🚨 Don't miss our next online Family Policy seminar with the wonderful @keonhison.bsky.social on Wednesday (17th), 4:30 pm: "Hidden work-family challenges in the global south: a systematic review of causes, consequences, and policy responses." 👉More about it here: www.sciencespo.fr/liepp/fr/eve...

An underrated reason for the persistence of cousin marriages: high fertility maintains a large supply of cousins. Could (help) explain why Pakistan’s first-cousin marriage rate is 50%!!! versus India and Bangladesh <10%.

Tradwives aren’t trad

Another year of great success and company at the ESPAnet Annual Conference 👏🏼 already looking forward to the next one 🫰🏼 @keonhison.bsky.social Andrew Zola & @janhelmdag.bsky.social in the pics from their final session

What do fathers really want for Father's Day? How about a national policy that provides paid leave to all fathers! Check out my newly released Big Ideas Talk courtesy of @wfrn.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iloV...

South Korea gender divide update 😲 Young men lean right by 50 points (74% conservative vs 24% centre-left) Young women lean left by 22 points (58% centre-left vs 36% cons)

(3) "The Origin of Social Policy for Women Workers: The Emergence of Paid Maternity Leave in Western Countries" by Keonhi Son @keonhison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

@haukelicht.bsky.social and I have exciting news! Our joint project „Group Appeals in Parliamentary and Electoral Debates“ has been approved for funding by the DFG and the FWF! The project will start on Feb 1, 2026 and we’ll be hiring: 📍Pre-doc (Mannheim) 📍Post-doc (Innsbruck) Stay tuned for calls!

Do events abroad reshape national discourse? 🌍 @nbuhmann-holmes.bsky.social study Danish parliamentary debates before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall 🧱 📊 Both liberal & socialist parties upped market-friendly language ✅ Liberals to seize momentum, the left to maintain legitimacy after 1989 👇

@cassandraengeman.bsky.social, PhD in Sociology, has been appointed Associate Professor (docent) at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. www.su.se/swedish-inst...

At InFER we are regularly visited by leading scholars presenting their latest research. This summer semester we already had the pleasure of welcoming Lucio Baccaro (Max-Planck-Institute) and Jan Jonsson (University of Oxford). See our upcoming events and feel free to join us!

Very happy to see this article with #AlexSchilin out open access in #WestEuropeanPolitics www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/2

The first paper of my dissertation has been published in West European Politics! @wepsocial.bsky.social See the thread below:

🧾 Gender meets taxation Laura Seelkopf (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) brings together two rarely connected topics, gender and taxation, to explore overlooked puzzles and lessons for political economy research 👇

Excited to share our new article published in @spsr.bsky.social! We compiled Swiss municipality-level direct-democratic vote results from 1866 to 1944 through extensive archival work and filled some gaps in existing datasets up to 2023. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Our current Scholar in Residence Matthias Thiemann @sciencespo.bsky.social will give his first of three public lectures at the Institute tomorrow at 16:30. The lecture series will focus on shadow banking - the generation and trading of credit outside of the banking system.

📣 Neu von @sarahwagner.bsky.social und @wurthmann.bsky.social 📘 Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht - Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit (BSW). Eine politikwissenschaftliche Einordnung. Entstehung, Entwicklung, Positionierung und vieles mehr. 👇 #OpenAccess 😀 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Union und SPD planen eine Prämie für Teilzeitbeschäftigte, die ihre Arbeitszeit ausweiten. Das könnte vor allem Frauen mit Minijobs dazu bringen, mehr zu arbeiten.

The Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis now invites proposals for special issues! 📈3.9 (2023) Impact Factor/Q1 ⏰ Call open until 30 April 2025 All info on how to submit proposals can be found here: files.taylorandfrancis.com/jcpa-si-prop... @jcpascpa.bsky.social

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨 Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

Still a few days left to apply for my GESIS Training Workshop "Advanced Bayesian Statistical Modeling". Check out the course description below and feel free to get in touch if you have any questions ⬇️

❗ Reminder: Apply now for a fellowship at the MZES, University of Mannheim! 📅 Deadline: 26 April ❗ Please note the updated link 😊👇🏻 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...

Come join us in Mannheim as Professor for Survey Methodology! ✨ #academicsky #polisci www.uni-mannheim.de/media/Univer...

Come be my colleague in one of the best post-doc positions in German academia (imo)! Lovely people, excellent infrastructure, great conditions. Feel free to contact me for questions. #polisky #polscijobs

Please share! Guillem Verd Llabrés, Emanuele Ferragina, and I are organizing a stream at #ESPaNET, The Historical Political Economy of the Welfare State. We invite contributions on how welfare institutions adapted to economic shocks, war, and demographic shifts in the 20th and 21st centuries.

🚨🚨New Publication🚨🚨🥳 🗳 How does serving as a poll officer influence future turnout, particularly among women? In a recent article at @bjpols.bsky.social with @tonirodon.bsky.social, we explore this question. 🧵

Our article 'Gender inequality and occupational segregation in white-collar jobs in the early “quiet revolution”: new evidence from the wages of Swedish teachers (c. 1890)' has been converted into Open Access! See: doi.org/10.1093/ereh.... See the summary below by the EHES!

📢🆕 In LGS Journal: In their article on day care & economic hardship, @marcdebus.bsky.social @keonhison.bsky.social & @sarahwagner.bsky.social find that the number of full-time day care spots for children per capita in cities that face economic hardship is significantly lower. doi.org/10.1080/0300...

📣NEW PUBLICATION As a Korean who grew up in a low-income area in the 90s, I've long wondered why the gap between welfare laws and practice is rarely discussed. doi.org/10.1177/1468...

We are very happy to publish the "National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

NEW - Choosing Women: Party elites’ preferences in the candidate selection process - cup.org/3DwdqRd - @malugatto.bsky.social & Marco Radojevic #OpenAccess

In a contribution to @lgstudies.bsky.social, @keonhison.bsky.social, @sarahwagner.bsky.social and I find that the nr of full day care spots for children in German cities is lower in case of economic hardship. This effect gets stronger if the mayor belongs to a left-wing party shorturl.at/p8YUK 1/3

The results are based on a newly compiled data set that covers information on the annual number of children in full-time day care places in 108 German cities over a time span of 15 years. The data further covers information on the economic and political context of a city. 2/3

I started this project three years ago when unsuccessfully begging for a full day care spot for my daughter. If you were searching for people close to becoming “Wutbürger”, you just had to visit playing grounds in Mannheim and talk to the frustrated parents. 3/3

On average, female politicians do not respond more closely to specific preferences of female voters than male politicians. Yet, on social and redistributive policies female legislators are more responsive to female voters’ preferences than male legislators www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In these dark times of racially charged election campaigns, the German left offers a flicker of hope | Fatma Aydemir

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

📢 New #PAG20 Book Review 📚 @angietorres.bsky.social reviews "The Suffragist Peace: How Women Shape the Politics of War" by Robert Trager & Joslyn Barnhart. The book employs historical case studies to connect women's votes to their nations' foreign policy. buff.ly/4gLhbQf

I am opening a postdoc position connected to the FamilyMacro research project at the LSE. This is a one-year position that could be extended for two more years. If interested, please contact me! #EconSky @cfmuk.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Today, my alma mater @unibern.bsky.social honors the 150th anniversary of Anna Tumarkin. Tumarkin was *the world's first* full female professor. She taught philosophy with an emphasis on aesthetics in Bern for 45 years. Honored to be part of the ceremony cc @heikespecht.bsky.social academicsky

New paper with @ankuepfer.bsky.social accepted at EJPR🎉 When do MPs debate each other & when do they avoid discourse? Applying a new framework to study the emergence of elite discourse, we find that ideology and gov/opp dynamics shape MPs incentives to seek & avoid dialogical interactions. #polisky

This is an amazing opportunity to work with excellent collaborators on absolutely crucial work!

Levitsky and Way on competitive authoritarianism in the US. Excellent read www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

New publication alert! @paytongannon.bsky.social and I write about the importance of trustworthy, timely data on abortion in the case of Italy, but this dynamic plays out around the world. Citizens need to be able to hold public bureaucracies accountable! Read more in @revdem2020.bsky.social!

This is one of the highlights of the summer. Great place, great group, great discussions.....

New Article, open access! doi.org/10.1177/0951...

The deadline for our workshop in economic history with Elias Papaioannou as keynote speaker is approaching fast, make sure to apply!

🚨PUBLICATION ALERT The #SpanishFlu was one of the deadliest pandemics in history. How did it affect elections in the Weimar Republic? w/ Matthias Blum, Christoph Koenig & @hornungerik.bsky.social @econtribute.bsky.social Now published in Explorations in Economic History: doi.org/10.1016/j.ee...