Aaron Reeves

More concretely, she tracks how Chinese Canadians became less likely to support the Conservative party after Covid. This was not true of others who are racialized within Asian panethnic identity.

How Xenophobia Shapes Political Party Support: Evidence from COVID-19 in Canada - Race and Social Problems Racialized or ethnically marginalized groups typically have strong loyalties to particular political parties, but can these group loyalties be undermined? In this paper, I investigate whether racist b...

New paper by @vxltan.bsky.social: She finds that racist but group-specific political discourse (i.e., towards Chinese Canadians during Covid) undermines a sense of linked fate among those who share a panethnic identity (e.g., as Asian). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Podcast: Lewis Goodall, Dan Hind and James Butler · On Politics: The Bust-up at the BBC

This, from @piercepenniless.bsky.social, @dannyhinduk.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com is very good indeed.

It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.

Please share widely.

About a year ago, I remember talking with @kittyjstewart.bsky.social and @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social about the child poverty strategy. Back then, I was more optimistic that parental employment could play a role in reducing child poverty. Over the coming months they convinced me I was wrong.

At last: a budget that ends the two-child limit The government should be applauded for scrapping the cruel policy, but tackling poverty requires more

Let’s hope the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap is a watershed moment, spurring on sustained, ambitious action to end the scourge of child poverty, writes @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social.

Our first Special Issue is out now! It's on Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective - Guest editors: Laura Sochas, Kaveri Qureshi, and Philip Kreager

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We found that if you talk about scrapping the 2 child limit right (emphasising poverty's role in poor life chances) it's not even unpopular!

Scrapping the two-child limit will be transformational for children.

This is a much-needed fresh start in our country’s efforts to eradicate child poverty and while there is more to do it gives us strong foundations to build on.

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Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.

OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty

The fight to end child poverty goes on. But today we must celebrate. It will make a real, lasting difference to families the breadth of the UK and I’m so grateful to everyone in @changingrealities.bsky.social & @cpaguk.bsky.social who have advocated tirelessly for its full abolition

On my knees BEGGING journalists to stop calling it the “two-child benefit cap”. It’s two measures, the two-child limit, and the benefit cap. One is going, the other one isn’t.

this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself

it is also free to read

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The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered Not with a bang but with a whimper

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

London's giant AI artwork to be torn down The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.

It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…

I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...

NEW: Lasse Folke Henriksen, Jacob Aagard Lunding, Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, Anton Grau Larsen, "The Hardcore Brokers: Core-Periphery Structure and Political Representation in Denmark’s Corporate Elite Network" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

📝 A new report by Dr Kitty Stewart, Professor Ruth Patrick and Professor @aaronreeves.bsky.social shows why tackling child poverty requires removing the controversial two-child limit and benefit cap.

Read the full report ➡️ buff.ly/bFN4kga

Working on this has been fascinating for me personally. I remember early conversations with Ruth and Kitty in Liverpool last year where I was arguing that employment could play an important role in a child poverty strategy. Producing this has convinced me otherwise.

Benefit changes and larger families We are a group of university-based researchers investigating how families with more than two children are coping with the benefit cap or the two-child limit.

New analysis with @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social and @kittyjstewart.bsky.social: If we are serious about trying to reduce child poverty we cannot rely on employment alone. We need serious investment in social security.

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Today, brand new analysis from @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social & me on why it’s just not possible to turn the dial on child poverty w/ employment alone. We need investment in social security & we need to end the two-child limit & the benefit cap sticerd.lse.ac.uk/CASE/_NEW/PU...

How Eurocrats Negotiate the Path From Crisis to Routine: Tracing the Micro‐Foundations of Routinisation After the Greek Crisis Whilst institutional change following the eurozone crisis is well documented, the mechanisms underlying this change remain less understood. This article examines how EU officials negotiated the routi....

My article, “How Eurocrats Negotiate the Path From Crisis to Routine: Tracing the Micro-Foundations of Routinisation After the Greek Crisis,” is now published —open access thanks to the @eui-eu.bsky.social — in the @jcms-eu.bsky.social

Read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In Paris to pick up a trophy today! Honoured that the European Academy of Sociology found my article with Carina Mood interesting enough that they gave it their Best Article Prize.

I look forward to a day of presentations and discussions.

And the article is here
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Which one is more English?

A huge congratulations to @samfriedman.bsky.social and
@aaronreeves.bsky.social who have won a Silver Lovie Award for their research video "Wealth, influence, and class: the British elite explained" 🏆🎉

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The health inequalities agenda is "tired and risks having run out of road" - not my words, the words of a senior health policymaker in the Scottish Government. But other SG policymakers told me health inequalities were a "huge priority" - so what's going on? A thread... 1/

really great new paper from @katiehiggins.bsky.social

I can’t envisage a child poverty strategy which garners any credibility without fully scrapping the two-child limit.

Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social

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Staying Apart for the Kids? Older American Daters and the Preservation of Family Wealth Romantic repartnering in later life has received substantial scholarly and public attention in light of population aging and changes in family dynamics. In the United States, the importance of househ...

Excited to finally share my new paper (w/Raphaël Charron-Chénier) out in BJS! Staying Apart for the Kids looks at how older adults consider preserving family wealth in their new relationships. Drawing on my interviews with mid/late-life daters, we show how accumulated wealth shapes dating decisions.

This was very cathartic to write, and I'm grateful to @samfr.bsky.social for giving me the space to try and set out just why the two-child limit must go, and go in its entirety

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No half measures • Resolution Foundation The Government’s long-awaited Child Poverty Strategy is due next month, close to, or contemporaneous with, the Autumn Budget. There have been some welcome announcements already: the over-indexation of...

New @resfoundation.bsky.social analysis: Any of the rumoured half-measure options for repealing the two-child limit would leave child poverty HIGHER at the end of the Parliament than it was when the Government took power. 🧵https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/no-half-measures/