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ECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@dbrieba.bsky.social on how the timing of votes influence the likelihood of judicial dissent! #ecprgc26

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Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The World Cup looks like it is morphing into March Madness geographic regions: The Francais region (France vs Morocco) The North Germanic region (Norway v England) The Habsburg region (Spain v No Jinx but I’ll say they like Waffles) And likely South America (Argentina v Colombia)

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LSE School of Public Policy @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

We’re hiring an LSE Fellow in Political Science and Public Policy at the School of Public Policy. This post offers early career scholars the opportunity to teach postgraduate seminars and join a world leading social science research community! Find out more: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Christoph Kronenberg @ckronenberg.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Number 5 in the most-read PQ journal articles of 2025 was: 'The Populist Playbook: Why Identity Trumps Policy and How Democrats Can Adapt' which discusses plausible alternatives to populists’ divisive appeals. By @dbrieba.bsky.social and Andrés Velasco onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news. Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters Down by 140k isn't thought to be. Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

✍️ Chile’s presidential runoff pits a Communist former labor minister against a hard-right former congressman, signaling both a sharp rightward turn and the eclipse of the old political elites, @dbrieba.bsky.social writes in his op-ed. 🇨🇱🇨🇱🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/mtntusct

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/11/2025

"Essentially what you have here is the two main conspirators in this Jeffrey Epstein case basically saying to one another, sure is weird that Donald Trump hasn't been pulled into this whole thing yet." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social talk the new Epstein smoking-gun emails:

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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Always fun to share the election ballot for international audiences

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

This explains a lot (Source: www.ft.com/content/20d6... )

Bar chart showing big reductions in growth rates in advanced economies between 1950 and 2025.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A. ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why. A judge has ordered his immediate release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Daniel Brieba @dbrieba.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I missed the “for” in the first sentence and thought the article might be worth reading for a second

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Daniel Brieba @dbrieba.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Comparto mi columna de ayer en La Segunda

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Daniel Brieba @dbrieba.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Hola, les comparto mi columna de hoy en La Segunda

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

✍️ As Chile’s left prepares to choose its presidential candidate in a low-profile primary, the stakes are higher than they seem. @dbrieba.bsky.social explores whether the left can reinvent itself before the elections. 🇨🇱🇨🇱🗳️ 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4zxaam4a

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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Latest issue out now! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1467923x... With John Connolly David Judge Matt Flinders; @sekip.bsky.social; @jimtomlinson45.bsky.social; Andrés Velasco @dbrieba.bsky.social; Coree Brown Swan @paulanderson88.bsky.social Judith Sijstermans; Stewart Lansley; Tom Wraight Kai Green

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The Political Quarterly: Vol 96, No 2

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 15/05/2025

Modern xkcd.com/3089

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Daniel Brieba @dbrieba.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Andrés Velasco and I had a great conversation with Alan Renwick on UCL’s Uncovering Politics podcast—talking about populism, identity, and liberalism, based on our article in The Political Quarterly (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…). You can check it out here: shorturl.at/zGiXP

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How Can Populists Be Defeated?

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 24/04/2025

New: We analyzed Trump's meme coin - At least 27 crypto wallets have picked up $100 million worth of $TRUMP coins since his team said the top holders would join him for an "intimate private dinner." Huge profit for Trump; "the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done" wapo.st/4iAatO1

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How Trump team turned a dinner invite into a crypto boon worth millions

iNearly two dozen crypto wallets acquired more than 100,000 $TRUMP meme coins, worth roughly $100 million, after the team said top buyers could join the president for dinner.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The Trump Effect: Australia Edition

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Those jokes a while ago about Trump appointing a horse as his advisor. Shame he didn’t as it turns out.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

After the AfD's surge on Sunday, far right parties are the most voted-for of any grouping in Europe, for the first time in history: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

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Kate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Well, as America implodes from within, it’d be a *great* time for the EU to finally do official Eurobonds. It’d likely be very attractive as a safe haven given the destruction of US hegemony & spillover to US T-bills. Bonus: Eurobonds can finance a desperately needed European security build up! 🇪🇺💶 ‼️

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Russia is perfectly clear what side Trump is on

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Phony friendliness and behind-the-scenes treachery from Trump and Vance would have been much more dangerous to the cause of freedom in Ukraine than the self-exposure by both men.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This was just 233 days ago:

Sotomayor’s dissent in Trump v. United States: “Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today.

Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.”

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

One of the things we learnt during Trump term one is that corruption committed openly and without shame gets less coverage because there's no opportunity for EXPOSES, SCOOPS, and EXCLUSIVES. It's just there, gets reported, and on we go.

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Daniel Brieba @dbrieba.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Excited to share new work with Andrés Velasco (open access)! Populism isn’t just bad policy—it’s powerful identity politics. To beat it, we need better identity politics: liberal, inclusive, & rooted in a sense of shared fate. Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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The Populist Playbook: Why Identity Trumps Policy and How Democrats Can Adapt

Despite their poor record in office, populists continue to win elections. Traditional models that assume a narrow definition of self-interest fail to explain the electoral resilience of populism. Con...

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Daniel Brieba @dbrieba.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Here’s the link to the article: t.co/ngBoRErN65. Thanks for reading this far! THE END

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14789299241307213

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Daniel Brieba @dbrieba.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Additionally, these patterns weren’t tied to any specific ministry: the trends were consistent across the board (disclaimer: we excluded the Health Ministry from this study). This suggests a systematic preference rather than prioritisation of specific areas or policies.

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Daniel Brieba @dbrieba.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

We also showed that the reduced hiring of Social Scientists wasn’t driven by a single profession but applied broadly—e.g., public administration, education, sociology—all declined under Piñera, with a few exceptions (eg journalism, psychology; + poli sci, which always grew).

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Daniel Brieba @dbrieba.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

30% to 100% more likely to be Civil and Business Engineers compared to Bachelet’s, while the likelihood of hires being Social Scientists was 30% to 60% lower. Notably, there were no consistent effects for the other three professional groups.

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Daniel Brieba @dbrieba.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Conversely, we expected left-wing governments to prefer more Social Scientists. What did we find? Both hypotheses were correct, and the magnitudes are striking. After controlling for several factors, we found that Piñera’s administrations' hires were...

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Daniel Brieba @dbrieba.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Drawing on public perceptions and adapting some existing literature (including work on Chile by Nicolas Fleet: Ch5 of t.co/f8OjGAsVzl), we hypothesised that right-wing governments would favour the 1st group, ie Civil Engineers & Econ/Business majors (prestigious professions in the private sector).

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-77193-5

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Daniel Brieba @dbrieba.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

We focused on professional and managerial hires at grade 10 or above (top 25% of all hires), grouping professions into five categories: Civil Engineers + Economics/Business; Social Sciences; Law; Other Engineering; and all others. Each group represents ~20% of the total.

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Daniel Brieba @dbrieba.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Using extensively cleaned and processed individual public employment data from 2010–2020, we compared the hiring profiles of President Bachelet’s second term (2014–2018, left-wing) with the right-wing administrations that preceded and followed it (Piñera 1 2010-2014 and Piñera 2 2018-2022).

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Daniel Brieba @dbrieba.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

In Chile, people often joke about “government of sociologists” and “business admin governments” to describe left- and right-wing administrations, respectively. But how accurate is this? And if it’s true, how pronounced is this professional bias? Turns out, it’s significant!

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Daniel Brieba @dbrieba.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Recently, Mauricio Herrera and I published a short article in Political Studies Review where we explore Chile’s central government hiring practices from a fresh perspective: contrasting government ideology with the professional profile of senior hires. (1/10)

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Javier Sajuria @sajuria.com · 06/01/2025

Only a few days left to apply to the workshop on Polarisation and Democratic backsliding. Sign up here! www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...

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Workshop on Polarization, Democratic Backsliding, and the Expanding Gap Between Democratic Expectations and Outcomes: Latin America and Beyond

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

BREAKING: A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with severe bird flu has died, the first such fatality in the United States, state health officials report. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/h...

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First Bird Flu Death in U.S. Reported in Louisiana (Gift Article)

The deceased was over 65 and had other medical conditions, state officials said.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Tomorrow's Independent front page revealing Brexit's catastrophic cost - five years after the UK left the EU. - New bureaucracy - Weaker UK exports - Labour shortages in key sectors - Less cash for public services - Huge divorce bill - 15% long term hit to UK trade This is the price of populism.

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Yo no quedan hospitales funcionando en el norte de Gaza.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Musk should mind his own business and accept that British politics has got to be left to the control of Rupert Murdoch.

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