If you ever wondered about the development of German wealth and its visibility in the public - I highly recommend reading Emma's piece 👏

Time: March 18, 13:00. Title: "Coalition Formation and the Sovereignty of Tax Havens: A Comparative Historical Analysis of the Bahamas and Bermuda". Speaker: Lukas Hakelberg, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Up next in our online series on comparative political economy (MAX CPE):

Lukas Hakelberg on “Coalition Formation and the Sovereignty of Tax Havens: A Comparative Historical Analysis of the Bahamas and Bermuda”.

🗓️ March 18, 13:00 -14:00
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📧 Sign up: maxcpe@mpifg.de

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Call for applications for a 3 years doctoral contract For the ERC GREENLOSS Project - Application deadline: May 17, 2026

📢 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.
🗓 Deadline: May 17
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Excited to share a new #OA study with @dariatisch.bsky.social and @schechtlm.bsky.social🎉We show that while most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

How do workers respond to using AI technology? For @defactoexpert.bsky.social I had the opportunity to highlight the implications of our recent @jeppjournal.bsky.social article. Read more in the blog!

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

6/ This means that the impact of poverty is not the same for all: the less resources (education, political socialisation, longer economic hardship) --> the less likely to participate.

💭 I look forward to hearing your thoughts / whether similar patterns show up in your country 👋

5/ Speaking to political socialisation literature, the paper shows that:
1️⃣poverty influences political participation in the context of parental influence and
2️⃣ early-life economic experiences shape long-term political participation patterns

4/ Key finding 2:
▶️ Upward mobility, however, is not linked to higher turnout, indicating that participation patterns established earlier in life persist and mobility experiences can't uplift those who grew up in poverty.

3/ Key finding 1:
▶️ Politically active and well educated parents can buffer the impact of early economic hardship on electoral participation.

2/ Merging German panel data from households, parents and their children, I exploit detailed information on poverty trajectories, political socialisation and political behaviour across around 30 years of respondent's lives.

1/ Does growing up poor always lead to political apathy?

Very happy to share my first paper published (open access) in @electoralstudies.bsky.social, where I show that parents' influence mitigates the poverty gap in participation, while economic mobility does not.

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What an interesting presentation today by @clarawe.bsky.social (and @leoazzollini.bsky.social ) on social origins and electoral participation.

Arrived in beautiful #Oxford and looking forward to a very interesting autumn working with @leoazzollini.bsky.social, Tim Vlandas and many more - while thinking of Israel with a heavy heart 💔