🥁 New paper in BJPS @bjpols.bsky.social 🥁 While there has been a lot of great research on how technological change shapes social policy preferences, I argue with Patrick Emmenegger and @ndurazzi.bsky.social that this literature is missing an important link: the role of skills, notably dual VET.

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026! Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅Apply by 29 April 2026 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

🚨CfP ESPAnet Italia 2026 Conference (Rome, 9-11 September 2026) Dario Guarascio and I will chair Session 6 “The return of industrial policy in a turbulent world” 🏭📈 We invite you to submit an abstract (500–800 words) by April 25 👇 www.espanet-italia.net/index.php/ca...

🆕 Who Supports the Energy Transition? ⚡🌍 Marcello Natili, Alessandro Pellegata of @ecprpovb.bsky.social & Francesco Visconti look at the 2022 #EnergyCrisis, to find that support for renewables rose when paired with social compensation but deep class and ideological divides remain ⚖️

Our @jeppjournal.bsky.social special issue is now in print. A great collaborative effort on public opinion in welfare states—many thanks to everyone involved.

Mozzana e Polizzi ricostruiscono l’emergere del welfare di #comunità e ne analizzano ambivalenze, potenzialità e rischi. Una guida alla lettura del focus, che illustra come questo paradigma stia ridefinendo governance, pratiche professionali e diritti sociali. 👇 www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.7389/...

65.1🦋 What issues matter most to #Voters? 😬 @gefjonoff.bsky.social & @fedetrastulli.bsky.social study 6 European countries to find that different groups prioritise different issues. But are issue importance and personal attitudes driven by the same factors? 🧭🗳️

📢 È online il n. 2/2025 di Politiche Sociali/Social Policies! Il focus di questo numero - curato da Carlotta Mozzana e Emanuele Polizzi - si intitola "Welfare di chi? Il #welfare di #comunità tra pratiche, discorsi e istituzioni". 🔗https://rivisteweb.it/issn/2284-2098/issue/9957

Just out in @wepsocial.bsky.social: how housing wealth shapes whether people feel heard. Together with @madselk.bsky.social and @benansell.bsky.social, I looked at a neglected determinant of political efficacy: homeownership. Read the #OA paper: doi.org/10.1080/0140... Quick overview below (1/5)

📢 We’re hiring @vuamsterdam.bsky.social PhD position in my ERC project: Welfare State Transformation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Interested in how AI is reshaping labor markets, social protection, and the politics of redistribution? Apply here: lnkd.in/eCcAXsaS Please share widely!

🐎 Which horse should left parties bet on: economic equality or equal rights? 💡 @alexanderhorn.bsky.social, Carsten Jensen & @dweisstanner.bsky.social find that the centre-left wins votes when it does both, while the postmaterialist left gains with equal rights 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Amazing workshop on the Politics of AI with wonderful people at Nuffield! Such a priviledge Thank you @mhaslberger.bsky.social @benansell.bsky.social for the warm hospitality!

I'm excited to share the schedule for the Politics of AI workshop I have the pleasure of co-hosting together with @benansell.bsky.social at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social next week. Link: matthiashaslberger.github.io/ai/

Very interesting and surprising results: the left cannot downplay contestation on cultural issues; socdem and radical left are two significantly different things Great work! #OA

Early policy action doesn’t depend on mass automation 🤖 "The implications for policy would be profoundly different—requiring us to focus less on job numbers and more on ensuring that technological change enhances rather than diminishes the quality of working life." 🧵🔗

📚 In their intro to the Special Issue “Public Opinion and the Welfare State: Sources, Processes, and Consequences”, @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social, Zhen Jie Im, Maria Grasso, and Franco Bonomi Bezzo review how attitudes toward the welfare state form and evolve 👇 🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Il 29 ottobre h13 all'Energy Center nuovo #Theseus colloquium sul tema della Space Displomacy! @francesconicoli.bsky.social

New review paper by @francesconicoli.bsky.social & myself in @globalsociety.bsky.social! We explore how Industry 4.0 (IoT, AM, GAI) may affect future socio-economic patterns 🌱 Green transition 👷 Labour transformation 🌍 Production reshoring ⚖️ Market concentration www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mercoledì 17/9 a #Espanet2025 (Torino) abbiamo presentato il numero 3/2024 di @politichesociali.bsky.social: “Addio #welfare all’italiana? Mutamento e resistenze tra investimento e protezione sociale” Plenaria molto partecipata: grazie a tutte e tutti! 🙌 📸 Qualche momento dalla sessione ⬇️

"In the short term, questions of politics and polity will be more important to protect liberal democracy from the far right. But economic and social policies will play an important role in shaping the conditions for far-right party support in the long run." 👇

📊 @mhaslberger.bsky.social, Jane Gingrich, and Jasmine Bhatia explore how exposure to AI shapes social policy preferences in a UK survey experiment. 💡 Their key finding: when faced with AI, people want support, not just protection 🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

☀️ Vol 17.3 Nicolas Bicchi & Javier Arregui look at five major datasets 📊 to review what interview-based studies has uncovered about how the #CounciloftheEU 🇪🇺 make decisions. Is the future of expert interviews up for debate? 🤷 buff.ly/LO0Gxlr 📖#OA

📢 È online il n. 1/2025 di Politiche Sociali/Social Policies! Il focus di questo numero - curato da David Benassi e Andrea Ciarini - si intitola "Regimi di povertà territoriali. Specificità locali, modelli e analisi". 🔗https://www.rivisteweb.it/issn/2284-2098/issue/9822

Benvenute e benvenuti nel nuovo canale social di Politiche Sociali/Social Policies! Abbiamo deciso di continuare a condividere qui con lettrici e lettori aggiornamenti, articoli e iniziative della rivista.

Do Italian parties care about digitalization—and how do they frame it? In new #OA paper on Contemporary Italian Politics, Edoardo Bressanelli, Stefano Sacchi, Dario Pio Muccilli and I find a sharp rise in issue salience over the past decade, with marked ideological divides 🧵🔗👇

Rearmament challenges modern welfare states, pitting military vs. social spending. In our new #OA article in @jeppjournal.bsky.social, Stefano Sacchi, Caroline de la Porte and I show that citizens prioritize the welfare state—though important divisions emerge www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Oggi sul @mm-corriere-bot.bsky.social un articolo di Maurizio Ferrera e Stefano Sacchi sul dilemma tra riarmo e spesa sociale. In coda, due brevi approfondimenti sull’opinione pubblica, basati su dati dei progetti SCOaPP e Solid, a cura mia e di Davide Caprioglio 🧵

📢 CfP ESPAnet Italia is open until June 15! Don’t miss 👉 🔹 S17 – New takes on the triple transition by early-career researchers 🔹 S29 – Labour market transformations: production, inequality & politics 🔗 www.espanet-italia.net/index.php/ca... @francesconicoli.bsky.social

SISP 2025 Last few days to apply! Deadline next Sunday, May 25 @ndurazzi.bsky.social @simonetonelli.bsky.social

🚨CfP Political Science🤖 @ndurazzi.bsky.social @simonetonelli.bsky.social and I will chair a panel (11.3) on the political economy of tech change at the 2025 SISP Conference (Naples, 4-6 Sept): www.sisp.it/en/conferenc... We invite you to submit an abstract by May 25. See you in Naples!

Automation ‘losers’ prefer the radical right, but have they become more authoritarian? In a new panel-data study published on @polstudies.bsky.social @francesconicoli.bsky.social Stefano Sacchi and I show poor ideological shifts among most replaceable workers 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Short blog post on Sociology Lens about the relation between labour automation and precariousness, based on my recent paper in the International Journal of Social Welfare #automation #labour #precariousness www.sociologylens.net/article-type...

#OpenAccess in the International Journal of Social Welfare my new paper on the relation between labour automation and segmentation 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #automation #segmentation #labour #precariousness

🗣️ we have a new paper and new dataset just out on the transition to the knowledge economy in advanced democracies - both OA, available here academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... and here www.knowledge-economy-index.com

Just a few days left to send your session proposal to #ESPAnet Italia Conference 2025! Deadline on March 10

📣 Call for Panel XVIII ESPAnet Italy Conference 2025 Join us at the Polytechnic University of Turin (Sept 16-18 2025) to discuss social policy in a world in transition: technology, climate, & demographic change. Submit your session proposal by March 10, 2025! www.espanet-italia.net/index.php/ca...

How does the perception of structural economic changes affect public opinion's support for EU unemployment insurance plans? New paper (open access!) out on #EPSR