Jacob Edenhofer
@jacobedenhofer.bsky.social
BA, PPE @warwickuni / MPhil, Comparative Government @UniofOxford / DPhil student in Politics @NuffieldCollege & @Politics_Oxford
Link to my blog “Often wrong, but sometimes useful”: https://jacobedenhofer.substack.com/
Link to my blog “Often wrong, but sometimes useful”: https://jacobedenhofer.substack.com/
Very much looking forward to presenting this slide deck tomorrow at the Europe Workshop of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation!
I’ve tried to offer a balanced and accessible overview of the scholarly debates on the causes and consequences of right-wing populism, as well as the
I’ve tried to offer a balanced and accessible overview of the scholarly debates on the causes and consequences of right-wing populism, as well as the
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Very much looking forward to presenting this slide deck tomorrow at the Europe Workshop of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation!
I’ve tried to offer a balanced and accessible overview of the scholarly debates on the causes and consequences of right-wing populism, as well as the
I’ve tried to offer a balanced and accessible overview of the scholarly debates on the causes and consequences of right-wing populism, as well as the
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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...
Really enjoyed this!
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How Superintelligent AI Could Upend Work and Politics
Podcast-Folge · Plain English with Derek Thompson · 18.11.2025 · 59 Min.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Really enjoyed this!
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In the latest VoxTalks Economics Rick van der Ploeg (@oxfordecondept.bsky.social ) joins @talknormal.co.uk to argue that gradual climate policies won’t deliver real change — what’s needed is a big push for transformation in economies and societies.
🌍 Listen here: cepr.org/multimedia/b...
#EconSky
🌍 Listen here: cepr.org/multimedia/b...
#EconSky
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In the latest VoxTalks Economics Rick van der Ploeg (@oxfordecondept.bsky.social ) joins @talknormal.co.uk to argue that gradual climate policies won’t deliver real change — what’s needed is a big push for transformation in economies and societies.
🌍 Listen here: cepr.org/multimedia/b...
#EconSky
🌍 Listen here: cepr.org/multimedia/b...
#EconSky
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How can we design markets that protect nature and rebuild trust?
@estellecantillon.bsky.social (Université libre de Bruxelles) joins @talknormal.co.uk to discuss a new approach to funding conservation through market incentives — and how to avoid greenwashing
cepr.org/multimedia/d...
#EconSky
@estellecantillon.bsky.social (Université libre de Bruxelles) joins @talknormal.co.uk to discuss a new approach to funding conservation through market incentives — and how to avoid greenwashing
cepr.org/multimedia/d...
#EconSky
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
How can we design markets that protect nature and rebuild trust?
@estellecantillon.bsky.social (Université libre de Bruxelles) joins @talknormal.co.uk to discuss a new approach to funding conservation through market incentives — and how to avoid greenwashing
cepr.org/multimedia/d...
#EconSky
@estellecantillon.bsky.social (Université libre de Bruxelles) joins @talknormal.co.uk to discuss a new approach to funding conservation through market incentives — and how to avoid greenwashing
cepr.org/multimedia/d...
#EconSky
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Delighted to see this paper out in @carlsengames.bsky.social - working with @grattonecon.bsky.social was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats
November 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Delighted to see this paper out in @carlsengames.bsky.social - working with @grattonecon.bsky.social was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats
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🚨Job Alert 🚨
Interested in working with us @pik-potsdam.bsky.social (Berlin based RD5, formerly MCC)? We are looking for a new #PhD student in my team, working on #policyevaluation, #politicaleconomy and #development.
3 years funded. Focus on research. No teaching obligations.
More information 👇
Interested in working with us @pik-potsdam.bsky.social (Berlin based RD5, formerly MCC)? We are looking for a new #PhD student in my team, working on #policyevaluation, #politicaleconomy and #development.
3 years funded. Focus on research. No teaching obligations.
More information 👇
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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🚨Job Alert 🚨
Interested in working with us @pik-potsdam.bsky.social (Berlin based RD5, formerly MCC)? We are looking for a new #PhD student in my team, working on #policyevaluation, #politicaleconomy and #development.
3 years funded. Focus on research. No teaching obligations.
More information 👇
Interested in working with us @pik-potsdam.bsky.social (Berlin based RD5, formerly MCC)? We are looking for a new #PhD student in my team, working on #policyevaluation, #politicaleconomy and #development.
3 years funded. Focus on research. No teaching obligations.
More information 👇
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🚨Job Alert 🚨
Interested in working with us @pik-potsdam.bsky.social (Berlin based RD5, formerly MCC)? We are looking for a new #PhD student in my team, working on #policyevaluation, #politicaleconomy and #development.
3 years funded. Focus on research. No teaching obligations.
More information 👇
Interested in working with us @pik-potsdam.bsky.social (Berlin based RD5, formerly MCC)? We are looking for a new #PhD student in my team, working on #policyevaluation, #politicaleconomy and #development.
3 years funded. Focus on research. No teaching obligations.
More information 👇
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New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
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weigh minority concerns more than majority rule would, they protect today’s majority against losing power in the future. This protection is epsecially valuable when that majority cares intensely about the issue it delegates. But when majority status becomes more www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The rise and fall of technocratic democracies: unstable majorities and delegation to technocrats
We study a stylised model of the rise and fall of technocratic democracies: democracies that delegate policymaking to unelected technocrats. In our model, technocratic democracies arise when majori...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
weigh minority concerns more than majority rule would, they protect today’s majority against losing power in the future. This protection is epsecially valuable when that majority cares intensely about the issue it delegates. But when majority status becomes more www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Delighted to see this paper out in @carlsengames.bsky.social - working with @grattonecon.bsky.social was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats
November 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Delighted to see this paper out in @carlsengames.bsky.social - working with @grattonecon.bsky.social was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats
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Are you an ABD needing help with your project? Interested in immigration, autocratization, & religion? Want to spend 2 weeks thinking deeply about interdisciplinary work? This summer school is for you. I'll be one of the instructors helping your think big and rigorously :-) More info below! (1/2)
Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences
www.tse-fr.eu
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Are you an ABD needing help with your project? Interested in immigration, autocratization, & religion? Want to spend 2 weeks thinking deeply about interdisciplinary work? This summer school is for you. I'll be one of the instructors helping your think big and rigorously :-) More info below! (1/2)
Some thoughts on this fascinating article by
Kelsey Piper on the use of 'automatic stabilisers' in immigration policy. These thoughts are inspired by Goodhart's law. Her basic argument is elegant and draws on the literature in macroeconomics: instead of Congress
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Kelsey Piper on the use of 'automatic stabilisers' in immigration policy. These thoughts are inspired by Goodhart's law. Her basic argument is elegant and draws on the literature in macroeconomics: instead of Congress
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Let's automate immigration policy
Legal immigration could work so much better. One pie-in-the-sky idea for how.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Some thoughts on this fascinating article by
Kelsey Piper on the use of 'automatic stabilisers' in immigration policy. These thoughts are inspired by Goodhart's law. Her basic argument is elegant and draws on the literature in macroeconomics: instead of Congress
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Kelsey Piper on the use of 'automatic stabilisers' in immigration policy. These thoughts are inspired by Goodhart's law. Her basic argument is elegant and draws on the literature in macroeconomics: instead of Congress
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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The levy on foreign students is an export tax. Has anyone in government wondered why countries don't usually impose export taxes?
A levy on foreign students is one of the closest things you're going to see to tariffs on services - except the UK will be putting it on its own exports...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Levy on international students’ tuition fees not in best interest of UK, says leader of top university
Duncan Ivison, president of Manchester University, says government’s 6% surcharge plan will ‘hurt the sector’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The levy on foreign students is an export tax. Has anyone in government wondered why countries don't usually impose export taxes?
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Exciting new book by @pculpepper.bsky.social and Lee! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/billionai...
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Exciting new book by @pculpepper.bsky.social and Lee! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/billionai...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Indeed! Let me add that Brexit has led to levelling up by levelling down and this has -- if anything -- benefitted right-wing populists.
brexitcost.org/brexitcost.pdf
brexitcost.org/brexitcost.pdf
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Indeed! Let me add that Brexit has led to levelling up by levelling down and this has -- if anything -- benefitted right-wing populists.
brexitcost.org/brexitcost.pdf
brexitcost.org/brexitcost.pdf
These are tentative thoughts, but I want to sketch what I think is the strongest progressive case for not only baulking at accommodating the radical right on immigration, but potentially adopting an unapologetically progressive stance, even though I’m unsure all the assumptions hold.
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
These are tentative thoughts, but I want to sketch what I think is the strongest progressive case for not only baulking at accommodating the radical right on immigration, but potentially adopting an unapologetically progressive stance, even though I’m unsure all the assumptions hold.
Exciting new book by @pculpepper.bsky.social and Lee! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/billionai...
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Exciting new book by @pculpepper.bsky.social and Lee! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/billionai...
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Revolving door und so
www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/chri...
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Ex-Minister Christian Lindner geht als Manager in die Autobranche
Christian Lindners Passion für Autos ist seit Langem bekannt. Rund ein Jahr nach dem Ampel-Aus macht der frühere FDP-Chef das Hobby zum Beruf.
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Revolving door und so
www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/chri...
www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/chri...