Great opportunity for recent PhD grads looking for a postdoc with solid support for research + teaching development
This is my current role, so I'm happy to answer questions if you're interested!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQW831/l...
It truly takes a village to put together a project like this and I'm eternally grateful for all the brilliant comments and helpful feedback we received along the way. I'm sure people were missed, but we are especially thankful to the folks in the acknowledgements
This immigration interaction appears only for the populist right — not Labour, Conservatives, Lib Dems, or Greens. Public service decline + anti-immigrant framing is a distinctly populist right formula. Paper here: osf.io/preprints/so...
Crucially, effects are strongest where immigration is highest. Why? UKIP and Reform UK consistently blame immigrants for NHS decline in their communications — and voters in high-immigration areas find that framing more credible.
The effects are immediate, persistent (4-5 years), and replicated across two independent panel datasets (Understanding Society & BES). Vote switching in FPTP systems is costly — so these shifts are meaningful even if modest in size.
We study NHS GP practice closures in England: nearly 1,700 practices closed since 2013, directly affecting 600k+ patients. Using a staggered DID design, we find that closures reduce patient satisfaction AND increase support for populist right parties (UKIP, Brexit Party, Reform UK) by 2–4pp.
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 🧵
Really enjoyed co-hosting (w/ the great @zachdickson.bsky.social ) last week’s ECR workshop on Climate & Political Behaviour at LSE.
Big thanks to everyone who came and for making such a great workshop!
Thank you also to @gsos-lse.bsky.social & @britishacademy.bsky.social for the generous support!
1/ Sorry for double-posting from X. Sharing a new working paper for the Year of the Horce 🐎:
"An AI-assisted workflow that scales reproducibility in empirical research" (bit.ly/repro-ai) w/ Leo Yang Yang
Looking forward to this - if you’re in Oxford, please do join if it’s of interest!
I've spent so much time thinking about this it's not even funny
I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow (2 years) to work on all things political finance in Africa. There are no teaching obligations, and lots of opportunities for fieldwork. A PhD in Political Science is a requirement. Please spread the word! Happy to answer questions - send them to my LSE email.
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...
Great postdoc opportunity to work with one of the best and brightest out there
Looking forward to presenting my research on energy prices and backlash to climate policies tomorrow at @granthamlse.bsky.social
If you’re at LSE and have some free time from 1-2:30, come join!
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🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨
We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Any questions, please reach out to me
📣 Please share! 📣
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We actually have a paper that finds exactly that!
osf.io/preprints/so...
🚨 New working paper 🚨
We often see populist parties like Reform UK blame higher energy bills on climate change policies. What are the political consequences of this strategy?
Very early draft; comments and criticisms are welcomed!
full draft: z-dickson.github.io/assets/dicks...
Do people in the Labour party think that you can recover from this? Is there any historic precedent for turning something like this around? Starmer has tied himself to a strategy, that strategy has failed. The consequence should be quite clear.
Research on this is clear: the uncertainty created by this policy will lead to people integrate less into British society. It is trading-off the reasonable policy goal of integration for the useless symbolism of immigration numbers. Bad policy to appease the far right.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
The evidence keeps accumulating that Brexit was an astonishing self-inflicted economic policy disaster. The fact that it is a slow-moving one bodes ill for those who think that populist economic mismanagement will translate into voters punishing populists. www.nber.org/system/files...
"While testing one dimension at a time can yield simple results, those effects may not generalise to richer, real-world contexts."
Read our new POAL Methods Briefs on Conjoint Experiments from Thomas Robinson!
Link: www.poal.co.uk/research/met...
great analysis!
🚨 New LSE job in political science 🚨
We're looking for a *Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy* to join the LSE School of Public Policy
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Great opportunity if you’re interested in pursuing a PhD in political science at @lsegovernment.bsky.social - with a particular interest in elections and campaigning ⬇️
I usually agree with Klein but I’m surprised/disappointed that he seems to suggest that sacrificing the political rights of certain groups in exchange for electoral victory should be a potential pathway forward for the Democratic Party
Accommodation isn’t the answer
Good to see this important research getting a wider audience. Hope Labour advisors listen and learn
Labour continues to alienate its base by taking unpopular positions to appeal to a group of voters that likely would not even consider the party as a viable option at the polls