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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

6/6 🧵In @socioeconreview.bsky.social @schechtlm.eurosky.social shows that there is more democratic backsliding in 🇺🇸 states where wealth concentration has increased more. Causality addressed by state FEs and shift-share instrument doi.org/rrnj

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

5/6 🧵In @cpsjournal.bsky.social, @proftortuga.bsky.social studies the effect of inhibitory institutions on public good provision. Interviews & voting data in 🇨🇴 🇵🇪. Results show that inhibitory institutions produce tradeoff: Project quality increases, but quantity decreases. doi.org/rrnn

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

4/6 🧵In @wepsocial.bsky.social @marcelhanegraaff.bsky.social @annebind.bsky.social & Vesa ask if structural power (SP) is contingent or unconditional. Survey of firms in 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇳🇱. Use revenue to measure SP & find that it is activated by lobbying & insiderness doi.org/rrnf

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

3/6 🧵In @bjpols.bsky.social @markkayser.bsky.social @jochenrehmert.bsky.social & Schleiter show that a party’s coalition outside options is a key determinant of policy influence, as measured by pledge fulfillment. Panel and RDD analysis using data from 9 high income countries. doi.org/rqmr

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2/6 🧵In @bjpols.bsky.social, Zonszein, @apuravbhatiya.bsky.social @william-dinneen.bsky.social & @guygrossman.bsky.social ask if minority MPs’ representation of minority interests is intrinsic or strategic. RDD of close elections in 🇬🇧. Results inconsistent with strategic motivation. doi:10/rrnh

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest September 2026 - minority representation in 🇬🇧 - coalition leverage and pledge fulfillment - conditional structural power in 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 & 🇳🇱 - wealth concentration and democratic backsliding in 🇺🇸 states

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

6/6 🧵In @bjpols.bsky.social, Kedar, Amitai & Hurvitz propose a new measure to study geographic misrepresentation within parties. Results show substantial discrepancies between urban & rural areas. Bias accompanied by differences in political positions & decreases with party vote share. doi.org/rm5k

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

5/6🧵In @regfedst.bsky.social Spohr et al. survey 341 groups on 23 federal bills 🇩🇪. What draws lobbying to the Länder isn’t Bundesrat veto power but having a Land government that already shares your position. Multi-level lobbying complements national lobbying rather than substitutes it. t1p.de/ksnbp

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

4/6 🧵In Journal of European Social Policy, @fewohlgemuth.bsky.social maps all 27 EU family tax systems into 4 clusters—from “primary familialism” (🇫🇷 🇨🇿 🇭🇺) to “primary gender equality” (🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇩🇰 🇮🇪 🇳🇱). Tax design, not just benefits, sorts welfare regimes. doi.org/rm5g

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

3/6 🧵 @regfedst.bsky.social Trüdinger & Hildebrandt show that support for interregional redistribution increases with welfare state support, and that it decreases with perceived unfairness in donor regions in 🇩🇪 & 🇨🇭. doi.org/rm5j

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

2/6 🧵In @bjpols.bsky.social @alexanderhorn.bsky.social & Ahrens show that egalitarian manifestos lead to higher minimum wage and unemployment insurance but not top taxes, possibly because of concentrated costs and complexity. Use original coded data of OECD manifesto positions doi.org/rm5h

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest August 2026 - manifestos and policies in OECD --- the hidden welfare state – interregional redistribution support 🇩🇪 & 🇨🇭 --- Geographical misrepresentation within parties

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

5/5 🧵In @housingjournal.bsky.social, @javiersanmillan.bsky.social et al. study how the characteristics of the social housing sector affect residential segregation in 🇳🇱. Results show that spatial integration and broad accessibility of social housing reduce income segregation. doi.org/rhsm

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

4/5 🧵 In @bjpols.bsky.social, Bischof et al. study whether MPs vary their responsiveness depending on constituents’ congruence with their party’s policy positions. Audit experiment in 🇬🇧. Results show that legislators’ responsiveness is insensitive to constituent-party congruence. doi.org/rhsh

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

3/5 🧵 Armandola, Doehne & Rost (@socioeconreview.bsky.social) track 14,841 Basel marriages. As lottery reforms eroded the old elite's political privilege, they turned inward and chose more endogamy, fewer marriages to protect their standing. doi.org/rhsn

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

2/5 🧵In @poppublicsphere.bsky.social, Carter, Del Ponte & DeScioli find poor voters reject beneficial high taxes 30–50% of the time in a simple game—and oppose the same policy more when labeled "taxes" vs "sharing." People focus on the burden, not the benefit. doi.org/rhsj

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

1/5 📰🧐 Research Digest July 2026 -Taxes vs. Sharing - Marriage and Elite Privilege - Responsiveness and congruence in 🇬🇧 - Social housing and residential segregation in 🇳🇱

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

6/6 🧵 In @polanalysis.bsky.social, Griswold, Robbins & Pollard show LLMs beat traditional sentiment/stance tools for classifying political stance. They find major improvements over classic text-as-data approaches on 2020 election tweets about Biden & Trump. doi.org/rfsd

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

5/6 🧵In @ejprjournal.bsky.social, @iguinaudeau.bsky.social & coauthors study electoral effects of group-targeted campaign pledges in 🇩🇪. Results: Group pledges don’t outperform broad ones & lead to trade-off: Higher support among recipients, exclusion-driven losses among other groups doi.org/rfp5

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

4/6 🧵 In @ejprjournal.bsky.social, @janabelschner.bsky.social, @aaronjohnspitzer.bsky.social, Ingrid Faleide & Josefina Sipinen look at data from 14 countries & find proxy representation a weak substitute for the ballot. Migrant non-voters are left largely underrepresented. doi.org/rfp4

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

3/6 🧵 Romero, Chaparro & Wibbels’ @cpsjournal.bsky.social study is on how migrants select smugglers. Original conjoint, survey & in-depth interviews with 🇬🇹 citizens with experiences with or intention to migrate to the 🇺🇸. Safety-related factors more relevant than financial doi.org/rfqb

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

2/6 🧵 In @wepsocial.bsky.social Kriesi & @ztruchlewski.bsky.social ask what Europe do citizens want? Consider two dimensions: bounding (hard EU borders) & binding (common central capacity). Surveys in 16 🇪🇺 countries & FA. Overall support for bounding but division on binding doi.org/rfp6

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest June 2026 - 🇪🇺 preferences for an European polity - smuggler preferences among 🇬🇹 migrants targeting the 🇺🇸 - Representation by Proxy - Electoral consequences of group-targeted campaign pledges in 🇩🇪 - Machine classification of political texts

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

6/6 🧵in @poqjournal.bsky.social, Egendal Leipziger et al want to understand if group vs. interpersonal inequality have stronger effect on fairness perceptions. Priming experiment 🇿🇦, 🇮🇳 & 🇺🇸. Results inconclusive as respondents conflate group & interpersonal inequality. doi.org/q9ws

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

5/6 🧵In @epsrjournal.bsky.social, @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social, @theresmatthiess.bsky.social, Guinaudeau find that ideology shapes how people rate the deservingness of different social groups. Showing that left leaning citizens weigh need; right-leaning citizens weigh merit. doi.org/q9wp

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

4/6 🧵 In Sociological Science Enns questions recent findings that policy responds more to the preferences of more affluent citizens. Restricting attention to cases of disagreements under certain conditions can generate a spurious estimate of unresponsiveness to the poor doi.org/hb2f6c

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

3/6 🧵In @cpsjournal.bsky.social, a theory of bureaucratic constraints facing female politicians by @bhumi.bsky.social advances. Original elite survey, interviews & conjoint in 🇮🇳. Shows different gendered discretion mechanisms, such as bureaucrats' biased perceptions of competence doi.org/q9wn

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

2/6 🧵 In @bjpols.bsky.social, Gingrich et al introduce a new database, Regional Human Capital Database, and show that urban-rural education gap growing - though not everywhere - populist-vote is linked to lower education - with some caution doi.org/rbc9

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest May 2026 - Regional Human Capital Database - Female Politicians’ Experiences Working with Bureacracy in 🇮🇳 - Methodological issues in the estimation of unequal responsiveness - Deservingness and Ideology - Inequality type and fairness in 🇿🇦, 🇮🇳 & 🇺🇸

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

6/6 🧵In @bjpols.bsky.social Kenney studies influence of firms on OECD tax evasion regulation process, using interviews and natural language processing methods of firm’s submitted comments. Those that are more technical and positive are more likely to be reflected in regulation doi.org/q5fx

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

5/6 🧵In @poppublicsphere.bsky.social, @julianachueri.bsky.social shows AI automation threatens jobs across all skill levels. People fearing AI replace their jobs support robot tax & basic income - signalling new conflicts over definition of work & welfare policies in future doi.org/q5fw

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

4/6 🧵 In @sociologyjnl.bsky.social @emmaischinsky.bsky.social studies press mentions of 1718 super-rich in 🇩🇪 by founding period of company. Dynastic (pre-1918) & new wealth (post 1914) more likely to be mentioned, possibly because of illegitimacy of NS originated wealth. doi.org/q5fz

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

3/6 🧵Do taxes mobilize rich voters? In @electoralstudies.bsky.social Aaskoven finds a short uptick among 🇩🇰 affluent (1898-1914) voter turnout when income taxation is threatened - but no lasting effect. doi.org/q5fv

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

2/6 🧵In @bjpols.bsky.social Klasnja Fazekas & Al-Shaibani show that increasing politicians’ wages reduces corruption. Use different designs, with discontinuous mayoral wage increases & measure corruption with risk index based on public procurement data from ~18,000 🇪🇺 municipalities doi.org/q5ft

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest April 2026 - Politician wages and corruption in 🇪🇺 municipalities - influence of firms on OECD tax policy - press coverage of super rich in 🇩🇪 - AI automation and welfare attitudes in OECD

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

6/6 🧵In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, Tuñón shows religion ⇏ conservative politics. In 🇧🇷, progressive bishops helped the leftist PT win votes - especially where labor unions were weak. When Pope John Paul II replaced them, PT support dropped. The church filled the gap unions couldn't. doi.org/qzk8

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

5/6 🧵In @cpsjournal.bsky.social Huberts shows that when public services are broken but hard to fix, politicians don't solve the problem, they suppress it. Evidence from 🇲🇽-City finds that by monitoring & quietly appeasing vocal opposition they keep issues as water off the ballot. doi.org/qzk3

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

4/6 🧵 In @electoralstudies.bsky.social Fonseca, @deborathome.bsky.social & @guedesneto.bsky.social use DiD with 🇧🇷 reform to answer: do party funding incentives help promote underrepresented groups? No, as parties seek to secure rewards by investing in non-competitive candidates doi.org/qzkw

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

3/6 🧵In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, Bowles show that elite-preferred candidates performed better in providing local public goods in 1960s 🇹🇿. IV design leveraging ballot symbols allocated deterministically that happened to influence voting choices doi.org/qzk6

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

2/6 🧵In @ajpseditor.bsky.social, @kbuzard7.bsky.social, Canen & Saiegh study risk from policy uncertainty & lobbying. Stock market data from 🇺🇸. Results show that policy uncertainty is lower for lobbying firms & that only few firms lobby b/c of high costs and diminishing returns. doi.org/qzk7

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest March 2026 - Lobbying and policy uncertainty in 🇺🇸 - elite selected candidates in 🇹🇿 - party funding incentives to promote underrepresented groups in 🇧🇷 - quiet appeasement to keep issues of the agenda in 🇲🇽 - progressive bishops and PT votes in 🇧🇷

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Ibrahim Kuran @ibrahimkuran.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

New research alert! 📢 In the European Journal of Industrial Relations, @ibrahimoker.bsky.social, @fuatkina.bsky.social, and I explore global unionization dynamics, identifying the key factors that facilitate and/or hinder union membership. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09596801261429819

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

6/6 🧵In @ajpseditor.bsky.social @judgelord.bsky.social, @ellieneffpowell.bsky.social & Grimmer ask: when MPs gain power, do they prioritize constituency service or policy work? Massive database of 🇺🇸 MPs agency contacts. More powerful MPs prioritize policy, but keep service levels doi.org/qtvx

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

5/6 🧵In @bjpols.bsky.social, Cho, @miacosta.bsky.social & @yusakuhoriuchi.bsky.social study trade-offs between descriptive & partisan representation for Asian-Americans. Clear preference for partisanship over ethnicity. True co-ethnics preferred over pan-ethnic & cross-ethnic. doi.org/qtv8

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

4/6 🧵 In SER @sasemeeting.bsky.social Fastenrath & Marx show the “taboo” on taxing rich can be broken in the cases of 🇩🇪 & 🇬🇧, when policy entrepreneurs promote progressive taxation and when the right faces an economic trilemma between low taxes, balanced budgets & public investment. doi.org/qtv3

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

3/6 🧵In @psrm.bsky.social, Dias, Lucas & Scheffer study origins of conservative bias in politician perceptions of voters in 🇨🇦. Perceptions more accurate when asked about voter distributions instead of average voters; portion of bias in point estimates survey artefact of little https:/doi.org/qtv2

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

2/6 🧵In @jplaeditor.bsky.social Vommaro and Wills-Otero ask when do business actors enter party politics? Most different systems comparison; 🇦🇷 & 🇨🇴. In-depth elite interviews & process tracing. Other than perception of threat, positioning of conservative party serves as catalyst doi.org/qtvs

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest February 2026 - business actors in party politics 🇦🇷 & 🇨🇴 - conservative bias in voter perception 🇨🇦 - broken “tax taboo” 🇩🇪 & 🇬🇧 - descriptive & substantive representation of Asian-Americans 🇺🇸 - prioritization of constituency service & policy work 🇺🇸

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

6/6 🧵In @bjpols.bsky.social Pedersen asks: how do voters rank politicians tasks? Relational & functional tasks framework + original voter surveys in 🇩🇰🇩🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸: Voters like both, but prefer functional to relational; but for vote choice functional tasks matter more in 🇩🇰🇩🇪 doi.org/qqjv

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

5/6 🧵In @wepsocial.bsky.social @mhaslberger.bsky.social @madselk.bsky.social & @benansell.bsky.social: homeownership is tied to political efficacy. While young renters may still expect to buy, older may won’t reach the property ladder & feel less politically included. Read here: doi.org/qqjx

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