Linus Westheuser

If after reading @gelliottmorris.com's excellent piece on how most voters are non-ideologues you want to know how these non-ideologues still reason about politics in a halfway predictable way - we have a paper on that:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Diese Plattform ist chronisch untergrindet

From our November Issue: What Is the Wrong of Capitalism? by Chiara Cordelli. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

My favorite paper of 2019 has just been conditionally accepted at AER (lmao)

The Voting Rights Act rapidly increased Black wages in the South via public employment & redistribution

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New from Picketty's lab: The world can raise incomes toward global equity & stabilize the climate under "under very strict conditions"

—reduction of work hours
—consumption shift toward immaterial sectors
—major change in food habits
—a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment

"Switzerland highly resilient to populism and polarization"

*cries bitterly in Swiss*

Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.

New post!
Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies. Question wording effects can swing opinions by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights.
That's a problem for people who interpret polls for a living.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...

The Green Gender Gap: Environmental attitudes and pro-environmental vote choice across Europe Does gender matter for how we engage with green political ideas? Using more than twenty years of data across 36 European countries, this paper identif…

Still controlling for gender without thinking about why? You can cite me💚👩‍🔬💚

I show that the gender gap in progressive climate and environmental views is a persistent empirical regularity that cannot be explained by differences in socioeconomic background, political ideology, or risk aversion.

YouGov has the Greens in second place for the first time

Stop arguing, start describing

Earlier today I read the phrase (about Proust in fact) ‘It came to an end but it wasn’t finished.’

Markwayne Mullin: "It's up to the Iraqi people -- I'm sorry, the Iranian people -- to choose their next leader"

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#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -

Reference groups and electoral behavior - https://cup.org/46neAJZ

- Rune Stubager, Christoffer Hentzer Dausgaard, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & Michael Lewis-Beck

#FirstView

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

The Biden Admin directed hundreds of billions to clean energy/manufacturing.

Did these investments shift public opinion?

We find that these projects are visible but not traceable: People notice nearby investments, but connect them to Governors, not Biden.

Thread 👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

satisfy the needs of every living creature:

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has barred the U.S. from using Spanish military bases for attacks on Iran.

Listen up liberal,

Is a democratic economy possible? Lessons from history, horizons for the future

1/2 - 30 March| 6:30pm|LSE
50 years after labour movements launched radical plans to democratise the economy & gain control of big business: what’s their legacy & the prospects for economic democracy today? On the anniversary of the “Meidner Plan” join us to discuss👇🏾
www.lse.ac.uk/events/democ...

#Berlin’s TV Tower during construction in 1968.

#CfA: Call for Applications für bis zu zwei Post-Doc Fellowships 2026/27. Die Fellows werden insbesondere Teil des #NormativeOrdersResearchNetwork sein. Allgemeines Thema ist "The Future of Democracy". Bewerbungsschluss ist am 15. März 2026. 👇

English version below.

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Screenshot from the first page of the PDF showing the title, author names and abstract of the paper. Title: Between “Cancel Culture” and Campus Culture: Debate and Dissent in the Discursive Space of the University.

Based on a representative survey of academics at German universities, Christiane Thompson and I find little support for "canceling" controversial views on campus. Instead, universities are widely expected to facilitate debate on controversial issues. Our two main findings:
doi.org/10.1007/s110...

CDU Antwort auf jedes Problem:

New working paper!

I examine whether exposure to local unemployment during adolescence shapes immigration attitudes in adulthood, focusing on the long-term imprint of early economic insecurity

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

🎉 New publication 😍 The 4th wave of the #farright is marked by #mainstreaming & #normalisation - but how can we distinguish between them? In our new article, @gefjonoff.bsky.social and I map the existing literature, introduce a conceptual framework & outline research avenues. doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Irgendwie interessant wie sich Konservative und Linksliberale in dem Impuls ähneln, strukturelle Probleme durch Pep Talks wegzupredigen. Was sich unterscheidet ist der Stil: netter Sozialarbeiter ("das Wir stärken") versus polternder Chef ("Genug gefaulenzt"). Aber es wirkt doch ähnlich hilflos

The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits.

So, who stands to win?

Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵