Frederick Solt @[email protected]

Department of Political Science, University of Iowa. Politics of economic inequality, comparative public opinion, #rstats. #FirstGen

[Frederick Solt @[email protected] @fredericksolt]

I'm happy to announce that version 9.4 of the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID) is available! Comparable income inequality estimates for 198 countries. https://t.co/hRthgGbrHY
Get the data here: https://t.co/FefazUfmH7

[Frederick Solt @[email protected] @fredericksolt]

@BJPolS @postech2020 @linds_goldberg And check out the data here: https://t.co/xfvijqPqOP

[British Jnl Poli Sci @BJPolS]

#OpenAccess from our latest issue -

Public Gender Egalitarianism: A Dataset of Dynamic Comparative Public Opinion toward Egalitarian #Gender Roles in the Public Sphere - https://t.co/fVNfoC02Gg

- Byung-Deuk Woo (@postech2020), @linds_goldberg & @fredericksolt

[Frederick Solt @[email protected] @fredericksolt]

Fantastic new piece from @ProfPersson and @sundellviz in @BJPolS!

https://t.co/v8x4h1BR1F

[Frederick Solt @[email protected] @fredericksolt]

@quaresmajpqp @PCMagalhaes And with that, I guess I'm off this site again

[Frederick Solt @[email protected] @fredericksolt]

@quaresmajpqp @PCMagalhaes It's this site's owner advertising for his preferred crypto

[Frederick Solt @[email protected] @fredericksolt]

Money is a political resource, so the distribution of money influences the distribution of power. *That* is what people react to, not perceptions of inequality. See, e.g.:
https://t.co/rxY1XFI8Cp

[Frederick Solt @[email protected] @fredericksolt]

ICYMI: @kstrump's super-useful new piece, "Income Inequality Is Unrelated to Perceived Inequality and Support for Redistribution," EarlyView at @SSQ_Online

https://t.co/0kQrcmiTkJ

[Frederick Solt @[email protected] @fredericksolt]

IDK how often I've told people that income inequality's political effects are not well understood as running through people's perceptions. Kill that zombie

[Frederick Solt @[email protected] @fredericksolt]

Saw this plate in my neighborhood today and of course thought of Ryan ⁦@With2Ks⁩ Bakker. Also, with luck, last snow of the winter

[Frederick Solt @[email protected] @fredericksolt]

RT @[email protected]
It's a little disturbing how often I'll follow up on a citation in an academic study to find that it doesn't say what the citing author says it did. or, at best, a tiny portion of the paper does say it but the overall main point of the paper is (1/2)

[Gerardo L. Munck @GerardoMunck]

Can democratic national political regimes coexist with subnational-level authoritarianism? How does the relationship between national and subnational governments affect regimes and policies?

These question are explored throughout the Americas in these books.

[European Social Survey @ESS_Survey]

We've published #data from a further 15 countries who participated in Round 10 (2020-22) of our #survey.

It means data and weights are available for 25 countries.

You can now view single variable results via the visualisation tool on our Data Portal.

https://t.co/FSk0Ht69jA

[Frederick Solt @[email protected] @fredericksolt]

if you spot any problems with the chapter and I promise to annoy Hadley with a pull request fixing it #RStats

https://t.co/HvulMwn5Kp
https://t.co/fj8GCXw4AK (2/2)

[Frederick Solt @[email protected] @fredericksolt]

RT @[email protected]
Since Hadley has announced it on twitter I will do the honours on here, but I'll forego the pirate-speak out of common decency...

There's a new chapter on #ApacheArrow and Parquet data in R4DS. It's mostly based on my work so please let me know (1/2)

[Frederick Solt @[email protected] @fredericksolt]

RT @[email protected]
The latest release of the European Social Survey’s Round 10 is now available. Micro-data from 25 countries. An invaluable social research resource: https://t.co/Pecd7HF7rW
https://t.co/2VFKbiisTS

[Frederick Solt @[email protected] @fredericksolt]

projects on class boundaries and perceptions of income/wealth disparities. I have a feeling that understanding the social function of this taboo would help me round these projects out a bit more.

sociology politicalscience
https://t.co/mu35AEt7uH (2/2)

[Frederick Solt @[email protected] @fredericksolt]

RT @[email protected]
Hey social scientists - I am looking for reading recommendations to help me think through the social taboo on discussing incomes. Any recommendations?

Mostly looking for your favorites on this topic, but for context, I am working on some (1/2)

[Marc Sabatier Hvidkjær @MarcHvidkjaer]

*Democratic Health Check*
Personalistic leaders, apathetic voters and eroding institutions. The many challenges of modern politics lack little attention, where many great minds warn remind us that democracy does not sustain itself.
So what are we saying, and what do we know?

[Hyein Ko @hyein__k]

Excited to share that I was awarded the Princeton Dissertation Scholars Program (@BobstCenter)🎉!! All thanks to the guidance and support of my advisors @fredericksolt and @brycejdietrich.