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Matthew E Bergman @MeBergman2
Joined September 2018
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Matthew E Bergman@MeBergman2
15 Aug 2024
Ever since I started graduate school it has been my dream to publish in @jepp_journal. It's been quite the journey, but now I, WCM, and @HannaEBack have done so. We explore connections between government ideology and labour policy reforms tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Government ideology and labour policy reform in good times and bad

Which governments implement interventionist or liberalising labour policy reforms, and does the economic context matter? Drawing on the previous literature on government ideology and public policy,...

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My recent research on Italian politics but written in non-academic English. I also extend the argument to other nations including some recent observations from Hungary theloop.ecpr.eu/italys-five-…

🔮 Italy’s Five-Star Movement: a cautionary tale for valence populists in power

Matthew E Bergman reveals how so-called valence populism (populism focused on competence and good governance rather than ideology) has a potential electoral disadvantage. While non-ideological...

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Daractenus@Daractenus
Mar 15
Every bit the free speech lover Musk is and with his friends and family now owning virtually every media outlet in the country, Orban's Hungary ranks slightly below Sierra Leone in terms of freedom of press. Meanwhile, the 2024 ranking puts Romania slightly above the US.
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Honored to be asked to lead this workshop for @OPUSinitiative Interested in populism but quantitatively anxious? Share with relevant PhD, MA, or other early career researchers Register here: forms.gle/tdw8Xn1QdGTdBHK47
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A cautionary tale for valence populists entering government. I focus on M5S but include a discussion of CEE and Southern European (valence) populists in power. TLDR: without an ideological core, such parties are more harshly judged on their performance doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2025.100…

Deserting or disengaging with valence populists: the decline in 5-Star Movement partisan preference...

Deserting or disengaging with valence populists: the decline in 5-Star Movement partisan preference

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Amory Gethin@amorygethin
29 Jul 2025
Incredibly happy to see my paper forthcoming in @QJEHarvard! I quantify how much of worldwide growth and poverty reduction can be accounted for by education over 1980-2019. A quick summary 1/9 👇
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Still using the party family approach to #nicheparty analysis? Don't worry, it is a valid approach when studying party issue responsiveness (but not the commies) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… Open Access thanks to @uni_corvinus

Who’s a part(y) of this family? Only noneconomic niche parties are still responsive to partisans

Foundational manuscripts examined whether niche parties and mainstream parties differed in their party-voter linkages. Specifically, they examine “mean electorate” and “partisan electorate” forms o...

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Finishing the issue diversification trilogy (center-right & nationalist parties can gain from a more diverse issue agenda; green & center-left not) 4 years later Opposite effect for Ethno-Regional parties: issue diversification is not a successful strategy doi.org/10.1080/17449057.202…

Ethno-Regional Parties Cannot Be Everything to Everyone: Electoral Risks of a More Diverse Issue...

This note suggests that should ethno-regional parties broaden their agenda, they could be electorally punished. Literature suggests an electoral incentive to a broader party issue agenda, even for ...

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The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR@ECPR_TheLoop
8 May 2025
🇦🇹 Austrian parties have finally formed a new govt – on their 3rd bargaining attempt. 📘 Based on @EJPRJournal research, @MeBergman2 and Wolfgang C Muller argue that time spent bargaining is an investment in future govt policy productivity 📈. bit.ly/4jK0Zku

Coalition bargaining failures lead to more productive cabinets

Austrian parties have finally formed a new government – on their third bargaining attempt. The failure of the previous rounds drew media criticism of timewasting. But Matthew E Bergman and Wolfgang C...

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Ever since I started graduate school it has been my dream to publish in @jepp_journal. It's been quite the journey, but now I, WCM, and @HannaEBack have done so. We explore connections between government ideology and labour policy reforms tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Government ideology and labour policy reform in good times and bad

Which governments implement interventionist or liberalising labour policy reforms, and does the economic context matter? Drawing on the previous literature on government ideology and public policy,...

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Honored on @uni_corvinus wall of research
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Representation@RepJournal
3 Apr 2025
NEW ARTICLE! Even after the end of a government, voters still ideologically associate cooperating parties with one another. Find out more in this paper by @MeBergman2 and @Svenja_Krauss @uni_corvinus tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Fidias Panayiotou
@Fidias0
21 Feb 2025
Jeffrey Sachs Brings Real Politics to the EU Parliament @mvdschulenburg
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Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
13 Feb 2025
The New York Times is pure propaganda.
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When people ask me when I realized that Trump would win, I always say the week before when my sister showed me her TikToxic.
Chris Bail
@chris_bail
1 Feb 2025
Tiktok boosted Republican messages 11.8% more than Democrat messages during the 2024 U.S. Presidential Race according to this new preprint that employed bots to view ~394,000 videos: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.17831
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Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛@leedrutman
14 Jan 2025
Thanks Ezra -- a good spot indeed.
Ezra Klein
@ezraklein
14 Jan 2025
Replying to @ezraklein
This is a good spot to drop this cool visualization, about how our political system could reflect way more ideological complexity than it does now, and our politics would be healthier if it did: nytimes.com/interactive/2025…
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la regina tra i semplici uomini 🤩
Pippa Norris
@PippaN15
17 Dec 2024
The fate of the G7 leaders at the end of this year. Change plus ca change?
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Carlisle Rainey@carlislerainey
4 Dec 2024
Here's a provocative new paper "Confronting the New Gatekeepers of Experimental Political Science" doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2024-7…
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Matthew Chapman@fawfulfan
21 Nov 2024
I have repeatedly made this point, again and again and again: The vast majority of waste, fraud, abuse, and overbearing, job-killing regulation is not in the federal government. It's the planning bureaucrats in your local city hall and zoning board.
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@IanRountree
20 Nov 2024
Narrative violation
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Basil🧡
@LinkofSunshine
22 Nov 2024
My most elitist opinion is I think 80% of Americans are sincerely unable to comprehend percentages that are not 0%, 50%, or 100%
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רייצ'ל@rach3lburn3tt
21 Nov 2024
masterclass in why the oxford comma matters from @nytimes
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RT @Vermeullarmine: I’m begging our European friends not to get their understanding of American politics from the Guardian. It’s roughly ak…
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