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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · 2d

Grazie mille Giacomo! 😁

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · 2d

Gracias Amalia! 😁

Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · 2d

🏗️ Building up our work in Spain with @luisaguado.bsky.social. In a country with high polarization, working toward social cohesion and democratic resilience feels urgent and necessary.

Stay tuned for our work. And to my academic colleagues: let's keep collaborating and building bridges.

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · 2d

🎓 I love academic work: the freedom, pursuing new knowledge, pushing understanding forward. But the challenge? Making sure that knowledge actually reaches beyond academia.

That's what excites me about More in Common. In this moment, we need more than research alone. We need action.

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · 2d

🆕💼 Today marks a new chapter: I'm starting as a Researcher at @moreincommonuk.bsky.social in Spain!

After 4 years working on my PhD, it was time for the next step. Grateful to my supervisors and colleagues, I learned so much and will miss working alongside them.

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 10d

The AfD qualified for three mayoral run-offs in cities in North Rhine-Westphalia today, and lost all by big margins. The lesson is not that we have overdone the AfD's rise, but that we do perhaps sometimes underestimate the counter-mobilisation effects - including in east Germany, incidentally.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12d

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 13d

Trains are being nationalised in the UK. Didn't know that would also apply to airport trains. This whole process flying a bit under the radar it seems? This should be a major policy win for the left, but the government is mostly busy talking about something else.

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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 13d

In light of Keir Starmer's turn on immigration & debates in the UK about Denmark as an example to follow, I was invited by @ukandeu.bsky.social to reflect on what the research tells us about lessons to draw from Danish migration policy. Here's my take on the pitfalls: ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...

Denmark’s migration policy – an example to follow? - UK in a changing Europe

Kristina Bakkær Simonsen explains why countries feel they have something to learn from Denmark's strict migration policy, but argues that there are many key pitfalls.

ukandeu.ac.uk

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 17d

Worrying development in the Netherlands.

Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 18d

Anti-immigration demonstration in the Netherlands escalates. This is exactly what happens when far-right ideas are tolerated and normalised over an extended period of time. The far right gains confidence and grows, both at the ballot box and in the streets.
nos.nl/artikel/2583...

Anti-immigratie-demonstratie Den Haag escaleert, confrontatie met politie

De actievoerders steken vuurwerk af en zwaaien met Nederlandse vlaggen maar ook met prinsenvlaggen.

nos.nl

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Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 19d

I got stuck measuring local UK inequality, so I wrote a Substack about it: "The UK's Local Inequality Problem: Big Debates, Bad Data" Do share your data and thoughts! open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

The UK’s Local Inequality Problem: Big Debates, Bad Data

We talk endlessly about inequality, but the tools and data are fragile and misleading. Good local income data is missing - yet house price proxies, small-area models, and AI offer ways forward.

open.substack.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 24d

Spain's La Vuelta halted in Madrid as police clash with pro-Palestinian protesters reut.rs/4mf5i7O

Spain's La Vuelta halted in Madrid as police clash with pro-Palestinian protesters

Spain's La Vuelta cycling race was halted in Madrid on Sunday afternoon as cyclists were entering the city after police clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters in the Spanish capital's centre.

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Eva Krejcova @evakrejcova.bsky.social · 26d

1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space.
👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · 28d

However, empirically, Vox got the best results in April 2019 in the richer neighbourhoods of the cities, like in Madrid.

Difficult to test the idea of the reference group with the available data. Collecting own data and experimental work would be ideal.

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks, these are very valid points. Theoretically, I agree that the cost might be lower if the stigma is weak in the reference group. That is a concept we use in another working paper about norms in Spain. Nonetheless, I doubt they are completely unaware of the social norm at the broader level.

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you Ruth!

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks for asking. I do not find any differences among Vox voters regarding political interest, talking about politics, or following the political campaigns between April and November.

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you! The availability of variables does not allow for direct control of political efficacy, but I do control for political interest. Moreover, among Vox's voters, there are no differences in talking about politics, political interest, or following the campaigns between April and November.

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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · Sep 8

Really good and really really interesting.

To a large extent, it goes against my expectations, and yet it does cover it's bases well enough that I may have to accept that maybe norms are a bigger part of the far right story than what I initially thought.

Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · Sep 8

Radical-right parties are often linked to the “left-behind”. But supporting them when stigma is strong is costly. So who is willing to pay that cost early on, before it’s normalized?

In my new WP, I argue that breaking political norms is socially stratified. 🧵👇

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Sep 8

Cool work! The League in Italy has historically been the party of small-to-medium Norther Italian businesses so annecdotally the argument checks out.

Also speaks to the evidence of this recent paper:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you, Federica, I'm glad you liked it!

Thanks for sharing that paper. I wasn't aware of it.

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · Sep 8

Muchas gracias Matteo! 😄

Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you Hugo and thanks for sharing! ☺️

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · Sep 8

@magsedu.bsky.social @minjabujakovic.bsky.social @emilkamalov.bsky.social @behaviour-eui.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · Sep 8

And a big thank you to colleagues and friends who gave feedback along the way. Their comments made the paper much stronger, and the process much more enjoyable 🙏.

@florianfoos.bsky.social @valentimvicente.bsky.social @pberamendi.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @riazsascha.bsky.social

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