Thought-provoking - moral language makes pro-immigration messages more effective.
Some of these are really small tweaks: a "fairer and more decent" rather than "better and sounder" immigration policy.
(And some are larger, like focusing on a country's values rather than economic benefits).
An article by @telegraphnews.bsky.social literally advocating tax evasion.
Literally - how to pretend to run a commercial woodland to avoid inheritance tax.
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/in...
Here is a puzzle. People in sub-Saharan Africa tend to be *twice* as religious as the rest of the world, yet countries in the region provide *half* as much state support for religion.
Why?
Hint: It isn't about state capacity. #polrel
Original article in Politics & Religion:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Thanks for this @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social 👌🏼 I might add my recent @psrm.bsky.social showing that the 🇩🇰 Social Democrats could have won policy support for a pro-immigrant platform if their messaging were framed in moral terms. Central corrective to popular notion SD was destined to go anti-im 👇🏼
Dr. David Jeffery-Schwikkard
Dr. David Jeffery-Schwikkard
Dr. David Jeffery-Schwikkard
Dr. David Jeffery-Schwikkard
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European states are more involved in religion than those in sub-Saharan Africa.
Are there any academics you read where you think 'woah, that's really good writing'?
I'm having an odd time. I'm returning to books and articles that I remember as excellent. But when I read them closely, their wordwork is clumsy.
Help. Who first came to mind when you read my question?
