Matthew Rhodes-Purdy

Clemson Asst. Prof, scholar of populism, democracy, and political psychology, coauthor of Age of Discontent, dad to two wonderfully bizarre small humans.

[Matthew Rhodes-Purdy @matthewpurdy123]

Want to learn how economic insecurity and inequality have inflamed racial, ethnic, religious, and political tensions all over the world since the 2008 crisis? eBook now available at much more affordable price, paperback available in May!

[Cambridge University Press - Politics @CUP_PoliSci]

Resolves a key theoretical debate of economics vs. culture using a broad comparative perspective that includes multiple world regions.

Out Now : The Age of Discontent by @matthewpurdy123 @RachelNavarre & Stephen Utych

https://t.co/9XnFbfKa8B

[Matthew Rhodes-Purdy @matthewpurdy123]

New technologies don't necessarily mean new politics. To understand why, check out this great new book on political party use of new information and communication techs by @NandoRosenblatt @rafaelpineiror and coauthors:

https://t.co/3bttj9l3Da

[William Blake @ProfWBlake]

Data beatings will continue until morale improves.

[Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos]

Apropos of nothing everyone should read this article on left populism in Latin America. Compared to technocratic leftism, populist leaders successfully activated poor + working class constituencies, cutting the gordian knot of political-economic inequality https://t.co/wSkDOle5Bp

[Matthew Rhodes-Purdy @matthewpurdy123]

Glad to know #ageofdiscontent is helping people understand what's happening...less glad to know it's still very relevant to US politics.

https://t.co/GS4DQ6TxTu

[Matthew Rhodes-Purdy @matthewpurdy123]

@vfsglobalcare I've tried several times in the past two hours. Do you have a specific time when maintenance will be over?

[Matthew Rhodes-Purdy @matthewpurdy123]

@VFSGlobalCare your website has been under maintenance for two days now. Any idea when it might be working again?

[Dr. Amira Jadoon ***امیرہ جدون @AmiraJadoon]

Exciting news! @matthewpurdy123 @aysed_9 and I are
thrilled to have received a DOD grant to study U.S. security cooperation with Pakistan and the Philippines! Exciting work ahead on critical defense partnerships in an era of info warfare & great power competition 🇺🇸🇵🇰🇵🇭

[Matthew Rhodes-Purdy @matthewpurdy123]

@GYamey Very true please don't forget his ableism either. Anyone pitching the vax->autism link is, among other things, calling autism a disease. That's just as awful as other kinds of prejudice.

[Matthew Rhodes-Purdy @matthewpurdy123]

@LatAmerElection @RachelNavarre Thanks! We try to keep it fun, even with an incredibly dark topic ;)

[Matthew Rhodes-Purdy @matthewpurdy123]

@MattPolProf Also the radical right is not conservative.

[Matthew Rhodes-Purdy @matthewpurdy123]

Thrilled to announce that Age of Discontent has won the David O. Sears Best Book on Mass Politics from the ISPP International Society of Political Psychology! @PolPsyISPP @drsteveu @RachelNavarre

https://t.co/CNyx93MZ3Q

[US-UK Fulbright @USUKFulbright]

Another exciting announcement: proud to introduce our US Scholars heading to the UK for 2024-25!

Join us in wishing them a wonderful adventure across the Atlantic! Learn more about our US Scholars and other Fulbrighters here: https://t.co/QLpX5YJ8Aa

[Cambridge University Press Bookshop @CUPBookshop]

4/6 New Books: The Age of Discontent - Populism, Extremism, and Conspiracy Theories in Contemporary Democracies, by @matthewpurdy123, @RachelNavarre, and Stephen Utych
https://t.co/7reLaTyuMv

[Latin American Elections @LatAmerElection]

📚Summer Reading Goals.
I'm reading recent scholarship on populism: just finished @JulioFCarrion1's book (I recommend!), and really looking forward to new ones from Kurt Weyland and @matthewpurdy123/@RachelNavarre /S. Uytich. Also revisiting some classics of Cent. Amer. history.

[Matthew Rhodes-Purdy @matthewpurdy123]

It's official: starting next year I will be an Associate Professor with tenure at Clemson!

[Matthew Rhodes-Purdy @matthewpurdy123]

@JakeMGrumbach @rcastrocornejo I mean I get it but...is that a new thing?

[Matthew Rhodes-Purdy @matthewpurdy123]

NIMBYs love weaponizing making the perfect the enemy of the good. Generous social housing policy > market housing policy sure, but market > ridiculous antisocial current housing market and zoning rules

[David Watkins @djw172]

So many people, w/o a hint of shame, will pretend to not see any difference between
a) Giving rich people more money and hoping they do socially beneficial things with it
b) Allowing rich people to do a thing with the money they already have that we know is socially beneficial

[Matthew Rhodes-Purdy @matthewpurdy123]

@C_Kavanagh I don't understand what's hard here. Socialism and statism are separate things. Nazism is statist but socialist only in name. State regulation of the economy to preserve hierarchy, rather than undermine it. That is indisputably right-wing.

[Matthew Rhodes-Purdy @matthewpurdy123]

@MattPolProf That last sentence may be the best and most succinct explanation of the connection between conservatism/right wing thought and anti-intellectualism that I've ever seen. Totally going to use this from now on