Chitralekha Basu
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Assistant Professor of Empirical Democratic Theory @CompPolCologne. @RochesterPolSci PhD. She/her.
Cologne, Germany
Joined September 2014
🚨Busquem un assistent de recerca a mitja jornada pel projecte de la Segona República. ➡️ Hi estàs interessat/da? 👇 ------ 🚨We are seeking a part-time research assistant for our project on the Spanish Second Republic. ➡️ Are you interested? 👇 https://t.co/5G930GzrWt
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Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc. In a word: Harvard. Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard. 🧵
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Cool paper, and a nice thread summarizing the key findings:
I have a new article in @ElectoralStdies I ran conjoint experiment in UK testing how important culture war (statues, LGBT representation in pop culture, DEI, trans athletes, curriculum diversity, and university free speech) is to voters Link to article & 🧵 of results 👇
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White Londoners voted Labour by 16 points Labour 39% Conservative 23% Lib Dem 12% Reform 12% Green 9%
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📢 Submit your work to the Junior Workshop on HPE organized by @TinePaulsen, @frvillamil & myself. 📍 UC3M-IC3JM – Madrid 🗓️ June 25, 2025 (before EPSA) 📝 Deadline: Feb 21, 2025 🔗 Apply: https://t.co/cDcnP3eKha ℹ️ More info: https://t.co/JnO8ak3PDK
#HPE #EPSA2025
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Yesterday, we had the pleasure of welcoming our guest @carloprato_ @Columbia to our lecture series on "Political Science and Political Economy" together with @CompPolCologne. Thank you for the insights into your research! If you'd like to know more about the PSPE lectures
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We are very happy to be hosting @carloprato_ from @Columbia next week as part of our "Political Science and Political Economy" lecture series. All welcome!
🗓️ Join us next Tuesday for our lecture series on "Political Science and Political Economy" together with @CompPolCologne @UniCologne @WisoUniCologne. Our guest is @carloprato_ @Columbia. For more information 👉 https://t.co/GEVHw4jenE
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🎉 Congratulations to the Women and Non-binary Research Group at CCCP! 🏆 The Jenny Gusyk Prize for Equality was awarded to this amazing group for their outstanding work in promoting diversity and inclusion in academia. 🌈📚✨ Details 🔗: https://t.co/5ghs9WENT3
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Policies to keep out unskilled immigrants - but let in the skilled - didn't work in the 1920s ( https://t.co/Pz2P3bQtkT) and won't work today. Here's why:
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we first show how democrats and republicans sort into distinctive colleges, majors, occupations, industries, and employers. at each stage of their trajectory through the labor market, democrats and republicans are making different decisions. we can see this in great detail.
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Harris ran a centrist campaign but was still perceived as more liberal than Biden (& ideologically further from voters)
Our ideological placement results are interesting: Michigan voters collectively place Kamala Harris to the ideological left of Elissa Slotkin and Joe Biden. The differences are not large, but they are enough to place the average voter closer to Trump & Slotkin
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Can We Believe the Polls? We can't use the logic of random sampling anymore. Weighting is changing but still may not work. New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast/transcript with @b_schaffner & Michael Bailey https://t.co/hAwN79lZ4B
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Polls missed the 2016 election outcome and did even worse in 2020 on the margin, underestimating Donald Trump again. Should we believe the polls this time?
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Final notes from my reporting in Latino communities during the election: 80% of Latinos are working class. Their experience of the economy the past four years—Covid shutdowns, inflation, gas prices, housing costs—was rough. That puts the incumbent Dems at a disadvantage. 🧵1/9
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Important: any ongoing racial depolarization in the electorate is creating *more* polarization on *racial attitudes*. Black and Latino voters who are now voting Republican tend to have conservative views on race and immigration. For example... https://t.co/J3FVg1QdLY
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In 2020, Trump gained votes from Black, Latino, and Asian voters who thought racial problems were rare and isolated.
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FINAL: City of Dearborn results (includes the less Arab, West Dearborn portion as well) 🔴 Trump 43% 🔵 Harris 36% 🟢 Stein 18% 🔵 Slotkin 41% 🔴 Rogers 39% 🟢 Green candidate 15% City was 80% for Biden in 2020
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64% of Latino men vote for Donald Trump in Texas. Biden carried Latino men in Texas in 2020.
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With the election around the corner, what does political science tell us about how the green transition affects voting? Here’s a thread jam-packed with climate politics and elections research ⬇️
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