Matthew E Bergman, PhD

Ezra Klein loves to overintellectualize the far right, giving them mainstream coverage and legitimacy, while pretending to just wanting to "understand the other side." #usefulfools

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

Who’s a part(y) of this family? Only noneconomic niche parties are still responsive to partisans Foundational manuscripts examined whether niche parties and mainstream parties differed in their party-voter linkages. Specifically, they examine “mean electorate” and “partisan electorate” forms o...

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) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ethno-Regional Parties Cannot Be Everything to Everyone: Electoral Risks of a More Diverse Issue Agenda This note suggests that should ethno-regional parties broaden their agenda, they could be electorally punished. Literature suggests an electoral incentive to a broader party issue agenda, even for ...

Finishing the issue diversification trilogy (center-right and nationalist parties can gain from a more diverse issue agenda; green and center-left cannot) 4 years later;
Opposite effect for Ethno-Regional parties: issue diversification is not a successful strategy
doi.org/10.1080/1744...

It was noted on many presentations #NetworkExternalities
^ noted like a true EPSA/EPSS attendee
It was also the reason I joined the other site if you recall

My first #ESPA2025 convinced me to get this app. So great catching up with former colleagues and making new connections. A wonderful introduction to the @epsanet.bsky.social @epssnet.bsky.social community. Looking forward to Belfast #EPSS2026 (paper pending, acceptance conditional)

American moves to Europe, experiences labour policy (protection), cleans a dataset of thousands of reforms, can now explain where they come from: Parties campaigning on left-leaning economic policies are more likely to implement pro-worker policies, but only during non-crisis economic conditions.