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Rahsaan Maxwell
@rahsaanmax.bsky.social
Professor of Politics - New York University - diversity, migration, Western Europe (https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/rmaxwell)
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(1/10) 🚨Preprint alert!🚨

In this article, I challenge claims of a generational rise of conservative men. In the media and recent academic publications, the so-called ‘youth gender gap’ has been interpreted as a generational phenomenon.

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November 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
You see: husks that have given themselves to a delicious key lime pie.

I see: 1 hour of labor, stinging fingers, and a sore wrist.
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Quarterfinals of competitive pinball. Retro and modern at the same time complete with breathless announcers. Would have thought it was a sketch comedy satire, were it not on ESPN
November 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.

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November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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ALL the far-right parties in Europe are Russian-funded, using offshore accounts in order to dodge campaign finance laws: this came out in the Panama Papers of 2016, the Paradise Papers of 2017 & the Pandora Papers of 2020.

Putin pays grifters to rabble rouse & undermine democracy abroad.

Details:
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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For those who didn’t catch it:🚨 We’ve released 3 additional panel waves via @GESIS, bringing the total to 71 waves of survey data. Spanning Sep 2012–May 2024, the GIP dataset is fully accessible for researchers studying trends, attitudes, and social changes over more than a decade.
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Now out @apsrjournal.bsky.social with page numbers! 🫒

We advance a new argument on how economic crises fuel support for far-right parties in left-behind places by tapping into long-standing community narratives

shorturl.at/bA55v

@catherinedevries.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Popular discourse attributes falling college enrollments to the rising cost of four-year college.

That story is wrong in multiple ways, as @mattbarnum.bsky.social points out in his latest roundup of the evidence (citing a new working paper of ours):

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
Is college enrollment plummeting?
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.
www.chalkbeat.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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More and more young people are turning to the far right. Why and what can we do about it?

Join our #COVIDEU Workshop on Nov 21 (2–5 PM) to discuss causes and counter-strategies.

🚀 Hosted by @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social
💡 Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de
👉 Register: tinyurl.com/bdenyfnw
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Grape Harvest Dates in Beaune/Burgundy, 1659-2018.
Since the early 1980s, the moving 20-year avg of Burgundy grape harvest dates has dropped by 16 days. That is, harvest starts more than half a month earlier than 35 years ago.  #climatechange #globalwarming
November 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Taking sage advice of @unlawfulentries.bsky.social I’m posting cover of forthcoming book Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis
October 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Interesting read on schisms, but I thought we were well past calling WF a 'healthy' store. It's a high-end(ish) chain with mass produced organic products. There's a place for that + I'd rather see it than McDonalds. But 'healthy' is not my first (or second) thought.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/d...
Whole Foods, MAHA and the Battle Over Healthy Eating in America
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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The School of Public Policy at the LSE is hiring in political science! Associate or Full.

I was the first political scientist hired by the SPP, come be the second!

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></...
jobs.lse.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12
October 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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The real danger of MAGA lies not in Trump but in Vought: a zealous Christian nationalist with an encyclopedic knowledge of government bureaucracy who's willing (even happy) to hide in the shadows while directing any glad-hand who wants to focus on winning votes.

www.propublica.org/article/russ...
Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
www.propublica.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan:

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October 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research

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OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social
How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark
Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di
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September 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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We issued a press release when the article was published:
👉 www.uni-mannheim.de/en/newsroom/...

For all 2025
@migcitizenapsa.bsky.social Awards please see:
👉 connect.apsanet.org/s43/awards/
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Awards
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September 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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📣 Marc Helbling, @rahsaanmax.bsky.social
, and Richard Traunmüller have won the @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social Best Article Award for
“Numbers, Selectivity, and Rights: The Conditional Nature of Immigration Policy Preferences”.
Congratulations!
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September 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Przeworski says it cleanly, clearly, and convincingly.

What then must we do?

www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...
September 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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So many echoes from this article for US politics....
September 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM