Chris Hanretty

@chanret.bsky.social

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I teach politics at a university in the UK. I'm interested in electoral systems, public opinion, and the politics of non-majoritarian institutions like courts and regulators.

ORCID: 0000-0002-8932-9405

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 5h

Has no one in the BBC heard of the Streisand effect?

Did everyone think, "oh, Rutger Bregman, he'll be cool with this"?

Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 6h

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 6h

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 17h

My discipline and personal feelings: similar to what @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social describes

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 20h

I don't know to what extent it's been replaced by PPEG ppeg.wzb.eu

The PPEG Database contains information on political parties, presidents, elections, and governments around the world. It brings together a range of datasets produced by former and present members of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

ppeg.wzb.eu

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that was a nadir

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed -- I hope this isn't on a bid-for basis

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

Massive about 240-300 just based on construction costs? but then you'd run into issues with maintenance and "not already having sold off the land"

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

It seems government, like the rest of us, is trying to make the money go further by trailing huge sums of money like £5m or £18m. As a proportion of total government spending, this is like a tea-spoon sized quantity dumped in in an Olympic sized swimming pool

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1d

Politico: Some pre-budget announcements over the past few days - "rail price freeze…minimum wage reforms to name and shame firms not paying it…£18m for kids' playgrounds…£5m to refresh secondary school libraries in England…recruiting 350 new planners…guaranteed student loan support for care leavers"

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1d

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations on your paper eventually being described as sociological gobbledygook by ideologically opposed justices!

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

The Ship and Shovell, Craven street (central)
The Plimsoll, Finsbury Park (north London)
The Ship, Jew's Row (south west, area of unfortunate street names)

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

Someone needs to spill details about how he was always behind on his marking and refused to give references to his personal tutees...

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

No, I don't think that's a thing (and personally I don't care for sherry). But happy to be corrected on this point!

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, got you. Christmas pudding not a thing chez moi, but clootie dumpling yes. Thankfully that doesn't need soaking or much prep.

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

Why do you need different ingredients next week? Does the alcohol need to be more or less powerful?

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Tom Rees-Williams @tomreeswilliams.bsky.social · 2d

“there isn’t the money to do everything that we wanted” – Lord Hendy, 16 July

They're junking investment (and growth!) for a single-year headline announcement. Imagine if this government believed in the future

Midland Main Line electrification pause down to lack of funds and bi-mode trains, Hendy says | New Civil Engineer

The MML runs from St. Pancras to Sheffield, servicing many cities in the Midlands. Its electrification has been ongoing for some years, having started at

www.newcivilengineer.com

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

Strong recommend

Cover of "There is no anti-memetics division", by qntm

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats!

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

What do you mean by the "flags"?

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

Two were at least second round reviews...

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

They weren't at the @sophieehill.bsky.social "tortured phrases" level, but they were still pretty depressing to see.

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

I've had quite a lot of review requests recently (five in the past ten days). They've also been some of the worst papers I've seen: in one case, passing off something as novel when it's nothing of the sort, and in another case claiming to analyze improbably granular data

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 3d

Somehow I've not seen this paper before: a measure of disproportionality which combines disproportionality between parties and malaportionment doi.org/10.1007/s111... cc @jack-bailey.co.uk

A unified approach to measuring unequal representation - Public Choice

The concept of unequal representation is commonly understood through the lenses of disproportionality and malapportionment, pertaining to inter-party and inter-district aspects, respectively. Popular ...

doi.org

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered

Not with a bang but with a whimper

theinfinitesimal.substack.com

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 4d

On it...

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 4d

Might be different if we look at the Lords' nominal membership though

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 4d

I guess the 80+ (if that is the maximum) would become analogous to the 0-16 group -- relying on surrogate representation.

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, that means a lot coming from a dyed-in-the-wool TaaD person!

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 4d

This is part of a broader project on temporal focus. You can find info on a previous article about institutional determinants at bsky.app/profile/chan... (10/10)

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 12d

NEW PAPER: What happens if you create a committee for the future? Its members bring future focused speech back with them to plenary. Now out in Legislative Studies Quarterly, written together w/ bluesky-less Vesa Koskimaa doi.org/10.1111/lsq.... (1/n)