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Xabier Garcia Fuente

@xabigarf.bsky.social
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Economic History. Social policy. Latin America. PhD student at Universitat de Barcelona.

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Fabien Accominotti @faccominotti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Critiques of meritocracy are having a moment. In this review article, Mike Sauder and I look beyond the "we think it promotes equity, but it doesn't" argument.
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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It's time for another Encode/Decode! @madselk.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, Laure Bokobza, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, @mhaslberger.bsky.social, & @jacobnyrup.bsky.social use original #survey #data to explore #inheritance #taxation and its impact on #wealth #inequality: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...
Marginal Inheritance Tax Rates by Multiple of GDP Per Capita in Eighteen Advanced Democracies
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Michael Hankinson @hankinson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Building affordable housing ➡️ support for funding housing. Nearby homeowners ⬆️ support; renters ⬇️ support. Both are “the policy adjacent”—secondhand recipients & drivers of policy feedback. Forthcoming @ajpseditor.bsky.social ( doi.org/10.1111/ajps...) w/ A. Magazinnik & @msands.bsky.social 1/9
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A New Measure of Affective Polarization By Nicolas Campos, University of Minnesota, and Christopher Federico, University of Minnesota Affective polarization has emerged as an important construct in the literature on partisanship. However, most efforts to measure it have relied on simple…
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A New Measure of Affective Polarization
By Nicolas Campos, University of Minnesota, and Christopher Federico, University of Minnesota Affective polarization has emerged as an important construct in the literature on partisanship. However, most efforts to measure it have relied on simple preexisting indices, potentially missing the complexity of affective polarization. In this article, we address these concerns by reconceptualizing and deriving a new measure of affective polarization.
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Leire Salazar @leire-salazar.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Hoy escribo en @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social sobre por qué urge volver a atraer a las clases medias a los servicios públicos 👇👇 Si te gusta, difunde. www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...
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Que la clase media utilice los servicios públicos beneficia a los pobres
El relativo abandono (o la expulsión) de las clases medias de los servicios públicos es un problema central que urge revertir.
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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
NEW PAPER ALERT! My paper, with @bjornhoyland.bsky.social , on how “policy loss” shapes support for the EU has just been published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Check it out! 1/
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
We’d like to believe that effort matters to what we attain in life. In fact our belief in meritocracy depends on that. But what if how much effort people spend itself depends on your social background? “The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children”
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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Here's a short write-up of our recently published study: 📰"What People Really Think About Taxing the Rich – the surprising beliefs behind progressive taxation" TLDR: Most believe taxing the rich brings equality & growth! Elite fears are not shared. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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What People Really Think About Taxing the Rich – the surprising beliefs behind progressive taxation « Political Science and International Relations# « Cambridge Core Blog
For decades, political leaders, economists, and business elites have repeated a familiar warning: tax the rich too much, and everyone will suffer. Higher taxes on the wealthy, they argue, might reduce...
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Janet Gornick @janetgornick.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Are you interested in inequality of opportunity / inter-generational mobility? Take a look at this impressive new resource: a public-access database containing cross-nationally comparable estimates of inequality of opportunity for 72 countries, covering 2/3 of the world’s population. 👇👇👇
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
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Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 05/09/2025
Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Did you ever wonder why governments don’t do more to counteract wealth inequality? In our new @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, we seek to answer this question, studying the electoral politics of inheritance taxation muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 1/n
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Project MUSE - Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality? Evidence from the United Kingdom
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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Are regimes with higher nr's of core supporters more durable? Are regimes with more diverse coalitions of supporters more durable? In this (published today) @cpsjournal.bsky.social article, @sirianned.bsky.social , @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social , and @torewig.bsky.social I answer "Yes" to both Qs.
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Gefjon Off @gefjonoff.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
New publication in @wepsocial.bsky.social! Are young men becoming more conservative? This debate requires a) more nuance and b) theoretical explanations for often descriptive results. With Amy Alexander and Nicholas Charron, we try addressing both. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Young men, gendered labour market competition, and opposition to gender equality policy across 27 EU countries
Recent studies have shown an increasing divide in political values between young men and women, particularly regarding gender equality attitudes. In this study it is argued that this is due in part...
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Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
A very interesting paper on recent industrial policy successes and failures in Europe that highlights the enduring importance of institutions. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
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When does industrial policy fail and when can it succeed? Case studies from Europe
Abstract. When does industrial policy succeed and fail in advanced economies? Most approaches to these questions concentrate on policy design and state pow
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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 04/08/2025
Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Business owners in Brazil systematically favor co-partisan workers in hiring, promotion, and pay. Assortative matching is larger than for race or gender, and rising over time.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
US households tend to be too optimistic about their future job prospects. This bias leads to worse financial decisions over the life course and contributes to wealth inequality.
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Isabell Stamm @isabellstamm.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
In our new article, Jens Beckert and I ask how "Capital and the Family" interconnect in contemporary capitalism. We argue that they come together in owning relations - and are crucial to today's economy. Read more in @bjsociology.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Parenthood and the gender gap in commuting" By Aline Bütikofer, René Karadakic, & Alexander Willén www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics #gendergap
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I agree with this but - as Giles' post effectively goes on to say - there *is* a way out of this fiscal corner, it's called raising taxes, and I don't think it's as politically impossible as people make out Hard (by Labour's own doing) but not impossible First, welfare revolts tells us nothing...
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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Yay! @madselk.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, @mhaslberger.bsky.social, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, Laure Bokobza, and my piece on 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 is out in @worldpolitics.bsky.social! Find it here: muse.jhu.edu/article/964464
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Every day, another deliberate massacre of starving civilians. Silence speaks louder than words. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Witnesses describe ‘horror’ after Israeli forces fire at Palestinians waiting for aid trucks
At least 51 people killed and hundreds wounded in Khan Younis as they sought food supplies, says Gaza health ministry
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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Who gets the privilege of free time? Across Europe, fathers enjoy more leisure time than mothers, especially in Southern and Eastern countries. New research across 13 countries shows persistent gender gaps in parental leisure. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
NEW - Beyond Observational Relationships: Evidence from a Ten-Country Experiment that Policy Disputes Cause Affective Polarization - cup.org/3Zvgchx - @noamgidron.bsky.social, James Adams, @rwillh11.bsky.social & @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing scholars' investigation into polarization and logical comparisons across party entities, cultural priming in economic discussions, and the effect of cultural debates on political discourse.
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🧾 Gender meets taxation Laura Seelkopf (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) brings together two rarely connected topics, gender and taxation, to explore overlooked puzzles and lessons for political economy research 👇
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Invisible taxation: women and the tax state
Tax systems in Europe and elsewhere severely discriminate against women. This has huge implications for their income, wealth and general power within society. It also leads to gendered consumption ...
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Here's Gary Stevenson calling for a return to the 1970s, when the top rate of tax was 98%. But did the rich ever pay it? We spoke to 1970s tax dodgers and ex-HMRC staff & and crunched the data. A 🧵, but here's a spoiler: the rich pay more tax *now*.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A footnote from David Miller, expressing highly recognisable reservations about the rise of the journal article.
Naturally this has implications for the way in which a political philosopher should communicate his ideas. One of the unwelcome side effects of turning political philosophy into an academic discipline has been the rise of the journal article as the preferred means of expression. Everything about it is forbidding to the lay reader. It has a formal structure that seems designed to reassure her that there will be no surprising turns of argument. It lays out in advance the conclusion to which she will be marched. It plods dutifully through the large literature on the topic, as though to confirm that no original thought is going to be expressed. It is weighed down with footnotes—in the worst case almost every sentence has a Harvard-style reference at the end. Everything about it signals that it’s intended only for the initiated— those who’ve already mastered the fifty-five other articles it cites. In all these respects it contrasts with the essay as a form of writing designed to convey ideas to the reader in an enticing and imaginative way and with little use of formal apparatus. For several centuries before this one, the essay was the primary means of conveying political-philosophical ideas to what Hume in his essay on the subject called ‘the conversible World’. ( D. Hume, ‘Of Essay Writing’, in D. Hume, Essays Moral, Political, and Literary, edited by E. Miller (Liberty Press, 1985).
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Robert Manduca @robertmanduca.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I have a new paper out! "Should Social Insurance Programs Count as Wealth? Augmented Wealth in Research and Policy." Published yesterday in Socio-Economic Review @sasemeeting.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
NEW - Family Matters: How Concerns about the Financial Wellbeing of Young Relatives Shape the Political Preferences of Older Adults - cup.org/3Gny1bz - @zackgp94.bsky.social, @profjanegreen.bsky.social & Geoffrey Evans #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing the financial and political polarization, the support for government spending on welfare measures, and the struggles of younger individuals and families in managing economic hardships, possibly in the context of British assets and family-centric economical approaches.
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Magnus B Rasmussen @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🚨 New #EconHistory research alert! Our paper “Strikes & Machines: Investment decisions in inter‑war Norway” conditionally accepted in Journal of Economic History ask "What did strike threats really do to technology?" 👇 1/6
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Michael Albertus @mikealbertus.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Who owns the land? Who DECIDES who owns the land? Who has the power to redistribute land ownership? My podcast with @gregolear.bsky.social on these & other questions on the link between land and power podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The Great Reshuffle: Land and Power (with Mike Albertus)
Podcast Episode · Prevail with Greg Olear · 04/18/2025 · 53m
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Basic income programs improve recipients' mental health durably and a lot! maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
NEW - Does the Accumulation of Assets Shape Voting Preferences? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Britain - cup.org/42JWcZl - Justin Robinson, @pavlosvas1.bsky.social & @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing the relationship between asset accumulation and voting patterns in Britain, focusing on the Conservative Party and generational differences in political behavior.
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
today we will all read imbens 2021 on statistical significance and p values, which is a strong contender for having the best opening paragraph of any stats paper pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🚨New paper out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Torben Iversen: doi.org/10.1177/0010... We empirically separate economic factors from cultural backlash as competing explanations for right-wing populism, and find evidence for the former. We define the concept of “unfunded public goods.” 🧵
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 03/04/2025
With US tariffs and tax cuts shaking the global stock market, Pay Up! by John L. Campbell debunks five myths American conservatives have used for a half-century to justify cutting taxes, especially for corporations and the rich. Coming Soon #USPol 💙📚 #EconSky cup.org/4i0bKNZ
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Pay Up!
Cambridge Core - American Studies - Pay Up!
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Noam Gidron @noamgidron.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🚨Why do masses support democratic backsliding?🚨 A new @AJPS_Editor paper with Yotam Margalit, @liorsheffer.bsky.social and Itamar Yakir explores this question in the Israeli context. Our findings emphasize the role of leader attachment and affective polarization. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/03/2025
"Indeed, we have now seen what it looks like when the government supports and subsidizes technological innovation and implementation without concerning itself with the inegalitarianism of the system. His name is Elon Musk." www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/t...
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The Abundance Agenda
A review.
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joseph francis @joefrancis.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
My new paper is “The Autumn of the White Patriarch: Identity and Inequality in American Capitalism.” This is the key chart. It shows how white men’s share of national income has fallen since the 1960s. Imho, this is why we have such identity politics on the US right today. 1/11
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Vincent Pons @vinpons.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We are very happy to publish the "National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet
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Overview
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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Are we facing the return of "inheritocracy"? @morellisal.bsky.social, whose research was cited by The Economist in a recent article on inherited wealth, discusses the rising importance of inheritance and potential solutions for the negative effects of the Great Wealth Transfer. bit.ly/3R5B2z5
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Salvatore Morelli on the Rising Importance of Inheritance and How to Curb Its Negative Effects - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Salvatore Morelli, whose research was cited by The Economist in a recent article on the “return of inheritocracy,” discusses the surge in inherited wealth, what this means for wealth inequality, and p...
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Which policies do citizens prefer in economic crises? 💥 Leonardo Baccini, @mattiaguidi.bsky.social and Arlo Poletti show strong support for social spending & redistribution, but with an ideological divide: right-wing voters are far less likely to back welfare for foreigners. 👇
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Embedded liberalism, economic nationalism, or Welfare Chauvinism? Experimental evidence on policy preferences in tough times
Three policy paradigms have emerged to address globalisation-induced economic vulnerabilities: (1) Embedded Liberalism (EL), (2) Economic Nationalism (EN), and (3) Welfare Chauvinism (WC). We inves...
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The idea that support for Trump will evaporate because of bad policy echoes similar arguments made about the European far-right—when they first enter parliament, first join coalition gov's, first win elections. And yet, that doesn't seem to be true: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 1/3
Data from the PopuList project showing that support for far-right parties has not decreased recently.
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Lots of talk about ‘left behind’ places & far-right’s rise. How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support? In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper exploring Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out shorturl.at/xgeho
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