Bilyana Petrova

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.

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Out-group homogeneity as evidence of left-right identification in multi-party democracies | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Out-group homogeneity as evidence of left-right identification in multi-party democracies

Left vs Right is becoming personal 🔴🔵

New cross-national evidence by N. Lin, L.P. Santoso & R.T. Stevenson shows voters in Western democracies are developing emotional attachments to the Left and Right as social groups, but how will this impact voting?

Conflict and Maternal Health Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Conflict and Maternal Health

In this Element, @fthames.bsky.social + @ladyprofessor.bsky.social takes a large-N approach to exploring whether inequality variation in states at conflict leads to variation in women's health outcomes. Free to download now! 2/

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William Shakespeare, 400 years ago. 👏

Look at how being diagnosed with cancer impacts people's involvement in crime!

US green manufacturers lost at least 10,000 jobs last year Employment losses across the clean energy sector undercut the Trump administration's broader push to revive U.S. manufacturing.

Major loss of manufacturing jobs during Trump 2.0's first year in office. Unsurprisingly, clean energy manufacturing hit especially hard ...
www.eenews.net/articles/us-...

Who wants to accelerate digitalization? Evidence from the next generation EU program Post-industrial governments around the world are increasingly prioritizing policies to accelerate digitalization, but despite the growing literature on technological change and the knowledge econom...

📢 Publication alert: Governments are investing in digitalization intensively, but we know little about who supports this policy. We investigate this question in this new article with Alex Kuo, @retobuergisser.bsky.social, and @siljahausermann.bsky.social published at JEPP
doi.org/10.1080/1350... 🧵

I honestly got 2025 and 2026 mixed up… 🙃

Only a year later… ;)

New article by Ayelén Vanegas. It explores how redistributive attitudes react to citizens' evaluations of policy results. It is a fascinating analysis of the conditions under which beneficiaries of social policies cease to support them. Fantastic work.

www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

Copies arrived, finally! Thanks @oxunipress.bsky.social Thanks to all contributors to this thoughtful volume.

I somehow just saw this. Congrats, Moriah!! :)

Excited to share my latest article, in first view at Political Research Quarterly: doi.org/10.1177/1065...

We are looking for a postdoc!

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States….
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Austerity and Populism A large literature explains the rise of populist parties with the economic insecurities stemming from globalization and technological change. But despite the long-standing focus of the comparative and...

Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

Румен Радев ще подаде оставка, Йотова ще стане президент "Днес за последен път се обръщам към вас като президент на нашата България", заяви Румен Радев в днешното си обръщение към партията. Ето какво още каза той:

The president of Bulgaria, who has been in office for the last 9 years and has had to appoint 7 caretaker governments, just resigned.

The country is currently governed by a caretaker government in anticipation of the parliamentary elections scheduled for March / April.

www.dw.com/bg/rumen-rad...

ACA Signups Drop over 800,000 in 2026, as consumers face increase in premiums Second interim report shows effects of higher ACA marketplace (Obamacare) premiums; customers less likely to sign up for plans in 2026 than one year ago

ACA Signups Drop over 800,000 in 2026, as consumers face increase in premiums siftingandwinnowing.substack.com/p/aca-signup...

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📣Thrilled to share our new article with @beckerbastian.bsky.social in JESP on attitude polarization around UBI. We show that despite high aggregate support for UBI, attitude polarization over policy design strongly shapes its political feasibility.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Nonprofit That Funded NPR and PBS to Dissolve After 58 Years The decision was expected after federal funding for public media was eliminated last year.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said it is dissolving the 58-year-old nonprofit umbrella organization that oversaw government funding for PBS and NPR.

Liberation, not collapse The fall of the Berlin Wall, and not the human chain across the Baltics, is emblematic of 1989. But what if this show of unity had become iconic of communism’s disintegration? Could acknowledging East...

On the 34th anniversary of the end of the USSR, I’m reposting my article from earlier this year, which argued that we should have understood the moment as liberation rather than only as collapse: www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...

Congolese rape survivors search in vain for medicine after USAID cuts In eastern Congo, where rape is widespread, the cancellation of USAID funding for PEP kits has left many victims vulnerable, according to nearly 50 interviews.

Cutting the funds to deliver 116,000 medical kits to treat victims of rape saved U.S. taxpayers $2 million. But it meant many women in eastern Congo could not longer get the pills they needed to prevent medicine, HIV, and deadly sexually transmitted diseases.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

An American Dream at risk: What happens to a small Nebraska town when 3,200 workers lose their jobs Tyson Foods is closing its beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, laying off 3,200 workers next month in a town of just 11,000.

"Now, those symbols of economic progress — mortgages and car payments, property taxes and tuition costs — are bills that thousands of Tyson workers won’t have an income to pay." apnews.com/article/tyso...

I fully share the concern, but I was simultaneously surprised that some people do not have to provide this information to enter the country. (I've had to ever since I turned 18.)

Um, ok...

This paper forthcoming at the JOP provides evidence that rent control in Germany actually made tenants MASSIVELY *less* NIMBY.

This result was in the opposite direction of the authors' pre-registered expectations.

And the effect sizes are, truly, massive.

YouTube video by World Inequality Lab World Inequality Report 2026

Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions.

👇Share this thread, share the report!
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My study of 🇪🇺 public opinion is now published! Check it out if you want to know how attitudes towards European integration really covary with political ideology, which policy views predict EU support, and how party positions structure public opinion.

www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Texas Tech System restricts race and gender teaching Tech, now the second Texas public university system to add similar teaching restrictions, had earlier directed faculty to follow state and federal guidance recognizing only two sexes.

“Faculty will be required to submit the materials to department chairs, university administrators and ultimately the Board of Regents for their review and approval.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/01/t...

New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social!

We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies.

Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇

How Texas Tech is incentivizing us to complete grading on time.