Racial resentment & moral traditionalism are associated with more negativity toward local housing development academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

Housing for me, but not for thee: values-based motivations of opposition to local housing

Abstract. A key barrier to ensuring the growth of the housing supply is local opposition to development, often called NIMBYism (Not In My Back Yard). We us

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New publication out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social! We know young voters vote for different parties and hold different attitudes than older citizens. What we know less about: whether they also care differently about political issues. Using novel experimental survey data, I show: they do! 👇

“Nothing else matters?” Salience differences between young and old | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

“Nothing else matters?” Salience differences between young and old

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Things like this need more attention...this new paper by David Autor, Anne B., David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson finds that not only have tariffs not only failed to raise employment, but people in tariff-exposed regions supported the tariffs because they're "confrontational" It's affect, not interests

the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding

At the current rate, it won’t be long before the World Cup is held every year, spans at least three continents simultaneously, and features 96 teams. Who could possibly stop it?

Can you pay NIMBYs to say yes to housing? Rogé Karma covers my ongoing work with Glaeser, Gyourko & Davis in The Atlantic. Most people have a price — it rises with proximity, project scale, and suburbia. And cash beats parks funding, though local legislators prefer the reverse. Gift link below.

A Perfectly Crude Solution to America’s Housing Shortage

If you can’t beat the NIMBYs, pay ’em.

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New working paper w/ @denis-cohen.bsky.social @rantuna.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com! *Does publicly refusing to cooperate with the far right only strengthen it?* A widespread belief says yes. In this paper, we test it based on a natural experiment from Spain. tinyurl.com/5azkfnas [1/6]

As a teacher of Swedish political history, I am hardly surprised that so few Swedes can answer the questions in the new citizenship test. That Finland was part of Sweden for 700 years, for example, does not seem to be widely known among the general public. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/vem-...

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Europe’s growing urban-rural divide in voting along the transnational cleavage is not merely a reflection of underlying educational differences, as @theresakuhn.bsky.social, @bramlancee.bsky.social and I show in this new study in @ejprjournal.bsky.social. A short thread 🔽

🏙️ vs ⛰️: Who gets their policy preferences reflected? 💡@stefanhp.bsky.social shows that urban residents see their policy preferences reflected more often than rural counterparts - even when controlling for education and income 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....