The EBRD has just published an interesting report on demographic change. There is a very good chapter on the political economy of demographic change where they build on my research to argue that addressing the challenges that ageing creates is complicated by the different policy priorities of different age groups.
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Bloomberg article mentions my research on ageing
A recent Bloomberg article “Untouchable Baby Boomers Have Europe in a Choke Hold” mentions my research on the political economy of ageing, which I discussed in a recent LSE blog.
You can read the underlying research, which is forthcoming in World Politics, on ResearchGate.
Guardian article mentions my research on welfare state and far right party support
A recent Guardian article “Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism” mentions my research on how welfare state policies shape far right party support among insecure individuals.
Continue reading “Guardian article mentions my research on welfare state and far right party support”My research mentioned in report of UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
My research has been mentioned in the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, authored by Olivier De Schutter, It’s an excellent document well worth a read.
Continue reading “My research mentioned in report of UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights”Grey power, pension reforms and the politics of slow growth in Europe
Ageing populations and the power of the “grey vote” are undermining Europe’s economic growth, as I write in a recent LSE blog. Yet an ageing Europe need not be a stagnant one if policymakers confront the sources of the grey power trap.
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My forthcoming article “Ageing Advanced Capitalist Democracies: the new Electoral Politics of Economic Stagnation” in World Politics is now available on Research Gate.
Continue reading “New article “Ageing Advanced Capitalist Democracies” forthcoming in World Politics now on Research Gate”New LSE blog: Even honest research results can flip – a new approach to assessing robustness in the social sciences
Reposted from LSE Blog. When academic studies get things wrong, it is often blamed on misconduct and fraud. Yet, as we argue in a recent post with Michael Ganslmeier , even good-faith research, conducted using standard methods and transparent data, can produce contradictory conclusions.
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By Michael Ganslmeier (University of Exeter) and Tim Vlandas (University of Oxford). First posted at SPA blog
The growth of quantitative comparative social policy research
Since Wilensky’s seminal work in 1975, the comparative welfare state literature has seen hundreds of quantitative studies exploring why some countries have more generous welfare states than others. Over time, the list of proposed determinants has grown substantially: economic growth and development, partisanship and party politics, globalisation and migration, union strength and economic coordination, political institution and fiscal capacity, and public opinion; to name just a few.
Continue reading “Taking stock of Welfare State Determinants: A new approach to assessing robustness in quantitative comparative research”New publication on estimating the Extent and Sources of Model Uncertainty in Political Science now out in PNAS
Together with Dr Michael Ganslmeier (University of Exeter), we have co-authored a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), titled Estimating the Extent and Sources of Model Uncertainty in Political Science. The article addresses a fundamental challenge in empirical social science: the extent to which published findings depend on defensible but ultimately variable modelling decisions.
Continue reading “New publication on estimating the Extent and Sources of Model Uncertainty in Political Science now out in PNAS”How and why actual class decline leads to far-right party support
Does downward class mobility increase the likelihood of voting for far-right parties? If so, why, and through which mechanisms? How important is the group of downwardly mobile individuals for driving far-right party success? In a new article with Alexi Gugushvili and Daphne Halikiopoulou we argue that downward class mobility significantly affects far-right voting but only under specific conditions.
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