Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 5hI have no dog in this fight, but it's not like there is no evidence for mobility. Two things: 1. Not all evidence is of course equally good, which is an important debate. 2. Even if mobility is significant, one can still justify wealth taxation. 000
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 7hBin an substanzieller Kritik immer interessiert — an reinem Insinuieren weniger 010
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferGeorg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 16hInteresting trick to reveal info about secret votes 👇🏼 Journalists asked the members of parlament about their votes ex post and separately, and in one party, too many claimed to have abstained. (There were fewer abstentions overall. No hiding behind small numbers.) www.n-tv.de/politik/Beri...n-tv.deBerichte widerlegen Aussagen von CDU-Abgeordneten in Sachsen-AnhaltAuch Tage nach der Wahl von AfD-Politiker Rausch zum Landtagspräsidenten in Sachsen-Anhalt köchelt die Gerüchteküche, woher die Ja-Stimmen kamen. Zwei Berichte zeigen nun, dass deutlich mehr CDU-Polit... 1205
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 15hagglomerations.eig.org/p/the-chart-...agglomerations.eig.orgThe Chart that Explains Work in AmericaFive eras of U.S. wage growth and the six stories that define them 021
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferFederica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 19hThese US midterms need to arrive faster. The US owes the world a non-trivial dose of good news. 1172
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Terrible news -- UKICE was an important source of information for me (and I was very proud that we were able to publish two essays based on our Brexit-related research) 011
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Have you expanded on these thoughts in writing? 000
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Relatedly: Kurella, Anna-Sophie. 2025. “A Formal Model of Party Competition with Salience.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 37 (2): 156–75. doi.org/10.1177/0951....doi.orgA formal model of party competition with salience - Anna-Sophie Kurella, 2025Recent empirical research points at the significance of issue salience for party competition and argues that small parties emphasize secondary issues. This arti... 040
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Very interesting paper! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... 051
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferKonstantin Bogatyrev @bogatyrev.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Looking forward to kicking off the LSE's brand-new Political Methodology seminar! I will present new work with @tarasenkogeorgy.bsky.social and Andrey Tkachenko on detecting batch-generated responses in survey data delivered by third-party vendors. Get in touch for the Zoom link or the draft. 0206
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Well I suppose it’s time for me to note that part of this cull at the BBC is the show I present, Rethink. Not long-running but still I’ll miss the chance to talk about big ideas in a measured way with great guests. It’s been a blast. 97111
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Fantastic thread by one of the most impressive young political scientists 191
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferVincent Heddesheimer @vheddesheimer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Germany's Die Linke won last month's Berlin election on a pledge to socialize ~220k flats owned by large landlords. A thread on why housing expropriation is a successful campaign promise, how Berlin's flats became an asset class, and what expropriation would do. 🧵 411342
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferVoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 07/10/2026Worker-managed firms are a remedy for rising income inequality & protect social cohesion by increasing employees' bargaining power & providing an enhanced sense of self-worth. Data suggest well-designed co-ops compete with conventional firms in free markets with no evidence of a productivity gap. 142
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026www.cleanenergywire.org/news/france-...cleanenergywire.orgFrance and Germany strike deal to further weaken EU combustion engine phaseout – media | Clean Energy Wire 000
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferNick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's finally publication day for this decade-in-the-making book. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I explain why working-class jobs make up 70% of the average democracy's labor force, but only 2% of the average democracy's national lawmakers had working-class jobs when they got into politics. 1120170
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026www.zeit.de/politik/deut...zeit.deRechte Regierungen : Jetzt lasst sie halt mal machen? – Das geht nach hinten losRechte Parteien entzaubern sich nicht, wenn sie regieren. Da ist die Wissenschaft sehr klar. Wer den Satz sagt, hofft auf Regeln, die für die AfD nicht mehr gelten. 000
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ist dem so? Heike Kluever hat das Papier doch (zu recht) sehr aktiv beworben. www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/demo...sueddeutsche.deDemokratie: Wenn die Rechte mitregiert, wird sie nicht geschwächt – im GegenteilEine Untersuchung von 57 Ländern zeigt: Wenn die Rechte in Verantwortung kommt, gewinnt sie dazu. Daraus lässt sich für Deutschland lernen. 200
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Excited to be in Mannheim to present new work with my superstar postdoc @joshuachoper.bsky.social (on the market). I've added a new intro slide for the occasion: 1131
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferFederica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A propos of nothing: my grandfather was a politician who spent the last stretch of his career during the Berlusconi ascendance years. he'd say you can lose and lose again, but the most important act for anyone involved in politics is to preserve the seeds of anti-fascism for the next generation. 16220
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferDan Hopkins @dhopkins1776.bsky.social · 05/10/2026On the topic of books I was fortunate enough to blurb, here's my two cents on Justin de Benedictis-Kesnner's (@jdbk.bsky.social) comprehensive tour de force, "The Fog of Accountability: How Institutions Keep Voters from Holding Their Local Governments Accountable." 082
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferNBER @nber.org · 05/10/2026New NBER Book released: The Economics of Place-Based Policies www.nber.org/books-and-ch... 094
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferCharlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Job alert! More info on how to apply is available in the link shared below. Please help me circulate this information broadly 🙏 (1/2) 22217
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...spiegel.deNobelpreis für Medizin geht an Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann und Georg NagelSie legten die Grundlage für die sogenannte Optogenetik: Den Medizin-Nobelpreis erhalten die drei Grundlagenforscher Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann und Georg Nagel. 000
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferCambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 04/10/2026#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Unrest, Shifting Power, and Death-Watch War - cup.org/4yC7oWE - Jesse C. Johnson & @thescottwolford.bsky.social #FirstView 084
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferCambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 04/10/2026#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - The Representation Trap: How Minority Power Shapes Electoral Politics in India - cup.org/4rIkZJ3 - @feyaadallie.bsky.social #FirstView 021
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferAmerican Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026From our FirstView: "Democratic Accountability with Citizen Coproduction" by Jie Ma, @keithschnak.bsky.social, and @ianrturner.bsky.social. buff.ly/QgJ8hoR 0108
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferAndreas Busch @abusch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Freue mich auf die 14. Auflage des Lehrbuchs „Das politische System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Eine Einführung“, das demnächst erscheinen wird! Es ist vollständig aktualisiert und mit erheblichen strukturellen und didaktischen Änderungen versehen. www.amazon.de/Das-politisc...amazon.deDas politische System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Eine Einführung : von Beyme, Klaus, Busch, Andreas: Amazon.de: BücherDas politische System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Eine Einführung : von Beyme, Klaus, Busch, Andreas: Amazon.de: Bücher 291
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026For my new research unit Politics of Democracy at the Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social, we have 3 open research positions. 2 postdocs: 4 + 2 years (100%) 1 doc: 2 years (75%) Starting date: 1 March 2027 (negotiable) Application deadline: 1 November 1190149
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferAlexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Brück war eines der Gesichter des Dortmunder Neonazismus, der die Stadt in den 2000ern prägte. Er war Führungskader des "Nationalen Widerstands Dortmund", einer 2012 verbotenen militanten Neonazi-Kameradschaft. Danach wurde er Vize-Landeschef von "Die Rechte" und saß im Dortmunder Stadtrat. 1696
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferAlexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Eine Szene aus "Inside CDU" zeigt, wie sich Stellung und Strategie von Neonazis in Deutschland verändert haben. Der Mann, der Sven Schulze mit dem Mikrofon durch die CDU-Wahlfeier verfolgt, war Führungskader einer militanten Neonazi-Kameradschaft, die in Dortmund mit Gewalt Angst verbreitete. 🧵 4234107
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Nothing to see here ... interactive.carbonbrief.org/amoc-explain...interactive.carbonbrief.orgAMOC: Is global warming tipping key Atlantic ocean currents towards ‘collapse’?The AMOC is under threat from human-caused climate change, as warming seas, melting ice and increased rainfall upset the temperature and salt balance of the North Atlantic. 081
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferTom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 03/10/2026💯 The great strategic mistake was letting an oil soaked dictatorship reconstitute its war machine. Ukrainians, Georgians, and many others have suffered for NATO’s mistake. 47619
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My pleasure -- it's a great piece of work, which I very much admire! 010
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If you want to understand something about why East Germany is and remains different beyond the oversimplified explanations you often find, you should check out this thread by Jacob 2356
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Re-upping this today — understanding German reunification and its ramifications seems more crucial than ever. 082
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferJulius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Happy Reunification Day to all who celebrate🧵 0336
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Great discussion of the “Messy Job” book by @lugaricano.bsky.social et al with @annastansbury.bsky.social and @adamposen.bsky.social. I loved the combination of elegant price theory (Garicano) and a labour-econ perspective on power (Stansbury). www.youtube.com/live/uqtSXxX...youtube.comBook discussion: Messy Jobs: The Work that AI Cannot ReachYouTube video by Peterson Institute for International Economics 1104
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferAlexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New paper in Electoral Studies, led by @annikaschuster.bsky.social and @jangoedeking.bsky.social with Julian Erhardt and @robert-a-huber.bsky.social What happened to voters' attitudes when Merz accepted a Bundestag majority with the AfD in January 2025? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 13411
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferNBER @nber.org · 02/10/2026Technical change often simplifies work. This increases productivity, but it also makes workers more replicable or commoditized, and may therefore reduce wages, from Masao Fukui, @eminakamura2, and @JonSteinsson www.nber.org/papers/w35815 072
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferFelix @wortmanncallejon.de · 02/10/2026Due to the equilibrium effects on paper quality, I think it’s a good thing that anyone with a Claude Max subscription and a free weekend can now write a perfectly competent critique of empirical political science scholarship. 031
Reposted by Jacob EdenhoferNuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Exclusionary backlash to job loss: Evidence from Germany doi.org/10.1086/744128 Paper forthcoming in @thejop.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow Alexander Trubowitzdoi.orgExclusionary Backlash to Job Loss: Evidence from Germany | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No jaReview the Terms and Conditions of Use for this site, which were updated in August. 0128
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026See also this thought-provoking and related JoD piece by Justin Daniels and @lucasiepmann.bsky.social www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...journalofdemocracy.orgWhy Germany’s Mainstream Parties Have Lost Their Way | Journal of DemocracyThe country’s far right is connecting with voters where they live. Germany’s mainstream parties need to borrow from that playbook and become a presence in the communities they hope to lead. 142
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026For all those interested in actually understanding why the AfD did so well in Saxony-Anhalt, this dissertation by @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social is a must read! tichelbaecker.com/assets/pdf/D... 23310