New working paper! I examine whether exposure to local unemployment during adolescence shapes immigration attitudes in adulthood, focusing on the long-term imprint of early economic insecurity doi.org/10.31235/osf...

📢 Study out in Research & Politics! We (@lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social @wurthmann.bsky.social @msaeltzer.bsky.social) find that directly elected MPs talk more about local & deprived places than list MPs on social media. 🔍 doi.org/10.1177/2053... Some Highlights [1/3]

Am 11. März (19:30 Uhr) präsentieren @tbiebricher.bsky.social und der Herausgeber im Gespräch mit @sebfriedrich.bsky.social und @nschniederjann.bsky.social den Band OBEN RECHTS @suhrkamp.de im Literaturforum im Berliner Brecht-Haus: lfbrecht.de/event/oben-r...

You can't look at taxing the rich in isolation from broader attitudes towards taxing everyone else. If taxing the rich makes people perceive the system as more fair and so more willing to pay higher taxes themselves, it would definitely help close these gaps.

🔥 Just accepted for publication at AEJ:Policy 🔥 "Employing the unemployed of Marienthal: Evaluation of a guaranteed job program" maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...

🗓️ Am 18.02. geht es in der @bbaw.bsky.social um #Staatsschulden. An der Diskussion nimmt auch unser Mitglied @andreabinder.bsky.social teil. Sie ist in der Jungen Akademie gemeinsam mit @sklosterkamp.bsky.social Sprecherin der AG "Geld und Gesellschaft": www.diejungeakademie.de/de/arbeitsgr...

⏰One week left! Deadline approaching for our Early-Career Conference on Political Dimensions of Urban and Rural Life (April 23-24 at LSE). Submit your paper: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Looking forward to some great papers! ✨

🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social. 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy 𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below. We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

🎉 Really happy to see my first single-authored article published in @politicalgeography.bsky.social ! It analyses how inequalities in access to basic services (healthcare, education, roads, and internet coverage) affect levels of rural resentment 👇 [1/5] www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Für die @blnreview.bsky.social habe ich das neue Buch von @gabrielzucman.bsky.social gelesen: blnreview.de/ausgaben/202...

Freue mich sehr darauf, dieses Paper über das Ruhrgebiet morgen im sozialwissenschaftlichen Kolloquium der @ruhr-uni-bochum.de vorzustellen.

🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

In just over eight months, Berlin will hold its 20th state election since 1946. While its well known East West divide in voting behaviour is often attributed to the city’s former split into capitalist and socialist halves, these differences existed even before the city’s division. A thread. 🧵

Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

📣 Call for Papers: 🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

The super-rich pay often pay *lower* total tax rates than the rest of the population. How do people respond when they are told about this? New empirical research from David Hope @lhaffert.bsky.social & @julianlimberg.bsky.social in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/Es4zLlL

New in @bjpols.bsky.social! Dave Hope, @lhaffert.bsky.social and I show that low taxes on the rich have a hidden cost: They undermine public support for broad-based taxation. 🖋️ cup.org/45lgPwN

🚨 History buffs of the Holy Roman Empire: We built an app to visualize rulers' itineraries between 919 and 1519 based on the Regesta Imperii. Thank you @albertwendsjo.bsky.social for all the help! Explore here: carlmc.shinyapps.io/hre-itinerar... Please let us know of any issues and feedback!

This is a really interesting paper about the role of knowledge claims in rural resentment and urban-rural divides more broadly. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... cc: @svenhegewald.bsky.social @juliusk.bsky.social @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social @pauruh.bsky.social @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social

🚨🚨 job alert time 🚨🚨 @unibremen.bsky.social 3 PhD positions within the 3rd phase of the @sfb1342.bsky.social, with a focus on computational methods and/or on protest mobilization, specifically with a focus on Africa. Starting time: early 2026, deadline: 14th of January. more info below:

🚨 ‼️ Five days left to apply for the postdoc in Political Text Analysis in the MULTIREP ERC project 👇. Use your last chance to apply 😉

📚 Die DGfP und die SW&D vergeben 2026 erneut den mit 2.000€ dotierten Preis "Das politikwissenschaftliche Buch". Eingereicht werden können Monografien, die einen besonderen Beitrag zur Politikwissenschaft leisten. ➡️ Hier findest du die Ausschreibung: www.swud.org/wp-content/u...

Why are cities and rural areas drifting apart politically? 🌄🌆 @indubioproreto.bsky.social & @lhaffert.bsky.social conducted a long-term Swiss study to find the biggest divide is amongst younger generations who hold very different views depending on where they grew up 👶 🔎

📢 📢 Call for Papers IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social 🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford) 📍 University of Barcelona 🗓 June 29–30, 2026 Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026: shorturl.at/oZTNy #pleaseRT

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social 3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01 stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

I find it odd that academics strongly believe in the power of specialization, yet quality assessment at academic journals still relies on “peer review” rather than on professional, full-time reviewers.

The Ruhrgebiet, once Europe’s largest industrial region, mined coal from the 13th century. By 1956 it employed almost half a million people, but within two decades the workforce had shrunk by two thirds. The last mine closed in 2018. #30DayMapChallenge Day 28: Black #rstats #ggplot2

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵

🔔Job Alert 🔔 Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?” We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!

Just learned that Holger Döring retired from ParlGov in October. If I'm not misreading his message, then this great resource will not be updated anymore 🖤 parlgov.org/2024/10/01/r...

The urban-rural divide contains a within-generation divide: It is the younger, not the older generations, who are polarized by their place of residence.

Now out @apsrjournal.bsky.social with page numbers! 🫒 We advance a new argument on how economic crises fuel support for far-right parties in left-behind places by tapping into long-standing community narratives shorturl.at/bA55v @catherinedevries.bsky.social

New publication!📢 @jvanslageren.bsky.social and I study political socialization during adolescence in urban and rural areas, using data from @adkspanel.bsky.social Discussing politics with parents and peers is positively related to multiculturalist attitudes in cities, but not in rural places (1/3)

🚨New working paper: Compositional Effects, Internal Migration and Electoral Outcomes osf.io/preprints/so... #polisciresearch

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

We leverage this exogenous variation in voting costs to test irregularities’ impact on turnout in a DiD design. The increased waiting times, although small and unexpected, suppressed turnout by *0.73 pp.* in the affected voting districts (most conservative estimate). [4/5]

Sunk cost fallacy makes effects unlikely. We look at the 2021 federal election in Berlin, where – thanks to a coincidence of administrative mistakes – in 14% of voting districts long queues formed in front of polling stations, some of which even had to close for a while. [3/5]

Erinnert sich noch jemand an das Berliner Wahlchaos von 2021? Diese Studie von @jonasfischer.bsky.social & @fluegeldo.bsky.social zeigt: das Chaos hat die Wahlbeteiligung in den betroffenen Stimmbezirken tatsächlich um 0,7 Prozentpunkte reduziert. Die Leute sind entnervt wieder nach Hause gegangen.

🚨Elites often warn: taxing the rich hurts everyone. 🤔But do citizens buy that story? With @bcastanho.bsky.social & Hanna Lierse, we find: They don’t! Most people believe progressive taxes can deliver both — more equality and more growth. @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social #openaccess cup.org/3JVuvHm

Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD

How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations? In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer. tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp

Share widely with your students in Switzerland 🇨🇭thinking about a PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝗨𝗜 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗽 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 🇨🇭 21 Nov 2025 | 2:30pm CET @alissasiara.bsky.social introduces the program & life at EUI, I share my experience, and we answer your questions. 👉 Register: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Last Friday, new English Indices of Deprivation were released for the first time since 2019, measuring relative deprivation in 33,755 areas of England across multiple domains. How do these geographic disparities relate to voting patterns in the UK’s last General Election? A short thread 🧵

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

Wie stark sich die Sozialstruktur der Schweizer Gesellschaft in den letzten Jahrzehnten verändert hat, ist wirklich beeindruckend: In der Stadt Zürich hat sich beispielsweise der Anteil der Menschen mit Universitätsabschluss seit 1990 mehr als verdreifacht (von 19 auf 63%).

Sehr spannende Aufbereitung der schweizer Bildungsgeographie: www.tagesanzeiger.ch/bildung-schw...

Happy to share that our paper on the ideological biases of international organizations is now out in the current issue of the AJPS (@ajpseditor.bsky.social): dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajps... @the-peio.bsky.social @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social

NEW - Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos "moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties" - @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social #OpenAccess

We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

Wie blicken die vom Kohleausstieg betroffenen Städte und Gemeinden auf den Strukturwandel in den Revieren? Um das herauszufinden, haben wir von April bis Juli 2024 alle 651 Kommunen in den Kohleregionen zu einer Befragung eingeladen. Nun sind die ersten Ergebnisse erschienen: doi.org/10.58007/krk...