Assistant Professor (tenure track) at @PolsciCph l Political representation, inequality, redistribution
Joined September 2015
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19 Sep 2024
Running a survey? Wondering if you should include a “don’t know” response option in your policy preference questions? In our new @PSRMJournal paper, @CBWlezien and me examine the consequences of the DK option for (various) estimates of public opinion cambridge.org/core/journals/… 1/n
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26 Aug 2025
Did you ever wonder why governments don’t do more to counteract wealth inequality? In our new @World_Pol article, we seek to answer this question,
studying the electoral politics of inheritance taxation muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @benwansell @aslicansunar @matt_haslberger 1/n
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26 Aug 2025
Our findings help make sense of why governments don’t do more to address wealth inequality: since those who should be most supportive of inheritance taxation hold either no or ambivalent preferences, governments lack strong electoral incentives to implement higher taxes 12/n
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26 Aug 2025
If anything, the electoral incentives point to further lowering a tax that is highly unpopular among those who hold opinions, families of homeowners. Countering wealth inequality through inheritance taxation is thus likely to be electorally very challenging for governments 13/n
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21 Mar 2025
Fair Enough? Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality, @CharlotteCavai1 @CambridgeUP | Reviewed by @madselk at doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqae0…
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Mads Andreas Elkjær retweeted
7 Feb 2025
🚨 LSE Postdoc Fellow in Political Behaviour 🚨
We're hiring a 2-3 year postdoc fellow at the LSE to join our great team @LSEGovernment!
Please spread the word and reach out with questions!
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/6…
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10 Jan 2025
🎅🎁🦌 ICYMI!!! Santa was extra pressed for time this year, but he brought a third and final 2024 issue of Democracy & Autocracy as part of his rounds, on a theme all gift-givers like him can appreciate: UNEQUAL DEMOCRACIES. 1/6
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Mads Andreas Elkjær retweeted
12 Nov 2024
Looking forward to @madselk 's talk today (12.00 am) on "Middle class democracy: economic inequality and political representation in comparative perspective"!
Join us in room 002 for this term's first politics lecture!
18 Oct 2024
Excited to announced the next iteration of our Politics Lecture Series @HumboldtUni 🥳 Come and join us for a fantastic line-up! 📣
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25 Oct 2024
Looking forward to be kicking of this lecture series in a few weeks with a presentation of my current book project. Please feel free to join if you're around!
18 Oct 2024
Excited to announced the next iteration of our Politics Lecture Series @HumboldtUni 🥳 Come and join us for a fantastic line-up! 📣
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“The most important tax reform moment since the late 80s" - APEX digs into tax policy and the stakes of November's elections bit.ly/3zFixMS
@Jacob_S_Hacker @NatashaRSarin @amorygethin @LauraSeelkopf @madselk @CharlotteCavai1 @ZLiscow @SuzMKahn @dsmitch28 @ChuckCBPP
ALT Phiipp Rehm of Johns Hopkins contributes to a lively discussion of tax policy at an ISPS APEX conference, seated, using a microphone as another participant looks on from behind
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30 Sep 2024
We are top!
30 Sep 2024
Trending in #PoliSci:
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5) Extinction Rebellions (@env_pol)
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