It seems less than ideal that the U.K. has constructed a system where the level of teaching/research investment across universities and academic fields is heavily shaped by the extent to which non-U.K. students want to study specific subjects at specific institutions. www.ft.com/content/fbde...

We need humanities more than ever in the age of AI

Subjects like literature, languages and history are vital to a thoughtful and prosperous society

ft.com

I never thought I would see the RDD lobbyists defeat the tobacco lobbyists. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

The "landmark" legislation aims to stop anyone born after 1 January 2009 from taking up smoking to create a smoke-free generation.

bbc.co.uk

📣We are hiring The Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy at UCL is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Public Policy and invites applicants with teaching and research expertise in any area of public policy. Find out more: tinyurl.com/uclppjd #Jobs #Policy @ucl.ac.uk

Do we understand the politics of this kind of cost-shock inflation (and the policies that might help address it)? I think not so much: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The Politics of Inflation

Inflation returned to the foreground of political economies worldwide after 2019, after 30 years of relative quiescence. Inflation remains unpopular—including among those who are hurt by the policies ...

annualreviews.org

Daniela Gabor@danielagabor.bsky.social · 5mo ago

think @zackpolanski.bsky.social should ask: 1. why is Labour allowing Bank of England to abdicate its public duties during crisis? 2. How are interest rate hikes going to deal with inflationary pressures triggered by oil shocks without inflicting massive further damage on our battered economy?

Nick Vivyan, Chris Hanretty (@chanret.bsky.social) and I have a new book out: “Idiosyncratic Issue Opinion and Political Choice”. The core of the book is making the argument that citizens’ views about political issues neither reduce to an ideological orientation nor to a lack of substance. (1/10)

Join and help to lead the Constitution Unit! @uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities. Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD. Apply 👇

Job opportunity: Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics

The UCL Department of Political Science and Constitution Unit are seeking to appoint a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics. The successful candidate will join the senior team at the Unit.

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Political scientists are obligated to repost news of elections decided by single votes. I'm sorry, but I don't make the rules.

🚨 New paper out at @bjpols.bsky.social with @benlauderdale.bsky.social & @chriswratil.bsky.social! We ask: How does populist rhetoric affect the electoral fortunes of candidates? And is it successful in changing the issue preferences of voters? Three key findings in the 🧵 below:

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW - Winning Votes and Changing Minds: Do Populist Arguments Affect Candidate Evaluations and Issue Preferences? - cup.org/4jGIsVP - @markuskollberg.bsky.social, @benlauderdale.bsky.social & @chriswratil.bsky.social #OpenAccess

#OpenAccess from our latest issue - Public Preferences Over Changes to the Composition of Government Tax Revenue - cup.org/3E8Avcx - @lucy-barnes.bsky.social, Julia de Romémont & @benlauderdale.bsky.social

This paper from B&L in APSR First View responds to our study (Fowler et al. 2023). We very much appreciate the dialogue. However, we believe our results are robust to the exercise B&L have undertaken and have produced a series of analyses to support that conclusion. tinyurl.com/5a7x26e7 (1/7)

American Political Science Review@apsrjournal.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just published on APSR First View: ""Moderates"" by David Broockman and Benjamin Lauderdale. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/moderates/4C8917D91FCFD7ECA74E5D2DB5C741FE#r6

Just published on APSR First View: ""Moderates"" by David Broockman and Benjamin Lauderdale. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/moderates/4C8917D91FCFD7ECA74E5D2DB5C741FE#r6

Off to Wembley to pass my Tebbit Test.

It is never a good sign when the sector you work in is receiving multiple articles a day in the FT.

It took one term after we were encouraged to do “Continuous Module Dialogue” using Menti (so that everyone in the classroom could see responses in real time) for us to conclude that {open-ended responses; real-time unmoderated; anonymous} is a set where you must choose at most two of three.