Miquel Pellicer

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest March 2025 - lockdowns and support for Trump in the US - left parties and redistribution - electoral role of candidate education - tax preferences in Latin America - City councillors’ roll-call voting in Chicago and Toronto

2/6 🧵In @cpsjournal.bsky.social, @alicexu.bsky.social & Iversen ask if economic, rather than cultural factors, drive support for right-wing populists. Staggered DiD in the US & covid lockdowns. In states with less educated people (cannot work from home) lockdowns increase Trump support doi.org/pft7

3/6 🧵 In EJPR, @alexanderhorn.bsky.social @klueserthan.bsky.social & Martin Haselmayer study the priorities of left parties in 12 OECD countries. While they find no evidence for a crowding out of redistribution generally, they show that some Social Democrats abandoned economic equality.doi.org/pft9

4/6 🧵 In @thejop.bsky.social‬ @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com do a meta-analysis of role of candidate education in conjoint experiments. More educated candidates preferred by all, but more so by more educated respondents, suggesting a possible in-group bias https://doi.org/pft8

5/6 🧵 In @cpsjournal.bsky.social Heilbrun studies tax preferences in the Latinobarometro. High perceived inequality associated with a preference towards a narrower tax base. Suggests a reason why revenue from direct taxes in LA is low https://doi.org/pfvd

6/6 🧵In @thejop.bsky.social @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social & Armstrong study elite conflict using councilors' roll-call votes. Original dataset over many terms in Chicago & Toronto. Against a pluralist expectation, councilors’ conflict is low-dimensional but durable across terms doi.org/pfvb

New Blog Post! 📝 Oliver Platt writes about the concept of class and its importance for regional inequality and voting behavior. To illustrate, the post includes interactive maps and data plots 🗺️📊 Read more: inq-dp.eu/index.php/20...

Maps upgrade! 🗺️ We expanded our maps of inequality page to include additional data on the spatial distribution of election results, rent prices, and education levels across Marburg. Explore: inq-dp.eu/index.php/ma...

A cover page of a book The Hidden Face of Local Power Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy Mirya R Holman Temple University Press

The lil uptick in excitement when you open page proofs and see your name in that fancy type face

(And then you realize you have to read all your words again)

1/6 📰🧐 IDP Research Digest January 2025 - Political responsiveness in 🇩🇰 & 🇳🇱 - Populist parties & congruence in 🇩🇪🇳🇱🇮🇹🇸🇪 - Effect of income on turnout in 🇳🇴 - Returns to office in 🇩🇰 - Electoral effects of coal phase-outs in 🇩🇪

2/6 🧵In @jeppjournal.bsky.social, @annerasmussen.bsky.social & @simonotjes.bsky.social ask: are politicians more responsive to interest groups or public opinion? Vignette experiments in 🇩🇰 & 🇳🇱 with politicians. Effect of public opinion positive, stronger, and more general doi.org/n6sf

3/6 🧵 In @electoralstudies.bsky.social, Zhirnov, @drphilphil.bsky.social, and co-authors study congruence b/w populist parties & their voters. VAA data from 🇩🇪🇳🇱🇮🇹🇸🇪. Show populist parties are best choice for their voters, but congruence is not higher compared to other parties. doi.org/n6sd

4/6 🧵 In @bjpols.bsky.social, Geys & Sørensen compare current & former lottery winners in the whole 🇳🇴 to estimate the effect of income on turnout. They find a small effect when gains are close to election date https://doi.org/n6sh

5/6 🧵 In @psrm.bsky.social, Dahlgaard, @fkjoeller.bsky.social and Kristensen research whether political careers are economically attractive. Using administrative data they find that based on total income all 🇩🇰 MPs experience short-term economic gains during their first term. https://doi.org/n6sg

6/6 🧵IN EJPR, @slstutzmann.bsky.social studies electoral effects of coal phase-outs in 🇩🇪 with admin data & DID design. Punishment of issue owners (left parties) and abstention increase. Not caused by real economic decline but perceived deprivation & loss of status. https://doi.org/n6sj

New blog post series! 📝 As the federal elections in Germany approach, we’re excited to share a series of three blog posts on topics related to the election. All three posts are written by students from one of Eva Wegner’s courses. Read more: inq-dp.eu/index.php/bl...

Should you want an educated mayor? Evidence from close elections in Italy This paper studies the impact of politicians’ education on policy choices and public finance. A probabilistic voting model with candidates’ education …

Mayors with higher education increase public investment, especially in the education sector, while reducing certain categories of current expenditure. This shift towards public investment does not compromise fiscal stability www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Full call for papers:

Politics of Technology and AI Workshop -IBEI 2025

Please apply to the workshop "The Politics of AI: Actors, Policy, Geopolitics, and Resistances" (Barcelona, October 2-3). We seek empirical work on key actors, lobby and regulatory activities, and political conflict related to AI and Big Tech. Submission: forms.gle/o4rwT9km3iPX... by February 28.

Beyond Gender: Exploring the Intersectional Dynamics in Political Interest Among Youth | Article | Politics and Governance Gema García-Albacete, Lidia Núñez, David Sánchez, Simone Abendschön, Philipp Kleer

Our first publication from the @g-epicproject.bsky.social project is now available online, open access. Co-authored with a great team :) www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Recently, our book on the Transformation of the Left in Europe came out

Open access tinyurl.com/ahuxx6d6

A few interviews that summarize key findings:
🔉 Polisci No problem et al. podcast: tinyurl.com/54tvx3md
🔉 Swiss SD party podcast: tinyurl.com/ds4maabc
📖 SamPol Magazine: tinyurl.com/y93nd6cm

The European Ideological Space in Voters' Own Words Cambridge Core - Organisation Studies - The European Ideological Space in Voters' Own Words

We often define the ideological space in terms of the economic and cultural dimensions; how does this resonate with ordinary citizens? This is the question Thomas and I explore in a new Element, analyzing answers to open-ended survey questions 🧵
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A commonly held notion is that Germany's far-right party AfD is especially successful in the country's more rural areas. However, a look at the party's election results in over 10,000 municipalities suggests that the link between rurality and AfD support is rather diffuse. A simple thread. 🧵👇

A baker's dozen. 12 books published in 2023-2024 that I have found especially valuable in understanding positive and normative dimensions of inequality plus the book that had the largest implicit effect on my thinking published in the last decade.

The (UN)Importance of Inheritance Abstract. Transfers from parents—either in the form of gifts or inheritances—have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses admini

Forthcoming article by @econsandy.bsky.social Paul J Devereux, Fanny Landaud and Kjell Salvanes "The (Un)Importance of Inheritance" @eeanews.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvae056

📢CALL FOR PAPERS: Diversität der Landwirtschaftsproteste in Deutschland

Themenheft des Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen
Gast-Herausgeber*innen: Janna Luisa Pieper und Felix Anderl

Abstract Deadline: 31.01.2025
Mehr Infos: lnkd.in/eeJU5kBn

Our new research digest is out 👇. If you have anything on political and economic inequality, accountability or distributive politics coming out in the next four weeks and would like it featured in our next digest let us know!

📰🧐 In @ajpseditor.bsky.social, Kogan, Hajnal & @markarianga.bsky.social study how local election timing affects minority candidate success. Election data in California. Results show Latino candidates gain, & white candidates lose votes when local elections align with federal ones. doi.org/nvzf

📰🧐 In @apsrjournal.bsky.social Lucas and colleagues study politicians’ theories of elections and voting in 11 OECD countries. Using elite interviews and public opinion surveys they find a mismatch between politicians’ beliefs and those of ordinary citizens. https://doi.org/g8rckv

📰🧐 In @pspolisci.bsky.social, @stellarouse.bsky.social and colleagues study how social identities shape attitude about disaster assistance in the 🇺🇸. They find that federal disaster assistance has broad support but depends on perception of the victim & type of assistance. https://doi.org/nvx7