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Domantas Undzėnas

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Postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe University Frankfurt | Political Psychology | (De)radicalisation | Trust in Politicians | Quantitative methods | Machine learning | Lift heavy things on the side.

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Julius Diener @dienerjulius.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
What drives legislators' emotional engagement with climate issues? I explore the role of their age and party affiliation and over-time developments in a new research note in European Journal of Political Research. (a thread)
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Public Opinion Quarterly - POQ @poqjournal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Does partisanship affect justifications of political violence? Berntzen et al. find that both Democrats and Republicans are more likely to justify identical acts of political violence when the victims are from the opposing party. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'What makes ethnic majorities support the radical right? A combination of relative deprivation and social dominance approaches' by @unddom.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/8Zqha2Z @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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Domantas Undzėnas @unddom.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
📢 My first dissertation paper is out in the BJPIR! 📢 Why do ethnic majorities support the radical right? I show that feeling deprived compared to ethnic minorities increases support for hierarchical societies - which in turn fuels radical right support. doi.org/10.1177/1369... A short 🧵:
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 25/03/2026
'Hey, look at #Denmark! Social Democrats can stay relevant and marginalise the #farright by becoming - get this! - a bit like the far right!' Parrotted by every medium, contemplated by every SD party, ridiculed by every political scientist.
Results from the Danish general election 2026
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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Danish Social Democrats adopted hardline, nativist anti-immigration policies and look to have recorded their worst election result in over 100 years. So, the lesson for the European left from the “Danish model” is that copying and normalizing the far-right leads to gutting your own support.
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Domantas Undzėnas @unddom.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
📢 My first dissertation paper is out in the BJPIR! 📢 Why do ethnic majorities support the radical right? I show that feeling deprived compared to ethnic minorities increases support for hierarchical societies - which in turn fuels radical right support. doi.org/10.1177/1369... A short 🧵:
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Sven Ehmes @svenehmes.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy? Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016
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The paradox of inequality that isn’t: rising economic inequality depresses and polarizes citizens’ belief in meritocracy
Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat
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Johannes Lattmann @jlattmann.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
🚨 Happy to see this article with the wonderful David Schweizer out online first at European Union Politics! We examine who is aware of European funding and how citizens prefer these funds to be allocated. The article is available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Naman Rawat @namanrawat.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
📢 New in IMR. We often ask whether #refugees “integrate.” But what happens when the host society becomes hostile? I develop the concept of social marginalization and show that refugees in more #violent German counties report stronger feelings of exclusion and discrimination. doi.org/10.1177/0197...
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Tim Allinger @timallinger.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Very glad that our first DEMNORM paper found such a great home at @thejop.bsky.social. If you’re interested in the role of social desirability in online surveys, check out the thread and paper below ⬇️
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 11/02/2026
New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout? We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out doi.org/10.1086/740816
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Rallied by thy neighbor: how minority spatial concentration increases voter turnout | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
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Klara Müller @klaramueller.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Excited to kick off the @mzes-ssdl.bsky.social Spring series 🙌 I’ll talk about different threats to causal inference in quasi-experimental designs and share hands-on tools to tackle common biases. Hybrid event, so happy to see non-Mannheim folks joining on Zoom as well! 🗓️ Feb 25th, 1.45pm CET
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 04/02/2026
New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...
What’s a multiverse good for anyway?

Julia M. Rohrer, Jessica Hullman, and  Andrew Gelman

Multiverse analysis has become a fairly popular approach, as indicated by the present special issue on the matter. Here, we take one step back and ask why one would conduct a multiverse analysis in the first place. We discuss various ways in which a multiverse may be employed – as a tool for reflection and critique, as a persuasive tool, as a serious inferential tool – as well as potential problems that arise depending on the specific purpose. For example, it fails as a persuasive tool when researchers disagree about which variations should be included in the analysis, and it fails as a serious inferential tool when the included analyses do not target a coherent estimand. Then, we take yet another step back and ask what the multiverse discourse has been good for and whether any broader lessons can be drawn. Ultimately, we conclude that the multiverse does remain a valuable tool; however, we urge against taking it too seriously.
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Hannah Rajski @hannahrajski.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Join us for this year‘s Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social. Applications are open until March 1.
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Lukas Warode @lwarode.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
partycoloR is now on CRAN! Started as a simple idea 6 years ago, now it's a full-featured package. Extract party colors and logos from Wikipedia with one line of code. It's already powering ParlGov Dashboard. install.packages("partycoloR")
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
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Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - GESS @gessunimannheim.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
📣 Apply Now: Be part of the GESS 📣 🎓 #ApplyNow to our fully funded doctoral programs beginning Fall 2026! 📊 #Business 📊 #Economics 📊 #SocialSciences Application Deadlines: 📬 Early: 15 Jan 2026 📬 Final: 31 March 2026 🔗 Don’t miss your chance to apply via our Online Application Portal:
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Denis Cohen @denis-cohen.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD
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Regional Labor Markets, Residential Mobility, and Anti-Immigration Sentiment | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Regional Labor Markets, Residential Mobility, and Anti-Immigration Sentiment - Volume 55
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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵
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Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - GESS @gessunimannheim.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
📣 New Social Data Science doctoral track launching in 2026 at our Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS)! Applications open mid-November 2025. ℹ️ www.uni-mannheim.de/gess/apply/admission-requirements/for-cdss/ #PhD #DoctoralStudies #DataScience #SocialStudies
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GESS expands doctoral programme: New track in social data science to start in 2026 |
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy to share that our paper on the ideological biases of international organizations is now out in the current issue of the AJPS (@ajpseditor.bsky.social): dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajps... @the-peio.bsky.social @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social
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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
Highlighted quotation: “As an economist, Low searched for a more precise term to describe how she and other working moms often find themselves stretched for time and energy. She came up with “the squeeze”, and it’s backed by data that shows how women often get burnt out trying to manage competing demands at home and work, especially when they are parenting young children.”
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Pavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
New publication on immigrant attitudes toward immigration in 🇫🇷 We find that European origin immigrants attitudes converge with natives over time, while African and other non-European minorities -who are more discriminated against- stay pro-immigration. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Immigrants’ attitudes towards immigration: convergence towards majority views or ethnoracial polarization?
After decades of research on attitudes towards immigration among the ethnic majority, scholarly interest has recently shifted to investigate these attitudes among immigrants themselves. Drawing on ...
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Migrant Electoral Rights Dataset (1960-2020) 📊 Link to dataset: hdl.handle.net/1814/93661 📕 Link to codebook: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c... 💼 Link to 400 page documentation: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...
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MER Migrant Electoral Rights dataset
Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants—both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing dat...
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Konstantin Bogatyrev @bogatyrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
For postdocs around, I can't recommend this enough! In just four weeks in Mannheim, I connected to lots of amazing young scholars, presented my research, finished writing up my dissertation and applied for my current job at LSE. MZES organized my stay so smoothly that I couldn't wish for more.
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Domantas Undzėnas @unddom.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
🚨 New working paper alert! 🚨 I analyse how the UK Supreme Court declaring the Rwanda Scheme unconstitutional changed individuals' political values. I find that Britons become more supportive of racial and ethnic hierarchies after the ruling. doi.org/10.31235/osf... A 🧵:
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Domantas Undzėnas @unddom.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
🚨 New working paper alert! 🚨 I analyse how the UK Supreme Court declaring the Rwanda Scheme unconstitutional changed individuals' political values. I find that Britons become more supportive of racial and ethnic hierarchies after the ruling. doi.org/10.31235/osf... A 🧵:
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
New research finds that people “with both high psychopathy and low cognitive ability are the most actively involved in online political engagement” This is something I’ve observed in many political arguments online and it’s why I try to avoid online debates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Domantas Undzėnas @unddom.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In our new publication to @nature.com Humanities & Social Sciences Communications @muhx2.bsky.social and I explore if the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine increased support for European integration among Europeans. The answer is yes! A short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Entangled fates—the rally effect around Europe due to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Entangled fates—the rally effect around Europe due to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine
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Klara Müller @klaramueller.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
🚨 Excited to see my first solo-authored paper now published in IJPOR! 🚨 Do election outcomes affect participation in post-election surveys? And specifically, do election winners respond more than losers? The short answer: not really. The slightly longer answer: 🧵👇 academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...
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Survey Nonresponse After Elections: Investigating the Role of Winner-Loser Effects in Panel Attrition
Abstract. When and for whom do election outcomes drive survey nonresponse? This paper investigates whether belonging to the winners or losers of an electio
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 28/05/2025
New preprint w/ @grahn.bsky.social & @joenoonan.se What happens when the world's most powerful democracy rolls back core liberal values? 🇺🇸 In this paper, we show how US liberal retrenchment, especially on women’s rights & LGBTQ+ equality, damages US global standing. 📄 doi.org/10.31219/osf...
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 19/05/2025
A Tinder Test of Democratic Norms💋 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @bertous.bsky.social We rely on a visual conjoint experiment, cross-sectional data, & panel data to show that affective polarization drives the normalisation of the far right among the centre-right 🇬🇧🇪🇸 doi.org/10.1086/736698
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
#RDDers: check it out. rd2d: Causal Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs "This article introduces the R package rd2d, which implements and extends the...results developed in Cattaneo et al. (2025) for boundary discontinuity designs [like geographic RDDs]" arxiv.org/abs/2505.07989
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Lukas Warode @lwarode.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The first paper of my dissertation has been published in West European Politics! @wepsocial.bsky.social See the thread below:
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MZES Uni Mannheim @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
❗ Reminder: Apply now for a fellowship at the MZES, University of Mannheim! 📅 Deadline: 26 April ❗ Please note the updated link 😊👇🏻 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...
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Domantas Undzėnas @unddom.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Last week I had the pleasure to present at the University of Kent Social Psychology Seminar on the Rwanda scheme and racial hierarchies among Britons. It was also my first time presenting at a pub, great atmosphere and drinks. Thanks again to @sengupta.bsky.social for inviting me!
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Marc Debus @marcdebus.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
In a contribution to @respol.bsky.social, we show that Germans with a Russian or a Turkish migrant background are less in favour of sanctions against Russia. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... @himmelrath.bsky.social @dienerjulius.bsky.social @pluggedchris.bsky.social @dezim-institut.de
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Joe Phillips @polpsychjoe.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Out now and open access at @polbehavior.bsky.social! Which factors do Americans use to evaluate episodes of political violence? link.springer.com/article/10.1... (with Kal Munis, @nicolehufman.bsky.social, Arif Memovic, and Jacob Ford) 🧵
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When Push Comes to Shove: How Americans Excuse and Condemn Political Violence - Political Behavior
What factors do Americans find most important when evaluating acts of political violence? Normatively, details regarding the violent act (e.g., the target and violence severity) should determine the p...
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Joris Frese @fresejoris.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Published Today in PSRM: Based on a novel “Multiple Unexpected Events during Survey Design” (MUESD), I contextualize previous findings suggesting that Europeans become more empathetic toward migrants when exposed to migrant suffering. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A Summary Thread: 1/15
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
No opposition in the legislatures No opposition in the market No opposition in the media No opposition in the streets “The world’s oldest democracy” 🤷‍♂️
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Elizabeth Simon @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Do we systematically prefer educated candidates? Or do educational groups select in ways that reward their own? This article by @turnbulldugarte.com and I suggests the answers are yes, and yes - but only for the graduate group. Huge thanks to all who shared their data with us!
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social . We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric. Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric. 1/3
Abstract: How does anti-immigrant rhetoric by mainstream politicians affect norms of tolerance? How does this compare to similar statements made by radical-right politicians? Drawing on experimental evidence, we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians. Subsample analyses suggests that this is because statements by mainstream-right politicians erode norm perceptions of right-wing individuals, while those by radical-right politicians induce backlash among left-wing individuals, who hold closer to the norm in place. The latter effect (backlash by the left) disappears when similar statements are made by mainstream right politicians. We argue that this difference occurs because mainstream politicians represent the views of a larger part of the population or have a higher status. Our results highlight the pivotal role of mainstream politicians in enforcing or eroding democratic norms, and that similar political statements can have different effects depending on their sender.
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Violeta Haas @haasvioleta.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵Thread
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Labour seems set on making the same mistakes as other parties dealing with the far right. Such strategies will only normalize and empower the far right. It also ignores the consequences that this will have on progressives. All of this is well-documented. 1/ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Group of Labour MPs urge No 10 to be tougher on migration to fend off Reform
Exclusive: Pressure group set up by MPs from seats where Reform came second amid concern about party’s rise
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Like many other European social democratic parties, Labour is moving right on immigration, certainly driven by the recent success of Reform. We have researched this question for years now. There is an abundance of evidence of why this isn't a good strategy. A thread summarizing some of our research
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Important new paper on the effect of Citizens United on democratic institutions in the US. tl;dr Citizens United meaningfully contributed to voter suppression & gerrymandering. design: diff-in-diff & synthetic control gated: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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