To be fair, two German DWs is super confusing! I agree, it's a shame - I have also always wondered what would happen if a bidder that cares more about news rather than influence would go for something like the Telegraph. But then again, we might lose a lot of ridicilous yet entertaining headlines.
By DW, do you mean Die Welt? Because that is quite a far right news outlet itself (a bit like the whole Axel Springer SE). If you mean Deutsche Welle, that is not privately owned but funded by the German state.
I didn't post this yesterday because we were too busy getting our April issue launched—but I've written a piece in it! It's about a big current in the Atlantic ocean, how it could collapse, and to what extent we, in the UK, are prepared for that.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
🧺 Paper Picnic 2.0 is here! More journals. New features. An easier way to keep up with the latest research in political science and adjacent fields. 🧵👇
📢 JOB ALERT! Fully funded 3-year PhD in Climate & Comparative Politics at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social. Starting in September.
The project is on the political consequences of climate policies in carbon-intensive communities across Europe.
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One point I agree with: taxing the rich was never the big money machine progressives hoped for.
But there is an important part missing here: low taxes on the rich corrode public support for broad-based taxation. This can undermine the fiscal sustainability of the state.
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Oh and the paywall is down til Monday, so you can read @benansell.bsky.social, @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social, @jenstout.bsky.social, @isabelh.bsky.social, @danielharris.bsky.social and others to your heart's content. (And then maybe subscribe? 🙏)
We are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds!
You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/
It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below.
The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.
The super-rich pay often pay *lower* total tax rates than the rest of the population. How do people respond when they are told about this?
New empirical research from David Hope @lhaffert.bsky.social & @julianlimberg.bsky.social in our latest blog post
#LSEInequalitiesBlog
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How does tax regressivity at the top affect public support for taxation? In this article, we run an information provision experiment in the United States with a quota-representative sample of around 4,000 people and randomly present respondents with factual information about total tax rates by income group. We find that informing respondents that the superrich pay lower total tax rates than other people not only increases support for raising taxes on the rich but also lowers support for taxing the middle class. Our results highlight an important hidden cost of tax regressivity at the top: if left unaddressed, it risks undermining public support for broad-based taxation.
New in @bjpols.bsky.social!
Dave Hope, @lhaffert.bsky.social and I show that low taxes on the rich have a hidden cost: They undermine public support for broad-based taxation. 🖋️ cup.org/45lgPwN
BJPolS abstract of a research article discussing how information about tax rates affects public support for taxation, examining responses from around 4,000 people in the United States.
NEW -
The Hidden Cost of Tax Regressivity at the Top - https://cup.org/45lgPwN
- David Hope, @julianlimberg.bsky.social & @lhaffert.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Two inspiring days at the Nuffield Politics of AI workshop!
This was social science at its best, thanks to all involved! @benansell.bsky.social @jburnmurdoch.ft.com @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
Fully agree! We have a current working paper where we find exactly this - informing respondents that the superrich pay lower total tax rates than other people lowers support for taxing the middle class.
🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social
Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are?
@simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions
Thread 🧵1/10
Fantastisch - herzlichen Glueckwunsch, Theresa!
I don't often write opinion, but I got fed up seeing examples of men claiming to be the "protectors" of the very people they (sometimes literally) attack.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/710...
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
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doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Did you ever wonder why governments don’t do more to counteract wealth inequality? In our new @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, we seek to answer this question, studying the electoral politics of inheritance taxation muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 1/n
(3) "Revenue, Redistribution, and the Rise and Fall of Inheritance Taxation" by Philipp Genschel, Julian Limberg, and Laura Seelkopf
@julianlimberg.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Oh no, not Waka Flocka 😢 But then again, he hasn't done much since Flockaveli anyways. Would add K Dot to the list - that Super Bowl Halftime show was more than a subliminal at MAGA.
Department of Political Economy at King’s College London is hiring 2 permanent lecturers (teaching-focused) in political science:
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Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries.
1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration
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My latest article on the judgment is now out in Prospect Magazine.
This one I think is probably the most shareable with those who aren't as aware of what is going on.
Please take a look!
I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social!
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3️⃣ David Hope and @julianlimberg.bsky.social find that in OECD countries, the rise of the knowledge economy has led to lower taxation of the rich.
1. Trump's VAT fixation is one very revealing detail of the trade storm he is unleashing
You don't need an economist, but a psychoanalyst to make sense of what's going on
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
