I'm presenting this project (w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social) at @epssnet.bsky.social. If you like cleavage politics, identities, and how people update their class & religious identity to match their immigration preferences, come!
Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/so...
⏰ June 19, 17:10
📍 Hall 2A (ICC)
Video
It's really important that democratic elites start to get that a significant part of the malaise and discomfort with multi-cultural Britain is manufactured by hostile actors on social media, and that they don't play into it as if it's a real fact of life. www.ft.com/content/dd79...
Les jeux sont faits: Thanks to urban municipalities and french speaking regions, Switzerland says NO to the far-right proposal demanding to cap the population at 10 million inhabitants.
This spring, I had the honor of giving the 2026 @ecpr.bsky.social Stein Rokkan Lecture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii5V...
Based on joint work with @dpzollinger.bsky.social, @simonbornschier.bsky.social, I argued that the lens of cleavage politics is most useful to study democratic resilience.
My new theory paper (early draft)
A new reason why concentrated wealth destroys democracy: common ownership
A standalone media owner maximizes profit. A common owner like Musk (who owns X + SpaceX) will run the media firm at a loss to increase the $ of his total portfolio
tinyurl.com/mcekr7cd