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Xabier Garcia Fuente
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Economic History. Social policy. Latin America. PhD student at Universitat de Barcelona.
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davebrady72.bsky.social
We’d like to believe that effort matters to what we attain in life. In fact our belief in meritocracy depends on that. But what if how much effort people spend itself depends on your social background?

“The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children”
January 14, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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beckerbastian.bsky.social
Here's a short write-up of our recently published study:

📰"What People Really Think About Taxing the Rich – the surprising beliefs behind progressive taxation"

TLDR: Most believe taxing the rich brings equality & growth! Elite fears are not shared.

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
What People Really Think About Taxing the Rich – the surprising beliefs behind progressive taxation « Political Science and International Relations# « Cambridge Core Blog
For decades, political leaders, economists, and business elites have repeated a familiar warning: tax the rich too much, and everyone will suffer. Higher taxes on the wealthy, they argue, might reduce...
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January 15, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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janetgornick.bsky.social
Are you interested in inequality of opportunity / inter-generational mobility? Take a look at this impressive new resource: a public-access database containing cross-nationally comparable estimates of inequality of opportunity for 72 countries, covering 2/3 of the world’s population. 👇👇👇
stone-lis.bsky.social Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · 5d
A new online database includes comparable estimates of inequality of opportunity for 72 countries that cover 2/3 of the world population. The share of total inequality that is due to inherited circumstances ranges from 19% (Denmark) to 77% (South Africa).
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Text of working paper abstract
January 14, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
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December 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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resnikoff.bsky.social
A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.
October 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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tabouchadi.bsky.social
Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.

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September 25, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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turnbulldugarte.com
Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

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September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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madselk.bsky.social
Did you ever wonder why governments don’t do more to counteract wealth inequality? In our new @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, we seek to answer this question, studying the electoral politics of inheritance taxation muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 1/n
Project MUSE - Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality? Evidence from the United Kingdom
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August 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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chknutsen.bsky.social
Are regimes with higher nr's of core supporters more durable? Are regimes with more diverse coalitions of supporters more durable?

In this (published today) @cpsjournal.bsky.social article, @sirianned.bsky.social , @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social , and @torewig.bsky.social I answer "Yes" to both Qs.
August 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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gefjonoff.bsky.social
New publication in @wepsocial.bsky.social!

Are young men becoming more conservative?

This debate requires a) more nuance and b) theoretical explanations for often descriptive results. With Amy Alexander and Nicholas Charron, we try addressing both.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Young men, gendered labour market competition, and opposition to gender equality policy across 27 EU countries
Recent studies have shown an increasing divide in political values between young men and women, particularly regarding gender equality attitudes. In this study it is argued that this is due in part...
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August 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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bpetrova.bsky.social
A very interesting paper on recent industrial policy successes and failures in Europe that highlights the enduring importance of institutions. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
When does industrial policy fail and when can it succeed? Case studies from Europe
Abstract. When does industrial policy succeed and fail in advanced economies? Most approaches to these questions concentrate on policy design and state pow
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August 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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lwestheuser.bsky.social
Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
August 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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p-hunermund.com
Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
August 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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pengzell.bsky.social
Business owners in Brazil systematically favor co-partisan workers in hiring, promotion, and pay. Assortative matching is larger than for race or gender, and rising over time.
August 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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pengzell.bsky.social
US households tend to be too optimistic about their future job prospects. This bias leads to worse financial decisions over the life course and contributes to wealth inequality.
August 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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isabellstamm.bsky.social
In our new article, Jens Beckert and I ask how "Capital and the Family" interconnect in contemporary capitalism. We argue that they come together in owning relations - and are crucial to today's economy. Read more in @bjsociology.bsky.social

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July 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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jpube.bsky.social
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"Parenthood and the gender gap in commuting"

By Aline Bütikofer, René Karadakic, & Alexander Willén

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#econsky #publiceconomics #gendergap
July 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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cjayanetti.bsky.social
I agree with this but - as Giles' post effectively goes on to say - there *is* a way out of this fiscal corner, it's called raising taxes, and I don't think it's as politically impossible as people make out

Hard (by Labour's own doing) but not impossible

First, welfare revolts tells us nothing...
July 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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jacobnyrup.bsky.social
Yay! @madselk.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, @mhaslberger.bsky.social, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, Laure Bokobza, and my piece on 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 is out in @worldpolitics.bsky.social!

Find it here: muse.jhu.edu/article/964464
July 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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jdportes.bsky.social
Every day, another deliberate massacre of starving civilians.

Silence speaks louder than words.

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Witnesses describe ‘horror’ after Israeli forces fire at Palestinians waiting for aid trucks
At least 51 people killed and hundreds wounded in Khan Younis as they sought food supplies, says Gaza health ministry
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June 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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demresjournal.bsky.social
Who gets the privilege of free time? Across Europe, fathers enjoy more leisure time than mothers, especially in Southern and Eastern countries. New research across 13 countries shows persistent gender gaps in parental leisure. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
May 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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bjpols.bsky.social
NEW -

Beyond Observational Relationships: Evidence from a Ten-Country Experiment that Policy Disputes Cause Affective Polarization - cup.org/3Zvgchx

- @noamgidron.bsky.social, James Adams, @rwillh11.bsky.social & @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing scholars' investigation into polarization and logical comparisons across party entities, cultural priming in economic discussions, and the effect of cultural debates on political discourse.
May 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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jeppjournal.bsky.social
🧾 Gender meets taxation
Laura Seelkopf (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) brings together two rarely connected topics, gender and taxation, to explore overlooked puzzles and lessons for political economy research 👇
Invisible taxation: women and the tax state
Tax systems in Europe and elsewhere severely discriminate against women. This has huge implications for their income, wealth and general power within society. It also leads to gendered consumption ...
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May 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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danneidle.bsky.social
Here's Gary Stevenson calling for a return to the 1970s, when the top rate of tax was 98%. But did the rich ever pay it?

We spoke to 1970s tax dodgers and ex-HMRC staff & and crunched the data.

A 🧵, but here's a spoiler: the rich pay more tax *now*.
May 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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jowolff.bsky.social
A footnote from David Miller, expressing highly recognisable reservations about the rise of the journal article.
Naturally this has implications for the way in which a political philosopher should communicate his ideas. One of the unwelcome side effects of turning political philosophy into an academic discipline has been the rise of the journal article as the preferred means of expression. Everything about it is forbidding to the lay reader. It has a formal structure that seems designed to reassure her that there will be no surprising turns of argument. It lays out in advance the conclusion to which she will be marched. It plods dutifully through the large literature on the topic, as though to confirm that no original thought is going to be expressed. It is weighed down with footnotes—in the worst case almost every sentence has a Harvard-style reference at the end. Everything about it signals that it’s intended only for the initiated— those who’ve already mastered the fifty-five other articles it cites. In all these respects it contrasts with the essay as a form of writing designed to convey ideas to the reader in an enticing and imaginative way and with little use of formal apparatus. For several centuries before this one, the essay was the primary means of conveying political-philosophical ideas to what Hume in his essay on the subject called ‘the conversible World’. ( D. Hume, ‘Of Essay Writing’, in D. Hume, Essays Moral, Political, and Literary, edited by E. Miller (Liberty Press, 1985).
April 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM