Adam Hobbs
@hobbsadam.bsky.social
PhD candidate | Political Science | UCR
Political economy and political behavior
Professional website: adamlhobbs.com
Political economy and political behavior
Professional website: adamlhobbs.com
It’s crazy that we live in a world where something like this is controversial.
Housing is good and we should build more of it in the places people want to live.
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
December 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
It’s crazy that we live in a world where something like this is controversial.
We are seeking papers for our Spring workshop! It’s a great opportunity to share your work with other graduate students and get feedback.
📢 Call for proposals now open for #GSIPE workshop Spring 2026!
Submit your proposal: lnkd.in/e_dc2B-T
📅 Deadline: Dec 31, 11:59pm ET
#IPE #PoliticalScience #GradSchool #ResearchCommunity #AcademicOpportunities #ScholarlyWork
Submit your proposal: lnkd.in/e_dc2B-T
📅 Deadline: Dec 31, 11:59pm ET
#IPE #PoliticalScience #GradSchool #ResearchCommunity #AcademicOpportunities #ScholarlyWork
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November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We are seeking papers for our Spring workshop! It’s a great opportunity to share your work with other graduate students and get feedback.
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[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!
Our statement:
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Our statement:
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October 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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We have dropped our lineup for the fall. Come check out some of the great papers we have lined up. #IPE #polisky
📅 Fall 2025 #GSIPE Workshop lineup → gsipe-workshop.github.io/schedule/
🎯 2025 IPE job market profiles → gsipe-workshop.github.io/jobmarket_20...
For more info on the GSIPE virtual workshop where all research stages are welcome, see here: gsipe-workshop.github.io
#IPE #GradSchool #PoliticalEconomy
🎯 2025 IPE job market profiles → gsipe-workshop.github.io/jobmarket_20...
For more info on the GSIPE virtual workshop where all research stages are welcome, see here: gsipe-workshop.github.io
#IPE #GradSchool #PoliticalEconomy
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September 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Check out this new @bjpols.bsky.social article from Asst. Prof. @nicholasnapolio.bsky.social: “Executive Policymaking Coalitions, Veto Activation, and Collective Action Problems.” The article explores how agency coalitions activate veto points and leverage congressional collective action problems.
The final paper from my dissertation is now out in
@bjpols.bsky.social!
I argue that federal agencies collaborate in the policymaking process in order to induce collective action problems in Congress and to pit oversight committees against each other so that agency policies stick.
@bjpols.bsky.social!
I argue that federal agencies collaborate in the policymaking process in order to induce collective action problems in Congress and to pit oversight committees against each other so that agency policies stick.
September 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Check out this new @bjpols.bsky.social article from Asst. Prof. @nicholasnapolio.bsky.social: “Executive Policymaking Coalitions, Veto Activation, and Collective Action Problems.” The article explores how agency coalitions activate veto points and leverage congressional collective action problems.
I bet the homeowner’s insurance policy has a clause excluding extraterrestrial objects that are more than 4.5 billion years old.
August 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I bet the homeowner’s insurance policy has a clause excluding extraterrestrial objects that are more than 4.5 billion years old.
I’m curious what is driving this. Older generations selling in high COL areas and moving to low COL areas? Buying seconds homes? Is it just reflecting a drop in the number of younger homebuyers?
"There are now more homebuyers over age 70 than under 35," per FORTUNE.
August 15, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I’m curious what is driving this. Older generations selling in high COL areas and moving to low COL areas? Buying seconds homes? Is it just reflecting a drop in the number of younger homebuyers?
We are soliciting presenters for the fall workshop! If you want to share your research, please consider submitting.
#polisky #ipe
#polisky #ipe
📢 Call for Papers: Fall 2025 IPE Workshops!
Submit your research on International Political Economy (broadly defined) by August 8, 11:59 PM EST.
👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/1yfL...
We're excited to learn about your work!
#IPE #AcademicResearch #GradStudents
Submit your research on International Political Economy (broadly defined) by August 8, 11:59 PM EST.
👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/1yfL...
We're excited to learn about your work!
#IPE #AcademicResearch #GradStudents
GSIPE Fall 2025 Workshop Series
Section 1 is paper submission; Section 2 is background information. Closes on August 8th (Friday), 2025.
docs.google.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Deficits are “bad” I was told! But when it comes to tax cuts and military budgets such concerns vanish. I think it’s fair to say Republicans are all secretly Modern Monetary Theorists and know deficits don’t matter when you are a currency issuer. #MMT #PoliticalEconomy
BREAKING: Trump’s Big, Beautiful bill passes the House
July 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Deficits are “bad” I was told! But when it comes to tax cuts and military budgets such concerns vanish. I think it’s fair to say Republicans are all secretly Modern Monetary Theorists and know deficits don’t matter when you are a currency issuer. #MMT #PoliticalEconomy
This has been the curious thing, at least in my region. Homes aren’t selling, but prices aren’t really coming down. Are sellers over-leveraged? Did the COVID market distort owners’ perceptions of their homes value?
US home prices have greatly outpaced incomes: in 2024, the price-to-income ratio hit 5, well above the ratio of 3 that has traditionally been considered affordable. As prices rose, existing home sales dropped to a 30-year low.
New report out today:
www.jchs.harvard.edu/state-nation...
New report out today:
www.jchs.harvard.edu/state-nation...
June 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This has been the curious thing, at least in my region. Homes aren’t selling, but prices aren’t really coming down. Are sellers over-leveraged? Did the COVID market distort owners’ perceptions of their homes value?
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New publication alert! Current PhD candidate @hobbsadam.bsky.social and recent PhD graduate Deren Onursal develop and test a general theory of protest radicalization in "The Dynamics of Protest Radicalization."
Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#polisky #politicalscience
Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#polisky #politicalscience
June 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
New publication alert! Current PhD candidate @hobbsadam.bsky.social and recent PhD graduate Deren Onursal develop and test a general theory of protest radicalization in "The Dynamics of Protest Radicalization."
Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#polisky #politicalscience
Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#polisky #politicalscience
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Congrats to UCR PhD alum @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social on their new publication in Contemporary Political Theory! 🐻✨
Kehlenbach critiques the Lockean property model of data and offers a compelling alternative lens to view data.
Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Kehlenbach critiques the Lockean property model of data and offers a compelling alternative lens to view data.
Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Congrats to UCR PhD alum @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social on their new publication in Contemporary Political Theory! 🐻✨
Kehlenbach critiques the Lockean property model of data and offers a compelling alternative lens to view data.
Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Kehlenbach critiques the Lockean property model of data and offers a compelling alternative lens to view data.
Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Can’t wait.
April 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Can’t wait.
If you are at #MPSA2025 stop by the exhibition hall to see the posters of an amazing group of undergraduate research papers I get to be a discussant for.
April 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
If you are at #MPSA2025 stop by the exhibition hall to see the posters of an amazing group of undergraduate research papers I get to be a discussant for.
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My coauthors and I have a cool paper on the connection between foreign real estate investment and redistributive attitudes today in Montrose 4 on the 7th floor at 3:20. We find that being primed with FREI increases oppostion to redistribution.
April 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My coauthors and I have a cool paper on the connection between foreign real estate investment and redistributive attitudes today in Montrose 4 on the 7th floor at 3:20. We find that being primed with FREI increases oppostion to redistribution.
Super cool work they are all doing! The social sciences are immensely important.
CHASS Professor Jennifer Merolla is working with the Social Science Advocacy team today in Washington, DC
#UCinDC #SocialScience #WhySocialScience #COSSA2025
#UCinDC #SocialScience #WhySocialScience #COSSA2025
March 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Super cool work they are all doing! The social sciences are immensely important.
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The Trump administration has cut off federal funding to nonprofits that are key enforcers of anti-discrimination laws. Last year there were more than 34,000 fair-housing complaints, a record high for the third year in a row. @jenniferludden.bsky.social @npr.org
www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n...
HUD choked funding to enforce fair-housing laws. Legal aid groups may not survive
Most housing discrimination claims are handled by local nonprofits around the country. They say the Trump administration has hobbled them, and are challenging the cuts as unlawful.
www.npr.org
March 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Trump administration has cut off federal funding to nonprofits that are key enforcers of anti-discrimination laws. Last year there were more than 34,000 fair-housing complaints, a record high for the third year in a row. @jenniferludden.bsky.social @npr.org
www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n...
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"Cost burdens are spreading from the poorest households to working folks, particularly young people... a full-time job is no guarantee that housing will be affordable."
An interview with our director Chris Herbert about the country's rental affordability crisis.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
An interview with our director Chris Herbert about the country's rental affordability crisis.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Number of those burdened by rental affordability hits record high — Harvard Gazette
Public policy expert discusses possible ways to cut costs amid national housing crunch
news.harvard.edu
March 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"Cost burdens are spreading from the poorest households to working folks, particularly young people... a full-time job is no guarantee that housing will be affordable."
An interview with our director Chris Herbert about the country's rental affordability crisis.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
An interview with our director Chris Herbert about the country's rental affordability crisis.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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We are hosting former UCR PhD graduate Kevin Pham to discuss his new book! Check out the flyer for more details.
@ucrchass.bsky.social #polisky #ucr
@ucrchass.bsky.social #polisky #ucr
March 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
We are hosting former UCR PhD graduate Kevin Pham to discuss his new book! Check out the flyer for more details.
@ucrchass.bsky.social #polisky #ucr
@ucrchass.bsky.social #polisky #ucr
I would love to see some actual progress on reform in the coming years.
The Select Committee on Permitting Reform just released its final report on the systemic permitting challenges that slow critical housing and infrastructure projects in California: a14.asmdc.org/select-commi...
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March 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I would love to see some actual progress on reform in the coming years.
Labor shortages will only lead to rising costs. This administrations discussion of housing affordability was just to further their anti-immigration agenda.
According to an Urban #analysis, immigrants made up more than 23% of the construction workforce in 2023.
Learn more about the role of #immigrant workers in housing markets and how deportation-induced labor shortages in construction could worsen the #housing shortage in a new Urban Wire post.
Learn more about the role of #immigrant workers in housing markets and how deportation-induced labor shortages in construction could worsen the #housing shortage in a new Urban Wire post.
Mass Deportations Would Worsen Our Housing Crisis
Mass deportations would reduce the construction labor force, which is highly dependent on immigrant workers, exacerbating the US housing crisis—but some states are more at risk than others.
www.urban.org
March 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Labor shortages will only lead to rising costs. This administrations discussion of housing affordability was just to further their anti-immigration agenda.
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Up next in our Speaker Series: Dr. James Martel from SFSU. Professor Martel will be presenting a paper that provides an alternative lens to view the Haitian Revolution. See the flyer for more information. @ucrchass.bsky.social
#politicalscience #ucr
#politicalscience #ucr
January 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Up next in our Speaker Series: Dr. James Martel from SFSU. Professor Martel will be presenting a paper that provides an alternative lens to view the Haitian Revolution. See the flyer for more information. @ucrchass.bsky.social
#politicalscience #ucr
#politicalscience #ucr
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Ask the Governor: Speed up the construction of multi-family homes! actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
Ask the Governor to issue an exemption from CEQA for infill housing in low-risk areas to quickly build housing for Californians who need homes
The governor can do even more to accelerate home building by helping promote infill housing in areas of our state that are at far less risk of fire – namely, dense, walkable neighborhoods in our citie...
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January 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Ask the Governor: Speed up the construction of multi-family homes! actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...