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Luis Cornago Bonal @luiscornagob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Less than one week left to apply to the three tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Political Science at @cunef.bsky.social's new Department of Social Sciences and Humanities. More details on the link below! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32392

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CUNEF Universidad, Social Sciences and Humanities

Job #AJO32392, Assistant Professor in Political Science, Social Sciences and Humanities, CUNEF Universidad, Madrid, MADRID, ES

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

NEW: @katemac.bsky.social & I: "Heat waves tend to attract less attention than the charismatic megafauna of climate disasters—floods, storms, wildfires—in part because they cause less property damage & thus less obviously financially costly" phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo... Graphic @TheEconomist

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Santiago Sanchez-Pages @sanpages.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

WORKSHOP ALERT 🚨 Interested in the political economy of Spain? The 1st SPEIN Workshop will bring to London economists and political scientists working on the foundations of modern Spain: conflict, authoritarianism, democratic transition, and their legacies. June 15-16, @kcl-spe.bsky.social

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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I'd argue that pushing for degrowth will likely have corrosive effects on broad public suppport for stringent climate policy. Given that degrowth is essentially one big device for turning ever more policy domains into zero- or even negative-sum games, the room for Pareto-improving policies shrinks

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

One thing that surprised me is how salient pro-EU attitudes are to Labour/SNP voters and SNP voters generally. You see it in the wider research too. Lots of fluidity and tactical dynamics in the Scottish electorate but this and Indy are basic pro-SNP gravitational forces.

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

NEW: What exactly happened in the local and devolved elections in England, Scotland and Wales last week? @persuasionuk.bsky.social has some new polling out today which offers a first glimpse. Thread here on top line findings from each nation. 🧵

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

One of the hidden disasters of UK politics over recent decades was the growing pool of "non-voters", who largely disengaged from democratic politics. The challenge for progressive parties is to match the success of Reform/the Leave campaign in drawing those people back into the electoral process.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The “Blue Labour” strategy still being promoted by some on Labour right is premised on being able to win social conservatives while holding on to social liberals. Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state:

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

CA’s $20 fast food minimum wage raised fast food prices by only 3%. The reason minimum wage increases keep not reducing employment and barely increasing prices is monopsony power. www.nber.org/papers/w34990

The Effects of California's $20 Fast Food
Minimum Wage on Prices
Jeffrey Clemens, Olivia Edwards, Jonathan Meer &
Joshua D. Nguyen
WORKING PAPER 34990
DOI 10.3386/w34990
ISSUE DATE March 2026
We analyze the effect of California's $20 fast food minimum wage (Assembly Bill 1228), enacted in September 2023 and implemented in April 2024, on consumer prices using the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Indices for food away from home across 21 metropolitan statistical areas. Food away from home prices in California's four in-sample MSAs increased by 3.3 to 3.6 percent relative to 17 control MSAs through December 2024. Our estimates are stable across a number of specifications. Placebo tests on price indices for goods and services that were not affected by the policy, including food at home, show no differential increases in California's MSAs.
The price increases we estimate likely arise in part from spillovers to the full-service sector, as well as changes in the production functions and product quality choices of limited service restaurants.

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Yesterday I had a story out about eggs, today I have a column out about Marc Andreessen. Make of that what you will. as.ft.com/r/14d0d9d8-6... (gift link! 💝)

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Reading Socrates in Silicon Valley

[FREE TO READ] Self-proclaimed stoics who denounce self-examination only prove the bankruptcy of the tech bro worldview

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

YouGov has the Greens in second place for the first time

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LSE School of Public Policy @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

We’re hiring an Events and Department Affairs Officer at the School of Public Policy! Help plan and deliver a busy events programme, support internal communications, and work with academic staff and visiting speakers. Apply by 12 March 2026 (23.59 UK time): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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

As devolved elections approach in Scotland and Wales, what could greater devolution mean for Britain’s economies? Join “Devolution economics: can local decision making strengthen Britain’s economies?” tonight! Find out more and register: www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-pu...

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Devolution economics: can local decision making strengthen Britain’s economies?

Mon 2 Mar, 6.30pm | Devolution Economics: Can local decision making strengthen Britain’s economies?

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Luis Cornago Bonal @luiscornagob.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Today we welcome Felipe González (fagonza4.github.io) at the @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social's RP seminar. It will take place from 2:00 to 3:30 pm at LSE's Marshall Building (MAR.2.06). The full schedule for the term can be found here: lnkd.in/gcbAeG5V

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Felipe González

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

This is very important work. Both in its substance and in its emphasis on asymmetric effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Neil Lee @neillee.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Europe's innovation problem New WP with Herbertson, Storper, Soskice, and Pardy researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13...

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Income, sovereignty, and cohesion: the political economy of Europe’s first mover innovation deficit

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/02/2026

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Only just now seen this cool chart from The Economist plotting Kevin Warsh's published speeches' dovishness and hawkishness. Sharp shift in tone depending on who's in White House purely coincidental. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

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Luis Cornago Bonal @luiscornagob.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Next Monday we kick off the WT edition of the @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social's RP Seminar with @sandraleon.bsky.social. It will take place from 2:00 to 3:30 pm at LSE (MAR.2.07). The full schedule for the term can be found here: www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-pu...

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Staff Research & Policy Seminar

Staff Research & Policy Seminar schedule

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Nobody in Britain pays any attention to Australian politics, but One Nation overtaking the Coalition in the polls has distinct parallels with Reform leading the Conservatives. Parties on the radical right are coming for centre right parties across the world... Poll via AFR / RedBridge Accent.

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

NEW - Elections Without Constraints? The Appeal of Electoral Autocracy Across the World - cup.org/49auQPf - @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, @sirianned.bsky.social, Kristian Vrede Skaaning Frederiksen & @aykutozturk.bsky.social #OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract of an academic article discussing how democratic institutions prioritize citizen preferences regarding economic and physical security, with a focus on varied democratic features across thirty countries.

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Francesco Raffaelli @fraraffaelli.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🚨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social) ⁉️ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*? doi.org/10.1017/S147...

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From context to congruence: Immigration salience and voter socialization | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

From context to congruence: Immigration salience and voter socialization

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Luis Cornago Bonal @luiscornagob.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Really excited to be organizing this workshop this Friday at LSE with such an impressive lineup!

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility,” by Chetty (@Oppinsights), Dobbie, Goldman, Porter, and Yang: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

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Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility*

Abstract. We show that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades in the U.S. and study the causal mechanisms underlyin

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 21/01/2026

Since the last election, Reform UK's support has grown most in groups they were already stronger with, such as Leave voters (up 22pts), those with a lower level of education (up 19), the over 60s (up 18) and those in lower income households (up 17) yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 21/01/2026

How would Britons vote at the start of 2026, by socio-economic classification (NS-SEC)? Higher/professional Labour: 21% Conservative: 20% Reform UK: 19% Lib Dem: 17% Green: 16% Routine/manual Reform UK: 39% Conservative: 17% Labour: 14% Green: 12% Lib Dem: 11% yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

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The Carney doctrine

Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Both can be true: 1. Trump has not been very successful by traditional metrics of the presidency. 2. He's playing a different game and is trying to consolidate an authoritarian regime. Suggesting he's not having a big impact because he's not passing laws is a category error.

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Portuguese presidential election yields 2nd round between center left Seguro & far right Ventura. Honestly shocking that the main center right party (PSD) fails to endorse Seguro. They would benefit from reading @dziblatt.bsky.social’s historical work on the topic www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy

Cambridge Core - Political Sociology - Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

O meu hot take: não há grande leitura partidária a tirar do bom resultado de AJ Seguro. Numas eleições percepcionadas como importantes, o eleitorado de esquerda tinha um candidato óbvio em que convergir. O de direita não. Acho que isto explica mais os resultados do que dinâmicas partidárias.

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Portugal is having a presidential election tomorrow (Sunday). It is a fairly unusual one, which is representative of how much the political landscape has changed in the country. Here is some quick context about it, in case that is of interest: 1/9

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Luis Cornago Bonal @luiscornagob.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Really excited to be organizing this workshop at LSE with such an impressive lineup! If you're in London join us on January 30th.

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Felipe @ftraposo.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

📢 UK-based early career researchers — looking for a strong way to kick off 2026? The Fellows in LSE’s Department of Government are organising an Early Career Workshop in late January. Submit your abstract now! 🗓️ Deadline: 28 December 2025 👉 Submit here: forms.gle/QukzsYDSM2Do...

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LSE - Political Economy and Political Science Early Career Workshop

We invite submissions for the LSE Political Economy and Political Science Early Career Workshop. This workshop is designed to support the development of early-career scholars’ research, including PhD,...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/12/2025

‘On the lesser road, the business of life and death carried on: Roman cemeteries have been found under the Savoy Hotel and a sarcophagus and pottery kiln under St Martin-in-the-Fields.’ Ysenda Maxtone Graham on a biography of London’s Strand. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Ysenda Maxtone Graham · Busiest Thoroughfare of the Metropolis of the World: The Strand

After reading Geoff Browell and Eileen Chanin’s concise history of the Strand, you will never walk down that street...

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Felipe @ftraposo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

📢 Call for Submissions UK-based early career researchers in political science, political economy & public policy: apply to our January Early Career Workshop at LSE. 🗓️ Deadline: 28 Dec 2025 🔗 forms.gle/HXU4DnBq9HmX...

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LSE - Political Economy and Political Science Early Career Workshop

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Luis Cornago Bonal @luiscornagob.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

At the LSE we're organizing this workshop for UK-based early career researchers in political science, political economy, and public policy. The workshop will take place on Friday, 30 January 2026. The deadline to apply is 28 Dec 2025. Happy to answer any questions! forms.gle/HXU4DnBq9HmX...

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LSE - Political Economy and Political Science Early Career Workshop

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

A thought. In 2022-24 incumbents did terribly everywhere and the most common explanation was voters hating inflation. Today inflation is much lower. And Merz, Starmer & Trump are all deeply unpopular.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

2/2 ...the prospect of re-election is one of the main factors keeping leaders honest and keeping legislators loyal. If voters hate governments 75% plus of the time, that may encourage more corrupt, lazy and incompetent leadership, and more chaotic and rebellious incumbent parties.

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

There's a big divide in how Americans are thinking about vaccines: ♦️83% of Republicans don't want an updated COVID-19 vaccine. 🔷64% of Democrats want to get or have already received an updated vaccine. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪

Chart showing A majority of U.S. adults (59%) say they don’t want to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine. This is roughly identical to the share who said in October 2024 that they probably wouldn’t get the updated vaccine.

In the new survey, 26% of Americans say they do want an updated vaccine. Another 13% say they already got one as of late October 2025.

An overwhelming majority of Republicans and Republican leaners (83%) say they don’t want an updated vaccine. In contrast, 44% of Democrats and Democratic leaners say they want an updated vaccine, and 20% say they already got one.

A quarter of Americans ages 65 and older say they already got an updated vaccine – larger than the shares in younger age groups. Older Americans are among the groups most at risk for severe illness from COVID-19.

Yet older Republicans and older Democrats have sharply different views on the vaccine. About four-in-ten Democrats ages 65 and older say they already got one, and 43% say they want to get one. But 76% of Republicans ages 65 and older say they don’t want an updated vaccine.

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