🔹 Workers who supported Bolsonaro experienced real relative decline: falling pay and shrinking occupational premia compared to peers just like them.
🔹 Anti-system attitudes track job quality: low autonomy, unfair treatment, and blocked mobility inside firms predict democratic frustration.
Using RAIS matched employer–employee data + a unique dataset of 69k Bolsonaro supporters + a survey experiments on full-time private sector workers, I show that:
I’m happy to announce that this coming fall I’ll be joining Merton College at the University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk as a College Lecturer in Politics! Always wanted to post one of these “happy to posts”, sorry for the spam.
Thrilled to share that my article "From the Factory Floor to the Ballot Box: Firm-Based Origins of Brazil's Populist Right" is now out at the British Journal of Political Science
Using a natural experiment on retail deregulation in Italy and an original survey experiment of 1,300 employees, I find that the entry of large low-road firms increased support for the Lega Nord and anti-system attitudes.
🔹 “Low-road” firm conditions (lower pay to comparable skills and occupations, no benefits, rigid schedules, lower autonomy) make otherwise similar workers more likely to endorse anti-system behaviors.
Gentrificaron Brixton hdps
Si pudiera definir lo que quiero que sea mi carrera académica diría básicamente: demostrar que las ciencias sociales no tienen la más remota idea de cómo es un obrero (ni de cómo es un empresario). Es el blind spot del 99% de la disciplina.
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Finally, my new paper is out in Comparative Political Studies.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It shows that anti-system politics often begins inside firms: when employers take the low road, offering poor job quality and unfair hierarchies, even well-off workers turn against the system.
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