-up book display & visit @bodleian.ox.ac.uk John le CarrΓ©: Tradecraft exhibition (on until 6th April) tinyurl.com/23vub3nk
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[apologies for the duplicate post, this one has the correct participants!]
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Apologies, I will watch out for the "i" in future!
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A busy city square with a cathedral dome looming over it
Life history evolution: a biological meta-theory for the social sciences which features a chapter on the work of @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Emeritus Fellow John Goldthorpe - "John Harry Goldthorpe: Weighing the biological ballast informing class structure and class mobility"
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A notepad and pen, a microscope, a factory chimney and a police badge overlaid with yellow graphs and charts
& The division of rationalized labor by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social alumna @mivich.bsky.social
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Keir And Victoria Starmer standing outside No. 10 Downing Street
Including
The British general election of 2024 by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social alumnus @robfordmancs.bsky.social , @timbale.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social and @psurridge.bsky.social
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A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library.
They are:
The British general election of 2024 by Robert Ford, Tim Bale, Will Jennings and Paula Surridge
Life history evolution by Steven C. Hertler, Aurelio JosΓ© Figueredo, Mateo PeΓ±aherrera-Aguirre, Heitor B.F. Fernandes and Michael A. Woodley
Weak states, borders and humanitarian interventions by Clothilde Salelles
Beyond generation rent by Michael Byrne
Orienting to chance by Michael Strand and Omar Lizardo
Return of tyranny by Killian Clarke
The data welfare state by Anne Kaun and Anu Masso
Blaming bureaucracy by Markus Hinterleitner
The division of rationalized labor by Michelle Jackson
Furious minds by Laura K. Field
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
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Are deterrence and disarmament compatible?
In a new paper with @jluisrodriguez.com & @herzogsm.bsky.social, we question the common deterrence-disarmament divide.
With a survey of nuclear attitudes, we show publics around the world simultaneously support both policies.
tinyurl.com/5cbf76cx
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Billionaire Backlash is published today! (If you are in the US, this is a teaser -- out March 17 there). I had a fantastic conversation about the book with @hugorifkind.bsky.social from Times Radio yesterday. Link below (interview starts at about 50:30). Or join us for the launch in Oxford tonight.
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INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University
π The Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociology will be hosted by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social & Oxford Sociology this July!
π‘ Fee waivers for PhD students & researchers from low-income countries are available - please apply before 1 Feb β¬οΈ
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...
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Rethinking the Deterrence-Disarmament Dichotomy: The Complex Landscape of Global Nuclear Weapons Preferences | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Rethinking the Deterrence-Disarmament Dichotomy: The Complex Landscape of Global Nuclear Weapons Preferences
Rethinking the deterrence-disarmament dichotomy: The complex landscape of global nuclear weapons preferences
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
Paper in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @laurensukin.bsky.social, J. Luis Rodriguez and Stephen Herzog
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My Minneapolis
An ode to a city that knows who it is
Minneapolis is a place that means a lot to me, so I wrote a short Substack about the city, its people, and what we all owe them.
benansell.substack.com/p/my-minneap...
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Abstract of "Homeownership and political efficacy: how housing wealth shapes whether people feel heard" by Matthias Haslberger and Mads Andreas Elkjær, published in West European Politics.
Predicted levels of external efficacy by housing tenure and age, with 95% confidence intervals. Covariates fixed at: Married male Conservative voter without university degree living in Southeast England, full-time employed with average income.
π Online first:
How does owning a home change how people feel about politics?
In this article, @mhaslberger.bsky.social and @madselk.bsky.social find that owning a home is linked to feeling more politically included, especially for older people.
π doi.org/10.1080/0140...
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Generous review of Billionaire Backlash in todayβs FT. π Book is in stores this week!
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An opportunity to join @zparolin.bsky.social's growing #Inequality team @inetoxford.bsky.social @dspi-oxford.bsky.social βΈ Apply by 6 February βΈ www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
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A stunning Victorian building home to 7 million objects. Free entry, open 10-5 every day.
The official journal of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19399162
Professor at LSE Sociology, Co-Editor British Journal of Sociology. Research: class, culture, elites, social mobility. Books: Born to Rule, The Class Ceiling, Comedy and Distinction
Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol
British politics, elections, public opinion and (a lot of) political values.
SubStack: https://pollingsnippets.substack.com/?r=4a6d0z&utm_campaign=pub-shar
Editors: Klaus H. Goetz, Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen, Wolfgang C. MΓΌller. Posts by social media editor @chdausgaard.bsky.social
WEP on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/west-european-politics/
An International Journal on Voting and Electoral Systems and Strategy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/electoral-studies
PhD Student in Sociology at University of Oxford, Nuffield College.
Political Mobilization | Segregation | Small Towns.
Peer-reviewed journal of the American Political Science Association, cultivating a political science public sphere.
https://apsanet.org/publications/journals/perspectives-on-politics/
PhD student in political science at the University of Chicago
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford.
Senior Lecturer in 18thC Literature and Culture at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee Keats-Shelley House
Connecting research and researchers. https://linktr.ee/orcid_org
Epidemiologist. Professor Emerita. Workplace Wrecker. Blue in Arizona, forged in the Burgh.
Banner quote by @amandagorman
1elizabethtjacobs1@gmail.com
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
https://www.defendpublichealth.org
A peer-reviewed Taylor & Francis academic journal exploring the British Empire, the Commonwealth, and wider colonialism.
EIC @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social
AE @yiannicart.bsky.social
BRE @evansmithhist.bsky.social
CDE @jonasgjerso.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, Director of the Weidenbaum Center, and Senior Advisor to the Chancellor at Washington University in St. Louis, Visiting Fellow at Hoover
International History & Politics Professor, Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Professor at UChicago. Author of Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict (1991).
As democracy is under pressure, the Alfred Landecker Foundation promotes confrontation with the past, fights group-based hatred with a focus on antisemitism and defends democratic freedoms.
Find out more here: https://www.alfredlandecker.org/
Postdoctoral researcher at
@cedemografia.bsky.social | @uab.cat
https://sites.google.com/view/mariarubiocabanez
πͺπΊ PhD Candidate at Stanford Sociology. Computational Social Science, Social Psychology, and Social Policy
https://sociology.stanford.edu/people/david-sebastian-broska
