Research archive
Essays and video analysis organized chronologically, with original publication dates, subjects, abstracts, and sources.
The essay that introduced the term ethnoliberalism. Stopl argues that opposition to mass asylum immigration is no longer confined to the right but is becoming a mainstream European position, one that requires abandoning no other liberal commitment.
A comparative look at how Poland and the Czech Republic are managing their first large immigration waves, measured against Western Europe's earlier mistakes. Working from employment and welfare-cost data, Stopl draws out which policy choices make immigration function and which make it fail.
A corrective to popular alarmism about demographic collapse. Stopl works through why very low fertility reshapes societies without driving populations toward literal extinction, separating the real consequences of aging from the exaggerated ones.
An analysis of how Denmark pairs a strong welfare state with strict immigration control, a synthesis Stopl frames as social democratic ethnoliberalism. He weighs whether the model can transfer to countries whose political coalitions make it harder to adopt.
Stopl uses the term the human waves economy for the way Western economies have come to rely on continuous immigration to offset demographic decline, drawing on new arrivals to sustain aging workforces, pension systems, and public finances.
Stopl argues that population decline reshapes inequality from the ground up. As families shrink, inherited wealth is divided among fewer heirs with each generation, so inherited advantage concentrates rather than disperses, quietly reordering who gets ahead in a low-fertility society.
His most widely viewed analysis. Working from age structure, fertility, and migration data, Stopl argues that large-scale remigration collides with demographic and political reality.