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🌟New paper & data #openaccess #PartyPolitics. Mapping party campaigns 2010-19 I show that to understand how thin ideas play into electoral gains of anti-establishment parties, we need to look beyond just populism @GSI_Muenchen @ExtremandDem @PopulismTeam journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… 
Populism has become a popular buzzword. Some approaches thus argued that we should drop the term altogether. I instead suggest that we should rather be mindful when applying it. So I don't argue that populism is irrelevant. I nonetheless show that it is not the whole story. 2/
We know we should not confuse populism with thick ideas, e.g. nativism. Thick ideas continue to be primary drivers of political contestation. I at the same time argue that parties can use more diverse *thin* ideas as an important auxiliary mobilizing tool in party competition. 3/
@LineRennwald and I have a new article out in #PartyPolitics: “Who still likes social democracy? The support base of social democratic parties reconsidered”
👉Paper: doi.org/10.1177/135406…
👉Pre-print: bit.ly/3t4M4t5
A🧵about our key findings👇1/n
👉Paper: doi.org/10.1177/135406…
👉Pre-print: bit.ly/3t4M4t5
A🧵about our key findings👇1/n
Social democracy has been in crisis in recent years. Most research focuses on the declining SD vote share, but people often still have other ties to parties beyond voting. (Formerly) large party families can usually draw on a sizeable number of people who identify with them. 2/n
We develop a simple typology based on vote choice and party identification, summarized in this table. It categorizes people into "core supporters", "distant supporters", "demobilized supporters", and "non-supporters". 3/n
It's now painfully clear and beyond any doubt: 1. That the sunny, cost-free, easy-access uplands, posited by the Brexit cult, are mendacious fantasy. 2. That the ever-growing costs, downsides and consequences of Brexit are very real and intellectually indisputable.
#BrexitChaos
#BrexitChaos
We may tire of confronting the undisputed opportunity costs* of #Brexit #CatastrophUK (c.£130bn so far, rising at c.£1.2bn weekly) but our *GDP *Currency *Property Values *Stock Market *Govt Borrowing *Ongoing #Brexodus (ref: @uk_domain_names) combine to drag the UK backwards.
@uk_domain_names These #Brexit Opportunity Costs are known to: @10DowningStreet @bankofengland @TheIFS @ONS @The_IoD @LSEnews @TUCeconomics @cbicarolyn @Conservatives @UKLabour @LibDems @theSNP @GoldmanSachs @PwC @ICAEW @KPMG @UKHouseofLords @HouseofCommons and they'd double if UK does #NoDeal!
