François Hollande is tied for most popular left-wing politician in France… staggering.

🚨 I have an article out at APR titled “Educational Polarization in American Politics: More than Just a Diploma Divide” in which i look at how educational attainment shapes public opinion and political behavior across the entire education spectrum, not just the across the degree/no degree binary 1/x

2 two-year postdocs on children’s political socialization at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

📯One month left to apply 📯If you want to join our team @au.dk to study young people's beliefs about political power, this is your chance! Two 2-year postdocs in my ERC-funded project YOPOW: international.au.dk/about/profil...

✍️ Apply to our ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship!

The European Institute is looking to support a Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2026/27 academic year.

🗓️ Deadline: Monday 1 June, 23.59 (UK time)

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Refugee labor market integration at scale: Evidence from Germany’s fast-track employment program | PNAS Governments face persistent challenges in integrating refugees into the local labor market, and many past interventions have shown limited impact. ...

🚨New Paper in PNAS: "Refugee Labor Market Integration at Scale: Evidence from Germany’s Fast-Track Employment Program"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Ungated preprint osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/px9ew_v3

w/ J Hainmueller, D Hangartner, @niklas-harder.bsky.social & E Vallizadeh

#econtwitter #econsky

Elections like yesterday reinforce my belief that researching the political and economic conditions under which democratic mobilization is unleashed (in the world of energy and climate, and beyond) are crucial to the current moment, and do not need to be only depressing

Preach!

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Apply by 04 May 2026.

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Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"

The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.

Péter Magyar FB: “Prime Minister Viktor Orbán just called to congratulate us on our victory.”

IT'S DONE. IT'S DONE.

“The young are mobilising” says a friend in Hungary. 12 point higher turnout than 2022 at 11 am.

#polisky share far and wide: @apsa.bsky.social Statement on the Proposed Elimination of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation

apsanet.org/wp-content/u...

It's often said that politics is about hard tradeoffs. "There's no such thing as a free lunch."

But particularly in highly unequal societies, the substantive trade-offs are often not actually tough.

Sometimes it's power, not the Iron-Laws-of-Econ-101™️ that explain a lack of political supply.

Three 2-year Postdoctoral positions at Aarhus University: Projects on personality cults and strategic communication in autocracies - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

Three 2-year full-time postdoctoral positions in autocratic politics at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University (in connection to projects headed by Jakob Tolstrup and Alexander Baturo). Flexible start date. Application deadline: June 1, 2026.
international.au.dk/about/profil...

We wrote a blog post about our recent paper in
@polbehavior.bsky.social, where we discuss whether political participation is associated with better policy representation #polisky

We didn't deserve this day.

As recently as COVID, governments responded to energy shocks with subsidized and free public transport, windfall taxes on energy companies, and price controls.

Mainstream economics needs better responses to energy shocks than bludgeoning fragile economies with interest rate increases.

There are lessons to be learned from history, comparative public policy, and heterodox economics about the distributional effects of energy crises and potential policy responses.

Handwaving away questions of distribution with "POPULISM!" is lazy. It will only speed up the destruction of the center.

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review!

We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

Group identities and party competition | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Group identities and party competition

🆕 Beyond Policy: Identity in Party Competition 🗳️

Christina Zuber, of @ecprsgpp.bsky.social, @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social & Edina Szöcsik rethink how parties win #Elections arguing that success depends not only on policy preferences, but on linking preferences to #GroupIdentities

Between 1979–2019, top pay (90th pct.) climbed 53%, middle only 23%, bottom (10th pct.) even lower 7%. (Productivity per hour climbed much more at 73%.)

But since 2019, fast gains at the bottom have already reversed about 1/3 of the rise in pay inequality.

A 🧵 about my book: The Wage Standard.

Totally fair. I’ve just been impressed with American civil society for all it’s been (often literally) getting the crap beaten out of it

I don’t think it’s the only effective counter - No Kings has repeatedly set records for the biggest protests in US history, and Trump’s war and immigration policy are also extremely unpopular.

Pure focus on the economy is elite cowardice/internal division more than anything.

I’ve been thinking about how inequality in the UK has if anything declined in recent years and yet the perception seems to be that it’s going up. This IFS charts offers a clue as to why ifs.org.uk/living-stand...

By now, likely over 1 M Finns - 18 % - are at risk of poverty and exclusion. A growth of some 160 000 since 2019.

COVID, war in Ukraine and economic malaise are contributing. But a major reason is the massive #austerity cuts from the poor. While the rich get tax breaks.

And more cuts are incoming.

Miscellanea: The War in Iran This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…

Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran.

My best summary: this war is dumb as hell.

acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

Congrats again, Alex!!! So happy for you, and Sophia is great :)

Since the narrative of “young right-wing men” persists so — here are some findings/patterns from the representative election statistics of the various German federal states.

Spoiler: *IN NO GERMAN STATE DO MEN AGED 18–24 VOTE FOR THE AfD MORE THAN MEN AGED 35–60.*

I’m not sure why V would expect to survive participating in another (more progressive) SVM-style government. Why not wait for an overly broad coalition to deal with inflation and then try to benefit from the backlash as the biggest blue bloc party instead?