We published a paper on the GC Wealth Project in @springernature.com Scientific Data, describing our extensive public data base on private wealth. In this blog article, we give some insights about the work behind the paper communities.springernature.com/posts/mappin...
Hopefully he's going to Palmdale
Meningen med ett system är vad det gör. Vad socialdemokratins vänsterflygel gör är att hålla hoppet levande om att sossarna ska bedriva vänsterpolitik samtidigt som det är strukturellt garanterat att de aldrig gör det och på så sätt hålla kvar väljare.
Palantir är ”etiskt neutral”, sa Gunnar Strömmer i ett uttalande han kommer få äta upp i decennier. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
Like with any other elite institutions, we should not speak of them as "powerful" and "resourceful" individuals, but as lucky idiots with poor taste and an even worse of ethics and personal responsibility. Call out the naked emperor. Every single time.
🚨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
Angående så kallade ”startlån” som diskuteras i Sverige.
The country's descent into fascism cannot be understood without interrogating U.S. policing. But folks across the political spectrum are allergic to this so here we are.
Add Sweden's S to that list
Popular attitudes are often seen as a safeguard against democratic backsliding: if citizens don’t oppose lib democracy, politicians have little incentive to erode it.
In @cpsjournal.bsky.social I argue that, while intuitive, this reasoning conflates two states of the world:
doi.org/10.1177/0010...
The trope that associates violent profiteering by elites and their henchmen with being “tough on crime” was pushed by both right wing and liberal media organizations for decades. It is one of the great achievements of modern propaganda to associate cruelty and domination and violence with “safety.”
Trump saying today that the pope is “WEAK on crime” is extremely funny, but as with much of what Trump does, he also helps expose how baseless and cynical the liberal establishment has become.
Narrator voice in a post apocalyptic Mad Maxish hellscape in 2035: “they didn’t“
![The Politics of Aspiration: Ideology as a Luxury Good in Occupational Choice
Turgut Keskintürk
April, 2026
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The Politics of Aspiration: Ideology as a Luxury Good in Occupational Choice Turgut Keskintürk April, 2026 [followed by the abstract, which can be accessed via the PDF.]
a new working paper, where I show that political ideology significantly shapes occupational preferences in early adulthood, a result far stronger among people from higher socioeconomic backgrounds.
work-in-progress right here: tkeskinturk.github.io/aspirations.pdf
“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.”
Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I
and
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2
Really awesome resource here!
I'm prepping my lecture on hate groups today and lamenting that this topic has become so relevant.
I went to graduate school to study "colorblind racism," and that seems increasingly quaint when the DHS is posting Nazi memes, and Steven Miller oversees a vast network of concentration camps.
Outlook!? In space!!?? What were they thinking!!!???
Det finns en naivetet i Sverige att våra högerpopulister är mer demokratiska än i andra länder. Det stämmer inte. SD-väljare straffar politiker med antidemokratiska tendenser i lika låg grad som väljare för PiS i Polen.
www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/in-...
Congratulations Manne!
Since 2003, 284 people have died in ICE custody. Texas is the state with the most deaths (56), but the facility with the most deaths is Eloy Detention Center in Arizona (17). Awesome resource here with more updates to come from the Behind Bars Data project at UCLA
Nearly the entire academic journal publishing system is a scam
High childhood poverty in Sweden, but disproportionally among parents with a migration background.
Important research and debate piece by Anna Tegunimataka, @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social and @rafgrotti.bsky.social
www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/K88...
The police slammed a 17 year old woman to the ground so hard it knocked her unconscious, but they told her mother that "she slipped". The incident was caught on a security camera
As Sweden steadily transforms its carceral (and welfare) state to look more and more like the US, Swedish Police start acting more and more like American cops.
1/ New paper (Open Access) which asks a simple but often overlooked question: what do we actually mean when we move between institutional, structural and systemic racism? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @ersjournal.com
I know there's a lot going on
But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable
the front page of the paper, which can be read in: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pops.70056
we have a new paper in the April issue of Political Psychology.
in this (admittedly quite lovely) new paper, @stephenvaisey.com, @pablobellode.bsky.social and I make a simple point: using panel data to understand belief change is very hard.
we highlight an empirical intractability in the process:
