Tarik Abou-Chadi
tabouchadi.bsky.social
Tarik Abou-Chadi
@tabouchadi.bsky.social
Professor of European Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Elections, parties, social democracy & the radical right. he/him. 🏳️‍🌈
I agree that social media is not the best venue to discuss these things. I will note that I am not the one who brought it to social media. In any case, I think it is a bit late for this discussion.
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Also probably a good moment to think about how we would feel and would want to be treated in a similar situation. What should the editorial process look like? What is the right tone of a response? How and when do you promote it on social media? Does your language imply more than honest mistakes?
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
We have done some work on rent prices and radical right support: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
I would also emphasize that the Guardian article is less focused on the radical right than implied by the headline.
Rental Market Risk and Radical Right Support - Tarik Abou-Chadi, Denis Cohen, Thomas Kurer, 2025
A growing literature examines how economic threat affects support for anti-establishment parties. While most existing work focuses on transforming labor markets...
journals.sagepub.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
(8) Ben Ansell examines the political feasibility of wealth and inheritance taxes as potential funding sources for progressive housing and social policies. Inheritance taxes are particularly unpopular, but wealth taxes with credible promises to spend revenues on public investments can be popular.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
(7) Gerald Koessl provides an in-depth analysis of Austria's and Vienna's housing system as a potential model for affordable housing provision. He examines policy instruments that make this system work, critically assesses their effectiveness, and identifies lessons for other countries and cities.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
(6) Michael Wicki examines the politically contentious issue of urban densification - a key strategy for addressing climate change, housing supply constraints, and land scarcity. Wicki demonstrates that public acceptance of densification depends heavily on how projects are designed and implemented.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
(5) Aidan Regan asks whether and how homeownership can ever be a progressive policy. He argues that homeownership is only progressive when it is affordable and accessible to low- and middle-income households, rather than serving as a vehicle for speculative wealth accumulation.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
(4) Sebastian Kohl, Max Steinhardt, and Simon Voss shift attention to an often-overlooked dimension of housing inequality: the distribution of living space. Overcrowding and under-occupation in the existing housing stock are rising. Policymakers should incentivize redistribution.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
(3) Dorothee Bohle and Lina Ehrich discuss the housing agenda of the radical right. Their analysis reveals how radical right parties attempt to reconcile housing affordability with their broader ideological commitments, including their stance on immigration, nationalism and the patrimonial family.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
(2) Lindsay Flynn and Giuseppe Montalbano examine the fundamental tension at the heart of contemporary housing policy: housing as a social right versus housing as an asset for wealth accumulation. They highlight potential paths forward for and the political tradeoffs that must be navigated carefully
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
(1) Martin Vinæs Larsen traces the dramatic decline of social housing across Europe over the past four decades and analyzes the political barriers to its revival. He identifies four major obstacles to reviving social housing and argues for strategies with a broader appeal.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM