Seminar today: Laurenz Guenther exploring the role of political representation gaps in fuelling the rise of anti-immigration far-right populism in Europe.
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Seminar today: Laurenz Guenther exploring the role of political representation gaps in fuelling the rise of anti-immigration far-right populism in Europe.
This is one of the most elegantly written "academic" trade books that I've read in a long time and it puts forward an intriguing argument. The implicit baseline, as I understand it, is ``quiet politics'', with business prevailing most of the time, save www.bloomsbury.com/uk/billionai...
Finishing up the slides for the launch this Thursday night. Excited... and a bit scared
Less than two weeks to the 3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab workshop. Register here 👇
www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events
Have yet to listen to this, but am very excited! @caroartc.bsky.social is great and @jerusalem.bsky.social is doing a fantastic job interviewing all the right people (especially me 😜) to understand the rise of the populist right!
youtu.be/gROQEScoyNY?...
Very much looking forward to participating in this workshop! Thank you for inviting me.
🚨 Join us in Sydney for the
3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab Workshop
26-27 Feb 2026
Info, program, and registration👇
www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events
See this @stiglercenter.bsky.social post for a short summary of the paper.
www.promarket.org/2025/05/14/b...
Lovely to see the @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper that @grattonecon.bsky.social and I published last year covered.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Great article by @jerusalem.bsky.social!
www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-price-...
Thank you, Jacob. I think at the beginning I was still waking up at 8am 😂 but later on I got more lively 😉
Great podcast with @grattonecon.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dajZ...
🎁 Christmas has come early for @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me with the publication of our article "The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century" in @politicalgeography.bsky.social:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Honoured to be invited to join the @cepr.org family in the Political Economy Programme. Looking forward to Rome's workshop in June👇 as my first in-person participation as fellow.
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There is understandably a great deal of interest in fighting populism. I share the normative aspiration.
Yet the more I think about it, the more I find myself drawn to a more pessimistic interpretation. The latter may well be wrong. But articulating it helps clarify whether there are strong grounds
Four more days to apply!
🕵️♂️Some of you have yet to apply to our @unswecon.bsky.social junior position, and I can't fathom why. 👀
DEADLINE: November 28.
QUESTION? Email me.
LINK: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
Delighted to see this paper out in @carlsengames.bsky.social - working with @grattonecon.bsky.social was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats
This Friday seminar: @anjaprummer.bsky.social uncovering the virtue of divisive designs in optimal mechanisms.
Trying to publish a paper on fake news in 2012... I guess I was ahead of the times 😂🤷♂️
Fascinating paper by @grattonecon.bsky.social, @bartonelee2.bsky.social, and Hasin Yousaf!
The paper addresses a fundamental question: Why do some democracies chronically avoid ambitious, long-term reforms even when they have decent institutions?
They argue that what matters is not only
.@warwickecon.bsky.social has a number of vacancies for Assistant Professors (Macro & Development)
Coventry has canals, an amazing cathedral etc.
... is one hour from London,
20 mins from Birmingham
90 mins from the Peak District National Park
Apply here: 👉 econjobmarket.org/positions/12...
I'm thrilled to see @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma & I have won over $825,000 in funding from the Australian Research Council for our Discovery Project "Generation-Z engagement with political parties".
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
Congrats! Looking forward to seeing the results.
Preparing some (ambitious 🤣) slides for this year's @unswecon.bsky.social Annual Honours Alumni Event.
It's not our style to speculate on others' budgetary issues, But you may want to know we are hiring on this year's junior JM. 😉
🚨NEW VERSION IS HERE!!!
🔥ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE 2.0❤️🔥
LINK: gratton.org/papers/Addin...
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