Steven Klein

Public support for taxation crumbles when unfairness is revealed | King's College London Public support for broad-based taxation risks eroding when voters learn that the super-rich pay lower tax rates than ordinary citizens, according to new research co-authored by King’s academics.

See the research of my colleagues David Hope and Julian Limberg

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-...

You can't look at taxing the rich in isolation from broader attitudes towards taxing everyone else. If taxing the rich makes people perceive the system as more fair and so more willing to pay higher taxes themselves, it would definitely help close these gaps.

Regressing to Nature: Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis Click on the article title to read more.

My article “Regressing to Nature: Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis” is out in Constellations (open access)! It draws on Frankfurt School analyses of culture industry and fascism to rethink them as forces that obstruct responses to the climate crisis: doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Please do submit to the second London PPE conference hosted at KCL- it is a great community and will promise to be an exciting conference!

Project will seek to address challenge of skills shortage in rural areas | King's College London A pioneering new project led by a King’s College London academic aims to help rural governments address the growing challenges posed by ageing populations and skills shortages.

A new project led by @sanpages.bsky.social will seek to address the growing challenges posed by ageing populations and skills shortages in rural areas 📑

Read more ⬇️

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/project...

Very excited we will be hosting a lecture by the one and only John Ganz - info and sign up here!

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Utopia Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c

NEW BOOK!

I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line

academic.oup.com/book/62279

How Britain tried (and failed) to stop a £10 billion crimewave The police have launched two fraud-fighting intiatives — will they be any better at tackling the three million cases a year, asks Megan Harwood-Baynes

🗣️ "The government can’t promise anything in terms of solving the problem..."

Professor Anja Shortland spoke to @thetimes.com about efforts to tackle cybercrime and fraud in the UK 🤖💻

Read it here (💷)⬇️

www.thetimes.com/money/saving...

bye bye queen

Depreciating the University of Edinburgh into the Ground — UCU Edinburgh There are four key takeaways from the University of Edinburgh’s 2024-25 annual report, which this post explores: The University continues to make a sizeable surplus. What financial pressures exi...

Great work by @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social on UoE's latest financial report. Depressing that a university doing pretty damn well financially (no deficit) compared to most of the sector choosing to destroy itself, and staff are all just sitting helplessly in the backseat of a slow motion car crash.

It's the Iraq war mea culpas all over again. Yes you were right but you were right for the wrong reasons.

The Unavoidability of Scarcity and Necessity of Political Choice Advocates of the ‘abundance’ agenda dream of a bright future, but in the UK its possibility relies on economic sacrifices in the present. The consequent politics are wicked and demand ideologically i...

The @ippr.org asked me to write about Klein and Thompson's"abundance" agenda for their Progressive Review.

Rather than a choice, scarcity has been unavoidable in the UK recently - with implications for both abundance and more dirigiste supply agendas.

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A significant percentage of this was orchestrated by tech oligarchs like Thiele looking for an opening to tear down the state

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Volume 33, Issue 3-4 A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

NEW ISSUE: Renewal 33/3&4

Guest co-edited by @neilwarner.bsky.social & @beccagold.bsky.social, this special double issue features nineteen (19) brilliant essays analysing Labour's statecraft and debating the strategic challenges for social democracy in Britain and beyond

How do ecological activists use expert knowledge to stage scenes of dissensus & what does this reveal about expertise & democracy? @aehyvonen.bsky.social reformulates radical democratic theory to offer new insights into both questions. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/RoFhPou

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

🆕 'Judith Shklar’s Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance'

Professor Robin Douglass and Dr Edward Hall have a new article published in the Review of Politics journal ✍️💭

Read it here 👇

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Public support for taxation crumbles when unfairness is revealed | King's College London Public support for broad-based taxation risks eroding when voters learn that the super-rich pay lower tax rates than ordinary citizens, according to new research co-authored by King’s academics.

🪙Public support for broad-based taxation risks eroding when voters learn that the super-rich pay lower tax rates than ordinary citizens, according to new research 📉

Read the research, co-authored by Julian Limberg, David Hope and Lukas Haffert, here 👇

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-...

PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com PhD Programme - PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

Very excited we have five funded PhD fellowships, open to all fields of political science and economics, so please do spread the word to prospective political theory students!

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This is your brain on 5G

100 Years Ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Changed Black Politics The fact that the meeting was even happening was enough to produce an air of subversive excitement. One hundred years ago on August 25, 1925, Black sleeping car porters, hoping to form a union at the ...

Socialist A. Philip Randolph saw in the porters’ struggle a symbol for the strivings of all Black working people. Believing they were “made to order to carry the gospel of unionism in the colored world,” he threw himself into his newfound leadership role labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

but Plato *was* woke on gender

Research by King's academic licensed for use as part of innovative teaching programme | King's College London Pioneering research on conflict resolution led by a King’s academic has been licensed for use as part of an innovative virtual reality (VR) programme being rolled out in schools.

🆕 Pioneering research on conflict resolution led by our academic, Dr Elisa Cavatorta, has been licensed for use as part of an innovative virtual reality (VR) programme being rolled out in schools 👩‍💻🏫

Read more here 👇

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/researc...

Fellowships for Early Career Researchers | King's College London Join a vibrant, dynamic community of postdoctoral and early career researchers

Want to come spend two years in the UK working on a research project? Come to KCL on British Academy International Fellowship. Guidance for our internal selection process available here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/fun... happy to chat about it

Might makes right and pervasive cynicism is the soil for authoritarianism. If it's all a struggle for survival then what matters most is that your side is stronger and authoritarianism promises strength and force.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

Lotta people only heard what they wanted to hear re: trumps "isolationism." His main complaint normally that US didn't get the oil that it should have gone to war for

Lecturer in Economics | King's College London

📢 We’re hiring!

King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics.

Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-...

Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department.

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Wishing everyone happy new year in every single WhatsApp group I've ever been added to