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Salar Asadolahi

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@sshrc-crsh.canada.ca Postdoctoral Fellow @sfu.ca; welfare state policy, voting behaviour, parties and elections

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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The 1️⃣article of our 5️⃣0️⃣Anniversary Special Issue "Debating European Politics: Advances and Perspectives" is out!🎉 "The rise of populism and the new cleavage" by Hanspeter Kriesi, describing contemporary populism is likely to be a temporary phenomen. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2025.2591874
Abstract of the article "The rise of populism and the new cleavage" by Hanspeter Kriesi. Published online first, as part of the 50th Anniversary Special Issue "Debating European Politics: Advances and Perspectives".
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Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Europe’s housing crisis is worsening while progressives stay silent. DPIR's @tabouchadi.bsky.social argues in @theguardian.com that we need bold policies that make homes affordable, fair and a social right again:
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Europe’s housing crisis is fuelling the rise of the far right. Our research shows how to address it | Tarik Abou-Chadi, Björn Bremer and Silja Häusermann
The mantra of ‘build, build, build’ misses something crucial: that few can afford these new homes, say Tarik Abou-Chadi, Silja Häusermann and Björn Bremer
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Gefjon Off @gefjonoff.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
New publication w/ my friend & amazing coauthor @fedetrastulli.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 doi.org/10.1017/S147... We explore: Who considers which political issues as important & how is this related to sociodemographic/socioeconomic variables?
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Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation
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Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Now out @apsrjournal.bsky.social with page numbers! 🫒 We advance a new argument on how economic crises fuel support for far-right parties in left-behind places by tapping into long-standing community narratives shorturl.at/bA55v @catherinedevries.bsky.social
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Matt Polacko @mattpolacko.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
🚨New Publication🚨 Using the entire #Canadian Election Study (1965–2021), I examine voter turnout by class, education, & income over time & test whether the offerings of political parties impact these relationships. Available #OpenAccess in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social #polisky doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Matt Polacko @mattpolacko.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
🚨 New publication 🚨 With @pgraefe.bsky.social & @sjkiss.bsky.social in @csa-scs.bsky.social Does the public sector vote differently and hold differing political attitudes than the general public? Available #OpenAccess #polisky doi.org/10.1111/cars...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🚨 New(ish) Book Alert 🚨 While somewhat overstating the importance of the "working class" to the support bases of far-right parties, this new book is particularly innovative in bringing political processes into the explanatory models.
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Social Identity and Working Class Support for the Populist Radical Right: From Economic and Political Distress to Cultural Grievances
Abstract. Why are blue-collar workers increasingly supporting the populist radical right? Previous explanations for this phenomenon suggest that it is the
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Simon Bornschier @simonbornschier.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
How much competition within the right field? ❗Segmentation is eroding, especially among young voters❗ New article out by @siljahausermann.bsky.social ‪@dpzollinger.bsky.social @mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself @ipz.bsky.social @wepsocial.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj A short 🧵 1/7
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Salar Asadolahi @salarasadolahi.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Our article with @lindawhite.bsky.social , @philtriadafilos.bsky.social, and Jim Farney is now available in Publius: The Journal of Federalism! academic.oup.com/publius/adva... 🧵👇
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
My take on the broader implications of the outcome of Polish presidential elections published in the Guardian today. ps. this is not the title I chose… 👇🏽 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Poland’s presidential election result is a morale boost for Maga forces in Europe | Catherine De Vries
Karol Nawrocki’s win is a blow for prime minister Donald Tusk – and it symbolises a larger battle over the political narrative, says policy expert Catherine De Vries
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
What do tax cuts for the rich do? They increase inequality. They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment. "Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."
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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Delighted that my paper with @kevincunning.bsky.social on "Still second-order national elections? Evaluating the classic model after the 2024 European elections" has just been published by @wepsocial.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... 1/
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Thomas Kurer @thmskrr.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social ❓Political implications of labor market transformation Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city. Deadline: May 18, 2025. tinyurl.com/postdoczurich #polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 09/05/2025
I'm often asked: What motivates Danielle Smith to do the radical things she does? After all, many of her actions fly in the face of public opinion, the constitution, conservative ideology, and her own public commitments. I used to equivocate. I'm about ready to call it.🧵
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Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
People have real problems believing Reform voters don't come from Labour, if not recently, then in the past. A small proportion do, but let's look at how far back you'd have to go now ...
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Daphne Halikiopoulou @dafnoukos.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
How and why actual class decline leads to far-right party support: our new blog post for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social with @a-gugushvili.bsky.social and Tim Vlandas, based on our Political Behavior article blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A year ago, @simonvanteutem.bsky.social and I wrote about what the Tories could learn from other European parties. We predicted that if they continued their anti-immigration and culture wars course they would be cannibalized by the far right. That happened today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Reform UK’s rise may tempt Sunak into moving further right. Let the Netherlands be a cautionary tale | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Simon van Teutem
Across Europe, the mainstream right is being eclipsed by more extreme rivals. The same fate could await the Tories, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Simon van Teutem
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 28/04/2025
"This paper studies whether working from home (WFH) affects workers' performance in public sector jobs... we find that WFH increases productivity by 12%." @afenizia.bsky.social Evidence that administrations that reject WFH harm efficiency. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Not Incentivized Yet Efficient: Working From Home in the Public Sector
51 Pages Posted: 21 Oct 2024 Last revised: 20 Feb 2025
Alessandra Fenizia
The George Washington University

Tom Kirchmaier
London School of Economics - Centre for Economic Performance

Date Written: January 14, 2025

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This paper studies whether working from home (WFH) affects workers' performance in public sector jobs. Studying public sector initiatives allows us to establish baseline estimates on the impact of WFH net of incentives. Exploiting novel administrative data and plausibly exogenous variation in work location, we find that WFH increases productivity by 12%. These productivity gains are primarily driven by reduced distractions. They are not explained by differences in quality, shift length, or task allocation. The productivity gains more than double when tasks are assigned by the supervisor.

Keywords: working from home, productivity, public sector
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This must be the first time in postwar history that a single person determines the election outcome in another country. #TrumpEffect
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Democrats today: "For god's sake, don't use big words like oligarchy. Voters won't understand it." FDR in 1932:
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
▶️ Do far-right wins fuel disinformation fears? 😮 @kgattermann.bsky.social, @elskevdhoogen.bsky.social and @claesdevreese.bsky.social show that strong far-right showings in the 2024 EP elections heighten public concern about disinformation 👇
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The role of far-right party performance in shaping disinformation concerns of European voters: evidence from the 2024 European Parliament elections
Concerns about the risk of disinformation in the 2024 European Parliament elections were widespread in European capitals. Simultaneously, the far-right – often linked to the spread of disinformatio...
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Were wealthy donors key to Trump’s campaigns in 2016 and 2020? I'm thrilled to announce a new paper in which Sean Kates, Eric Manning, Tali Mendelberg and I analyzed data on 108 million (!) homeowner-voters. See “Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base.” Open access: cup.org/4cfm0Az 🧵 1/
Title page of an academic article titled “Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base.” 

Authors listed are Sean Kates (University of Pennsylvania), Eric Manning (Princeton University), Tali Mendelberg (Princeton University), and Omar Wasow (University of California, Berkeley). 

The abstract below the title states:

Comparative scholarship suggests authoritarian candidates often rely on backing from the wealthy. The wealthy are also said to play an important role in American campaign finance. Studies of Donald Trump, however, found that he drew significant support from white Americans with less education and privilege. We evaluate wealthy and non-wealthy Americans’ financial support for Trump, compared to other candidates, by constructing a comprehensive dataset of property values matched to contributions and voter files. We find Trump underperformed among wealthy Republican donors while mobilizing new non-wealthy donors. Trump also diversified the donorate, especially by education. That is, Trump built an unusual coalition of wealthy and non-wealthy donors. Our results support an alternative, “plutopopulist” model of Trump’s financial base. This study demonstrates the importance of studying both non-wealthy and wealthy Americans, the group who give the most but whose individual behavior has been studied the least.

Open access link to paper: http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Our new numbers on Trump’s approval ratings are top of The Economist website this afternoon www.economist.com/united-state...
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🪞 Mirror, mirror on the wall, which cleavage is the strongest of all? 🪞 Mirko Crulli and Vincenzo Emanuele investigate whether old class divides still matter in Western Europe or if a globalisation cleavage has taken over. The answer? Multiple cleavages coexist, but class and GAL/TAN stand out 👇
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Bringing Rokkan into the twenty-first century: the cleavage structure of Western Europe
Political science is revitalising cleavage theory by examining the possible demise of traditional Rokkanian cleavages or the rise of a new globalisation cleavage. However, studies rarely combine th...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Outstanding. More.
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William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
My new piece for @theconversationca.bsky.social. Last week, DOGE agents entered the FDIC. It is not yet clear what they will do, but Project 2025 calls for repealing the parts of Dodd-Frank which govern the regulation of too-big-to-fail banks. This would be a disaster for global financial stability.
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Why weakening U.S. bank regulators could repeat the mistakes of the 2008 financial crisis
The targeting of the FDIC could dangerously erode its ability to manage financial crises, like the one that occurred in 2008.
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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 12/04/2025
The CPC needs to be very careful here. Politicizing the judicial appointment process is not a road any country should go down. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Conservatives pledge to appoint stricter judges as part of tough-on-crime campaign promises
Judicial appointments are not often debated or detailed on the campaign trail. The Globe asks the Liberals and Conservatives about their proposals
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Phil Triadafilopoulos @philtriadafilos.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Why have multiculturalism policies been so durable in Europe, despite the ascent of civic integration policies and right-wing populist parties? Daniel Westlake, Keith Banting and I have some thoughts: The puzzling persistence of multiculturalism policies in Europe www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5AV3Y...
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The puzzling persistence of multiculturalism policies in Europe
Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, multiculturalism has come under fire from champions of civic integration and far right-wing populists. Despite this, multiculturalism policie...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Even if you cannot save U.S. academia, you can help U.S.-based academics. Here are four ways to help, depending on your position.
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Trump is targeting US universities as never before. Here are four ways to help them | Cas Mudde
Supporters in Europe can offer new opportunities and minimise the isolation. Certainly they can avoid making things worse, says political scientist Cas Mudde
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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
In this dissertation, I study the political economy of pre-10am April 7, 2025.
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Salar Asadolahi @salarasadolahi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Some effective medicine right there
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Exceptionally long, but familiarly pompous and uniformed, puff piece on the “good” nativism of Mette Frederiksen in Denmark. Completely ignores most basic data and, of course, any academic research. Some quick points 🧵
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Kate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Great piece on ‘Cataclysmic Capitalism’’ today by @jksteinberger.bsky.social that proves a (chilling) answer to my question yesterday: why isn’t capital pushing back on Trump’s tanking of the economy?
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Trump and Musk have ushered in a terrible era of cataclysm capitalism. But I have a plan to counter it | Julia Steinberger
The speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is dizzying, but if we organise resistance now we can stop this, says Julia Steinberger of the University of Lausanne
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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@catherinedevries.bsky.social is bang on, e.g. "Europeans must decide whether they’re willing to bear the costs of shaping their future, or risk having it shaped for them" This is a must-read. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Security in Europe will mean sacrifices for citizens
Europeans must decide whether they’re willing to bear the costs of shaping their future, or risk having it shaped for them.
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Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
STOCKS TANKING AFTER TARIFF NUMBERS REVEALED
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Surprised to see @economist.com on the ‘politicians should be allowed to do crimes without consequences’ team. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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Why Marine Le Pen should be allowed to run for president
Punish the offender without also punishing French democracy
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Jacob Robbins-Kanter @jrobkan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Very pleased to share here that our co-edited book The Working Class and Politics in Canada is available for pre-order in hardcover at the link below. We argue there has been a tendency in Canada to talk about workers & the working class in superficial ways (or not at all). Still, in recent... 1/4
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This should be etched on the DOGE letterhead
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
New, from me: Elon Musk is the biggest loser in Wisconsin. His brazen effort to buy a state supreme court did not just fail - it undermined his image of political kingmaker. This is the clearest indicator that voters are angry with Trump/Musk agenda. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
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The Biggest Loser in Wisconsin
The richest man in the world could not buy an election
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
For the second time in the last 24 hours, Trump suggests that he thinks he will be putting tariffs directly on fentanyl smuggled into the United States illegally.
Senator Tim Kaine, who ran against me with Crooked Hillary in 2016, is trying to halt our critical Tariffs on deadly Fentanyl coming in from Canada. We are making progress to end this terrible Fentanyl Crisis, but Republicans in the Senate MUST vote to keep the National Emergency in place, so we can finish the job, and end the scourge. By their weakness, the Democrats have allowed Fentanyl to get out of hand. The Republicans and I have reversed that course, strongly and quickly. Major additional progress is being made. Don't let the Democrats have a Victory. It would be devastating for the Republican Party and, far more importantly, for the United States. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Donald Trump Truth Social 4/01/25 11:40 AMMitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul, also of Kentucky, will hopefully get on the Republican bandwagon, for a change, and fight the Democrats wild and flagrant push to not penalize Canada for the sale, into our Country, of large amounts of Fentanyl, by Tariffing the value of this horrible and deadly drug in order to make it more costly to distribute and buy. They are playing with the lives of the American people, and right into the hands of the Radical Left Democrats and Drug Cartels.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Congratulations, boss, you've done it: You're bigger than covid.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
For the @economist.com, I wrote about the Le Pen verdict. In liberal democracies, the law needs to be applied even if that strengthens the far right. But here, we should not just assume that this will help the RN. On the contrary. It's a good moment for democracy. www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
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The Le Pen ruling is good for liberal democracy, writes Tarik Abou-Chadi
The Oxford professor says it shouldn’t matter whether the verdict emboldens the hard right or not
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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Online first: "Political support in times of progressive policy change and radical-right populist party success" by @paulvierus.bsky.social & @conradziller.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky #academicsky
Abstract of the article "Political support in times of progressive policy change and radical-right populist party success" by Paul Vierus and Conrad Ziller. Published online first in West European Politics.Figure 1, displaying the overview of hypotheses and theoretical relationships.Figure 3, displaying the conditional effects using observational data showing universal effects across different subgroups (dependent variable: satisfaction with the government).Figure 5, displaying the conditional effects using experimental data showing universal effects across different subgroups (dependent variable: policy support).
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Elizabeth (Beth) Dhuey @bdhuey.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Hi everyone! I'm teaching causal inference for education policy class in the fall. It's for students with basic stats training but not advanced. Does anyone else teach something similar? Any fun ideas on how to teach it?
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
For the first time on the model, the Liberals have passed the 200 seat mark canadianpolling.substack.com/p/e-25-liber...
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E-25: Liberals Blitz Past 200 Seats
For the first time, the Liberals have crossed the 200 seat threshold, winning 202 on today's model
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Canada is not messing around.
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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
New👇post summarizes main arguments from our Sociology paper (w. @mikesavagelse.bsky.social, @marentoft.bsky.social): how different strands of #class analysis can be easily mobilized to study #wealth and #asset inequalities in its various forms & shapes.💰🏰💸 Original paper: doi.org/10.1177/0038...
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