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Feb 12 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Here are 5 out 7 members of the cantonal government of St-Gallen, Switzerland, plus its chancellor. ImageImage
Via @BorisBusslinger
Actually, 86% of the population of St-Gallen are middle-aged white bald men with glasses and dark hair.
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The government of *my* canton is 86% women, and 42% with immigrant background #justsaying Image
Here the Parliament of St-Gallen. Image
Elected democratically by the people of St-Gallen. Image
By the way, I just learned that getting almost identical candidates on the ballot is a strategy to undermine the opposition in Russia.
theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
...in Russia they split votes for the opposition but in St-Gallen they *all get elected*.
Oups my maths is terrible. 71% women in my home canton.
But I am pretty sure the government of Appenzell-Ausserrhoden here is 50% red(dish) tie. Image

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Feb 14
A thread about a peculiar interaction about social privilege on Dutch television. Image
Author Joris Luyendijk is invited to one of the biggest talk shows in the country, Buitenhof, to talk about his new book. The book is an exposé of how the Netherlands is dominated by people like him: white, male, straight, highly educated, with privileged parents.
He says it's a problem. Luyendijk adopts a fairly confrontational style, highlighting for instance the privileged social background of the host, another white man. He says that being a white man who did not experience discrimination makes him less suitable as an interviewer. Image
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Feb 13
Here's a farce: *80%* of the votes of the Portuguese diaspora in Europe in the last legislative election have eventually been declared invalid. publico.pt/2022/02/10/pol…
By default, Portuguese nationals had to vote by mail. The law requires the photocopy of their ID to be sent alongside their vote. This information didn't get through because many did not.
At first, PS and PSD had agreed that all the ballots would be counted. The PSD changed its mind, and all the votes in the voting stations where ballots with and without ID had been mixed were declared invalid.
Read 5 tweets
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Feb 8
A thread about social privilege in the Netherlands.
J. Luyendijk has a new book in which he argues that Dutch society is dominated by people with 7 characteristics:
1. male
2. white
3. at least one highly educated parent
4. at least one parent born in NL
5. straight
6. had classics education in high school
7. university educated
I thought I would try to see if there was a way to measure this with data: how privileged are people with these characteristics in the Netherlands? How many people are there who "tick" the 7 boxes?
Read 23 tweets
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Feb 8
Een draadje (in het Nederlands ) over @JORISLUIJENDIJK's #7vinkjes met data.
Ik vroeg me af of er een manier was om de rol van deze "vinkjes" in Nederland met data te meten. Hoe geprivilegieerd zijn mensen met 7 vinkjes eigenlijk? Hoe groot is dit groep?
nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/02…
Om dit te meten gebruik ik de laatste 3 beschikbare rondes van de European Social Survey. Dit is een grote sociale enquête in veel Europese landen over politiek, arbeid en levensomstandigheden. europeansocialsurvey.org
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Feb 6
A thread on why I think that the lessons to be learned from Portugal and the victory of Antonio Costa for the European left are quite limited (after reading this piece by @jonhenley) theguardian.com/world/2022/feb…
In a nutshell, Portuguese social democracy looks more like European social democracy's successful past than its successful future. Image
That's because the class structure of the Portuguese electorate looks a bit like the one of other West European countries a few decades ago (and like some CEE): a higher proportion of skilled and manual workers, the traditional electoral base of social democratic parties Image
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Jan 31
A map of the Chega vote in yesterday's 🇵🇹 election, by parish (freguesia).
And here a map of the vote for Iniciativa Liberal.
A map of parishes won by the socialists and the PSD
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