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Amelia Malpas

@malpas.bsky.social

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government PhD student @ Harvard. alumna @ Mount Holyoke. parties, core-periphery, always inequality. www.ameliamalpas.com

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I'm working on a project on cross-national young gender gap that shows dif patterns. The below w ESS & CSES data show 1. Dif in ideology (id=standardized by country) btwn young men & women, where x is year & y is standard deviations 2. Young men & women ideology relative to other age-gender groups

This shows the difference in young men's and young women's (<30) ideology, standardized by country, over the last two decades. The trend lines include confidence intervals. A point above the dotted line indicates that young men are to the right of young women.

This shows the average ideology of age-gender groups between 2002 and 2023. Ideology is standardized within country. Above the dotted line means the group is that many standard deviations more right than their country mean, while below the line means the group is that many standard deviations left of their country mean.

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Sam Zacher & I have a paper under review basically to this effect. Among Democrats, renters have distinct left preferences in candidates (e.g. Sanders) and housing reforms (broadly YIMBYism). We find less distinction among Dem renters and homeowners with national social policy prefs.

Abstract of an under review paper on the candidate, housing, and social policy preferences of Democratic renters versus homeowners

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Democrats mostly campaign on economics. In addition to @rachelporter.bsky.social's evidence, this is true for the national party's platforms and legislative priorities, and what Dem MCs tweet about, regardless of their district or if they are a Progressive! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What Democrats in different factions or types of districts tweeted about

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Can't help but compare their story about No Kings yesterday to the anti-immigration protests in London last month. "Large crowds" when it's millions of left to center ppl and "huge crowd" when its tens of thousands of rightwingers (not remotely similar mobilization even controlling for US vs UK pop)

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Boston #NoKings It’s our country too.

Signs temporarily in a corner at a nearby pub. People were out!

Political science PhD students concerned about American democracy

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Everything sucks but at least I’m day drinking local cider w my parents’ new dog while reading abt pension policy

Lewis the Bassett hound; book; Gravenstein apple hard cider

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Indeed it does!

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The CR is obvs different, but Senate Democrats' behavior is reminiscent of the fact that on ave 48% of D senators voted for bills pertaining to GOP agenda (as IDed by Curry & Lee) each Congress w R trifecta, 2003-2022. The inverse for Rs is 12% (from WIP w @jacobhacker.bsky.social & Paul Pierson)

percent of Ds and Rs voting for party agendas in House and Senate

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

greatest political science achievement is getting “best flavor” in the department Bake Off? my PhD cohort social core all won @marchvidkjaer.bsky.social @cerny.bsky.social. Congrats to @gabrielaarmani.bsky.social for winning the judicial electoral college + popular vote —pretty good in the US !

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Boston protest today. W windchill it felt like 6°F, so extremely cold, but staggering how small compared to 2017 or 2020 protests

Protest in front of MA state legislature in Boston

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

If I am advising political science PhD students at multiple universities on their knitting projects, is it service to the discipline?

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

my parents' neighbor is the GOP nominee in CA-02. he's softly anti-Trump & acknowledges climate change. he will v likely lose general (weird Dem rural district that spans Golden Gate-Oregon). fascinating as a polisky researcher of intraparty ideological differences in congressional candidates!

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Made my anonymous NYT research debut as one of @jacobhacker.bsky.social's "three colleagues" (along with Sam Zacher & Paul Pierson) in a mention of our forthcoming article on what's actually going on with the Democratic Party's domestic policy agenda

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