Leo Ahrens
PolSci researcher at the Varieties of Egalitarianism project @EXCInequality. Politics of inequality, tax & welfare policies, public opinion, voting behavior.
leoahrens.eu
- This is the first time I see one of my packages used in an actual journal article. Cool stuff! This is the fedistr Stata command for those wondering.
- Free eprints for my JEPOP article www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JN5C9...
- Frank and I have a new-ish chapter out reviewing the electoral politics of welfare state reforms. A preprint is available on my website (leoahrens.eu/publications). doi.org/10.4337/9781...
- I drafted a correlation heatmap package for Stata. Does something like this already exist? I want to make sure before I put more work into this.
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- What do you think about Achen/Bartel's Democracy for Realists? I really liked the book but its implications are dire for my research field (& my past research), which commonly relies on the "folk theory" of democracy
- Reposted by Leo Ahrens1/3) 📣Out in Party Politics: We trace the equal rights and economic equality positions of 69 center-right and far-right parties since 1970 in 12 countries. We find that center right parties did not react to/address equal rights concerns and economic inequality journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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- Reposted by Leo AhrensDid German left parties abandon economic equality in favor of equal rights, as the diagnosis of the "Lifestyle-Left" suggests? Analyzing party programs since 1970, we caution against sweeping claims in Unequal German Democracy (open access). 3 key qualifications👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- I got the comment "this study is not worthwhile because you cannot claim clausality from cross-sectional data" in a review. I'll share my response here. Unfortunately the reviewer dropped out of the pool - I am interested in what you think. Thread. polisky cpesky
- I have a new section on my website where I share Word/Powerpoint presets for articles and slides. Visit leoahrens.eu/formatting-p....