Jonathan Hopkin
Professor of the Political Economy of Europe at LSE. Interested in democratic representation and inequality in the rich democracies (and the US). Author of Anti-System Politics (OUP, 2020). Also random thoughts on football, cycling, the weather etc
- Reposted by Jonathan Hopkin🚨 NEW: Opportunities for the poorest young people in London far outstrip the rest of England, we have found. Our new Opportunity Index reveals how the area young people grow up in shapes their life chances, with huge differences between constituencies across the country 🧵⬇️
- Reposted by Jonathan HopkinI'd love to know what it is they think they're seeing in opinion research that nobody else can spot. I (along with, I suspect, most of my [similarly obsessed] polsci friends and colleagues) am genuinely flummoxed. Best guess is that it's coming from focus groups, not polling. What do others think?
- I guess this is happening across a wide range of government functions but a lot of it isn’t as obvious
- Reposted by Jonathan HopkinFrom David Doney: Taxing the top 10% at a rate of 1% per year would make the deficit sustainable indefinitely. The threshold is around $2 million, so those people might pay 0.5%, while billionaires might pay 5% per year. #EconSky
- Reposted by Jonathan HopkinPlease don't put in the newspaper that 28 children laughed at me
- Reposted by Jonathan HopkinHere’s what Reform would do: Liz Truss on steroids
- Uncle Leo is out again
