What explains citizens’ demand for increased government spending and lower taxes simultaneously? Read about an original survey in Norway in the article Why Some Want Something for Nothing: Three Explanations for Unfunded Spending Demand, doi.org/10.1111/1467....

Starting the new year with a new #openaccess #publication! In our article, we explore why citizens oppose taxes while simultaneously demanding more redistributive social policies, aka want "something for nothing". @olivierjacques.bsky.social @staffankumlin.bsky.social @dweisstanner.bsky.social

Latest @thehousemag.bsky.social column, on the politics of pints. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Looking forward to the GREC workshop @sspunil.bsky.social @forsresearch.bsky.social @matthiasenggist.bsky.social @eliemichel.bsky.social @anketresch.bsky.social @dweisstanner.bsky.social @pauluswagner.bsky.social @klaudiakoxha.bsky.social @philiprathgeb.bsky.social @lukaslauener.bsky.social

#OpenAccess from July 2025 - The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - cup.org/44rcdVW "politicians drinking beer in a pub appeal particularly to radical right working-class voters" - @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social#OpenAccess

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.

Really happy to see my work with @dweisstanner.bsky.social published with @bjpols.bsky.social. In this letter, we look at symbolic class signalling through cultural consumption and how effective it is across voters of different parties. A thread 👇 (1/n) #OpenAccess - cup.org/3GSCIKV

"We argue that symbolic class signalling has gained in importance due to the political realignment along the cultural dimension, and we expect radical right parties to benefit most from it" - @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social Read #OpenAccess - cup.org/3GSCIKV

Ah, this is such a great paper, and such a good home.

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

CPDS update 1960-2023 is online 🤓 👇/with @dweisstanner.bsky.social @lucasleemann.bsky.social @klarabruhn.bsky.social

🚨 Newest Comparative Political Data Set released!🚨 Updated until 2023 Available here 👉cpds-data.org/data @leuphana.bsky.social @uniluzern.bsky.social @ipz.bsky.social

🚀 PhD position at @uniluzern.bsky.social in my @snsf-ch.bsky.social-funded project "Party politics and the politicization of health care" 📅 Start in October 2025 🌍 Lucerne, Switzerland 📌 Apply by June 30, 2025. Details: www.unilu.ch/universitaet...

New article in Social Policy & Administration, with Kees van Kersbergen: We explore how firms – often overlooked in debates on AI and social policy – perceive AI and what policy responses they support. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467... 🧵

Had a great time presenting in Basel and Lucerne this week! Many thanks to @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and to @dweisstanner.bsky.social for hosting me. Great questions and feedback throughout! @polisciunibas.bsky.social @uniluzern.bsky.social

Very interesting and important study with new measures on political parties' emphases on equality ⬇️

Excited to share that my project "Party politics and the politicization of health care" has been funded by the @snsf-ch.bsky.social! 🚀 The project will examine how parties have politicized health care along economic & cultural lines. A postdoc & PhD position will be available – stay tuned!

We just launched a call for a workshop and special issue proposal on "The Politics of AI"! Excited to see many great submissions—join us in Oxford!

🎉 The lineup for the Spring 2025 Brown Bag Seminar at PolSem – @uniluzern.bsky.social is set! 🗺️This year, we are opening up to external presenters for the first time, and it has been a great success. Excited to host them and looking forward to the discussions ahead! Check the calendar below 👇

How does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out. doi.org/10.1017/S000... 🧵 1/9

Excited to share my new paper with Leo Azzollini @leoazzollini.bsky.social (@csisunitn.bsky.social) and Franco Bonomi Bezzo on healthcare provision and attitudes toward redistribution in the Journal of European Public Policy @jeppjournal.bsky.social

More supreme public service from Ben Jann @unibern.bsky.social: the Stata crosswalk package, which replaces iscogen 🫡 Rapidly recode ISCO codes to an even wider range of occupational scales and class schemes, including the Occupational Earning Potential scale github.com/benjann/cros...

As promised, here is a bit more on my new book, The Welfare Workforce, now available fully open-access from @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social 🧵 1/11

On this note, here is a thread with recent research on what normalization is and how it happens. It includes links to references, from my work and that of others. I tried to tag the authors whenever they are on here, in case you are interested in following their work. 1/8

1/ Happy to announce a new paper at @PolBehavior with Andreas Jozwiak & Eroll Kuhn. Recent work links ⬆️immigration flows to backlash, esp⬆️far right voting. We ask if it's a general feature of migration politics by testing effects of *co-ethnic* immigration. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 I’m looking for a postdoc to join my Emmy Noether project on the New Climate Divide! 🌍 🔍 It is a 3-year position with a likely extension for another 3 years & no teaching obligations 📄 Check out the job call: uni-heidelberg.de/md/politik/p... Thanks for sharing! 🤝

The LIS Database now allows one to measure poverty (with their superior poverty/income measures) over a 61 year period of US history (1963-2023). Here's the trend in Black-white inequalities in poverty.

Today, feeling close to cosmopolitans or feminists separates voters of the left from right voters who identify with people who are down to earth and hard working. Yet, these identities do have structural roots, just like class identities did. Our short CUP book on cleavage formation is out in OA.

Super happy to finally find this paper with @milenarapp.bsky.social on @thejop.bsky.social website! We analyze under what conditions far right parties benefit electorally from increasing importance of immigration issues/ green parties benefit from increasing importance of environmental issues.

Silja Häusermann, Michael Pinggera (@ipz.bsky.social), & I have a new paper out in European Sociological Review! We study under what conditions citizens support future-oriented welfare reforms. We particularly point at second-dimension positions (GAL-TAN). (Thread) academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

The most salient polisky conflicts perceived by Swiss citizens are shifting. It is not linguistic differences b/w the four language communities, nor generational divides b/w young and old, nor rural vs urban tensions. Instead, the divide between the rich and the poor emerges as the most significant

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. 🧵

Brian Nolan has shaped research on economic and social inequality for nearly five decades. On the occasion of his retirement, @inetoxford.bsky.social has compiled an overview of his impressive work: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/ne... To me, he's also been an amazing PhD supervisor and mentor!

Fascinating new paper by Bukodi and Goldthorpe, showing among other things recent growing educational inequalities by family background in West-Nordic countries, after marked declines in the first half of the 20th century. #sociology #econsky Link, OA: academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

Now also available open access at the @bjpols.bsky.social : www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

To celebrate the publication of our HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS and our awesome contributors, I’m kicking off a pre-holiday challenge: every day, I’ll share a short intro to one of its chapters. This is also an opportunity to connect with new colleagues, so please feel free to 📌!

Does educational expansion promote social mobility? In my latest study on 40 countries, that just came out in the American Sociological Review, it looks like it does. Integrating decomposition techniques with a comparative framework, 1/n

Important new 🌐 🗺 paper by @dweisstanner.bsky.social & Carsten Jensen in EJPR. In general, there's a lower policy congruence between voters and parties for low SES voters. BUT: parliamentary (turnout) AND extra-parliamentary mobilisation (unions) helps! doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Podcast Alert! 🚨In the sixth episode of our podcast @vikburgi.bsky.social and I talk to Silja Häusermann about the crisis of the social democratic parties, its origins and what strategies these parties might adopt to get out of it. 🧵👇 open.spotify.com/episode/2XAD...

I'm looking forward to present and discuss this tomorrow at Humboldt! Thanks for having me @beckerbastian.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social and @hannaschwander.bsky.social! With @dweisstanner.bsky.social and Carsten Jensen, I show "How Left-wing Parties Attract Votes but Amplify Cleavages" ⬇️

JUST OUT! If you're looking for a short overview of the nexus between Inflation and Social Policy and how that shapes our understanding of the current Cost-of-Living Crisis - look no further! Ideal for teaching! ☺️ Joint work w/ Daniel Béland, @rodhick.bsky.social , Bent Greve & Bea Cantillon

There are numerous myths and clichés surrounding Swiss politics, and one prevalent notion is consociationalism, suggesting the elites’ willingness to collaborate. However, those days are long past. Today, Switzerland boasts the most polarized party system in Europe polisky

This year's UZH TOPIQ (Zurich Talks on the Politics of Inequality) series will kick off next Tuesday 5pm CET with a keynote by Torben Iversen. The TOPIQ talks are online so that everyone can tune in. If you are interested, register here: www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/forschung... polisky