1/5 📰🧐 Research Digest July 2026 -Taxes vs. Sharing - Marriage and Elite Privilege - Responsiveness and congruence in 🇬🇧 - Social housing and residential segregation in 🇳🇱

2/5 🧵In @poppublicsphere.bsky.social, Carter, Del Ponte & DeScioli find poor voters reject beneficial high taxes 30–50% of the time in a simple game—and oppose the same policy more when labeled "taxes" vs "sharing." People focus on the burden, not the benefit. doi.org/rhsj

3/5 🧵 Armandola, Doehne & Rost (@socioeconreview.bsky.social) track 14,841 Basel marriages. As lottery reforms eroded the old elite's political privilege, they turned inward and chose more endogamy, fewer marriages to protect their standing. doi.org/rhsn

4/5 🧵 In @bjpols.bsky.social, Bischof et al. study whether MPs vary their responsiveness depending on constituents’ congruence with their party’s policy positions. Audit experiment in 🇬🇧. Results show that legislators’ responsiveness is insensitive to constituent-party congruence. doi.org/rhsh

5/5 🧵In @housingjournal.bsky.social, @javiersanmillan.bsky.social et al. study how the characteristics of the social housing sector affect residential segregation in 🇳🇱. Results show that spatial integration and broad accessibility of social housing reduce income segregation. doi.org/rhsm

4/6 🧵 In @electoralstudies.bsky.social Fonseca, @deborathome.bsky.social & @guedesneto.bsky.social use DiD with 🇧🇷 reform to answer: do party funding incentives help promote underrepresented groups? No, as parties seek to secure rewards by investing in non-competitive candidates doi.org/qzkw

3/6 🧵In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, Bowles show that elite-preferred candidates performed better in providing local public goods in 1960s 🇹🇿. IV design leveraging ballot symbols allocated deterministically that happened to influence voting choices doi.org/qzk6

2/6 🧵In @ajpseditor.bsky.social, @kbuzard7.bsky.social, Canen & Saiegh study risk from policy uncertainty & lobbying. Stock market data from 🇺🇸. Results show that policy uncertainty is lower for lobbying firms & that only few firms lobby b/c of high costs and diminishing returns. doi.org/qzk7

6/6 🧵In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, Tuñón shows religion ⇏ conservative politics. In 🇧🇷, progressive bishops helped the leftist PT win votes - especially where labor unions were weak. When Pope John Paul II replaced them, PT support dropped. The church filled the gap unions couldn't. doi.org/qzk8

5/6 🧵In @cpsjournal.bsky.social Huberts shows that when public services are broken but hard to fix, politicians don't solve the problem, they suppress it. Evidence from 🇲🇽-City finds that by monitoring & quietly appeasing vocal opposition they keep issues as water off the ballot. doi.org/qzk3

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest March 2026 - Lobbying and policy uncertainty in 🇺🇸 - elite selected candidates in 🇹🇿 - party funding incentives to promote underrepresented groups in 🇧🇷 - quiet appeasement to keep issues of the agenda in 🇲🇽 - progressive bishops and PT votes in 🇧🇷

Diese Studie ist eine Sensation: Heike Klüver hat 1.237 Regierungen in 57 Demokratien über 50 Jahre ausgewertet. Die Schlüsselfrage: Werden Rechtsextreme „entzaubert“, wenn sie mitregieren? Die Antwort – eindeutig: Nein. Sobald rechtsextreme Parteien an der Regierung sitzen, profitieren sie.

In our new blogpost, Prof Vimal Ranchhod and Dr @arindamjana.bsky.social (University of Cape Town) explain why wealth inequality is much more persistent and harder to measure compared to income inequalitity: wealthpolicies.eu/blog-4-the-g...

Do politicians' backgrounds shape policy? Prof Pimenta & Dr Lima underline lawmakers come from privileged backgrounds and this bias influence which policies get passed. In their PoWER research, they explore how policy-makers' career influence income concentration wealthpolicies.eu/how-politici...

We now check manuscripts for the possibility that AI has been used to produce the paper. Springer's system does some automated checking but doesn't catch everything. So, in certain situations we check the refs for hallucinations. Latest manuscript: multiple hallucinations. Author will be banned.

we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt - a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage - 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

CRC 1342 "Global Dynamics of Social Policy" Enters Third Funding Phase! 🌏🥳 DFG is supporting the CRC for another four years until the end of 2029! #socialpolicy Read more: socialpolicydynamics.de/en uni-bremen.de/en/

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

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Elon Musk hat auf einer Großdemonstration zu Gewalt aufgerufen. Doch die Bundesregierung und viele Medien sind weiterhin auf seiner Plattform X. Was muss eigentlich noch passieren, bis sie diesem gewaltbereiten Rechtsradikalen den Rücken kehren? Ein Kommentar. netzpolitik.org/2025/komment...

Kommentar: Nach Musks Aufruf zur Gewalt muss die Bundesregierung X verlassen

Elon Musk hat am Samstag als Sprecher einer Großdemonstration zu Gewalt aufgerufen. Doch die Bundesregierung und viele Medien sind weiterhin auf seiner Plattform X. Was muss eigentlich noch passieren,...

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ChatGPT shows signs of the same biases that arise in audit studies of human beings. When you give ChatGPT resumes, it's biased in how it evaluates minorities. When you ask ChatGPT to generate resumes for women & minorities, it generates systematically different types of resumes

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

Mehr #Dauerstellen, mehr Transparenz, klare Karrierewege – im neuen Positionspapier #Personalstrukturen im deutschen #Wissenschaftssystem fordert der #WR eine grundlegende Reform der Strukturen. Zum Papier und weiteren Informationen 🔗 www.wissenschaftsrat.de/download/202...

This fall, we’re launching two new Master’s programs focused on applied methods in the social sciences at Uni Marburg. More info + details 👉

I still don’t understand why we’re not adjusting the semester dates such that the teaching ends before the summer heat kicks in? If the University of Mannheim (and many other institutions worldwide) can do it, we can too. What we’re currently going through is completely avoidable.

Die Union schreckt vor keiner rassistischen Abscheulichkeit zurück. Nicht nur beendet sie (zusammen mit der SPD) den Familiennachzug. Sie begründet ihn auch noch mit einer Verbesserung der Sicherheit, so als ob nachgeholte Frauen und Kinder unser Land bedrohten.

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

Cool new paper in Neuron discussing how neuroscience can help us study misinformation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Wealth around the world has become increasingly concentrated among a small group of people. @evawegner.bsky.social & @mqpellicer.bsky.social ask in their project @inqdp.bsky.social: How does politics contribute to growing economic #inequality? www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/news/stor...

Politics and wealth: a lopsided alliance? | VolkswagenStiftungCloseContinueWeiter

A small, rich minority is becoming increasingly wealthy. Eva Wegner and Miquel Pellicer ask: How does politics contribute to growing economic inequality – and whose interests do MPs actually represent...

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Interne Masken-Ermittlung belastet Jens #Spahn, berichtet die FAZ. Der bei der Beschaffung von Corona-Masken entstandene Schaden für Steuerzahler:innen liegt vermutlich viel höher als angenommen. Spahn, heute Unionsfraktionschef, wollte sich nicht äußern. www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt....

Jens Spahn: Interner Bericht zu Corona-Masken belastet Politiker

Der Schaden durch überteuert gekaufte Corona-Masken summiert sich auf 623 Millionen Euro – das sind 156 Millionen Euro mehr als bislang bekannt. Der interne Bericht einer Sonderermittlerin enthält ein...

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