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Christina Wolbrecht

@cwolbrecht.bsky.social
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Political scientist @ Notre Dame. Gender, parties, suffrage, role models. New: See Jane Run: How Women Politicians Matter for Young People. bookshop.org/p/books/see-jane-run-h…

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 4h
What a fabulous project and good job on your nominations!
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 8h
this isn't who we used to pretend to be
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12h
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15h
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 14h
My psychological trick is self loathing.
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 23h
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Hans Hassell @hjghassell.bsky.social · 15h
Self promotion: Shrinking local media reduces party elite primary coordination. Party is less likely to decide where media congruence with the district discourages local coverage. Greater congruence encourages coordination around a single candidate. journals.sagepub.com/share/KYJRI9... #polisky
Graph showing greater media congruence is associated with reduced party divisions in primaries.
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Like, why are you even alive dude?
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We have lost our humanity.
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We have lost our humanity.
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We have lost our humanity. 🧵
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Did Biden’s 2024 exit reshape electoral outcomes? @mattmotta.bsky.social, Trujillo, @stecula.bsky.social, Callaghan, @ophiryotam.bsky.social & @drorwalter.bsky.social examine panel data, finding no turnout effects but higher excitement and Democratic engagement. Read more: buff.ly/q2pN1n9 #polsci
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We assess the impact of former President Joe Biden’s unprecedented decision to exit the 2024 Presidential race 2 months before election day by analyzing a naturally-occurring experiment surrounding the incumbent President’s decision to exit the 2024 race, a period in which we fielded the second wave (NWave 2 = 831) of a nationally-representative panel study (NWave 1 = 1400), with random invitation assignment (from the original response pool) throughout Wave 2. Pre-registered difference-in-difference (DID) analyses reveal no evidence of significant turnout or down-ballot effects across either the US adult population or partisan subgroups. However, post hoc tests reveal substantial gains in excitement about the 2024 campaign across both the general population and (especially) among self-identified Democrats after President Biden’s decision to drop out. Elevated excitement coincided with (a) increased belief in core democratic principles and (b) increased donation to Democrats up and down the ballot.
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Um, I actually support CHRISTINA nationalism and believe we should all advocate for the opinions I hold, but the article is about CHRISTIAN nationalism. (This is why I don't handwrite holiday cards -- I end up wishing everyone a Merry Christina!)
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Check out this great new article about how religious elites can effectively limit identification with Christina nationalism by superstar Notre Dame graduate student Amy Brooke Grauley! You're going to want to be hiring her soon.
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My voting lecture next week thanks you!
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don’t think there’s a right answer here, everything is on the margins, etc.
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don’t disagree. I think the problem for job candidates is there’s a high chance the paper will be rejected, perhaps bw when you submit your materials and get an interview. And then if someone asks you’ve got explain, hopefully by saying it’s under review somewhere else, but still…
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My advice has always been to not list where you have an article under review since anyone can submit anything anywhere. But definitely list where you have an R&R because that is an endorsement of the quality of your research. Disagree about the former?
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The list of attacks on American higher ed that need to be confronted and stopped is a long one.
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And more fundamentally, a problematic way to weigh the value of a college eduction!
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
g-d what a depressing exercise tho
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/10/2026
Among the many bad signs for Republicans next month, there's this. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 08/10/2026
Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple Again. “It is an astonishing indictment of our times that the cities of our picture books can seem like a radical utopia.” [currentaffairs.org]
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Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple Again
The NYC mayor is trying to build a city that functions like a city in a children's picture book, where people aren’t caught in a web of lies and scams.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Great analysis here from Jess.
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This story almost broke me. Today's class topic was the rise of extreme political masculinity (manosphere, testosterone, etc) and we included rape and violence against women in politics as a clear consequence.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died.
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I keep waiting for more coverage of this. Affirmative action for men is out of control. The silence from the “merit first” types on this really undercuts their integrity
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PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Now on FirstView: "Viewed through this lens, tariffs serve to revive male fortunes and, through that, the male-as-breadwinner family model." shorturl.at/XJLG0 #polisky
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#momentofgender
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Class prep time.
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
so many amicable solutions to gang rape you know
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
you know that's right
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
no lies detected
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer was born on this day in 1917. “Nobody's free until everybody's free.”
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 06/10/2026
🚨New Cambridge Element🚨 "Gender and Local Political Ambition" by @cwolbrecht.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.socialLakshmi Iyer, Samantha Chapa, Fiona Rodger, & Emma Schroeder, part of the Gender and Politics series, is out now! Read for free until 15 October at cup.org/4AMQA0s #PoliSci #NewBooks
Cover of Gender and Local Political Ambition
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I unironically love videos of people learning they won the Nobel prize.
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Said wife is also on the Stanford med school faculty and seemed pretty stoked, but your point is taken.
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And made his kids sandwiches for their lunches the same morning. Get it together, Jeff.
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Doc says eye twitch likely a result of either caffeine, too little sleep, or stress, so I guess I’m living with it.
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I WILL FIND YOU!
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Dave @daveamp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/10/2026
The number of Democratic women in the House could hit a historic high if they win control of Congress during the midterm elections.
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Democrats Expect Record Number of Women in Party in House After Midterm Elections
Democrats are increasingly confident they will have a record number of women serving in the House next year, after backing women in competitive districts they are now positioned to win.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We are never ever going to be done fighting for our rights.
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Kyle Saunders @kylesaunders.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Happy to announce that our department is looking to hire two new colleagues at the Asst Professor level, one in American politics, specializing in public law, legal studies, administrative law and/or law and courts, the second in political behavior and/or political psychology. Ad links in reply.
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the kid who gets sucked up the tube haunts me!
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Good Day, Sir!
ALT: Good Day, Sir!
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