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Aaron Reeves
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Professor of Sociology, LSE - http://aaronreeves.org/ - New Book: Born to Rule: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674257719
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Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social · Nov 25
'Born to Rule' has been listed as one of the @economist.com's Best Books of 2024. www.economist.com/culture/2024...
The best books of 2024, as chosen by The Economist
Readers will never think the same way again about games, horses and spies
www.economist.com
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dryuchu.bsky.social
Our latest piece in Commercially Determined breaks down 10 common tropes used by industry to sway policy. www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/narrative-.... Curious which you hear most in your policy space.
What Corporations Say to Get Their Policy Way
Industries' Narrative Playbook to Fight Regulations
www.commerciallydetermined.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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January 30, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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vladimirbortun.bsky.social
The paper on the class politics of Reform UK, which I've been working on with @aaronreeves.bsky.social for the last year and a half, is now available as a pre-print on SSRN. These are our main findings. Any feedback is more than welcome.

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January 28, 2026 at 5:01 PM
aaronreeves.bsky.social
A typically great post, but one with particular resonance right now.
benansell.bsky.social Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 18d
Minneapolis is a place that means a lot to me, so I wrote a short Substack about the city, its people, and what we all owe them.

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My Minneapolis
An ode to a city that knows who it is
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January 28, 2026 at 3:56 PM
aaronreeves.bsky.social
This is a great opportunity to do truly world-leading research!
pengzell.bsky.social Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 25d
JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.

Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.

Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.
January 21, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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lindseymacmillan.bsky.social
7 year after becoming Professor… it’s my inaugural lecture!

Improving the life chances of disadvantaged young people: how do we break down barriers to opportunity?

Thursday 12 March, 5.15pm

Room G06, Roberts Building
Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE

Book your place here:
bit.ly/life_chances
January 19, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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leaypi.bsky.social
To celebrate my appointment as the Ralph Miliband Professor of Politics & Philosophy at LSE Law School & the School of Public Policy, I'll give an inaugural lecture entitled “Are Revolutions Justified?”. Registration required - look forward to seeing many of you! ❤️

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Lea Ypi Inaugural Lecture | Are revolutions justified? - LSE Law School Events
Moralists think that if the ends of revolution are right, revolution cannot be wrong. Legalists think that since the means of revolution are wrong, revolution cannot be right. In this lecture Lea Ypi ...
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January 19, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
New QJE for the minimum wage literature uses IRS data to study effects on small and medium size businesses. The effects seem…very good

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Who's Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns* Nirupama L Rao, Max Risch The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 141, Issue 1, February 2026, Pages 373-427, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaf053 Published: 10 December 2025 Article history V PDF • Split View 66 Cite P Permissions < Share V Abstract A common concern surrounding minimum wage policies is their impact on independent businesses, which are often feared to be less able to bear or pass on cost increases. We examine how these typically small and medium-size firms accommodate minimum wage increases along product and labor market margins using a matched owner-firm-worker panel data set drawn from the universe of U.S. tax records over a 10-year period, and using state minimum wage changes as identifying variation. We find that on average, firms in highly exposed industries do not substantially reduce employment-they do not lay off workers but moderately reduce part-time hiring. Instead, these firms are able to fully finance the new labor costs with new revenues, leaving average owner profits unchanged. Higher wage floors, however, forestall entry, particularly for less productive firms, reducing the number of independent firms operating in these industries by roughly 2%. Yet these industries do not shrink; instead, incumbent responses and strong positive selection among entrants reshape industries that rely heavily on low-wage workers, yielding fewer but more productive firms after the cost shock. We also take a worker-level perspective to examine how potentially vulnerable individuals are affected by minimum wage increases. Using panels of low-earning and young workers, we find that their average earnings rise substantially with the minimum wage, while they are no less likely to be employed. Worker transitions indicate that minimum wage increases boost retention and that worker reallocation from independent firms toward corporations buffers dis…
January 17, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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drdaveobrien.bsky.social
Looks like a fascinating new paper on cultural tastes, likes, and elite distinction
sociologicalsci.bsky.social Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · Jan 13
NEW: Omar Lizardo, "The Forward March of Categorical Tolerance in the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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January 16, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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anacweeks.bsky.social
How do you measure the domestic mental load? 🧐

And how does your experience stack up against our research of 3,000 US parents?

I created a quiz using the same approach we use in peer-reviewed sociological research so you can find out!

Hope this sparks some conversations 💡

tally.so/r/447Xxk
The Mental Load Quiz
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
tally.so
January 15, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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drjennings.bsky.social
What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with @yougov.co.uk in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights...

Some key findings...
Perspectives on Place: what the English think about their local area
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January 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
E-mail Addresses That Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone by Michael Ward MikeUnderscore2004@yahoo.com MikeAtYahooDotCom@hotmail.com Mike_WardAllOneWord@yahoo.com AAAAAThatsSixAs@yahoo.com One1TheFirstJustTheNumberTheSecondSpelledOut@hotmail.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
aaronreeves.bsky.social
New paper by @vxltan.bsky.social: She finds that racist but group-specific political discourse (i.e., towards Chinese Canadians during Covid) undermines a sense of linked fate among those who share a panethnic identity (e.g., as Asian). link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How Xenophobia Shapes Political Party Support: Evidence from COVID-19 in Canada - Race and Social Problems
Racialized or ethnically marginalized groups typically have strong loyalties to particular political parties, but can these group loyalties be undermined? In this paper, I investigate whether racist b...
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December 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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crookedfootball.bsky.social
This, from @piercepenniless.bsky.social, @dannyhinduk.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com is very good indeed.
Podcast: Lewis Goodall, Dan Hind and James Butler · On Politics: The Bust-up at the BBC
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December 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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ucuessex.bsky.social
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.

Please share widely.
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
aaronreeves.bsky.social
About a year ago, I remember talking with @kittyjstewart.bsky.social and @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social about the child poverty strategy. Back then, I was more optimistic that parental employment could play a role in reducing child poverty. Over the coming months they convinced me I was wrong.
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Let’s hope the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap is a watershed moment, spurring on sustained, ambitious action to end the scourge of child poverty, writes @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social.
At last: a budget that ends the two-child limit
The government should be applauded for scrapping the cruel policy, but tackling poverty requires more
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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cphjournal.bsky.social
Our first Special Issue is out now! It's on Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective - Guest editors: Laura Sochas, Kaveri Qureshi, and Philip Kreager

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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2025) | Journal of Critical Public Health
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November 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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abbyabhaya.bsky.social
We found that if you talk about scrapping the 2 child limit right (emphasising poverty's role in poor life chances) it's not even unpopular!
samfr.bsky.social Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Nov 26
And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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cpaguk.bsky.social
Scrapping the two-child limit will be transformational for children.

This is a much-needed fresh start in our country’s efforts to eradicate child poverty and while there is more to do it gives us strong foundations to build on.

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November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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alexclegg.bsky.social
Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.

OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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ruthpatrick0.bsky.social
The fight to end child poverty goes on. But today we must celebrate. It will make a real, lasting difference to families the breadth of the UK and I’m so grateful to everyone in @changingrealities.bsky.social & @cpaguk.bsky.social who have advocated tirelessly for its full abolition
www.changingrealities.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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yabinet.bsky.social
On my knees BEGGING journalists to stop calling it the “two-child benefit cap”. It’s two measures, the two-child limit, and the benefit cap. One is going, the other one isn’t.
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself

it is also free to read

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November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM