Adam Hobbs

We are soliciting presenters for the fall workshop! If you want to share your research, please consider submitting.

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Deficits are “bad” I was told! But when it comes to tax cuts and military budgets such concerns vanish. I think it’s fair to say Republicans are all secretly Modern Monetary Theorists and know deficits don’t matter when you are a currency issuer. #MMT #PoliticalEconomy

This has been the curious thing, at least in my region. Homes aren’t selling, but prices aren’t really coming down. Are sellers over-leveraged? Did the COVID market distort owners’ perceptions of their homes value?

New publication alert! Current PhD candidate @hobbsadam.bsky.social and recent PhD graduate Deren Onursal develop and test a general theory of protest radicalization in "The Dynamics of Protest Radicalization."

Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Congrats to UCR PhD alum @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social on their new publication in Contemporary Political Theory! 🐻✨

Kehlenbach critiques the Lockean property model of data and offers a compelling alternative lens to view data.

Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“6’7” btw” lol. Love it!

Can’t wait.

Congratulations to all the graduate students who presented work at #MPSA2025! We had an amazing showing from our department. #polisky

If you are at #MPSA2025 stop by the exhibition hall to see the posters of an amazing group of undergraduate research papers I get to be a discussant for.

My coauthors and I have a cool paper on the connection between foreign real estate investment and redistributive attitudes today in Montrose 4 on the 7th floor at 3:20. We find that being primed with FREI increases oppostion to redistribution.

My coauthors and I have a cool paper on the connection between foreign real estate investment and redistributive attitudes today in Montrose 4 on the 7th floor at 3:20. We find that being primed with FREI increases oppostion to redistribution.

Super cool work they are all doing! The social sciences are immensely important.

HUD choked funding to enforce fair-housing laws. Legal aid groups may not survive Most housing discrimination claims are handled by local nonprofits around the country. They say the Trump administration has hobbled them, and are challenging the cuts as unlawful.

The Trump administration has cut off federal funding to nonprofits that are key enforcers of anti-discrimination laws. Last year there were more than 34,000 fair-housing complaints, a record high for the third year in a row. @jenniferludden.bsky.social @npr.org

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Number of those burdened by rental affordability hits record high — Harvard Gazette Public policy expert discusses possible ways to cut costs amid national housing crunch

"Cost burdens are spreading from the poorest households to working folks, particularly young people... a full-time job is no guarantee that housing will be affordable."

An interview with our director Chris Herbert about the country's rental affordability crisis.

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Yeah, not exciting. But it adds depth at a position we are currently thin at.

Everyone is talking about o-line, but I would really like to see them add a cost effective veteran WR in free agency to fill the void left by DK and Tyler. I love JSN and Bobo, but they are still relatively inexperienced.

Stunner: Seattle Seahawks Flip Geno Smith to Las Vegas Raiders, Hit Reset Button at QB — Emerald City Spectrum In a shocking turn of events, rather than dish out a massive extension to retain him, the Seahawks decided to turn the page at quarterback by moving Geno Smith in a blockbuster trade.

The Seahawks really are trying to ruin my week.

www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/home/seahawk...

We are hosting former UCR PhD graduate Kevin Pham to discuss his new book! Check out the flyer for more details.

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I would love to see some actual progress on reform in the coming years.

Labor shortages will only lead to rising costs. This administrations discussion of housing affordability was just to further their anti-immigration agenda.

Up next in our Speaker Series: Dr. James Martel from SFSU. Professor Martel will be presenting a paper that provides an alternative lens to view the Haitian Revolution. See the flyer for more information. @ucrchass.bsky.social

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Seriously, do they even punt in Detroit? I thought they just always go for it on 4th down.

Ask the Governor to issue an exemption from CEQA for infill housing in low-risk areas to quickly build housing for Californians who need homes The governor can do even more to accelerate home building by helping promote infill housing in areas of our state that are at far less risk of fire – namely, dense, walkable neighborhoods in our citie...

Ask the Governor: Speed up the construction of multi-family homes! actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

I was honestly wondering what happened to this guy. Once the election ended he kind of disappeared.

Social media companies never wanted to regulate misinformation. It was the threat of government intervention that forced their hand. It’s the same thing with the film industry’s self-regulation via the MPAA ratings system. The threat is gone, so too is content moderation.

Unfortunately, this is likely to have serious implications for affordability not only in LA county, but surrounding counties as well.

We are excited to be hosting @rosannelogeart.bsky.social to share her research on the relationship between access to policymakers and lobbying success. See the flyer below for more details.

This is one of the things that bothered me most about JD Vance during the debate. Immigrants are not are a driver of the affordability crisis. An immigration crackdown could make things worse.

We need more policy that focuses on the supply side of housing affordability.

Next up in our Speaker Series, Professor Manda from UCI! See the flyer below for more details.