Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ... Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups? Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com: tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf

If you're interested in inequality topics in Science, do not hesitate to submit an abstract to us for the Swiss Sociological Association conference in Fribourg next September

Très heureux d'annoncer la publication de mon livre "De l'opposition au pouvoir. La gauche et ses élus dans les grandes villes suisses (1910-2020)" aux Éditions Alphil-PUS. L'ouvrage est disponible en librairie et en libre accès sur le site de l'éditeur. www.alphil.com/livres/1479-...

Me and @runestahl.bsky.social are hiring a future PhD fellow to study climate and class www.cbs.dk/om-cbs/job-o...

New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies. Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇

Der Zugang zum Zivildienst soll ab 2026 erschwert werden und die Zulassungen um 40 Prozent gesenkt werden. Damit entfällt ein grosser Teil der Leistungen für die Landwirtschaft - beispielsweise für die Pflege von Weiden. Deshalb unterstützen wir das Referendum gegen die Änderung.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Zivildienstleistende erbringen einen unverzichtbaren Beitrag für die #Landwirtschaft. Ohne sie könnten die Arbeiten im Natur- und Landschaftsschutz nicht in gleichem Masse erledigt werden: «Würden die Zivis diese Arbeit nicht mehr machen, würden die Weideflächen verwuchern und irgendwann verwalden.»

NEW - The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - cup.org/44rcdVW - @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Was passiert da gerade? Die Linke, die den #Föderalismus für sich entdeckt – und einige Bürgerliche, die ihn aushölen, indem sie die Kantone & Gemeinden übersteuern? Im Interview mit der @woz.ch durfte ich mit Ayse Turcan ausführlich über die Gegenwart und Zukunft des föderalen Bundesstaats sprechen

NEW - The Gendered Cost of Politics - cup.org/42favop - Frederik Klaaborg Kjøller & @leneholmp.bsky.social "the conjoint experiment reveals that women candidates state stronger preferences for equal working environments in politics than men..." #OpenAccess

In our new article, we are asking how scientists deal with the political dynamics of policy processes that are inherent to policymaking. Thanks to Jule Ksinsik for the great collaboration @jule-k.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Was SRF nicht verstehen will: 1. Es geht nicht um Kritik am „Arbeitgeber“, sondern um politische Entscheidungen, die diskutiert werden sollten – vor allem auch durch SRF-Journalist:innen. Ein „intern“ gibt es bei solchen Fragen, in einer öffentlich-rechtlichen Institution nicht.

With @benzpierre.bsky.social & @araujopedro.bsky.social we just published a small preliminary paper showing the role of research topics in securing careers and funding in Swiss sociology, showing that those who obtain advanced grants tend to align with quant methods serval.unil.ch/resource/ser...

Très heureux d'avoir été l'invité ce matin de Julien Magnollay dans l'émission Tribu pour parler d'un papier écrit avec André Mach et @micastre.bsky.social dans la revue Social Change et de ma thèse sur la gauche urbaine @obelitessuisses.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...

New article accepted at CPS. @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I analyze how rental market risk affects radical right support. Combining data on local rent increases with the SOEP, we find that individuals facing increasing local rents become more likely to support the AfD. 🧵

Was bringt die zweite Trump-Administration? Und was hält die US-Demokratie aus? Gerade in Europa sollte es unserer Meinung nach weiterhin die Zeit sein, Fragen zu stellen > vorschnell zu analysieren, schreiben @istad.bsky.social, @jschmd.bsky.social & ich @republik.ch www.republik.ch/2024/11/21/w...

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 Our paper about public service deprivation and far right support with @paularettl.bsky.social @marcocappelluti.bsky.social @catherinedevries.bsky.social is forthcoming at @ajpseditor.bsky.social! 🎉 👉 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... #polisky

CHES party positions are now also available for Canada! Thank you @rdassonneville.bsky.social and @chesdata.bsky.social for a great collaboration. See 🧵 below for more!

You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇. t.co/aJ0SOwyCge

New Publication at West European politics! In this paper, I analyze cohort differences in consideration sets: Do newer generations *consider* voting for more and different parties than earlier generations? Spoiler alert: Yes to both! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now in APSR: What do politicians think about their voters? Fielding face-to-face surveys to 982 sitting politicians in 11 countries, and accompanying surveys of 12,000 citizens, we find that politicians have remarkably consistent - and cynical - theories of voters: /1 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Happy book publication day—thrilled that our HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS is now officially published! It features 31 chapters authored by 50+ leading authorities. We hope that it will contribute to the (re-)emergent study of institutions, a founding pillar of polisky econsky

Ja ein Pinocchio-Bild...es gibt nämlich einen neuen Kommunikationstrend in diesem bürgerlich dominierten #Bundesrat: a) Unliebsame #Republik-Recherchen als Fake News zu verunglimpfen. Und b) anschliessend von etwas völlig Anderem-Sachfremdem zu reden. Also: Ablenkung. republik.ch/2024/10/03/l...

#OpenAccess - When Group Appeals Backfire: Explaining the Asymmetric Effects of Place-Based Appeals - cup.org/4dqOrdS - @lhaffert.bsky.social, Tabea Palmtag & @dschraff.bsky.social #FirstView

🧐Do you teach comparative politics? ❓Do your students sometimes struggle to find the right data for their projects? If so, my chapter might be what you need! It offers a collaboratively curated collection of data sets specifically tailored for the study of political institutions polisky

Karl Loxbo's study advances our understanding of radical right parties, demonstrating that their local establishment shape public opinion from the grassroots level, independently of demographic developments, external crises, & even national RRP leaders themselves. doi.org/10.1080/0140... #polisky

Online first @spsr.bsky.social: Our new article "The Impact of Institutional and Financial Constraints on Party Behaviour in Local Politics" (w/ @donyhu.bsky.social @sebastianjblock.bsky.social @jvelimsky.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #polisky /1

Bis in die 1950er Jahre dominierten Arbeiter:innen in der städtischen Linken. Wie hat sich seither das Profil der linken Volksvertreter:innen in den vier grössten Schweizer Städten verändert? Das untersuchten Baptiste Antoniazza, André Mach, @micastre.bsky.social. www.defacto.expert/2024/06/19/d...

What should legitimate processes of international law- and policy-making among democratic peoples look like? A talk by Francis Cheneval on "Demoicratic Representation in and by International Organizations" April 25, 15:00, Uni. of Copenhagen, City Campus politicalscience.ku.dk/events/demoi...

Arjan H. Schakel & Alexander Verdoes analyse 41,603 vote share swings in 2,665 regional elections in Western Europe. 👉executive autonomy reduces second-order election effects when regional authority is high, but increases SOE-effects when authority is low. doi.org/10.1080/0140... Polisky

Polisky 🎉 New DFG-project "Independent Local Lists between Challenger and Mainstream Actors in Local Politics" incoming w/ @christinajuen.bsky.social & Michael Jankowski! We'll analyse the impact of ILL on several factors: 1️⃣their impact on local party systems

Ppl say that there is no such thing as political earthquakes in Switzerland, but today there is: For the 1st time ever, the Swiss are about to accept a popular initiative from the left that *expands* the welfare state Live update @leewas.bsky.social abstimmungen.tagesanzeiger.ch/2024-03-03 polisky

✨Neu in der PVS: Ich durfte das neue Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation rezensieren, herausgegeben von Frédéric Varone, Steve Jacob und @pbundi.bsky.social. Das Handbuch ist ein echter #MustRead für Public Policy Scholars! U.a. mit C. Schlaufer, @evathomann.bsky.social, J. Tosun, E. Lieberherr.

Föderalismus, Föderalismus, Föderalismus... Aber wehe, Gemeinden und Städte wollen Tempo 30 auf sogenannten Hauptstrassen einführen, die mitten durch Wohnquartiere gehen. Dann ist fertig mit «diejenigen sollen bestimmen, die direkt betroffen sind». www.tagesanzeiger.ch/verkehr-bund...

Taxing the rich has nearly no impact on business, mainly because the rich do not move. www.nber.org/papers/w32153

I'm hiring a postdoc! > Aug 2024 - July 2027 > PhD completed or close to completion > Interest in digital technology & politics > Causal inference and/or computational social science > Salary: CHF 81,400/yr Pls help me spread the word! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

I’m very excited to announce the CFP for a new special issue on ’Families and Wealth’ for the British Journal of Sociology that we are co-editing with Katie Higgins and Céline Bessière. Please check the call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Wenn ich all mein Sackgeld für Schläckzüg ausgegeben habe aber dann trotzdem noch die Lego-Burg will

We are planning the first WhoGov Workshop to be held in Oslo on the 29-30th of August 2024. We welcome all research using WhoGov in some capacity and we have funding to cover travel expenses for participants. Find the call for papers through the link or use the QR code: bit.ly/WhoGov_Workshop

To most, that price tag probably sounds absurd. But "in the minds of many, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale are analogous to Louis Vuitton, Ferrari, and Hermès." That's what these parents are buying for their kids--a luxury brand. (www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...)

We have been collecting a lot of data on evolving public opinion on international cooperation in the DISINTEGRATION project. Some of this data is now publicly available for download in the SWISSUbase repository. Check it out!

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with me for 2 years at the Harvard Kennedy School thnx to generous funding from the Bloomberg Center for Cities. Official job posting is up now! Please tell anyone you know who might be interested to apply #psjminfo cities.harvard.edu/postdoctoral...

Join us! 👉 Associate Professor, open to all fields & methodological approaches in comparative politics 🌟 Permanent position, 50/50 research/teaching 🇳🇴 Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen ♀️ Female candidates especially encouraged to apply ⏳ 28 February 🔗 tinyurl.com/2f8v5sh3

It's not (just) the backwaters: populism may thrive in (some) European urban centres, too. @ECPR_TheLoop https://theloop.ecpr.eu/the-geography-of-european-populism-unveiling-nuances-beyond-stereotypes/

*** Assistant Professorship in Political Communication with Tenure Track *** Our department (IKMZ - University of Zurich) is hiring! More info: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... Thank you for spreading the word and/or applying!

🌟 New article 👥 Michael A. Strebel micastre.bsky.social & Arjan H. Schakel 👉 When do subnational jurisdictional mergers impact voting? 📗 Political Geography 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.po...