Papers
Published Papers
‘Tax Exposure and Political Preferences’, with Aslı Cansunar and Mads Andreas Elkjær. Socio-Economic Review. 2026.
‘Homeownership and Political Efficacy: How Housing Wealth Shapes Whether People Feel Heard’, with Matthias Haslberger and Mads Andreas Elkjær. West European Politics. 2026.
‘Six Provocations on the Origins and Impacts of the UK Housing Emergency’, with Martin Daunton, Emily Grundy, John Muellbauer, Michael Murphy, Avner Offer and Susan J. Smith. Journal of the British Academy. 13(2). 2025.
‘Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality? Evidence from the United Kingdom’, with Laure Bokobza, Asli Cansunar, Mads Elkjaer, Matthias Haslberger and Jacob Nyrup. World Politics. 77(3). 2025.
‘Do national innovation projects shape citizens’ public health behaviours?’, with Martin W. Bauer, Jane Gingrich and Jack Stilgoe. Healthcare Management Forum. 2024.
‘Political Inequality’, with Jane Gingrich. Oxford Open Economics. 2024.
‘Unemployment insurance, risk, and the acquisition of specific skills: an experimental approach’, with John Ahlquist. Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy. 4(3). 2023.
‘Sheltering Populists? House Prices and the Support for Populist Parties’, with Frederik Hjorth, Jacob Nyrup and Martin Vinæs Larsen. Journal of Politics. 84(3). 2022. Winner of the APSA European Politics and Society Best Paper Prize.
‘The Political Consequences of Housing (Un)Affordability’, with Aslı Cansunar. Journal of European Social Policy. 31(5). 2021.
‘Social Distancing, Politics, and Wealth’, with Aslı Cansunar and Mads Elkjær. West European Politics. 44(5–6). 2021.
‘Desk Rejecting: A Better Use of Your Time’, with David Samuels. PS: Political Science & Politics. 54(4). October 2021.
‘Housing and Populism’, with David Adler. West European Politics. 2020. OPEN ACCESS.
‘The Politics of Housing’, Annual Review of Political Science. 2019.
‘The Future of Housing After Brexit’, with David Adler. Political Quarterly. 2019.
‘Global Capital Markets, Housing Prices, and Partisan Fiscal Policies’, with J. Lawrence Broz and Thomas Flaherty. Economics & Politics. October 2018. Winner of the 2013 APSA Public Policy Section Best Conference Paper on Comparative Public Policy.
‘Taking Credit: Redistribution and Borrowing in an Age of Economic Polarization’, with John Ahlquist. World Politics. 69(4). 2017.
‘Mismatch: University Education and Labour Market Institutions’, with Jane Gingrich. PS: Political Science and Politics. April 2017.
‘Journal Editors and “Results-Free” Research: A Cautionary Note’, with David Samuels. Comparative Political Studies. December 2016.
‘The Political Economy of Ownership: Housing Markets and the Welfare State’, American Political Science Review. May 2014.
‘Sorting for Schools: Housing, Education, and Inequality’, with Jane Gingrich. Socio-Economic Review. April 2014.
‘The Political Origins of Primary Education Systems: Ideology, Institutions, and Interdenominational Conflict in an Era of Nation-Building’, with Johannes Lindvall. American Political Science Review. August 2013.
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Expanded sample information
‘Assets in Crisis: Housing, Preferences, and Policy in the Credit Crisis’, Swiss Political Science Review. January 2013.
‘Preferences in Context: Micro-Preferences, Macro-Contexts, and the Demand for Social Policy’, with Jane Gingrich. Comparative Political Studies. December 2012. Online appendix.
‘Inequality and Democratization: A Contractarian Approach’, with David Samuels. Comparative Political Studies. December 2010. Winner of the APSA Comparative Democratization Section Best Article Award for 2010.
‘University Challenges: Explaining Institutional Change in Higher Education’, World Politics. January 2008.
‘Traders, Teachers, and Tyrants: Democracy, Globalization, and Public Investment in Education’, International Organization. 62(2). Spring 2008.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
‘Policy and Politics in Disjuncture in an Age of Secular Stagnation’, with Jane Gingrich, in Claudia Landwehr, Thomas Saalfeld and Armin Schäfer (eds.), Contested Representation, Cambridge University Press. 2023.
‘Political Inequality’, with Jane Gingrich, in IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities. 2022.
‘Concentration and Commodification: The Political Economy of Postindustrialism in America and Beyond’, with Jane Gingrich, in Jacob Hacker, Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Paul Pierson and Kathleen Thelen (eds.), The American Political Economy, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
‘Wealth Inequality and Politics’, in Olivier Blanchard and Dani Rodrik (eds.), Combating Inequality: Rethinking Government’s Role, MIT Press. 2021.
‘The End of Human Capital Solidarity?’, with Jane Gingrich, in Frances Rosenbluth and Margaret Weir (eds.), Who Gets What? The New Politics of Insecurity, Cambridge University Press. 2020.
‘Skills in Demand? Higher Education and Social Investment in Europe’, with Jane Gingrich, in Philip Manow, Bruno Palier and Hanna Schwander (eds.), Welfare Democracies and Party Politics, Oxford University Press. 2018.
‘The Dynamics of Social Investment: Human Capital, Activation, and Care’, with Jane Gingrich, in Pablo Beramendi, Silja Häusermann, Herbert Kitschelt and Hans-Peter Kriesi (eds.), The Politics of Advanced Capitalism, Cambridge University Press. 2015.
‘A Tale of Two Trilemmas: Varieties of Higher Education and the Service Economy’, with Jane Gingrich, in Anne Wren (ed.), The Political Economy of the Service Transition, Oxford University Press. 2013.
‘Introduction’, with Gary Cohen, Robert H. Cox and Jane Gingrich, in Gary Cohen et al. (eds.), Social Policy in the Smaller European Union States, Berghahn Books. 2012.
‘Humboldt Humbled? The Germanic University System in Comparative Perspective’, in Gary Cohen et al. (eds.), Social Policy in the Smaller European Union States, Berghahn Books. 2012.
‘Crisis as Political Opportunity? The Role of Partisan Politics in the Response to the Global Credit Crisis’, in Nancy Bermeo and Jonas Pontusson (eds.), Coping with Crisis, Russell Sage Foundation. 2012.
Under Review
‘The Electoral Politics of Wealth Taxation: Housing, Information, and Public Opinion’, with Matthias Haslberger and Mads Elkjaer. Revise and resubmit.
Working Papers
‘Housing Wealth and Tax Preferences across Europe: Experimental Evidence’, with Laure Bokobza, Asli Cansunar, Mads Elkjaer, Matthias Haslberger and Jacob Nyrup
‘Persistent Inequality: Mobility and Intergenerational Redistribution’, with Laure Bokobza, Pablo Beramendi and Asli Cansunar
‘From Your House to Their House? Representation, Political Rhetoric and Housing Markets’, with Laure Bokobza and Jacob Nyrup
‘How Does Wealth Shape Societies? Cross-National Wealth Inequality in Historical Perspective’, with Asli Cansunar and Jonas Markgraf
‘Housing Prices and Economic Perceptions’, with Asli Cansunar
‘Why Inequality Does Not Undermine Democracy’, with David Samuels
‘Housing, Place, and Populism’, with Kathleen McNamara
‘The Politics of Income Mobility: Education, Labor Market Calcification and Intergenerational Mobility in the USA’, with Pablo Beramendi
Past Working Papers
‘The Political Economy of Ownership: Housing Markets and the Welfare State’
(Version presented at International Political Economy Society, Madison, 2011)
‘The Historical Development of Primary Education: Cleavages and Coalitions at the Turn of the Twentieth Century’ (with Johannes Lindvall)
‘Electoral institutions, credit, and political responses to economic polarization’ (with John S. Ahlquist)
‘Inequality and Democratization: Individual-Level Evidence of Preferences for Redistribution under Autocracy’ (with David Samuels)
‘Democracy and Redistribution 1880-1930: Reassessing the Evidence’ (with David Samuels)
‘Membership Matters: Radical Right Party Composition in Comparative Perspective’ (with David Art)
‘The Nest Egg Effect? Housing, the Welfare State, and Political Incentives’
‘Bubbling Under: Political Preferences During Asset Booms and Busts’.