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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks to @ldattaro.bsky.social for this lovely write-up of Getting Better.

If this sparks your interest, you can get the book open access here: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/getting-better

@profkatsmith.bsky.social @profbambra.bsky.social @pennldi.bsky.social @pennaging.bsky.social

Hope for a Healthier World

With a new book, Professor of Political Science Julia Lynch and colleagues offer legislators a roadmap for reducing health inequality.

omnia.sas.upenn.edu

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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thanks for your interest in the paper!! We actually find the opposite: certain class of public goods ("unfunded public goods"), e.g., protecting public health, induce support for right populism

Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thanks, Catherine! Big congrats too on this paper! Super cool– excited to read. Paula Rettl was also just here visiting Philadelphia this weekend :)

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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · Apr 3

The challenge for the Left is to turn unfunded public goods into funded ones: redistribute their concentrated costs using
–Job retention schemes
–Training and reskilling
–Redistributive compensation

Without credible compensation, right populists will continue to exploit the gap.

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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · Apr 3

We also show negative future expectations predict Trump support:
Counties w/ more pessimistic future economic outlooks voted more heavily for Trump in 2016.

This long-term pessimism, rather than immediate economic loss, fuels right-wing populism.

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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · Apr 3

Same pattern observed using an alternative measure: the share of jobs that can’t be done remotely (“teleworkability”).

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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · Apr 3

We leverage staggered timing of COVID business closures in the U.S.—a rare economic shock decoupled from race. Using an event study design, we find lockdowns boosted Trump support in states with more low-education workers, but had no effect in high-education ones.

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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · Apr 3

These policies don’t require direct taxes. That’s precisely the problem:
They’re “cheap” for governments, yet disproportionately costly for certain workers—esp. those with lower educ or less flexible skills. Without compensation, these voters are vulnerable to populist appeals.

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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · Apr 3

Unfunded public goods, policies that benefit the public but impose concentrated economic costs on specific groups, without compensating them, drives right-wing populism.

Think:
– COVID lockdowns
– Trade liberalization
– Climate policies
– Innovation and competition policy

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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · Apr 3

🚨New paper out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Torben Iversen: doi.org/10.1177/0010...
We empirically separate economic factors from cultural backlash as competing explanations for right-wing populism, and find evidence for the former. We define the concept of “unfunded public goods.” 🧵

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · Apr 1

…So let me get this straight:

New Jersey is represented by legendary badass CORY BOOKER.

While New York is stuck with Chuck “obey in advance” Schumer, and Pennsylvania has John “next Kyrsten Sinema” Fetterman.

As regional rivalries go, that has really gotta sting.

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Virginia Oliveros @viroliveros.bsky.social · Apr 2

Super happy to see this finally out! Coauthored with a dream team! @gustavodiaz.org Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro & Matthew S. Winters

Check it out! 👇🏼

*long thread with a summary of the argument may be coming soon

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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · Apr 3

2/6 🧵In @cpsjournal.bsky.social, @alicexu.bsky.social & Iversen ask if economic, rather than cultural factors, drive support for right-wing populists. Staggered DiD in the US & covid lockdowns. In states with less educated people (cannot work from home) lockdowns increase Trump support doi.org/pft7

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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · Apr 3

Yesss! 🥳🥂🤘 Thrilled for you –congratulations, Chagai!!

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Didac Queralt @didacqueralt.bsky.social · Mar 13

🚨New pre-print! It builds on the State Formation seminar that I teach at Yale, benefiting from rich conversations with brilliant students. The piece tackles state formation, state building, and outlines 3 paths of future research: civil wars, international constraints, and bureaucratic capacity.

From Territorial Consolidation to Bureaucratic Dominance: The Long Arc of State Development | Annual Reviews

Our understanding of state development—a term that encompasses both state formation and state building—has grown significantly in the last two decades. In this review, I outline the foundations of the...

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Ioana Marinescu @imarinescu.bsky.social · Mar 11

Excited to speak at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice’s webinar on climate’s influence on health, politics, and the labor force.

Register here: upenn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · Mar 10

Hell yeeeee! 🥳🥂🤘

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Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · Mar 10

Two of the most important books on climate politics, which need to be read (much) more widely.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Mar 10

This likely confirms that the decision to arrest him was made at the highest levels of government, a terrifying return to the policies of ideological exclusion last seen used during the heights of the Cold War. A very, very worrying precedent at the start of this government.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Mar 10

Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:

Following my previously signed Executive Orders, ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student on the campus of Columbia University. This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it. Many are not students, they are paid agitators. We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again. If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests, and you are not welcome here. We expect every one of America’s Colleges and Universities to comply. Thank you!

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Dr. Alexandra “Ali” Cirone @alicirone.bsky.social · Mar 10

New Broadstreet post up!

Highlighting some great work rethinking common assumptions about African borders!

@ricarthuguet.bsky.social @jackpaine.bsky.social and Christy Qiu

www.broadstreet.blog/p/african-bo...

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Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social · Feb 24

🚨 Call for papers 🚨

Political Economy of Climate Change and the Environment (PECE) APSA 2024 mini-conference

Deadline soon: March 1st, 2024

Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
More information:
static1.squarespace.com/static/59bc8...
web.sas.upenn.edu/pece2024/

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Jae Yeon Kim @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social · Feb 10

I don't know how many of us (political scientists) read Cohen and Dawson (1993) during grad school, but it's still one of my all-time favorite papers in REP and beyond.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · Feb 9

Two of the greatest cities on Earth — New York City and San Francisco — are getting absolutely wrecked by decades of local and regional political mismanagement, despite having so many other things going for them.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · Feb 9

Beyond infuriating that the NYS legislature had an opportunity to do something about this last year and botched it. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/n...

New York City’s Housing Crunch Is the Worst It Has Been in Over 50 Years

Only 1.4 percent of the city’s rentals were available in 2023, according to new data, the lowest portion since 1968. The market was even tighter for lower-cost apartments.

www.nytimes.com

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Dan Hopkins @dhopkins1776.bsky.social · Nov 30

Why did I do 7 survey experiments on the effects of racial priming on White Americans' ACA attitudes, and what can we learn from the heap of null results?

A 🧵, drawn from Chp. 6 of my new book "Stable Condition: Elites' Limited Influence on Health Care Attitudes"

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Carl Müller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social · Oct 20

How do Ukrainians think about self-defense against Russia? In a new paper out in the AJPS, @janinadill.bsky.social, Marnie Howlett and I find through a conjoint experiment that they are categorically against major concessions, even at very high costs of self-defense doi.org/10.1111/ajps... (1/6)

At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self-Defense Against Russia

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