Kris-Stella Trump
Political scientist at Johns Hopkins University: democracy, inequality, political psychology, public opinion, behavioral everything. No relation. American by way of Estonia, Sweden, and England.
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- Reposted by Kris-Stella TrumpReminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
- Reposted by Kris-Stella TrumpThis law group led by @rickpildes.bsky.social had me write for their 100 Ideas series on US democracy My idea: the rule of law cannot coexist with this level of wealth concentration. Once Musk, Bezos, Zuck, & a few others bend the knee, the authoritarian consolidates too much power
- Next up in our "100 ideas" series — New by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social — "Extreme Wealth Inequality Destroys Constitutions" Part of @nyulaw.bsky.social Democracy Project's "100 Ideas in 100 Days" Read the full piece here: democracyproject.org/posts/extrem...
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- Reposted by Kris-Stella TrumpIn our research on socioeconomic background in academia, we ran a survey. Over 2,000 faculty members responded (thanks if you were one!) Social & cultural capital showed up time and again as key issues. A few findings you might be interested in...🧵
- Reposted by Kris-Stella TrumpThose claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
- Reposted by Kris-Stella Trump🚨Elites often warn: taxing the rich hurts everyone. 🤔But do citizens buy that story? With @bcastanho.bsky.social & Hanna Lierse, we find: They don’t! Most people believe progressive taxes can deliver both — more equality and more growth. @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social #openaccess cup.org/3JVuvHm
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- I need the “this is fine” mouse but with popcorn looking out the window at a different burning house.
- Latest Polling by @YouGov 🟣 Reform 27% 🔵 Tory 17% 🔴 Labour 17% 💚 Green 16% 🟠 Lib Dem 15% This is the LOWEST Labour has ever polled with YouGov. This is the HIGHEST @greenparty.org.uk has ever polled with YouGov. 4 parties within 2 points of each other for second place.
- Here is a very niche sign of how far the US has fallen. If you attend a political science conference today, you will hear scholars stumbling over how to introduce datasets that until last year were known as describing "wealthy industrialized democracies".
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- What a treat, in every sense of the word, to be in Munich for the #isiwealthconference2025 @isi-munich.bsky.social
- “Portland‘s protest frogs are multiplying”
- Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
- I laughed. But also, completely seriously, can anyone point me to things written on Duverger vs. recent polls out of the UK?
- Reposted by Kris-Stella Trump@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: 🧵⬇️
- Reposted by Kris-Stella TrumpReally excited that after several years of working on it, revising, and getting lots of rejections, our paper (w/ Rune Stubager & Mads Thau) on citizens’ responses to group appeals is *finally* out @ejprjournal.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A 🧵 on our findings...
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- You know what's quaint? Walking into a classroom of 20-yr olds, who have known nothing but the Trump era in politics, and explaining to them that ten years ago we Elders had a Big Debate™ about whether Trump support was *really* about racial attitudes.
- Reposted by Kris-Stella TrumpI do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Did the Bright Lines survey (yes absolutely a humblebrag) and the rate at which the questions and scenarios are getting darker with each subsequent survey could be its own research project.
- I offer up “Borgen” as a tv series that political scientists appreciate for getting politics right.
- Reposted by Kris-Stella TrumpA new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...
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- It is the darkest irony that re-sharing @kjhealy.co's "Rituals of Childhood", which analyzes mass shootings as an institutionalized Killing Day, has itself become an seasonal fall ritual. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
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- I am preparing to teach the first class of "Introduction to Public Opinion" while also perusing the headlines this morning, and the sense of futility in what I am doing is hard to combat.
- Probably my most enduring political belief: you shall not think that some other person or group is fundamentally different from you. This belief is the worst combination of easy to fall into and corrosive in every way.
- To mark the beginning of fall term:
- This is what I thought too... Liberal Currents already exists?
- I think this is right. For an example of how to call things out in plain terms, here is how Rolling Stone put it recently: "Trump and his administration’s justification for his D.C. operation [...] appears entirely pretextual." It can be done. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- Genuine question: does anyone know of social science research that explores the potential route from "absence of universal health care" -> "culture of individual responsibility for staying healthy" + "vibrant alternative medicine culture" -> "pseudo-Darwinian rejection of modern medicine"?
- I did not anticipate that, by trying to support press that is not afraid to call out the government in plain terms, I would become a paid subscriber to Wired and Rolling Stone. But here we are.
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- Took my family to DC and they were charging $6 for a latte there so you can’t convince me crime isn’t up.
- Look, the reason AI hype guys think AI is, or could be, just like human intelligence is not because they don't understand how AI works. It's because they don't understand how humans work. (1/more)
- Reposted by Kris-Stella TrumpPlease share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.
- Reposted by Kris-Stella TrumpFeels like a good time to share this call for papers. Can't wait for EPSS 2026!
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- Reposted by Kris-Stella TrumpProper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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- A democracy is a system where parties lose elections and where people can tell the president to “go f*** himself” on TV.
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- What a great piece of reporting on obvious tax evasion… by serially “switching” the ownership of souvenir stores in a plum London location. Also, the practice is called “phoenixing” and yes it does involve a “witches and wizards” store.
- He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
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- Reposted by Kris-Stella Trump⚠️ New timely WP ⚠️ Rising wealth inequality and democratic backsliding at the US state-level #EconSky #Sociology #PolicySky @stone-lis.bsky.social WP here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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- Reposted by Kris-Stella TrumpOur article (with @madselk.bsky.social, @jacobnyrup.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, and Laure Bokobza) on why it is so hard to counteract wealth inequality through inheritance taxation is out in @worldpolitics.bsky.social!
- The July issue of @worldpolitics.bsky.social is out! Learn about #DemocraticSocialist #PoliticalParty strategies, participatory institutions, #WealthInequality, #migrants and #socialsecurity coordination, and #Kissinger and #SoftPower. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55120 #Inequality #Capitalism
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- Always fun to log in, see a conversation and blithely join, and then figure out 20 posts later why we are having this specific conversation this morning...oof
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- I’ve been white my whole life but became White when I moved to the US. And even getting slotted in right at the top of the pyramid, it still took a good while to learn how to navigate the system!
- I have been in Europe for a month, paying for everything in Euros but using a US dollar bank account, and the dollar is losing value so aggressively it feels like Covid inflation all over again.
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- Very excited to present at Humboldt University in Berlin next week. Come say hi if you’re around!
- 📢Come and join the Politics Lecture Series @humboldtuni.bsky.social Berlin next week: Kris-Stella Trump, JHU (@kstrump.bsky.social) "Perceptions of Income vs Wealth Inequality: A distinction without a difference?" When? Tuesday, June 17, 12pm Where? ISW #002 All welcome!
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- After moving to the US as an adult, I knew what a "hazmat suit" was, but thought that "hazmat" was an abbreviation for those suits, not "hazardous materials". And so I came to believe that so many people try to enter highway tunnels on foot wearing hazmat suits, that it warrants signs against this.
- Reposted by Kris-Stella TrumpWe did not want to start the week like this, but here we are. Yet again our chair’s inbox is filled with messages from replicators who have opened “replication” folders only to find names, Social Insurance Numbers, mental-health diagnoses and incomes of study participants. 🧵
- New way to get past keyword-based NSF grant rejections just dropped
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- Reposted by Kris-Stella TrumpFYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
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