🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

To assign alongside this podcast (the part on the newsletter, connected to paper 2): thisamericanlife.org/845/a-small-th…

🤯 Impressive empirical analysis, interpretable and important results, with precise policy implications. Check this thread/paper if you work on the political consequences of de-industrialization, technological change or free trade!

New paper with Andreas Beerli, Dominik Hangartner, and Dalston Ward about #immigration and voting for the #FarRight in #Switzerland

The fact that this point still needs to be made today makes me sad. Concepts are difference from empirical measures. I blame the "behavioral revolution." One thing CP training is good at.

Book award 🚨! Deadline for the European Pol. & Soc. APSA book award is March 15th. To nominate a book on European Politics please email an electronic copy at [email protected]. Committee members: Isabela Mares, Simon Hix and myself!

New paper with Ryan Mundy on the advantage of *candidate* wealth in US elections. Our rich Congress comes from rich candidates: they raise far more early money and especially more large-dollar donations, scare off competitors, and are more likely to be elected. Link below.

I had an identity crisis last fall (am I working on the small stuff instead of the big stuff?). So I wrote a short piece reflecting on the connections between CPE/PE and Lukes' radical view of power. Thoughts? Newsletter also includes many more great contributions, see below!

Who wants to talk about the Thiel FT Oped?

📢 Workshop Call 📢 3d Edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Keynote: "Revolutionary Contagion" by Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson At Universitat de Barcelona on June 30 and July 1, 2025 Send us your best papers by Febr 28: shorturl.at/w96jk Dídac Queralt

This event is happening this Wednesday at the #Umich Ann Arbor campus, come and please share!

Do resources exist for the climate transition? In our PPRN brief Elsa Clara Massoc argues the answer is yes. She goes under the hood of European state spending, and finds substantial fiscal headroom for climate policies.

Latest Rhodes Center Podcast went up over the weekend. In case you missed it, it's me and Charlotte Cavaille and Branko Milanovic talking about why inequality never seems to become a dominant political issue. Great Chat: player.captivate.fm/episode/1c7253…

NEW #RhodesCenter #podcast: The puzzling politics of inequality — Why isn’t inequality a bigger political issue, despite its huge impact on our lives? Mark Blyth asks Charlotte Cavaille & Branko Milanovic—and the answers make him rethink the question itself. ow.ly/Xhjw50VfC4n

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

Fair Enough? Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality, Charlotte Cavaille Cambridge University Press | Reviewed by Mads Andreas Elkjær at doi.org/10.1093/psquar…

This is incredibly relevant for the US today: "Results indicate that support for [anti-rule of law moves] is best explained by two forces: prior attachment to the leader heading the backsliding effort and animosity toward partisan opponents."

I'll be moderating a panel on Birth Right Citizenship at Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy (and try to bring a comparative perspective). The panel includes legal scholars and historians, join us on FRIDAY March 28th! fordschool.umich.edu/event/2025/cur…

Today, the #UMichRegents approved the promotion of Charlotte Cavaillé, now associate professor of public policy, with tenure, and associate professor of political science. Congratulations! #GoBlue myumi.ch/n11X8