we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt - a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage - 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

really cool project, can't wait for all the papers coming out!

What an honor! @na-wehl.bsky.social & I received the ALLBUS Preis 2025 for our paper "How education policies shape political inequality: analyzing policy feedback effects in Germany"! 🥳🥳 Thanks a lot to the jury & a very kind laudatio by Markus Tausendpfund @gesis.org Mannheim!

Find the full paper here: doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Congrats @sgarritzmann.bsky.social & @na-wehl.bsky.social, well deserved for a really cool paper @cpsjournal.bsky.social!

The second comment, by @garritzmannj.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, and @bpalier.bsky.social unfolds a (possible) critique of the idea of a unified, paradigmatic concept of social investment as such! doi.org/10.1177/0001...

Im Rahmen unserer Forschungswerkstatt bieten wir im Wintersemester 2025/26 wieder ein spannendes Programm zu verschiedenen Themen an. Wie immer gilt: alle sind herzlich willkommen!

*Call for Applications* We’re excited to announce the Fourth Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy! Abstract Deadline: December 1, 2025 Link to the conference website: www.mpifg.de/1432364/2026... Please share widely! @mpifg.bsky.social

I very much look forward to presenting my new book project in #Milano tomorrow at the #EPRA Hub! Please join if you are around! Thanks for inviting me, Paola Mattei, and for chairing, Maurizio Ferrera!

T. Sprang. “Radical Weakness-Do Radical Parties Receive Fewer Ministries?” In: Comparative Political Studies online first (2025), pp. 1-38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00104140251349670.

One of my best (former) MA students, ever 👇

3/ @garritzmannj.bsky.social analyzes the past, present & future of educational conflict, arguing the uniqueness of today’s divide is the breadth of the groups it sets in conflict, its links to group identities, and its spillover into almost all political conflicts. bsky.app/profile/garr...

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social! Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan: 🧵⬇️

More jobs: Senior lecturer for "Foundations of Political Science" jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

We're hiring! 📢 Senior Lecturer in ‘Quantitative Methods and the Political System of Austria’ for 23 hours per week The position is to be filled from September 1, 2026, and is limited until August 31, 2030 Deadline: 27 October 2025 More details: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Wer ihn im Kino verpasst hat, kann jetzt "Die Unbeugsamen" @3sat.bluesky.com.de nachholen. Ein Lehrstück über den jahrzehntelangen Kampf um Emanzipation in der Politik, mit grandiosem Archivmaterial.

Hi bsky people - if you care about how the EU seeks to fund all things "social-ecological transformation", which institutional architecture has emerged out of it, and why it is both contested and an unrealized promise: please have a look at our special issue on the politics of sustainable finance 👇

📣 New call for postdoctoral researchers! We are seeking candidates with a doctorate in the social sciences for our research areas Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro) and Economic Sociology (Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert). Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/ySJx5p

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🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

The week ends with excellent news: the @dfg.de grants the renewal of our research group #RISS "Reconfiguration and Internalization of Social Structure" for a second funding phase! Thus, more fascinating research ongoing & more jobs opening up at @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social!

Thank you to all who joined us in Cologne this week for the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! A fantastic line-up of speakers and participants, thoughtful discussions and global perspectives. Huge thanks to organizers @palmapolyak.bsky.social and @dustinvoss.bsky.social!

I'm super happy & proud to be able to work with this rock star group of a team (and academic guests)! 🧠🧠🧠💫🙏 @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social - and it's really nice to check out parts of Frankfurt that I hadn't been to as part of our team event

Amen to that

"Social investments, in contrast, are usually still treated as one big box and as one supposedly coherent policy approach, which defies the complexity of reality and renders discussions unproductive"

here's the 30-second version: There's 9 types of social investment - each has their own political dynamics, different normative underpinnings, & different consequences. By talking about social investment in the singular we risk comparing 🍎 and 🍊!

Can we have 8 min of your time please? @siljahausermann.bsky.social @bpalier.bsky.social & I wrote a very brief reflection on why social investment might be a misleading paradigm. Way forward: please distinguish different types of social investments! More here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

had a really good time at last week's DVPW Political Economy section meeting in @unimainz.bsky.social @ipp-jgu.bsky.social! Many thanks to the organizers & hosts: @bjoernbremer.bsky.social @leaelsaesser.bsky.social @thomasrixen.bsky.social @claraweinhardt.bsky.social

very much looking forward to this semester's Comparative Politics Speaker Series @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social with Valerie Sticher, @rsenninger.bsky.social, Nona von Uexkull, & Leonce Röth. Join us!

2 more days to apply for this 5-year research-focused postdoc position in my @erc.europa.eu team at @goetheuni.bsky.social on the politics of the educational cleavage!

🚨 Job! 🚨 Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived). Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655 Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

does anyone have a good recommendation for a software/surface for teams to work in? Ideally for communication AND sharing files AND writing text / code. #Slack and #Notion come the closest to what I have in mind - any other ideas? (any good freeware?)

Call for applications open until September 15!

Great 5(!)-year postdoc position in FFM!

1.6 million people showed no statistical increase in 29 adverse events after mRNA covid vax jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #MedSky

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

More job ops 👇

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

😎 No. 5 in Google Scholar Metrics 🙏 A big thank you goes to our authors, reviewers, and readers! 🔗 scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

This is such a great new piece of research by @curdknupfer.bsky.social et al. It should be mandatory reading for journalists. academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...

Guten Morgen deutsche Medien: Diese Studie zeigt: a) dass die AfD unverhältnismäßige mediale Aufmerksamkeit erhält (=mehr als ihre elektorale Größe suggerieren könnte). b) dass diese Aufmerksamkeit mit der strategischen Störung des politischen Prozesses durch die AfD an sich zusammenhängt.

🚨 We're hiring! Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment. Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊 www.gesis.org/en/institute...

📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

Drawing with the kids

Die Sparpolitik der Hessischen Landesregierung der CDU & @spdde.bsky.social zeigt erste Konsequenzen: Die Frankfurt U of Applied Sciences stellt 2 (ingenieurswissenschaftliche) Studiengänge ein. Weitere werden sicherlich folgen. www.frankfurt-university.de/de/news/n-fr... @goetheuni.bsky.social

❗The segmentation of the right field is eroding, especially among young voters❗ New article out by @simonbornschier.bsky.social @dpzollinger.bsky.social @mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself @ipz.bsky.social ‬ @wepsocial.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj A short 🧵 1/7