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We are a social sciences library serving Nuffield College and the University of Oxford.

https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/library/

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pculpepper.bsky.social
Generous review of Billionaire Backlash in today’s FT. 🙏 Book is in stores this week!
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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Best feasible conditional critical values for a more powerful subvector Anderson-Rubin test
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@econem-bot.bsky.social preprint by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student Jesse Hoekstra and Nuffield Fellow Frank Windmeijer
Best Feasible Conditional Critical Values for a More Powerful...
For subvector inference in the linear instrumental variables model under homoskedasticity but allowing for weak instruments, Guggenberger, Kleibergen, and Mavroeidis (2019) (GKM) propose a conditional...
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January 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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inetoxford.bsky.social
An opportunity to join @zparolin.bsky.social's growing #Inequality team @inetoxford.bsky.social @dspi-oxford.bsky.social ➸ Apply by 6 February ➸ www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
January 27, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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blavatnikschool.bsky.social
Why not join us for the launch? ⭐ 📖
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/blava...
Blavatnik Book Launch: Billionaire Backlash
Join us for the launch of Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How It Could Save Democracy, the new book by Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee on the surprising story of how corporate sc...
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January 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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blavatnikschool.bsky.social
"Well-timed, tightly written" and "admirably international in its approach."

⭐ The @financialtimes.com reviews @pculpepper.bsky.social's new book 'Billionaire Backlash'. 👇
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Home - Financial Times
News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics
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January 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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Could the UK’s low house price growth be a good thing?
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@nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow John Muellbauer is quoted in this @financialtimes.com article
Could the UK’s low house price growth be a good thing?
Agents are ‘gloomy’ about ‘downbeat’ figures from 2025. Projections for 2026 are ‘boring’. But there is some cause for optimism
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January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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benansell.bsky.social
My @prospectmagazine.co.uk column this month looks at whether Labour and the Conservatives can revive themselves by somehow shifting political debate back towards the one-time comfortable territory of the economy and away from the culture war. Not least because the two are interconnected anyway.
How culture wars hurt the economy
Try as they might, UK politicians can’t divorce economic issues from cultural ones in order to focus on the latter alone
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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Homeownership and political efficacy: how housing wealth shapes whether people feel heard
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Paper in @wepsocial.bsky.social by Associate Member @mhaslberger.bsky.social, @madselk.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @benansell.bsky.social
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January 26, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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sociologyoxford.bsky.social
We’re excited to host the 2026 Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociology 🎓✨ at Oxford Sociology & @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social! 🏛️

Join us! 📣📝 Abstract submissions are open until 1 February ⏰

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INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University
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January 23, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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sociologyoxford.bsky.social
📣 Calling Oxford students & early career researchers 🏳️‍🌈

We’re looking for 3 speakers to give 10-min presentations at the workshop “Queer Data: Methods, approaches, and what is queer social research anyway?”

🗓️ Fri 13 Feb | ⏰ 10am–12pm

Find out more ⬇️
www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/queer-...
Queer Data: Methods, approaches, and what is queer social research anyway?
Dr Kevin Guyan, University of Edinburgh
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January 23, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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pculpepper.bsky.social
Many people think crypto is a scam. Why is it not more heavily regulated? We look at attitudes after the FTX scandal, showing that scandal coverage differed between left and right media. Conservatives who got their news from the left (eg NYT), and vice versa, wound up more moderate. Media matters. 👇
psrm.bsky.social Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 13d
📰How do scandals shape support for crypto rules?

➡️P D Culpepper, T Lee & R Shandler find that after the FTX scandal, news exposure boosted Democrats’ support for regulation, while Republicans shifted only when exposed to regulatory framing cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
January 23, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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📊 New paper out in Democratization!
How do autocrats actually stay in power?

👉 Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Co-authored with Wooseok Kim, @eugenian.bsky.social , Ksenia Northmore-Ball, and @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social.
Strategies of political control and regime survival in autocracies
How do autocrats establish political control? Understanding the strategies autocrats use to generate mass compliance and elite loyalty remains a central question in comparative politics. Despite su...
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January 23, 2026 at 3:50 PM
nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library. They are: ... and what do you do? by Norman Baker The no-fly zone in US foreign policy by Gustav Meibauer The age of extraction by Tim Wu The land trap by Mike Bird The fractured age by Neil Shearing Capitalism by Sven Beckert Agent-based models and causal inference by Gianluca Manzo
January 23, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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dspi-oxford.bsky.social
We're hiring for a Post-Doctoral Researcher! Are you...
Close to the completion of / have completed a doctorate in a social science discipline?
A specialist in inequality, social policy, or social mobility?
Experienced in data management and analysis?
If so, apply:
https://ow.ly/Uzse50Y15Gz
We're recruiting! Post-doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy and Social Mobility. Deadline: 6 Feb 2026
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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kasimirdederichs.bsky.social
📊 Analytical Sociologists: just over one week left to submit your abstract for this year’s INAS conference at Nuffield College 📚
We look forward to your contributions! 📄✨ www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research... @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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#PSA26 Annual Conference: 'Political Studies Futures'
Book your ticket for Oxford, 30 March - 1 April 2026
📆 Early booking deadline extended to 2 February
❓If you have a question check out the updated FAQs on the new website
PSA26 Frequently Asked Questions - Political Studies Association
To stay up to date with announcements about PSA26, the dedicated webpage for PSA26 will include all the latest information, deadline dates and related links.
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January 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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blavatnikschool.bsky.social
Today, President Trump and President Zelensky are due to meet in Davos, amid an apparent standstill in negotiations over the Ukraine peace deal.

🇺🇦 But where do Ukrainians themselves stand on political neutrality or territorial concessions? (1/2)
January 22, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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Bridging the implementation gap: youth-led priorities for supporting pregnant and mothering adolescents’ wellbeing and schooling
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Preprint co-authored by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Lucie Cluver
Bridging the implementation gap: youth-led priorities for supporting pregnant and mothering adolescents’ wellbeing and schooling
Background Globally, there were approximately 21 million adolescent pregnancies in 2019, of which half were unplanned. Adolescent pregnancy is an issue of social and health inequity: it hinders young…
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January 22, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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blavatnikschool.bsky.social
EVENT: Blavatnik Book Launch: Billionaire Backlash

Join Vice Dean Prof Pepper Culpepper for a conversation on the surprising story of how corporate scandals can change the way the world works for the better.

📆 29 Jan, 5:30pm

Register ⬇️
https://ow.ly/jaQo50XRQzv
January 22, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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sociologyoxford.bsky.social
📢 Oxford Sociology invites EOIs for the @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships 2026.

This is a 2-year UK-based opportunity for early career researchers!

EOI Deadline ➡️ 30 Jan 2026

www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/oxfo...
Oxford Sociology invites applications for British Academy International Fellowships 2026
20 January 2026
www.sociology.ox.ac.uk
January 21, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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The problem with the mansion tax is that it’s badly designed
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@financialtimes.com article by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow John Muellbauer
The problem with the mansion tax is that it’s badly designed
The most obvious flaw is the abrupt jumps at each band
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January 21, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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bodssloxford.bsky.social
Formatting your text citations, footnotes and bibliography correctly for your essay or thesis can be a chore. Using reference management software makes it easier and saves you time.

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January 21, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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🎉The CSAE's Aarushi Kalra has been awarded a 2025 Global Empowerment Meeting Incubation Fund grant by the Harvard Center for International Development. Congratulations, @chidiya.bsky.social !

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Aarushi Kalra awarded Harvard GEM Incubation Fund
Aarushi Kalra, Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, has been awarded a 2025 Global Empowerment Meeting (GEM) Incubation Fund grant by the Harvard Center for International Development (CID).
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January 21, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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pengzell.bsky.social
JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.

Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.

Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.
January 21, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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Conflict on the campaign trail? How campaign effort and electoral competitiveness shape affective polarization
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Paper in @electoralstudies.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Research Fellow Justin Robinson and Ruth Dassonneville
Conflict on the campaign trail? How campaign effort and electoral competitiveness shape affective polarization
Concerns about the consequences of affective polarization for governing and democracy have resulted in a strong surge of publications on the topic. Th…
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January 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM