Noam Lupu

TL;DR: The authors argue that inequality matters for redistributive politics in advanced capitalist societies, but it is the structure of inequality, not the level of inequality that matters, and they test this proposition with data from 15 to 18 advanced democracies and find that both redistribution and none-lderly social spending increase as the dispersion of earnings in the upper half of the distribution increases relative to the distribution in the lower half.

TL;DR: The authors developed a model of partisanship in which voters learn about party brands by observing party behavior over time and base their psychological attachment to a party on these brands, which suggests that convergence by rival parties, making their brands less distinguishable, should weaken party attachments.

TL;DR: This article conducted a multigenerational survey of Crimean Tatars and found that the descendants of individuals who suffered more intensely identify more strongly with their ethnic group, support more strongly the Crimean Tatar political leadership, hold more hostile attitudes toward Russia, and participate more in politics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed an explanation for why a national political party that has been competitive for decades collapse over the course of a single electoral cycle, and tested this interactive hypothesis using matched comparisons of six party-election cases from Argentina and Venezuela.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that lawmakers from different classes bring different economic attitudes to the legislative process and pre-voting decisions like sponsoring legislation often differ dramatically along social class lines, even when political parties control higher-visibility decisions like roll-call votes.