Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies | Political economy of public debt and fiscal policies | Southern European in the North
"Hate never made any nation great again"
Alessia Aspide
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✨ MaxCPE is back tomorrow✨
Don’t miss our webinar on 27th May at 3pm CEST. Amy Verdun (@amyverdun.bsky.social) and Lucia Quaglia will present their paper, followed by a discussion by Luuk Schmitz (@luukschmitz.bsky.social).
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Next week, on the 15th of May, Alessia Aspide @aspidea.bsky.social will defend her thesis 'Fiscal Preferences in Context: Fiscal rules, political agendas, and the mass politics of public debt'.
Read about her key findings here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
Alessia Aspide
The attack on immigrants — which I don't think Trump can moderate — will make America poorer as well as uglier paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-deport...
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In her dissertation, political scientist Alessia Aspide explores how public attitudes toward fiscal policy are formed. Her key finding: fiscal preferences are not shaped in a vacuum, but are deeply em...
✨ MaxCPE is back! ✨
Don’t miss this week's webinar on Wednesday, 17th Dec, at 1pm CEST. Alexandre Afonso (@alexandreafonso.bsky.social) will present his co-authored paper on public opinion towards immigrants & Martin Ruhs will join us to discuss.
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Whatever Trump intends, this will spiral out of control
In a second experiment, we study preferences in the context of parties' platforms: when asked how to reduce debt, people prefer immigration over austerity, and would rather increase immigration than let debt grow unchecked.
Using a real figure from Italy’s 2023 budget law, showing that public debt falls when immigration rises, we find that informing citizens of the fiscal effects of immigration leads to more positive views of immigrants and stronger support for pro-immigration policies.
