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David Attewell

@davidattewell6.bsky.social

SNSF Postdoc Mobility Fellow in political science at Aarhus University, by way of the University of Zurich. Research on deservingness, solidarity, and social cleavages in politics. Website: https://www.davidattewell.net/

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Kaitlin Alper (she/her)@kaitlin-alper.bsky.social · 3w ago

Happy to announce a new article with @starke.bsky.social and Queralt Tornafoch Chirveches, published in Politics & Society. Using data from 20 rich democracies, we examine who feels insecure and whether welfare states can reduce inequalities in subjective insecurity. Read: doi.org/10.1177/0032...

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Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · 4w ago

Excited to share a new paper on transformative statecraft. We start from a critique of the compensation consensus in climate politics/political science. Compensating losers works – plenty of evidence for that. But when the goal is transformation (not reform), we need to think about mobilization. 🧵

Title: Beyond compensation: Climate politics, mobilization, and transformative statecraft Authors: Benjamin Braun & Leah Downey July 8, 2026 Abstract: Governments have pursued decarbonization through a combination of subsidies for capital and compensation for people. Political scientists have identified the compensation of those who incur losses from climate policies as the the central challenge in building green coalitions and achieving a just transition. However, a decarbonization path aimed at limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius en- tails transformative change for virtually everyone. We argue that, under such con- ditions, a compensation-based approach reduces green backlash to pocketbook concerns; citizens to bundles of fixed preferences; and evaluation to policy-by- policy assessment. Proposing to move beyond compensating existing preferences, we contend that transformative statecraft reshapes preferences through political mobilization. From this perspective, a technocratic approach—focused on calcu- lation and compensation—constitutes a binding constraint on green statecraft. We defend this mobilization-based approach against the objections of manipulation and deprivation of freedom and suggest that a democratic version of transforma- tive statecraft is possible.
David Attewell@davidattewell6.bsky.social · 4w ago

Facing scandal, Farage resigns as MP - triggering a by-election to renew his mandate. But opposing parties refuse to stand. Enter Count Binface: -A vessel to unite anti-Farage voters, from Greens to Cons. -Denies Farage a symbolic victory no matter what; humiliating if close, meaningless if not.

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Ronja Sczepanski@ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · last mo.

„Working class support for X is up by Y%“. What does this information do to polarization between groups? In a new paper w/ Geoffrey Evans: Perceived working-class alignment with pro/anti camps on immigration & environment shifts identification and sympathy doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Perceived class positions and opinion-based polarisation: experimental evidence from the UK

Class divisions over emerging policy issues are well-documented, yet the mechanisms driving these divisions remain underexplored. This article argues that perceptions of how the working class posit...

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Drew Engelhardt@amengel.bsky.social · last mo.

Motivated by a somewhat puzzling result in a project, wanted to see how the links between partisanship & views of various salient social groups gave changed over time. Some interesting stuff in the ANES, including places where things have changed and not, plus relative magnitudes across groups.

Series of panels showing trends in the link between partisanship and feelings about a given group as estimated from a series of simple linear regressions.
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last mo.

It's easier for media to portray the election as an attack on American Jews than to delve into what NY-10 really was: The second most Jewish Congressional district in the US having a referendum between two Jewish candidates on what it means to do Jewish politics in the age of Trump and Netanyahu.

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last mo.

A beautiful day for Zionists to project their blistering, bottomless self-hatred onto Jews who refuse to assimilate into fascist norms:

Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP'S FORMER FIX... & G @speechboy71 Tikun Olam Jews ... and a daily reminder of the decades-long failure of Jewish communal institutions to foster a strong sense of Jewish identity (though in an environment virtually free of open anti-Semitism, it was always going to be a herculean effort) x.com/JewishWonk/sta.. €. Alex hull (a lIuTa @Jewishwonk -2h This is a difficult thing for outsiders to grasp, but the Jews involved in this leftist faction are mostly secular, assimilated, and actively hostile to Jewish communal life. Like socialist movements of the past, they are accepted while .. 11:39 AM • Jun 24. 2026 • 1.578 Views
David Attewell@davidattewell6.bsky.social · last mo.

Respectfully, we’re in a golden era of academic data collection on income/wealth inequality and detailed expert proposals for both wealth and corporate taxation and inflation control. Too many people write this off as ‘slopulism’ as if Piketty/Zucman/Saez/Mazzucato/Isabella Weber didn’t exist.

those who are tardy do not get fruitcup@mangoboy66.bsky.social · last mo.

this is not wrong. listening to populist candidates and pundits recently where they can itemize the problems but do not propose any workable policy is frustrating as hell. screaming to tax the rich is not enough with no policy or how to change it is tiring.

David Attewell@davidattewell6.bsky.social · last mo.

Hochul is also losing badly to Zohran’s picks in almost every endorsement fight in which they went head to head. His political strength, both absolute and relative, in NYC just went through the roof.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · last mo.

An underrated winner tonight: Kathy Hochul. Two years ago, she got literally zero applause at the DNC. Pelosi blamed her for Democrats losing the House. Her own lieutenant governor knifed her in the back. Then... she went to war with Trump, endorsed Mamdani and now she won her primary unopposed.

David Attewell@davidattewell6.bsky.social · last mo.

That UK media are near universally suggesting bond markets have a veto over who becomes Chancellor is nuts. Bond markets do not have this kind of power. A misreading of Liz Truss’s fall has completely buried the basic lessons of Keynesianism, to say nothing of COVID/the GFC.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · last mo.

Andy Burnham is currently under a load of media-driven pressure to "reassure the markets" by appointing a Chancellor whose views are almost entirely out of line with everything he's said so far. How he responds will tell us whether he actually wants to change how Westminster works

David Attewell@davidattewell6.bsky.social · last mo.

Another way to put this: Starmer was playing politics on easy mode compared to Joe Biden, Lula, Pedro Sanchez, Mette Frederiksen, or Olaf Scholz. They would dream of having so few institutional constraints.

David Attewell@davidattewell6.bsky.social · last mo.

A huge majority in the UK's strongly majoritarian system is likely the biggest opportunity *globally* for the centre-left to demonstrate its vision. Expectations should, if anything, be far higher.

Will Beaman@greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Jobs are capacities in a material sense as well as costs in a payroll sense. Public banking can be a tool to begin to correct this omission. Imagine a co-op getting access to credit because its maintained employment is listed on its balance sheet as an asset rather than a payroll liability.

David Attewell@davidattewell6.bsky.social · 2mo ago

These proposals are good on their merits. But the idea that the UK govt has a fixed pot of £ that’s run dry is in a fundamental way pre-Keynesian, 1920s economics. The kind that would’ve rejected building the NHS in 1948- because Britain was broke. If a Burnham govt embraces it, there’s no point.

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The bad news: the UK's fiscal position means Burnham/any new Chancellor will have little/no room for manoeuvre on tax/spending/borrowing. The good news: there is a. progressive policy agenda that is pro-growth *and* fiscally credible. www.ft.com/content/7235...

David Attewell@davidattewell6.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a start, but needs to go much, much further. The idea of European countries ‘not being able to afford’ to invest in the Green Transition is crazy on its face. It will be almost incalculably more costly not to.

Philipp Heimberger@heimbergecon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The European Commission allows additional government spending of up to 0.6% of GDP until 2028 to reduce dependence on fossil fuels by broadening the scope of the current National Escape Clause for defence spending. Such extra spending would be exempt from fiscal rules constraints

Jacob Hacker@jacobhacker.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The conservative SCOTUS majority just gutted the VRA. The obvious consequence: fewer Black legislators. The less obvious one: Black voters in the South losing the mechanism that made Congress actually vote their way. @prospect.org with Zoli Hajnal @markarianga.bsky.social @maclockhart.bsky.social

The American Prospect@prospect.org · 2mo ago

Millions of voters of color will no longer be able to elect a representative of their choice. But what’s at stake is far bigger: whether voters of color can elect legislators whose votes actually reflect their policy preferences. prospect.org?p=139239