Zack Grant

To try to be restrained and persuasive:

1) Academic work (like most things) is of varying quality

2) There is an enormous leftward ideological skew to the lowest-quality work

3) 1 + 2 makes it hard for credentialed "expertise" to be credible even when most experts are good

26.09.2025 20:44 — 👍 33    🔁 4    💬 47    📌 36

How much credence do you give the theory that pollsters' samples of the youth electorate are fairly underrepresentative (even w/ common weights)? I've heard response rates among males without degrees under 30ish tend to be pretty abysmal, and you would expect those to be more right-leaning?

07.09.2025 02:06 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very strong start to the conference!

26.06.2025 10:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Most interesting thing for me: a majority of Lib Dems back the sentiment, and almost half take no issue with the language. Supports @jamesbreckwoldt.bsky.social's research emphasising how poorly understood Lib Dem voters are. Not nec. true that Labour losses there are disaffected social liberals.

13.05.2025 18:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

BJPolS abstract discussing the financial and political polarization, the support for government spending on welfare measures, and the struggles of younger individuals and families in managing economic hardships, possibly in the context of British assets and family-centric economical approaches.

NEW -

Family Matters: How Concerns about the Financial Wellbeing of Young Relatives Shape the Political Preferences of Older Adults - cup.org/3Gny1bz

- @zackgp94.bsky.social, @profjanegreen.bsky.social & Geoffrey Evans

#OpenAccess

24.04.2025 07:50 — 👍 30    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2

Oldshoremore?

27.02.2025 23:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0