Luis Cornago Bonal

@luiscornagob.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Fellow at LSE’s School of Public Policy. PhD in Politics, University of Oxford. Mainly social science research, big picture stuff, and songs.

I'd argue that pushing for degrowth will likely have corrosive effects on broad public suppport for stringent climate policy. Given that degrowth is essentially one big device for turning ever more policy domains into zero- or even negative-sum games, the room for Pareto-improving policies shrinks

Thomas Piketty@thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What would it take to achieve high prosperity and equality while remaining within planetary boundaries? The World Inequality Lab is very excited to launch the #GlobalJusticeReport. [1/7]

One thing that surprised me is how salient pro-EU attitudes are to Labour/SNP voters and SNP voters generally. You see it in the wider research too. Lots of fluidity and tactical dynamics in the Scottish electorate but this and Indy are basic pro-SNP gravitational forces.

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One of the hidden disasters of UK politics over recent decades was the growing pool of "non-voters", who largely disengaged from democratic politics. The challenge for progressive parties is to match the success of Reform/the Leave campaign in drawing those people back into the electoral process.

Oliver Skånberg-Tippen@oskanberg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Frustrated with the election pundits talking as if votes only 'swing' from one party to another. I did some analysis of the results, and my modelling (based on votes only, not polls) suggests that the largest movement since 2024 local elections (by a long way) is from 'Did Not Vote' -> Reform

A Sankey diagram, titled "Voter flows, UK local elections 2024 to 2026"

The “Blue Labour” strategy still being promoted by some on Labour right is premised on being able to win social conservatives while holding on to social liberals. Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state:

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As devolved elections approach in Scotland and Wales, what could greater devolution mean for Britain’s economies? Join “Devolution economics: can local decision making strengthen Britain’s economies?” tonight! Find out more and register: www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-pu...

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Nobody in Britain pays any attention to Australian politics, but One Nation overtaking the Coalition in the polls has distinct parallels with Reform leading the Conservatives. Parties on the radical right are coming for centre right parties across the world... Poll via AFR / RedBridge Accent.

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