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Rafael Ahlskog
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Researcher, Uppsala university. Political behavior. Social science genetics/sociogenomics.
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Is there an R package that lets me search for journal articles using key terms, and then returns a data frame of all the results? Maybe something that interacts with the Google Scholar API? Polisky

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"The evidence shows that Israel has carried out its war in Gaza at a pace and level of devastation that likely exceeds any recent conflict, destroying more buildings, in far less time, than were destroyed during the Syrian regime’s battle for Aleppo 2013-2016" www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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We argue that this makes sense, since wealth is a minority interest, and "traditional" forms of participation are usually inherently more robust to minority influence. It thus makes sense for the wealthy to turn away from these.

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Using detailed Swedish register data on wealth and participation in a discordant twin design, we find the opposite: if anything, wealth seems to have a negative effect on some forms of participation, and null effects on voting.

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Do the rich ditch traditional politics? New preprint with my colleague Anton Brännlund out now! The interests of the wealthy are disproportionately represented in political decision making. Descriptively, the wealthy also participate more. But is this participation a causal effect of their wealth?

Do the rich ditch traditional politics? Evidence from Sweden
Do the rich ditch traditional politics? Evidence from Sweden

The world has seen a massive increase in wealth and wealth inequality over the last decades. Given the skew in policy making towards the preferences of the wealthy, this raises the question of how ind...

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MSsyeducation.bsky.social

New preprint! How often do editors/reviewers actually compare preregistrations to the reporting in the article? Almost never. This figure sums up all of the results. Not good.

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RArafaelahlskog.bsky.social

Thanks! I'm not sure i'm the right person to do that, but I know there are others with similar views writing on this topic :)

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I wrote my couple of cents on the recent debate about polygenic indices in Behavioral and Brain Sciences: ahlskog.se/2023/11/25/s...

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Some good news: I have received a substantial grant from the Swedish Science Council - 4.7 million SEK - to study gene-environment interactions in the formation of political behavior over the coming years. Surprised and honored!

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Applications for *fully-funded* PhDs (inc. Masters if reqd) are open at Southampton. Behaviour, attitudes, specifically on trust, legitimacy, or class especially welcome. Join a growing Department with the resources and time to support your research & career 👇 southcoastdtp.ac.uk/apply2324/ 🌐

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Rafael Ahlskog
@rafaelahlskog.bsky.social
Researcher, Uppsala university. Political behavior. Social science genetics/sociogenomics.
139 followers169 following10 posts