A fascinating chart by John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times highlights disturbing low life expectancy in US vs UK @ same income level An aspect I’ve noted in blue lines: Brits are relatively far poorer at old age & die even more poor the longer they live. I’m not sure which is worse.

In a nation like #Thailand where monarchy and military reign supreme, voting for democratic opposition is not an EXERCISE OF popular sovereignty: it’s a DEMAND FOR popular sovereignty. That makes it a revolutionary act. My latest Journal of Democracy: journalofdemocracy.org/thailands-revo…

Turkey’s new electoral map: yellow Erdoğan, red opposition. The red provinces produce 70-75% of Turkey’s GDP.

Americans swept up in ethnic identity politics have difficulty understanding how, given the Erdoğan regime’s repression in majority-Kurdish areas, it could have ethnic Kurds in very high offices (minister of foreign affairs, minister of finance, intelligence chief). A person’s

What type of revolution is most vulnerable to counterrevolutions? Using a novel dataset, Killian Clarke argues that nonviolent revolutions are more susceptible than violent revolutions, which produce regimes with loyal militaries. #APSRFirstView ow.ly/kCnr50OCfi8

Coups tend to be bloodless, in part because the possibility of a slide into a fratricidal civil war scares the military deeply, and coup dynamics are driven by a desire to avoid civil war. Let me explain more concretely.

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Some profoundly depressing data for your Monday morning Ungated version nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Excited to have a new paper Comparative Political Studies on authoritarian legacies of co-optation and mobilization. Based on lots of archival work in Portugal with Noah Schouela. Part of dialogue on consequences of #fascism w/ Andrea Ruggeri, Patricia Justino &others journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Our latest study finds school segregation is associated w/ ↑ risk factors for chronic disease in short- & long-term among Black youth, but reduced adolescent smoking & drinking. 50 days free access here! authors.elsevier.com/c/1jDzH,Nz~NVf… @amyjammyjames Gabe Schwartz NCSD 👧🏽👦🏾👧🏼👧🏾👦🏻

We have a new study out on school segregation & health. tldr - it's complicated! On avg, kids in more segregated districts had fewer exercise opportunities & poorer metabolic adult health - a result that held across race, as long as kids were attending a majority POC school. 1/3

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Thanks for posting our findings! Amy Raskopf

Read our latest paper published at NEJM Evidence !!!