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Valentin Lang

@valentinlang.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Uni Mannheim / Soon: Professor at Saarland University. Political Economy, International Political Economy, Geoeconomics, Economic Policy valentinlang.com

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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
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Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yesterday, I was appointed Professor at Saarland University @uni-saarland.de I look forward to meeting many new colleagues and to continuing my research and teaching on political economy and economic policy there! www.uni-saarland.de/en/news/vale...
Valentin Lang & Jakob von Weizsäcker
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's time. Time to write about this style of writing. Which I've done here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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What is LinkedIn?
The rise of mindful slop
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's almost as if...the IMF is not a purely technocratic institution & the domestic political interests of its major shareholders affect its policies & decisions...
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Historical exposure to #immigration has no electoral effects when #immigration is not salient, but new immigration waves activate latent differences in political preferences." @valentinlang.bsky.social et al paper using forced migration across Germany. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Immigration and Nationalism in the Long Run
<span>This study shows how local experiences with immigration in the past shape political reactions to new immigration waves in the present. We exploit a spatia
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Vielleicht interessieren Sie beide sich für unsere Studie zu genau dieser Frage: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Immigration and Nationalism in the Long Run
<span>This study shows how local experiences with immigration in the past shape political reactions to new immigration waves in the present. We exploit a spatia
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Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The @financialtimes.com has a longer analysis of the election results in Sachsen-Anhalt with data from @juliusk.bsky.social and comments by @indubioproreto.bsky.social @posch-daniel.bsky.social and myself today: www.ft.com/content/ef6d...
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Who is voting for the far-right Alternative for Germany?
AfD’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt reflects national trends — ‘but on steroids’
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Nice! Congrats!!
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.
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Elon Musk's $1.32 Trillion, to Scale
The first trillionaire's fortune, one pixel per $1,000 — scroll past every dollar, and see what a fraction of it could do instead.
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Ich geb dir ja recht, dass der Bildungs"effekt" extrem groß ist, das sieht man wirklich immer... (ist natürlich auch wieder ein compound treatment mit Wohnort, Job, Netzwerk etc.). Nur kommt mir der Einkommens"effekt" einfach gleichzeitig auch recht bedeutend vor. Schönen Freitagnachmittag noch!
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Gut klar, aber wir nehmen ja schon an, dass die Einkommensunterschiede zwischen Ost und West dabei auch eine Rolle spielen könnten ;-) Solche Dinge rauszukontrollieren führt dann natürlich zu immer kleineren Zusammenhängen...
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Die horse race Regression mit Einkommen und Bildung gleichzeitig ist ja etwas problematisch – beides stark korreliert und Einkommen post-treatment zu Bildung – aber selbst da ist es ja noch recht deutlich. Für mich sieht es nach einem starken aber eben nicht-linearen Zusammenhang aus...Gehst da mit?
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Die Analysen sind wie immer spannend, aber ich verstehe hier die Schlussfolgerung nicht wirklich. Es gibt laut den Grafiken schon einen deutlichen Zusammenhang, der halt nur nicht ganz so *linear* wie über die Bildungskategorien ist. Stark ist er trotzdem (6,6% für >7500€ vs. ca. 17% (!) für <2500€.
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Charlotte Bartels @charlottebartels.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Out in @jeeanews.bsky.social: our paper on the long-run evolution of wealth in Germany! 🥳
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Looking forward to your talk!
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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
V-Dem v.16 is now released, w. updated scores for 2025. Most countries remain stable from 2024, but some clear improvements (on diff’t democracy indices), incl. S. Korea, Sri Lanka & Mauritius. Largest declines came, by far, in the US. This figure shows 10-yr changes on the Liberal Dem. index.
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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
As the Hormuz crisis becomes a food security crisis, the @wfp.org is going into 2026 in a massive funding hole due to aid retrenchment by the US and many European donors facing the prospect of rearmament. The geopolitics driving the crisis are also leaving the cupboard bare for crisis response.
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MZES Uni Mannheim @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
❓ Ständig im Krisenmodus? ❗ Wie wir als Gemeinschaft Krisen bewältigen 📆 Mi., 11.3., 17:30 📍 Aula im Mannheimer Schloss Öffentliche Podiumsdiskussion mit den MZES-Forschern Marc Helbling, @valentinlang.bsky.social und Kolleg*innen verschiedener Disziplinen: 👉 www.uni-mannheim.de/newsroom/pre...
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Podiumsdiskussion Krisenmodus
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Morgen Abend Podiumsdiskussion hier👇 Freuen uns auf Besuch! www.uni-mannheim.de/newsroom/pre...
Schloss Mannheim
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Baden-Württemberg was divided into an American and a French occupation zone after WW2 along a highway. Settlement patterns of German refugees from the East differed, and so does the vote for the AfD today. 👇🏻
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
... und hier der aktuelle Artikel der Stuttgarter Zeitung dazu:
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
... Jetzt mit Daten bis zur Wahl 2025, neuer Evidenz zu Mechanismen und einem ähnlichen Muster in ganz Deutschland ...
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Rechtzeitig zur #Landtagswahl: eine neue Version von „Immigration and Nationalism in the Long Run“ (mit schneiderst.de/) -> Die historischen Erfahrungen mit Einwanderung wirken sich dort bis heute auf die Wahlergebnisse der #AfD aus. <- papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Wer vor der Landtagswahl am Sonntag noch etwas richtig interessantes über Wahlergebnisse in Baden-Württemberg lesen will, hier entlang:
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Thomas Weber @weber-thomas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
1/3 A new study by @valentinlang.bsky.social & Stephan A Schneider suggests that 🇩🇪 regions that received a high number of refugees in the wake of WWII are less likely to be deceived by the siren songs of far-right parties in today’s elections than regions that received few migrants in the late 1940s
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
must read 👇
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IE Political Science Department @iepolisci.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
IE SPEGA had the pleasure to host the 18th edition of @the-peio.bsky.social, a truly transatlantic conference that brings together senior and junior scholars from both sides of the Atlantic doing state-of-the-art work in the fields of international political economy and international organizations.
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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
If you're in Europe and just waking up, here are the 60+ bodies - around half of them under the UN umbrella - from which the US has withdrawn
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Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Herzlichen Glückwunsch Thomas!
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Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Don’t say you weren’t warned. New poll suggests Jordan Bardella would win second round of 🇫🇷 presidential election against any other of four tested candidates ⬇️
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Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
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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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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Congrats! I really like this paper.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
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Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter
Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Genau! Und dieses Muster wiederholt sich in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik in unterschiedlichen Kontexten immer wieder – wie unser Paper zum Thema zeigt: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/08/2025
Last week, OpenAI finally released GPT-5, which many had hoped would usher in the next significant leap in A.I. capabilities. But it is just the latest product to suggest that A.I. might not get much better.
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What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.
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P.-Guillaume Méon @pgmeon.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Our paper with @nicolaslagios.bsky.social & @ilantojerow.bsky.social is now out in the Economic Journal ( @resmedia.bsky.social). It shows that demonstrating against the far-right in France had the intended effect. 1/18 academic.oup.com/ej/article-a... 1/18
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Media, Spillovers and Social Norms: The Electoral Impact of Anti-Far-Right Protests in the 2002 French Election
Abstract. We study the electoral impact of protesting against the far right by investigating the demonstrations held during the 2002 French presidential el
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Bill Chopik @chops310.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Freue mich drauf!
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Important and interesting work on EU regional cohesion policies and how they need to be reformed.
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Nils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Yesterday, the Commission proposed piling a whole heap of new goals—from competitiveness to defense—onto the EU’s regional policy. Since that’s pretty much the opposite of what @valentinlang.bsky.social, @danbischof.bsky.social, and I argued in a recent paper, a quick recap of our main points:
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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
sickening grotesque repugnant horrifying repugnant nauseating shameful shame shame shame shame shame
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Rubio’s position seems to be: - We get to say who is a terrorist. Our decision is final. It can’t be challenged. Just trust us. - Once we decide you are a terrorist, we can immediately deport you. No judges. - After we deport you, we can make you rot in a foreign prison. No criminal charges needed.
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This is exactly what the Erdogan regime used to do (before it got all the compliant courts it needed): remove judges that rule against it.
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Nils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Europe urgently needs to ramp up defense spending. But it must do so without risking a repeat of the euro crisis. @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social and I think the Commission’s current plan to use the flexibility built in the EU’s fiscal rules will not achieve this. Short thread: tinyurl.com/327u4ph6
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How to defend Europe without risking another euro crisis
Europe intends to rapidly and strongly increase its defense spending. It should do so without risking Europe’s fiscal sustainability and financial stability at a time of great danger.
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LSE European Politics @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
💥 New: Will the IMF survive Donald Trump’s presidency? ✍️ Robert H. Wade @lseid.bsky.social writes ahead of tonight's @lseevents.bsky.social event on the "new Washington consensus" blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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Will the IMF survive Donald Trump’s presidency?
Robert H. Wade examines what American disengagement and growing resentment among emerging market and developing countries mean for the future of the IMF. It is now widely recognised that the world …
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