Bilyana Petrova
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech. Inequality, redistribution, and political economy.
- William Shakespeare, 400 years ago. 👏
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by Bilyana PetrovaLook at how being diagnosed with cancer impacts people's involvement in crime!
- Reposted by Bilyana PetrovaMajor loss of manufacturing jobs during Trump 2.0's first year in office. Unsurprisingly, clean energy manufacturing hit especially hard ... www.eenews.net/articles/us-...
- Reposted by Bilyana Petrova📢 Publication alert: Governments are investing in digitalization intensively, but we know little about who supports this policy. We investigate this question in this new article with Alex Kuo, @retobuergisser.bsky.social, and @siljahausermann.bsky.social published at JEPP doi.org/10.1080/1350... 🧵
- New article by Ayelén Vanegas. It explores how redistributive attitudes react to citizens' evaluations of policy results. It is a fascinating analysis of the conditions under which beneficiaries of social policies cease to support them. Fantastic work. www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
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- ‼️If you are an early career researcher interested in CPE and related field and focus on Eastern Europe, the great team around @dorobohle.bsky.social at the Department of Political Science @univie.ac.at is looking for a postdoc 📣 Deadline 27.02. 📯Details here👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
- Reposted by Bilyana PetrovaGabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...
- Reposted by Bilyana PetrovaVery happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social
- The president of Bulgaria, who has been in office for the last 9 years and has had to appoint 7 caretaker governments, just resigned. The country is currently governed by a caretaker government in anticipation of the parliamentary elections scheduled for March / April. www.dw.com/bg/rumen-rad...
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- Reposted by Bilyana Petrova📣Thrilled to share our new article with @beckerbastian.bsky.social in JESP on attitude polarization around UBI. We show that despite high aggregate support for UBI, attitude polarization over policy design strongly shapes its political feasibility. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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- "Now, those symbols of economic progress — mortgages and car payments, property taxes and tuition costs — are bills that thousands of Tyson workers won’t have an income to pay." apnews.com/article/tyso...
- Reposted by Bilyana PetrovaUm, ok... This paper forthcoming at the JOP provides evidence that rent control in Germany actually made tenants MASSIVELY *less* NIMBY. This result was in the opposite direction of the authors' pre-registered expectations. And the effect sizes are, truly, massive.
- Reposted by Bilyana PetrovaToday, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions. 👇Share this thread, share the report! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...
- Reposted by Bilyana PetrovaMy study of 🇪🇺 public opinion is now published! Check it out if you want to know how attitudes towards European integration really covary with political ideology, which policy views predict EU support, and how party positions structure public opinion. www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
- “Faculty will be required to submit the materials to department chairs, university administrators and ultimately the Board of Regents for their review and approval.” www.texastribune.org/2025/12/01/t...
- Reposted by Bilyana PetrovaNew Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies. Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
- How Texas Tech is incentivizing us to complete grading on time.
- Two million Americans will lose access to food stamps next year. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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- Reposted by Bilyana Petrova💡 How does moving to opportunity reshape political behavior? 🗞️ In our new BJPolS paper, @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that residential relocations that increase access to opportunity foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left. 👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65
- Reposted by Bilyana PetrovaNew 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. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
- One of those evenings you spend glued to your phone…
- Reposted by Bilyana PetrovaHow can we compare the size and structuring power of different cleavages over time? Check out @jacobgunderson.bsky.social 's great paper and dataset for scholars working on cleavages at the party system level! The latest from @dpzollinger.bsky.social and I's Special Issue in @wepsocial.bsky.social.
- 💥OUT NOW! "Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset" by @jacobgunderson.bsky.social Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies", edited by @dpzollinger.bsky.social & @davidattewell6.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...
- Reposted by Bilyana PetrovaNEW - Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - cup.org/3LgxVos "moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties" - @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social #OpenAccess
- Reposted by Bilyana Petrova🚨New publication with Kristijan Kotarski: Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
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- Reposted by Bilyana PetrovaSNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
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- Reposted by Bilyana Petrova🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵
- “That fund will be invested and designed to pay out about 4% annually, which will be divided among the HBCUs to help stabilize their budgets. The 8 Ivy League schools received $5.5b from the 1,000 largest US foundations compared to $45m for the 99 HBCUs in 2019.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/b...
- The Newest Face of Long-Term Unemployment? The College Educated. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
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- The comments under this piece are… either uplifting or weighing on you, depending on the perspective.
- Reposted by Bilyana PetrovaMillions of dollars worth of contraceptives destined for low-income countries were destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration.
- Reposted by Bilyana Petrova📘 64.4 How do welfare systems shape views on immigration? A 🇪🇺 study from @alinavranceanu.bsky.social & @bpetrova.bsky.social finds: Generous welfare → more positive attitudes toward immigrants Welfare cuts → increased hostility (evidence from 🇩🇰) Read more:
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- Every time I reread this book, I am struck by how utterly heartbreaking it is.
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- 150 pages of comp grading for 3 students make me wonder how my advisors graded at least 280 pages when my (unusually large) cohort took the exam in 2014... Not to mention handling our entire job market packages (CVs, cover letters, teaching statements, research statements, and diversity statements)
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- I’ve always found the incredible faith and optimism that (some) Americans seem to have in the future striking and deeply impressive. This piece reflects a different reality (that some in the US grapple with more often). Thought-provoking.
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- Reposted by Bilyana Petrova🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load 📄 European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019 @europeansocreview.bsky.social What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵
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- Reposted by Bilyana PetrovaDo men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9 doi.org/10.1177/1065...
- Reposted by Bilyana PetrovaFrom the ANES 2020: Should federal spending on #SocialSecurity be increased, decreased, or kept the same? Weighted totals: 55.8% increased, 4.4% decreased, and 39.9% kept the same. See the ANES Question Search: electionstudies.org/data-tools/a...
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