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Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte

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grahn.bsky.social
📄Is there public support for tariffs in Europe -- as a protectionist measure, a tool of retaliation, or a way to fund the green transition?

Our timely conjoint experiment, fielded in two core European constituencies 🇩🇪 🇬🇧, shows no public appetite for tariffs in Europe.

doi.org/10.1080/1350...
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Looking for a citation.

Are there any papers that systematically assess policy responsiveness disparities based on age groups generally or pension eligibility specifically?
peterallen.bsky.social
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A graph from the FT showing government spending by age cohort. Over-70s have more spent on them than any other age cohort.
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Thank you.

It's definitely a "compound" treatment as the event this is based on is an instance where PP signalled rejection of formal collab. and also described VOX as racist, misogynistic and homophobic.

So not a simple case of rhetorical/policy convergence but rather ostracism.
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It is indeed. Code is here: osf.io/8rpwf/files

An animated version of the top panel from these.
lvsalvadori.bsky.social
How does sexual harassment shape women’s academic careers? At today’s #BellaterraAppliedSeminar, @johannarickne.bsky.social kicks off the series with a fascinating analysis revealing how toxic environments hinder women’s progress and distort meritocracy. @bsebarcelona.bsky.social #GenderEconomics
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1. Camp A wants the right to govern at all costs and can stomach far-right accommodation

2. Camp B wants the right to govern but would prefer a minority gov. or a centrist coalition and is demobilised by thought of far-right in gov.

Since B>A, net effect of accommodation is negative.
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The case of the centre-right, particularly in Spain, is different from the left. Whereas for the left I'm convinced there is a clear negative effect of accommodation, I can see why theoretically there will be asymmetries among centre-right supporters [...]
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2. The consulting class is unlikely to want to correct a prior it's investing significant energy selling to its clients

3. This is not an electoral strategy based on vote-seeking but actually a policy-seeking outcome.
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I think this is a genuine puzzle. I know that @tabouchadi.bsky.social has been asked this frequently of the left too. In the absence of a data-driven answer, the best I can do is theorise.

1. Simple (but wrong) explanations about market transfers are easily translated to strategy [...]
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Yes I don't believe those two explanations are mutually exclusive. An economically competent party on your left and a radical alternative to your right that you then mimic, does not provide you with a fertile ground to win votes
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The Spanish centre-right is taking a tumble and the far-right is on the rise.

I was lucky enough to present some new causal work on Friday at LSE showing that the PP does better when it signals distinctiveness from VOX.

~1.5K tests, same result. Rejecting far-right benefits centre-right
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Finally, like I always like to do, some transparency on the process.

This paper was desk rejected twice. It was accepted at JEPP after 1 round of revisions
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Our take-home message?

Tariffs — retaliatory or otherwise — are NOT a vote-winning strategy for European politicians.

Leaders seeking “firm” responses to US protectionism might find limited public backing at home. 🗳️🇪🇺
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Across every identifiable subgroup for which we have data — left/right, young/old, man/woman, etc — the pattern is the same.

We find there is NO group that shows majority support for tariffs.
turnbulldugarte.com
We pre-registered variation in support for tariffs conditional on levels of (negative) affect towards the US broadly or Trump specifically.

Against our expectation, we find no clear pattern across German and British respondents.
turnbulldugarte.com
The results are clear across both countries: Europeans reject tariffs over other protectionist measures

It doesn’t matter if they’re framed as -
• protection for domestic producers
• funding for green policies 🌱
• retaliation against other nations 🇺🇸
turnbulldugarte.com
To find out, we ran two pre-registered conjoint experiments in the aftermath of the tariff news

🇩🇪 Germany – coalition-preference experiment
🇬🇧 United Kingdom – visual candidate-choice experiment

Tariff proposals were tested alongside other policies to simulate realistic political trade-offs.
turnbulldugarte.com
In April 2025, on his self-penned 'Liberation Day', the US President launched sweeping tariffs on EU & UK goods rekindling fears of a new trade war 🇺🇸🇪🇺

Polling suggested support for retaliation: but are those attitudes real, or just patriotic reflexes in a heated moment?
peterallen.bsky.social
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A graph from the FT showing government spending by age cohort. Over-70s have more spent on them than any other age cohort.
mirya.bsky.social
Yes indeed. Code is from @nicduquette.bsky.social! (there are three books on there, FYI)

Average time from project start to publication: 3.69 years
Median time: 2.84
Minimum: 3 months
Max: 11 years
wurthmann.bsky.social
For my DFG-funded project “German Sexual Identity and Election Study” and my ERC-funded project “VisibleQueers”, I am looking for three student assistants (m/f/d) to provide dedicated support and active collaboration.

Please share!

www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/three-stu...
Three Student Assistants (m/f/d) Projects German Sexual Identity and Election Study as well as VisibleQueers
www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de
davidattewell6.bsky.social
@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:

🧵⬇️
hetanshah.bsky.social
Nice chart from @ourworldindata.org showing the contrast between what Americans die of (heart disease and cancer) v what the US media reports on (homicide and terrorism). This naturally leads to it being trickier to build a fact based world view
ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
What Americans die from
and the causes of death the US media reports on
Causes of death in the US in 2023
Heart disease (29%)
Cancer (26%)
Accidents (9.5%)
Stroke (6.9%)
Lower respiratory diseases
(6.2%)
Alzheimer's disease (4.8%)
Diabetes (4.0%)
Kidney failure (2.4%)
Liver disease (2.2%)
Homicide (<1%)
Terrorism (<0.001%)|
COVID-19 (2.1%)
Influenza/Pneu
monia (19%6)

Media coverage of these causes of death in 2023 in...
The New York Times
The Washington Post
Fox News
Heart disease (2.8%)
Heart disease (2.9%)
Cancer (4.1%)
Cancer (4.7%)
Accidents (5.9%)
Cancer (3.8%)
Accidents (6.1%)
Accidents (9.7%)
Suicide (4.1%)
Suicide (3.3%)
COVID-19 (6.0%)
COVID-19 (7.9%)
Suicide (3.8%)
COVID-19 (5.3%)
Drug overdose (7.5%)
Drug overdose (9.8%)
Drug overdose (9.5%)
Cancer (26%)
Accidents (9.5%)
Stroke (6.9%)
Lower respiratory diseases
(6.2%)
Alzheimer's disease (4.8%)
Diabetes (4.0%)
Kidney failure (24%)
Suicide (2.1%0)
COVID-19 (2.1%0
Homicide (42%)
Homicide (52%)
Homicide (46%)
Terrorism (18%)
Terrorism (12%)
Terrorism (11%)
Homicide (<1%)
Terrorism (<0.001%)
Note: Based on the share of causes of death in the US and the share of mentions for each of the causes in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Fox News. All values are normalized to 100%, so the shares are relative to all deaths caused by the 12 most common causes + drug overdoses, homicides and terrorism. These causes account for more than 75% of deaths in the US.
A "media mention" is a published article in one of the outlets which mentions the cause (e,g. "influenza) or related keywords (e.g. "fu") least twice.
Data sources: Media mentions from Media Cloud (2025): deaths data from the US CDC (2025) and Global Terrorism Index.|
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Dagmar Herzog define el ‘fascismo posmoderno’: libidinal, deconstruccionista y cruel. La ultraderecha erotiza el racismo, desprecia discapacidad y premia dañar. Batalla afectiva: ¿cómo mover el deseo hacia comunidad, cuidado y democracia?
Las nuevas derechas y el placer de la crueldad
El autoritarismo neofascista aleja a las personas de la promesa de democracia, paz e igualdad y las lleva hacia la violencia destructiva ofreciéndoles un atractivo clave: la alegría de hacer daño al otro
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