Next wave of climate policy backlash rolling along

#OpenAccess from @PSRMjournal -

Inclusive meritocracy: ability and descriptive representation among Danish politicians - cup.org/3U6EE57

- Jens Olav Dahlgaard & Rasmus T Pedersen

#FirstView

The debate about Majority Voting in the EU is going in circles. To shed more light on how QMV is actually used in practice, at SWP we have compiled and today publish a database of all public votes in the Council since 2010 - the EU Council Monitor:

swp-berlin.org/en/publication…

ariadneprojekt.de/en/publication…

Now coming to a computer screen near you!

Very excited to present 'Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality' (with Paolo Piacquadio) as part of the Normative Economics and Economic Policy webinar series. 1/2

X-troduction to 'One from the Many'. 1/N Continuation of the 'First Great Wave of Globalization.' Sub-title: 'The Great Specialization?' #onefromthemany 🧵

Nice to see that my paper on authoritarian urban governance in Moscow finally has an issue number. Still one of my favorite projects, though I am nostalgic for a time when Russia had even marginally competitive elections.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Using data on night-time lights captured by satellites, Harris Policy's Luis Martínez shows that autocracies overstate yearly GDP growth by as much as 35%.

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zum Umbau des #Klimaschutzgesetz ' durch die #Ampel hagelte es massive Kritik, u a hier:

wiwo.de/technologie/um…

in weiten Teilen 1 Scheindebatte, sagt Christian Flachsland , der an der Hertie School zu Klimapolitik forscht und unter Ottmar Edenhofer in Potsdam promiviert hat

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Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy by Marc S. Jacob is now available in Early View. ajps.org/2024/04/17/cit…

'Ich glaube, die Wirksamkeit dieser Sektorziele wird überschätzt. Denn nominell rechtlich verbindliche Ziele allein können eine Regierung oder ein Ministerium nicht zum Handeln zwingen, wenn die pol. Anreize zu schwach sind, etwa ein Reputationsschaden bei Verletzung der Ziele.'

My advice to my younger self (first year in grad school) is: “To go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.' (Actually, this is Rainer Maria Rilke.)

Very excited to see my paper with Jon Fiva out in QJPS! In the paper, we study the importance of political parties in disciplining and motivating their elected officials. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

Q: The Council of Economic Advisers: What is it? And who cares?

A: It's the White House's econ think tank, and POTUS cares. You should too.

New Statecraft with Martha Gimbel, on what goes on at CEA. statecraft.pub/p/how-to-wrang…

Lots of great ideas from Peterson Institute conference on Rethinking economic policy. Check it out on YouTube here 👇youtube.com/live/HYZVr5LVi…

Excited to share our new paper “The Class Ceiling in Politics” conditionally accepted at American Political Science Review! Co-authored with Johanna Rickne. Available at: drive.google.com/file/d/1rdrUwP… 1/9

This semester I've been teaching 'Economic Inequality and Growth' at UC Berkeley. This is a thread with some of my favorite graphs.

First, the headline everyone's-seen-it graph: falling then rising income inequality in Anglophone countries.