Research

Publications

[7] Why Is It So Hard To Counteract Wealth Inequality? Evidence from the United Kingdom. 2025. World Politics 77 no. 3: 515-561 (with Ben Ansell, Laure Bokobza, Asli Cansunar, Matthias Haslberger, Jacob Nyrup)_{[Preprint][Paper] [Replication material]}

[6] Estimating Public Opinion from Surveys: The Impact of Including a “Don’t Know” Response Option in Policy Preference Questions. 2025. Political Science Research and Methods 13, no. 3: 663 – 679 (with Christopher Wlezien)_{[Paper (open access)] [Replication material]}

[5] Economic Inequality and Political Responsiveness: A Systematic Review. 2024. Perspectives on Politics 22, no. 2: 318-337. (with Michael Baggesen Klitgaard) _{[Paper (open access)][Replication material]}

[4] The Democratic State and Redistribution: Whose Interests Are Served? 2023. American Political Science Review 117, no. 2: 391 – 406 (with Torben Iversen)_{[Preprint][Paper][Replication material]}

[3] Social Distancing, Politics, and Wealth. 2021. West European Politics 44, nos. 5–6: 1283–1313 (with Ben Ansell and Asli Cansunar) _{[Paper (open access)][Replication material]}

[2] What Drives Unequal Policy Responsiveness? Assessing the Role of Informational Asymmetries in Economic Policy-Making. 2020. Comparative Political Studies 53, no. 14: 2213-2245  _{[Preprint] [Paper][Replication material]}

[1] The Political Representation of Economic Interests: Subversion of Democracy or Middle-Class Supremacy? 2020. World Politics 72, no. 2: 254-290 (with Torben Iversen) _{[Preprint] [Paper][Replication material]}

Book Chapters

[1] Democracy, Class Interests, and Redistribution: What Do the Data Say? (with Torben Iversen) in Unequal Democracies: Public Policy, Responsiveness, and Redistribution in an Era of Rising Economic Inequality Ed. Noam Lupu and Jonas Pontussen. 2023. Cambridge University Press _{[Link to book (open access)]}

Working Papers

Democratic Compensation or Winner-Take-All Domination? The Distributional Effects of Tax-and-Transfer Policies in 21st Century Europe (with Fabian Mushövel) _{[Link to paper](Invited to revise and resubmit, World Politics)}

Tax Exposure and Political Preferences (with Ben Ansell and Asli Cansunar)_{[Link to paper](Invited to revise and resubmit, Socio-Economic Review)}

Homeownership and Political Efficacy: How Housing Wealth
Shapes Whether People Feel Heard (with Ben Ansell and Matthias Haslberger)_{(Invited to revise and resubmit, West European Politics)}

Wealth Tax Preferences in an Age of Inequality: The Role of Housing and Information (with Ben Ansell and Matthias Haslberger) _{[Link to paper] (Under review)}

“Don’t Know” Responses and Preference Gaps: An Assessment Using the Gilens Dataset (with Christopher Wlezien)_{[Link to paper](Under review)}

Risk of Poverty and Redistribution to the Poor (with Fabian Mushövel)

Datasets

WEALTHPOL Inheritance Tax Dataset (with Ben Ansell and Laure Bokobza) _{[Link to dataset]}

The dataset collects information about inheritance tax rates for inheritances of various multiples of GDP per capita, the number of brackets, and the exemption threshold for nineteen countries from 1945 to 2019. The data was collected, where possible, from primary sources in the country’s language.

Book Project

Representation at Risk? Economic Inequality and Political Representation in Comparative Perspective

Book Reviews

Adam Przeworski: Crises of Democracy. Cambridge 2019: Cambridge University Press, 239 pp. Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review, 2021, Vol. 57, No. 3 _{[Link to review]}

Charlotte Cavaillé: Fair Enough? Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality Cambridge 2023: Cambridge University Press, 276 pp. Political Science Quarterly _{[Link to review]}

Other Writings

Do Democracies Compensate Lower-Income Groups for Rising Market Inequality? Essay for the APSA Democracy and Autocracy Newsletter, Vol. 22(3), December 2024 _{[Link to essay]}

Elitedominans eller middelklassens triumf? Om organiserede særinteresser og politisk responsivitet. Essay in Danish for the Danish Power Inquiry 2.0. (with Michael Baggesen Klitgaard) _{[Link to essay]}

Økonomisk ulighed og politisk repræsentation. Essay in Danish for the Danish Power Inquiry 2.0. (with Michael Baggesen Klitgaard) _{[Link to essay]}