HeyJaredLuis G
Random musings on inequality, politics and families. I teach econometrics at Universitst de Barcelona.
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Would a stricter immigration policy undermine radical right support (opens the original)
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My Twitter (now X) feed is on fire regarding the rise of the AfD in the German regional elections. A popular diagnosis is to attribute the rise of the AfD to the immigration policies backed by mainstream parties. The AfD campaigned on the topics of law and order and restricting immigration. This is also one of its main voters’ concerns. The well-known “left-behind” voters (the uneducated working class that forms the core of anti-immig
Political Preferences: A Primer (opens the original)
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Democracy is built upon the idea that citizens’ preferences drive political decisions. This implies that almost no analysis of politics can really be conducted without taking a stance on what determines these preferences.In this short piece, I want to provide a primer on how this is commonly understood in (American) political science. This perspective stands in stark contrast to how economists or public commentators typically approach the issue.What Needs to Be Explained: How Are Attitudes About
Has elite incompetence led to worse policies? (opens the original)
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The competence of political elites is often linked to policymaking. I often hear [1] two claims: 1) that there is (increasing) negative selection of politicians, and 2) that this explains why we have worse policies than in the past. In this post, I would like to argue that both claims are highly unlikely to be true for technological reasons.Before making my point, let me provide some context for these claims. That context is Spain, but I think the perception that politicians of the past were som
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