Bilyana Petrova
@bpetrova.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech. Inequality, redistribution, and political economy.
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Is upward mobility a solo journey, fuelled by talent and hard work? Or is it an inherently relational process, shaped by enduring connections to one’s class and family origins?
Malik Fercovic explores in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog
Malik Fercovic explores in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog
Moving up, reaching back: How family ties shape upward mobility
Career success isn't just a story of individual talent and hard work - new research shows how enduring connections to one’s class and family origins matter too
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November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Is upward mobility a solo journey, fuelled by talent and hard work? Or is it an inherently relational process, shaped by enduring connections to one’s class and family origins?
Malik Fercovic explores in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog
Malik Fercovic explores in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog
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📣 Upcoming seminar:
Standard measures of poverty and income inequality often overlook how sharply the cost of living varies across places. Dr Beatriz Jambrina Canseco uses the case of Spain to explore this issue.
🎟️ Register in-person: buff.ly/zioZK79
💻 Register online: buff.ly/dUYC6ys
Standard measures of poverty and income inequality often overlook how sharply the cost of living varies across places. Dr Beatriz Jambrina Canseco uses the case of Spain to explore this issue.
🎟️ Register in-person: buff.ly/zioZK79
💻 Register online: buff.ly/dUYC6ys
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
📣 Upcoming seminar:
Standard measures of poverty and income inequality often overlook how sharply the cost of living varies across places. Dr Beatriz Jambrina Canseco uses the case of Spain to explore this issue.
🎟️ Register in-person: buff.ly/zioZK79
💻 Register online: buff.ly/dUYC6ys
Standard measures of poverty and income inequality often overlook how sharply the cost of living varies across places. Dr Beatriz Jambrina Canseco uses the case of Spain to explore this issue.
🎟️ Register in-person: buff.ly/zioZK79
💻 Register online: buff.ly/dUYC6ys
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💡 How does moving to opportunity reshape political behavior?
🗞️ In our new BJPolS paper, @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that residential relocations that increase access to opportunity foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left.
👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65
🗞️ In our new BJPolS paper, @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that residential relocations that increase access to opportunity foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left.
👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65
Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - Volume 55
tinyurl.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
💡 How does moving to opportunity reshape political behavior?
🗞️ In our new BJPolS paper, @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that residential relocations that increase access to opportunity foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left.
👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65
🗞️ In our new BJPolS paper, @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that residential relocations that increase access to opportunity foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left.
👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65
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New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
One of those evenings you spend glued to your phone…
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
One of those evenings you spend glued to your phone…
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How can we compare the size and structuring power of different cleavages over time? Check out @jacobgunderson.bsky.social 's great paper and dataset for scholars working on cleavages at the party system level!
The latest from @dpzollinger.bsky.social and I's Special Issue in @wepsocial.bsky.social.
The latest from @dpzollinger.bsky.social and I's Special Issue in @wepsocial.bsky.social.
💥OUT NOW!
"Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset" by @jacobgunderson.bsky.social
Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies", edited by @dpzollinger.bsky.social & @davidattewell6.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
"Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset" by @jacobgunderson.bsky.social
Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies", edited by @dpzollinger.bsky.social & @davidattewell6.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
October 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
How can we compare the size and structuring power of different cleavages over time? Check out @jacobgunderson.bsky.social 's great paper and dataset for scholars working on cleavages at the party system level!
The latest from @dpzollinger.bsky.social and I's Special Issue in @wepsocial.bsky.social.
The latest from @dpzollinger.bsky.social and I's Special Issue in @wepsocial.bsky.social.
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NEW -
Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos
"moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties"
- @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos
"moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties"
- @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
October 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
NEW -
Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos
"moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties"
- @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos
"moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties"
- @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
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🚨New publication with Kristijan Kotarski:
Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn
Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn
Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚨New publication with Kristijan Kotarski:
Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn
Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn
Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
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"In a campaign for water efficiency, Amazon, the biggest owner of datacentres in the world, chose to account for only a smaller water usage figure that does not include all the ways its datacentres use water to minimise the risk to its reputation." #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"In a campaign for water efficiency, Amazon, the biggest owner of datacentres in the world, chose to account for only a smaller water usage figure that does not include all the ways its datacentres use water to minimise the risk to its reputation." #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
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Nice + accessible overview of my @jepsjournal.bsky.social paper on validating populism treatments, showing that some “thin” populism treatments also affect perceptions of host ideology. Also makes broader point about validating conjoint treatments #Openaccess paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Nice + accessible overview of my @jepsjournal.bsky.social paper on validating populism treatments, showing that some “thin” populism treatments also affect perceptions of host ideology. Also makes broader point about validating conjoint treatments #Openaccess paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Starting in Obama's first term and continuing through the presidencies of Obama, Trump, and Biden, the relationship between income and presidential vote has switched.
Connected to this, the relationship of education and racial resentment with Democratic voting has become much stronger.
Connected to this, the relationship of education and racial resentment with Democratic voting has become much stronger.
The last time I posted the income relationship to presidential vote among White respondents to the @electionstudies.bsky.social ANES, people asked for additional estimates among all voters.
Updated estimates here:
Updated estimates here:
October 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Starting in Obama's first term and continuing through the presidencies of Obama, Trump, and Biden, the relationship between income and presidential vote has switched.
Connected to this, the relationship of education and racial resentment with Democratic voting has become much stronger.
Connected to this, the relationship of education and racial resentment with Democratic voting has become much stronger.
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The last time I posted the income relationship to presidential vote among White respondents to the @electionstudies.bsky.social ANES, people asked for additional estimates among all voters.
Updated estimates here:
Updated estimates here:
October 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The last time I posted the income relationship to presidential vote among White respondents to the @electionstudies.bsky.social ANES, people asked for additional estimates among all voters.
Updated estimates here:
Updated estimates here:
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🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵
September 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵
“That fund will be invested and designed to pay out about 4% annually, which will be divided among the HBCUs to help stabilize their budgets.
The 8 Ivy League schools received $5.5b from the 1,000 largest US foundations compared to $45m for the 99 HBCUs in 2019.”
www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/b...
The 8 Ivy League schools received $5.5b from the 1,000 largest US foundations compared to $45m for the 99 HBCUs in 2019.”
www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/b...
MacKenzie Scott gives $70 million to UNCF to financially strengthen HBCUs | CNN Business
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, as the nation’s largest private provider of scholarships to minority students works to raise $1 billion to strengthen al...
www.cnn.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
“That fund will be invested and designed to pay out about 4% annually, which will be divided among the HBCUs to help stabilize their budgets.
The 8 Ivy League schools received $5.5b from the 1,000 largest US foundations compared to $45m for the 99 HBCUs in 2019.”
www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/b...
The 8 Ivy League schools received $5.5b from the 1,000 largest US foundations compared to $45m for the 99 HBCUs in 2019.”
www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/b...
The Newest Face of Long-Term Unemployment? The College Educated. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
The Newest Face of Long-Term Unemployment? The College Educated.
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The Newest Face of Long-Term Unemployment? The College Educated. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
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9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year:
“Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”
“Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”
September 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year:
“Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”
“Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”
The comments under this piece are… either uplifting or weighing on you, depending on the perspective.
EXCLUSIVE: Meet the new midterm swing voters: They broke for Trump in 2024, they're a toss-up for 2026 — and they're wearing weighted vests all over your neighborhood.
Weighted vest women are the 2026 swing voters
Meet the new midterm swing voters: They broke for Donald Trump in 2024, they're a toss-up for 2026 — and they're wearing weighted vests all over your neighborhood.
www.politico.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The comments under this piece are… either uplifting or weighing on you, depending on the perspective.
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Millions of dollars worth of contraceptives destined for low-income countries were destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration.
$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials
The birth control pills, IUDs and hormonal implants were purchased by U.S.A.I.D. for women in low-income countries. They had been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse after the U.S. cut much of its foreign aid.
nyti.ms
September 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Millions of dollars worth of contraceptives destined for low-income countries were destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration.
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📘 64.4
How do welfare systems shape views on immigration?
A 🇪🇺 study from @alinavranceanu.bsky.social
& @bpetrova.bsky.social finds:
Generous welfare → more positive attitudes toward immigrants
Welfare cuts → increased hostility (evidence from 🇩🇰)
Read more:
How do welfare systems shape views on immigration?
A 🇪🇺 study from @alinavranceanu.bsky.social
& @bpetrova.bsky.social finds:
Generous welfare → more positive attitudes toward immigrants
Welfare cuts → increased hostility (evidence from 🇩🇰)
Read more:
Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe
ALINA VRÂNCEANU, BILYANA PETROVA
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
📘 64.4
How do welfare systems shape views on immigration?
A 🇪🇺 study from @alinavranceanu.bsky.social
& @bpetrova.bsky.social finds:
Generous welfare → more positive attitudes toward immigrants
Welfare cuts → increased hostility (evidence from 🇩🇰)
Read more:
How do welfare systems shape views on immigration?
A 🇪🇺 study from @alinavranceanu.bsky.social
& @bpetrova.bsky.social finds:
Generous welfare → more positive attitudes toward immigrants
Welfare cuts → increased hostility (evidence from 🇩🇰)
Read more:
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Signs bearing President Trump’s name have gone up at major construction projects. They were financed by the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law which he passionately opposed ahead of its passage.
Trump Tried to Kill the Infrastructure Law. Now He’s Getting Credit for Its Projects.
Signs bearing President Trump’s name have gone up at major construction projects financed by the 2021 law, which he strenuously opposed ahead of its passage.
nyti.ms
September 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Signs bearing President Trump’s name have gone up at major construction projects. They were financed by the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law which he passionately opposed ahead of its passage.
Every time I reread this book, I am struck by how utterly heartbreaking it is.
August 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Every time I reread this book, I am struck by how utterly heartbreaking it is.
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Trump’s attacks on renewables sector quash nearly $19bn worth of projects on.ft.com/47EBJcg
Donald Trump’s attacks on renewables sector quash nearly $19bn worth of projects
Stifled growth will hamper ability to meet energy demand from artificial intelligence, analysts say
on.ft.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Trump’s attacks on renewables sector quash nearly $19bn worth of projects on.ft.com/47EBJcg
150 pages of comp grading for 3 students make me wonder how my advisors graded at least 280 pages when my (unusually large) cohort took the exam in 2014...
Not to mention handling our entire job market packages (CVs, cover letters, teaching statements, research statements, and diversity statements)
Not to mention handling our entire job market packages (CVs, cover letters, teaching statements, research statements, and diversity statements)
August 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
150 pages of comp grading for 3 students make me wonder how my advisors graded at least 280 pages when my (unusually large) cohort took the exam in 2014...
Not to mention handling our entire job market packages (CVs, cover letters, teaching statements, research statements, and diversity statements)
Not to mention handling our entire job market packages (CVs, cover letters, teaching statements, research statements, and diversity statements)
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Measuring intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in China and Russia during the transition to market economies, using new Markov chain methods, from Kristina Butaeva, Lian Chen, Steven N. Durlauf, and Albert Park https://www.nber.org/papers/w34124
August 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Measuring intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in China and Russia during the transition to market economies, using new Markov chain methods, from Kristina Butaeva, Lian Chen, Steven N. Durlauf, and Albert Park https://www.nber.org/papers/w34124