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Ben Ansell

@benansell.bsky.social

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Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). .. more

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Ben W. Ansell is Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College, University of Oxford and, with David Samuels, editor of Comparative Political Studies.

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1h

Britain as a case study in actually-existing abundance: promise to get rid of the “blockers” but planning reform takes ages, deficit-financed infrastructure spend crowds out house building and it’s hard to sustain a political coalition around possibly making an incremental improvement to growth.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 2h

At that point I felt, oh why not just block them

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 5h

People so scared about a false positive that they will allow a million false negatives.

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 5h

Did a tariff write this?

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 8h

Righty-o.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 5h

While I burnish my neoliberal credentials - my understanding is that most people don't go enough for checks but a few people are perhaps over-regular users, where the moral hazard critique does kick in a bit.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 6h

Dangerously close to accidentally making the moral hazard argument against the NHS there ;)

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 6h

That’s a different save on Civ VI

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 6h

And yet the very high dependency ratio means that us middle aged folks are keeping the old and the young in their druthers. Makes you think.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 6h

Cursed name strikes again

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 6h

Oh no not again www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 6h

Oh no not again www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 7h

I suspect this person does not in fact think they will be the one who will ‘suffer fast’…

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 7h

I couldn’t handle them any longer… it was getting madder still.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 7h

You will never guess what post this reply was in response to. Bluesky…

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 7h

Do you just post this weird agitprop on every post vaguely related to British politics? Are you a Climate and Prince Andrew joint news account? Fascinating…

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 7h

This has to be the lamest comment I’ve received for some time Climate News!

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 7h

Stephen’s piece which I should have linked

www.ft.com/content/a65f...

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

www.ft.com

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 7h

Amazing comment below the line on Stephen’s article from someone who can only be described I’m afraid as a Brexit Maoist

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 7h

Perfectly put from @stephenkb.bsky.social and follows on from my piece about both the Tories and Labour negging the PMC groups who were their normal base before they went all in on retirees.

benansell.substack.com/p/british-po...

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 8h

Righty-o.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1d

Having very occasionally seen people who were pursuing PhDs afflicted with some form of psychosis, they are incredibly adept at forming very complicated and internally consistent conspiracy theories.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1d

Is it stronger in two party systems Chris? I know I should know the answer but…

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1d

Same home affairs editor who regularly confuses being born abroad with not being a British citizen…

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s Times gives “urged” the entirely new meaning of “a lukewarm mention in the middle of a 66 page report”.

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