Matthew E Bergman, PhD
mebergman.bsky.social
Matthew E Bergman, PhD
@mebergman.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest; Former post-doc at UniWien Government and Director/Lecturer UCSD Law & Politics
📝 OECD Comp Institutions/PE/Voting/Parties & populi*
👨‍🏫Policy/Legal Analysis, Research Methods, PE, Electoral Systems
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Ezra Klein loves to overintellectualize the far right, giving them mainstream coverage and legitimacy, while pretending to just wanting to "understand the other side." #usefulfools
August 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.
August 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Still using the party family approach to #nicheparty analysis? Don't worry, it is a valid approach when studying party issue responsiveness (but not the commies) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Who’s a part(y) of this family? Only noneconomic niche parties are still responsive to partisans
Foundational manuscripts examined whether niche parties and mainstream parties differed in their party-voter linkages. Specifically, they examine “mean electorate” and “partisan electorate” forms o...
www.tandfonline.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Finishing the issue diversification trilogy (center-right and nationalist parties can gain from a more diverse issue agenda; green and center-left cannot) 4 years later;
Opposite effect for Ethno-Regional parties: issue diversification is not a successful strategy
doi.org/10.1080/1744...
Ethno-Regional Parties Cannot Be Everything to Everyone: Electoral Risks of a More Diverse Issue Agenda
This note suggests that should ethno-regional parties broaden their agenda, they could be electorally punished. Literature suggests an electoral incentive to a broader party issue agenda, even for ...
doi.org
July 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
My first #ESPA2025 convinced me to get this app. So great catching up with former colleagues and making new connections. A wonderful introduction to the @epsanet.bsky.social @epssnet.bsky.social community. Looking forward to Belfast #EPSS2026 (paper pending, acceptance conditional)
June 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
American moves to Europe, experiences labour policy (protection), cleans a dataset of thousands of reforms, can now explain where they come from: Parties campaigning on left-leaning economic policies are more likely to implement pro-worker policies, but only during non-crisis economic conditions.
June 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM