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Political scientist @AarhusUni studying housing, homelessness & local politics. Previously @GSNASBERLIN @FU_Berlin and Fox Fellow @Yale She/Her

Joined September 2019
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📢New Publication! Out in Perspectives on Politics Reassessing the Impact of Local Control: When Smaller Local Governments Permit More Housing Coauthored w/@mvinaes 👉doi.org/10.1017/S15375927250… We study municipal reform in Denmark: 🏘️ What happens to housing supply? ⤵️ (1/2)
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✨ Smaller local govts actually permit more housing ✨ Consolidated municipalities = fewer permits, less construction Why?? Stronger fiscal incentives + closer accountability in smaller jurisdictions 💥 Upshot: Local control isn’t always the enemy of housing growth. (2/2)
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Deadline approaching! ⌛️The APSA Urban & Local Politics section awards are waiting for your (self-)nomination! ✨
📢 It’s time to nominate for the 2025 Urban & Local Politics Section Awards! We’re recognizing outstanding work in urban politics across multiple categories, including best dissertation, book, and career contributions. 🏆 Deadline: March 15, 2025
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🚨 New WP on online news consumption (osf.io/h3cn5_v1) 🚨 ➡️KEY FINDING: Negativity + identity language is particularly effective at generating engagement—and even more when targeting out-groups With @steverathje2, @CRobertson500, @jayvanbavel 🧵👇
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We still miss you😉
The number of Britons saying the UK was right to vote to leave the EU has hit its lowest level since the referendum, ahead of the fifth anniversary of Brexit on Friday Right to vote to leave: 30% (-3 from Nov) Wrong to vote to leave: 55% (=)
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Job announcement: Junior Professorship in Computational Social Science at the University of Konstanz. Join us at the Center for Data and Methods! Feel free to reach out if you have questions. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobp…
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Join Our Team! 🚨 We’re hiring 2 Postdocs for the new Advertising Democracy project at Aarhus University. We’re looking for researchers who are passionate about advertisements & citizens’ democratic values in Western democracies. Feel free to share!👇🏾 bss.au.dk/en/about-aarhus-bs…
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Very cool new tool to access data on central banks - great project and contribution! 👏
It’s live! The past few days @simeonbischl and I have had some intense coding sessions and we are happy to share the result: centralbanktalk.eu/ this website includes various tools to explore central bank communication. (1/
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What a freakin Day.
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Dr. @cowburn86 ist Postdoc an der @EuroNewSchool der #Viadrina. In seinem Buch über das amerikanische Wahlsystem hat er sich mit der Frage beschäftigt, inwieweit die Vorwahlen das US-Parteiensystem beeinflussen. #USElection2024 t1p.de/cowburn @FU_Berlin @Viadrina_IFES
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Friends of Florence! I am going to be at the EUI from January to June and I am looking for an apartment (ideally close to the university). Please let me know if you know something or someone who can help!
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I'm very excited to have an article in the new issue of @Radical_Housing about @hillside_villa's historic struggle for eminent domain
Issue 6.2 Long Read by Mathilde Lind Gustavussen @m_gustavussenon on fighting for housing remunicipalization in Chinatown, #LosAngeles, by repoliticizing 'eminent domain'. radicalhousingjournal.org/20…
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Last week the fourth edition of the Nordic Political Behavior Workshop took place in Aarhus. Two intense days of excellent papers and discussions. Big thanks to all the participants and not least to @Carlsbergfondet for generously supporting the workshop.
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Nimbyism is often explained through property values or exclusion. But in recent work with @NNyholt, we explore a different perspective—local preservationism. It’s less about keeping people out and more about preserving neighborhood character. Read more: osf.io/preprints/osf/n2cme
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📢Make sure to check out and pre-order Mike‘s new book “Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries“ ⬇️ Congratulations @cowburn86 🫶
My first book “Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries” will be published in ONE MONTH by Cambridge University Press. You can now pre-order using the link below (or wherever you get your books): cambridge.org/core/books/par…
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Organizing a half-day event on queer migration and displacement in today's Europe at @HumboldtUni. We have space for one or two more presentations. The event is on October 24 in Berlin. If you would like to present your work, please get in touch with me.
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People experiencing homelessness are especially vulnerable to public health emergencies. Still, we know little about how local govts managed this crisis. I introduce a new nat’l dataset on local responses and show that lack of fed guidance led to spatially uneven policy outcomes.
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Just received a special delivery 📚 - very happy I got to contribute with an entry on social policy together with @ProfausBerlin link.springer.com/referencew…
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