Zack Grant
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Zack Grant
@zackgp94.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Nuffield Politics Research Centre (Uni of Oxford).

I research public opinion and party competition in Europe. Especially interested in political implications of AI + tech change; ethnic fragmentation; the environment.
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🤖New Tech, New Threat?🤖 New working paper w/ @profjanegreen.bsky.social & Geoff Evans asks: Are AI-exposed workers demanding more gov. regulation? In Britain, it looks like yes. Though not the only factor, AI’s workplace rollout matters politics. LINK: advance.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 1/16
New Tech, New Threat? Occupational Exposure to Artificial Intelligence Increases Support for AI Regulation Working Paper (23-10-25)
Are workers in occupations that are more exposed to artificial intelligence [AI] also more likely to support government regulation of these emerging technologies? We address this question by matching ...
advance.sagepub.com
🤖New Tech, New Threat?🤖 New working paper w/ @profjanegreen.bsky.social & Geoff Evans asks: Are AI-exposed workers demanding more gov. regulation? In Britain, it looks like yes. Though not the only factor, AI’s workplace rollout matters politics. LINK: advance.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 1/16
New Tech, New Threat? Occupational Exposure to Artificial Intelligence Increases Support for AI Regulation Working Paper (23-10-25)
Are workers in occupations that are more exposed to artificial intelligence [AI] also more likely to support government regulation of these emerging technologies? We address this question by matching ...
advance.sagepub.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Reposted by Zack Grant
To try to be restrained and persuasive:

1) Academic work (like most things) is of varying quality

2) There is an enormous leftward ideological skew to the lowest-quality work

3) 1 + 2 makes it hard for credentialed "expertise" to be credible even when most experts are good
September 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Most interesting thing for me: a majority of Lib Dems back the sentiment, and almost half take no issue with the language. Supports @jamesbreckwoldt.bsky.social's research emphasising how poorly understood Lib Dem voters are. Not nec. true that Labour losses there are disaffected social liberals.
While Keir Starmer's warning that the UK risked 'becoming an island of strangers' without changes to immigration law has sparked controversy, Britons tend to agree with his sentiment and language

Agree with sentiment: 53%
Disagree with sentiment: 27%

Language okay: 50%
Language not okay: 30%
May 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Reposted by Zack Grant
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Family Matters: How Concerns about the Financial Wellbeing of Young Relatives Shape the Political Preferences of Older Adults - cup.org/3Gny1bz

- @zackgp94.bsky.social, @profjanegreen.bsky.social & Geoffrey Evans

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April 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM