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

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest June 2026 - 🇪🇺 preferences for an European polity - smuggler preferences among 🇬🇹 migrants targeting the 🇺🇸 - Representation by Proxy - Electoral consequences of group-targeted campaign pledges in 🇩🇪 - Machine classification of political texts

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest May 2026 - Regional Human Capital Database - Female Politicians’ Experiences Working with Bureacracy in 🇮🇳 - Methodological issues in the estimation of unequal responsiveness - Deservingness and Ideology - Inequality type and fairness in 🇿🇦, 🇮🇳 & 🇺🇸

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest April 2026 - Politician wages and corruption in 🇪🇺 municipalities - influence of firms on OECD tax policy - press coverage of super rich in 🇩🇪 - AI automation and welfare attitudes in OECD

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 🇧🇷

New research alert! 📢 In the European Journal of Industrial Relations, @ibrahimoker.bsky.social, @fuatkina.bsky.social, and I explore global unionization dynamics, identifying the key factors that facilitate and/or hinder union membership. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest February 2026 - business actors in party politics 🇦🇷 & 🇨🇴 - conservative bias in voter perception 🇨🇦 - broken “tax taboo” 🇩🇪 & 🇬🇧 - descriptive & substantive representation of Asian-Americans 🇺🇸 - prioritization of constituency service & policy work 🇺🇸

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest January 2026 - Protest and public opinion in 🇿🇦 - politization of bureaucracy in 🇧🇷 - Gendered working conditions for ministers in 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇪🇸🇩🇰🇧🇪 - Homeownership and political efficacy - Voters preferences for politicians tasks in 🇩🇰 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 & the 🇺🇸

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest December 2025 - Affective polarization in 🇹🇷 - Public support for taxing the super-rich in the 🇺🇸 - Young MPs’ issue focus in 🇩🇪 - Support for left parties in 🇦🇺🇩🇰🇩🇪🇸🇪🇨🇭🇬🇧 - MPs' estimates of public opinion in 🇩🇰 & the 🇳🇱

In the third episode of podcast series, Benjamin Ashworth and Stephen Ramsay (University of Strathclyde) discuss politicians' occupational backgrounds in Latin America and Europe, exploring which professions they come from and how career paths differ across regions. wealthpolicies.eu/podcast-no-3...

Last week we welcomed @heikekluever.bsky.social to talk about "Who Becomes a Lobbyist?" — a comparative look at career pathways, networks, and the role of institutional differences that shape political influence in Germany & the U.S. Thanks to everyone for the lively Q&A! inq-dp.eu/index.php/ev...

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest November 2025 - Politician background and biased perceptions in 🇨🇭 - Redistribution and Deservingness between places/people 🇳🇴 - Ideological capture in the 🇺🇸 - Honest MP responses to lobbying in 🇩🇪 - Homeownership & voting behavior

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest October 2025 - Left parties and working class support - Tax base inequality in 🇺🇸 - Revolving door in 🇯🇵 - Tax Compliance in 🇨🇱 - framing budget cuts in 🇩🇰

Kickoff done! “Marburger Stadtgespräch” & Future of Democracy (Mon, 20 Oct). @leaelsaesser.bsky.social on working-class political careers, the role of trade unions, and contrasts with uni graduates. Thanks also to our engaged audience for a great discussion! More: tinyurl.com/e3pyhstd

Join us on Monday, Oct 20 (18:30–20:00) with @leaelsaesser.bsky.social for “Wer sitzt (nicht) im Parlament? Wahlen und ungleiche Repräsentation im Bundestag?” opening our Money & Politics public series in Marburg. Venue: Historischer Rathaussaal. Talks in German. More: inq-dp.eu/index.php/ev...

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest September 2025 - Choosing capital cities in 🇩🇪, 🇦🇹 & 🇨🇭 - Primary responsiveness in 🇺🇸 - Populist blameshifting backfires in 🇹🇷 - Effects of local policies on internal migration - Inequality, democracy and anti-trust legislation

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest August 2025 - Politician beliefs about voters - Self-assessment and solidaric behaviour - Voters’ evaluation of politicians’ corruption - Inequality and party manifestoes in OECD - Voter sexism and women candidates

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest July 2025 - Clientelistic and progrmmatic appeals in 🇧🇷 - Social status & far-right voting in Western Europe - Absence of causal effect of wealth on political participation in 🇸🇪 - High campaign costs and wealthy politicians - The politics of small business owners

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest June 2025 - Motivations for campaign contributions in 🇨🇴 - Abolition of compulsory voting in 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁶󠁬󠁧󠁿- Policy ideas and law-making in the 🇺🇸 - Teenagers’ political efficacy in the 🇳🇱 - NIMBYism in 🇨🇭

1/6 📰🧐 Politician quality in 🇮🇳 - Economic deprivation & right-wing support in Western Countries - Campaign limits and organized interests in 🇧🇷 - Perceptions of immigrant integration & support for redistribution in high-income countries- No political ambition class gaps in the Americas

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest April 2025 - Pledge Fulfillment in 🇨🇦 🇦🇹 🇨🇿 🇸🇰 🇸🇪 - Geographic representation in 🇩🇪 - Unequal responsiveness in 🇪🇺 - Housing crisis in 🇵🇹 - Subjective local inequality in 🇺🇸

Maps upgrade! 🗺️ We expanded our maps of inequality page to include additional data on the spatial distribution of election results, rent prices, and education levels across Marburg. Explore: inq-dp.eu/index.php/ma...

New Blog Post! 📝 Oliver Platt writes about the concept of class and its importance for regional inequality and voting behavior. To illustrate, the post includes interactive maps and data plots 🗺️📊 Read more: inq-dp.eu/index.php/20...

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest March 2025 - lockdowns and support for Trump in the US - left parties and redistribution - electoral role of candidate education - tax preferences in Latin America - City councillors’ roll-call voting in Chicago and Toronto

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest February 2025 - Genetics & political participation in 🇺🇸🇸🇪 - Historical formation of african borders - Colonial mapmaking & ethnic identity - Occupational backgrounds of MPs in 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇸🇪 - Economic inequality & right-wing support in 🇸🇪 (1/1)

New blog post series! 📝 As the federal elections in Germany approach, we’re excited to share a series of three blog posts on topics related to the election. All three posts are written by students from one of Eva Wegner’s courses. Read more: inq-dp.eu/index.php/bl...

1/6 📰🧐 IDP Research Digest January 2025 - Political responsiveness in 🇩🇰 & 🇳🇱 - Populist parties & congruence in 🇩🇪🇳🇱🇮🇹🇸🇪 - Effect of income on turnout in 🇳🇴 - Returns to office in 🇩🇰 - Electoral effects of coal phase-outs in 🇩🇪

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest December 2024 - Responsiveness to poor people in 🇧🇪🇩🇪🇨🇦🇨🇭 - Rental market risk and radical right support in 🇩🇪 - Exploitation of migrants in 🇮🇹 - Perceptions of social mobility in 🇪🇺 - Electoral incentives for public housing in 🇩🇪

📰🧐 Research Digest November 2024 - Local portfolios in 🇩🇪 municipalities - Support for radical right in rural 🇵🇹 - Attitudes towards disaster assistance in the 🇺🇸 - Election timing and minority candidate success in California - Politicians’ theories of elections and voting