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Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP
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1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest May 2026 - Regional Human Capital Database - Female Politicians’ Experiences Working with Bureacracy in 🇮🇳 - Methodological issues in the estimation of unequal responsiveness - Deservingness and Ideology - Inequality type and fairness in 🇿🇦, 🇮🇳 & 🇺🇸
2/6 🧵 In @bjpols.bsky.social, Gingrich et al introduce a new database, Regional Human Capital Database, and show that urban-rural education gap growing - though not everywhere - populist-vote is linked to lower education - with some caution doi.org/rbc9
6/6 🧵in @poqjournal.bsky.social, Egendal Leipziger et al want to understand if group vs. interpersonal inequality have stronger effect on fairness perceptions. Priming experiment 🇿🇦, 🇮🇳 & 🇺🇸. Results inconclusive as respondents conflate group & interpersonal inequality. doi.org/q9ws
4/6 🧵 In Sociological Science Enns questions recent findings that policy responds more to the preferences of more affluent citizens. Restricting attention to cases of disagreements under certain conditions can generate a spurious estimate of unresponsiveness to the poor doi.org/hb2f6c
3/6 🧵In @cpsjournal.bsky.social, a theory of bureaucratic constraints facing female politicians by @bhumi.bsky.social advances. Original elite survey, interviews & conjoint in 🇮🇳. Shows different gendered discretion mechanisms, such as bureaucrats' biased perceptions of competence doi.org/q9wn
Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP
5/6 🧵In @epsrjournal.bsky.social, @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social, @theresmatthiess.bsky.social, Guinaudeau find that ideology shapes how people rate the deservingness of different social groups. Showing that left leaning citizens weigh need; right-leaning citizens weigh merit. doi.org/q9wp
