Martin Vinæs Larsen

@mvinaes.bsky.social

political scientist | politics of housing | local politics martinvlarsen.com

"Political Representation Gaps and Populism" has been making waves on twitter after being featured on Marginal Revolution Using data on local politicians (N=9000) + voters (N=28.000) from my article in Politica with @mvinaes.bsky.social in Denmark, this does not seem to be the case.

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Matt Grossmann@mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Across Europe, the average parliamentarian is much more culturally liberal than the national mean voter, across issues, countries, demographic groups, & mainstream parties, creating the opening for right-wing populists papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

📣New publication! Out in Perspectives on Politics Reassessing the Impact of Local Control: When Smaller Local Governments Permit More Housing Coauthored w/ @mvinaes.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S153... We study the effect of a municipal reform in DK: 🏘️ What happens to housing supply? ⤵️ (1/2)

Reassessing the Impact of Local Control: When Smaller Local Governments Permit More Housing | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core

Reassessing the Impact of Local Control: When Smaller Local Governments Permit More Housing

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it’s fascinating that left-NIMBYs will just nonchalantly say “the private sector will never release enough homes to allow prices to fall” as if it’s some universally known truth… when in reality, that’s exactly what happened in Austin and Minneapolis

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2y ago

4. We would know, for example, that the private sector will never release enough homes to allow prices to fall, and will always game the system to ensure that the promised social housing magically turns into “exclusive” developments of executive homes.

What role did the Catholic Church play in European state formation? In our book, Jørgen Møller and I argue that the Church was the main engine behind external and internal political fragmentation in pre-modern Europe. 1/N

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