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Christopher Smith Ochoa
@csmithochoa.bsky.social
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research on discourse, narrative, inequality, poverty


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Christopher Smith Ochoa @csmithochoa.bsky.social · Apr 8
I'm thrilled my article "Powerful representation of the poor? German welfare associations' narrative advocacy during COVID-19" has now been published open access in @psjeditor.bsky.social.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/psj.70012
<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked unprecedented experimentation in the German social assistance system, leading to changes previously considered impracticable by policymakers. This included a sanctions m...
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joshuaeakle.com
This week: we execute a U.S. citizen.

Next week: we take over elections to stop “fraud.”

It's so transparent what's going on here.
January 9, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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ebharrington.bsky.social
The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9d
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
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January 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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andibabler.at
Ich verurteile den bewaffneten Angriff der USA auf Venezuela. Dieser Angriff stellt eine schwere Verletzung des Gewaltverbots der UNO-Charta dar. Es ist eine Frage unserer Glaubwürdigkeit, dies auch klar zu benennen. Wir müssen die Flagge der internationalen Rechtsstaatlichkeit hochhalten.
January 3, 2026 at 11:36 AM
csmithochoa.bsky.social
You’re telling me the FIFA Peace Prize-winning US President is attacking another sovereign country and practicing regime change?
January 3, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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sonjablum.bsky.social
🚨Job alert: We are looking for a PhD Researcher at Bielefeld University

✨Research on policy learning, and work-family policies in Mexico & Germany, within the @sfb1342.bsky.social on global dynamics of social policy

Applications until 12.1.26, details at: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/473...
Research Position / PhD Researcher (m/f/d) - CRC 1...
<div style="text-align: justify;">The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1342, "Global Dynamics of Social Policy," has been...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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onachtwey.bsky.social
Legitimationsprobleme der parlamentarischen Demokratie
December 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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hildevanmeegdenburg.com
⬇️Februari 2026⬇️

Taking a hands-on approach, this five-day online course introduces you to the essentials of Process Tracing and develops both the theoretical understanding and the practical skills to set-up and conduct a full-fledged PT-study.

Early bird registration still possible.
komex.bsky.social Konstanz Methods Excellence Workshops @komex.bsky.social · Nov 17
🔍How do you prove what happened in between cause and outcome?

Join our 5-day online Intro to Causal Process Tracing and learn to design a mechanism-based case study at #KOMEX2026.

Instructor: @hildevanmeegdenburg.com
23–27 Feb 2026
€440 early bird

🔗 Register: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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jhillje.bsky.social
Aha.

(Quelle: @zeit.de)
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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verfassungsblog.de
Die Bundesregierung will das Bürgergeld reformieren: Sanktionen sollen verschärft und die Karenzzeit für Unterkunftskosten gestrichen werden.

NARIN ARSLAN erinnert an die verfassungsrechtlichen Maßstäbe und konstatiert einen beunruhigenden Systemwechsel.

verfassungsblog.de/burgergeld-e...
Zitat aus unserem neuesten Beitrag von Narin Arslan: „Die Reform verschiebt den Fokus vom Schutz der Menschenwürde hin zu einem Leistungsfähigkeitsparadigma, das Bedürftigkeit als Defizit behandelt.“
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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daniellaurison.bsky.social
Lower-income people are less likely to vote than higher-income people, across racial groups - and that gap has been growing.

That’s a real problem for the future of US democracy.

It’s not apathy or ignorance - for many, it’s a sense that politics is not for or about them.

In a report out in Jan +
Chart with Turnout on the Y axis & election year (2016, 2020, and 2024) on the X axis. 6 lines, 3 for White, Black, and Hispanic in households making over $100k/year, 3 for the same groups in households making under $30k/year. Overall you can see turnout increasing among higher-income people in all three racial groups, and declining (White and Black) or staying flat (Hispanic) among low-income people; the turnout gap by income is much larger in 2024 than in 2020 or 2016. from 2016 -> 2024: - White $100k turnout goes from 65% to 78% while white under $30k turnout goes from 55% to 49% - Black over $100k turnout goes from 51% to 64% while Black under $30k turnout goes from 48% to 33% - Hispanic over $100k turnout goes from 52% to 67% while Hispanic under $30k turnout stays flat at about 36% (higher in 2020 at 42%). Caption: "Our analysis, Cooperative Election Survey Data, Validated Votes." image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”
December 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social
Seit 2018 haben #Ungleichheit & #Armut in Deutschland nochmal spürbar zugenommen und zuletzt einen Höchststand erreicht. Das zeigt der neue Verteilungsbericht unseres @wsiinstitut.bsky.social. Der Anteil armer Menschen stieg von 14,4 (2010) auf 17,7 % (2022). 🧵👇
📲 www.boeckler.de/de/pressemit...
Text: Ungleichheit in Deutschland wächst I Die Ungleichheit in Deutschland hat einen traurigen Höchststand erreicht. Auch Armut nimmt zu. Der Anteil reicher Haushalte ist dagegen stabil. Mehr zum WSI-Verteilungsbericht 2025.
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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wsiinstitut.bsky.social
Wie kann das über lange Zeit gewachsene Institutionengefüge des deutschen Sozialstaats in systematische Verbindung zur Umwelt- und Klimapolitik gebracht werden und Sozialpolitik im Idealfall sogar eine positive ökologische Wirkung erzielen? Dazu die neuen WSI-Mitteilungen www.wsi.de/de/wsi-mitte...
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
csmithochoa.bsky.social
Gregory Crewdson, Redemption Center, 2018/9. Kunstmuseum Bonn.
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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veradelejahotko.bsky.social
Der 1. Teil unserer Jobcenter-Serie:

Der Staat investiert Milliarden in Maßnahmen, die helfen sollen, Menschen wieder in Arbeit zu bringen. Doch zu oft fließt das Geld in eine kaum kontrollierte Weiterbildungsindustrie, in der Beschäftigung simuliert wird und Qualität Zufall zu sein scheint.
fragdenstaat.de FragDenStaat @fragdenstaat.de · Nov 6
Der Staat zahlt Milliarden für Jobcenter-Maßnahmen. Doch anstatt Jobs zu schaffen, profitiert vor allem eine kaum kontrollierte Weiterbildungsindustrie. Wir erzählen die Geschichten von Betroffenen und zeigen das System, das sie scheitern lässt: fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...
Jobcenter-Stories: Das Geschäft mit den Arbeitslosen
Der Staat investiert Milliarden in Jobcenter-Maßnahmen. Doch anstatt die Menschen in Arbeit zu bringen, profitiert davon eine kaum kontrollierte Weiterbildungsindustrie.
fragdenstaat.de
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
I think about this post every day 🧪
Screenshot of a Tweet pointing out that academic spam is actually in its own way kind of encouraging.
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
csmithochoa.bsky.social
“The novel’s prescience lies not in foretelling specific events but in diagnosing a culture where power enjoys impunity and cruelty rubs out its traces — a society run by careless people.”

www.ft.com/content/dd6f...
November 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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laurenzennser.bsky.social
🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

@manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.
October 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
csmithochoa.bsky.social
What a brilliant discussion about narrative form and how we necessarily and constantly use it to (re)interpret, (re)define, and legitimize history. Highly recommended.

radioopensource.org/shattered-dr...
Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope - Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope is Brandon Terry’s long-awaited personal and philosophical case for struggle and optimism in the long civil rights movement in our country. It’s a map of our minds and ...
radioopensource.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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peteratwater.bsky.social
Houston, we have a problem.

And probably plenty of other American cities.

And this is before SNAP payments end.
October 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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benbraun.bsky.social
A fantastic episode. The art of talking about a big, complex book is perfected, by host and author, to an unbelievable degree.
October 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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lseinequalities.bsky.social
In a new study, Christopher Hoy (World Bank) reveals that people tend to dramatically underestimate wage inequality.

What’s more, when confronted with the actual data, far right voters alter their views about redistribution the most.

#LSEInequalitiesBlog

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The wage gap and far-right support for redistribution
New study on beliefs and preferences about the wage gap (CEOs vs average worker). When the true gap is revealed, far right voters change their policy views most.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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policy-politics.bsky.social
⚡New blog post just landed!⚡

'A systematic review of the Narrative Policy Framework: a future research agenda'

policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/10/01/a...

@gbsong.bsky.social @jo-kuenzler.bsky.social
A systematic review of the Narrative Policy Framework: a future research agenda
by Johanna Kuenzler, Bettina Stauffer, Caroline Schlaufer, Geoboo Song, Aaron Smith-Walter and Michael D. Jones The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) has become instrumental in understanding how pol…
policyandpoliticsblog.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
csmithochoa.bsky.social
“If you can be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or think.

Defend your constitutionally protected rights. No one else will do it for you.“

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One Very Important Thought
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October 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
csmithochoa.bsky.social
I expect textbooks in the future will quote this speech as a key example of America‘s transition toward nationalist authoritarianism.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 30
Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"
September 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM