Steven Klein

Does giving immigrants the right to vote change redistribution policies? In our paper with Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe and @asolano.bsky.social, we find that it does, but only where elections are close enough. Just out in the European Journal of Political Economy! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

💡King's researchers will co-lead the UK's longest-running study of how Britain votes💡 🗳️ @profrosiecamp.bsky.social and colleagues Bobby Duffy and Max Falkenberg are part of a new team awarded £4.9 million by the ESRC to run the British Election Study from 2027. 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-c...

Really audacious to include "human reviewers" as an increased "cost" for academic publishers: "Trying to sort wheat from a mountain of chaff has increased costs for publishers, both in terms of technology and human reviewers."

Thank you probably AI account!

In bittersweet news, this will be my last year at KCL - next summer, I will be taking up the Merilees Chair for the Study of Democracy at UBC. I will miss DPE, which has been an incredible intellectual community, and I hope to keep strong ties to London. politics.ubc.ca/news/steven-...

so the entire productivity puzzle is the government undercounting how many people went on holiday?

This would probably land around 3rd on my list for 2026 hot take essays

I think we underestimate how much drudgery there was in the past.

Our academic, Dr Paul Sagar, has received the Britain & Ireland Association for Political Thought's Mid-Career Prize in recognition of the “phenomenal breadth and quality” of his research 👏🏆 @biapt.bsky.social Read more ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/award-r...

Wtf do the government want from us here!? They plainly, *plainly*, do not actually want international students. Their whole line of policy for years has been making it more difficult for such people to come here or stay after they graduate! Why are they also out here encouraging us to attract more!?

very happy to see my paper on why Marx and Engels didn't like to imagine the socialist utopia now published online at Constellations: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dr Paul Sagar was a guest on BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze as panellists were asked the question: 'Is empathy ever a weakness?' 🎧 Listen here ⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Just finished a week of research in Berlin on anti-Nazi resistance networks. Many discoveries but easily the most moving was this: A small paper flower a resistance organiser crafted in Luckau prison and included in a letter to his daughter – 1936

Everyone faces pressure. Pressure comes from employers to work more hours, from societal expectations to lose weight, from the government to leave the country, and from family to have children. My new book considers when pressure invalidates consent, and how we can make consent more voluntary. 1/3

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - A Democratic Theory of Labor Unions - https://cup.org/4bmvRpc "The article defends a vision of economic democracy that arises from the practice of labor unions." - @stevenklein.bsky.social #FirstView

independence day

I regret to inform you that The Odyssey is a very good movie.

RIP empty centrism in Europe

🚨Job Posting🚨 I've received funding for a project on "Rethinking the Anti-Corruption Toolkit" and am hiring a 2-year postdoc (political theory or related) to help. Ideally starting this fall, but can be flexible. For best consideration apply by the end of next week! apply.interfolio.com/188955

Very happy to be joining Loubna El Amine as the new political theory co-editors at Perspectives on Politics. Perspectives has been a vital forum for broad-minded political theory, and we're looking forward to continuing that tradition. Send us work that you're excited about!

🔔 Job alert 🔔 ➡️ AEP Lecturer in Public Policy and Ethics The position is open to anyone with the ability to deliver excellent introductory teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level on policy processes, and ethics and public policy. Apply ⬇️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSC917/a...

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A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

An attack on Humanities and social sciences despite Exeter reporting a recent surplus www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...

The ECB just hiked into an oil price shock, again. In our new paper for the EP Monetary Dialogue, we argue that this needs to stop. 🧵 If inflation is a function of the energy mix (✅) and the energy mix a function of monetary policy (✅), then even a narrow reading of the ECB’s mandate ... 1/

the whole theory of politics at work here — we can co-opt the far-right and box them out of mainstream politics and then reap the political windfall — is a total failure.

right, you don't get credit for your left-leaning actions when the most visible part of your tenure involves you pandering to the far-right at every opportunity

It's weird that the current centrist "why don't people like Starmer despite all his achievements" discourse completely ignores Mandelson and Epstein. Maybe part of the issue is that the labour right had some terrible people in it!

Well, that was fun! We organised the second Graduate Conference on Political Theory last week and it was such a great day. Thank you to all panellists, the senior academics who helped by chairing panels, and to Dr Bernardo Zacka for a most creative and engaging keynote! @kingspoltheory.bsky.social

What is the philosophy of work and democracy that follows from the historic labour movement? In my new article, I develop a democratic defense of labour unions and show how it leads to a distinctive vision of industrial democracy. Forthcoming in the APSR stevenmklein.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

An interesting review of Drochon's Elite and Democracy that also notes the more subtle readings in Piano's recent book on Italian elite theorists americanaffairsjournal.org/2026/05/redi...

NEW ISSUE: Renewal 34.2 Ft. @kirstymcneill.bsky.social, @daimoon.bsky.social, @demofuturist.bsky.social, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @sellottie.bsky.social @anaopp.bsky.social, @dmk1793.bsky.social, Sean McDaniel, John Chowcat, Carla Rocavert, and Hannah McHugh renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

NEW: Can financial markets really make a difference in electoral outcomes? A new paper co-authored by @raphaelcunha.bsky.social examines whether the public’s perception of political candidates can be influenced by the reactions of global financial markets 🌏 More ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/can-fin...