My new paper on "Economic sociology and the far-right" is out in the @jcultecon.bsky.social ! How do businesses promote the far-right? How does the far-right transform accumulation regimes? How is the new reactionary, post-neoliberal regime embedded in tools of surveillance and control?

[📢 #socioelites] Présentation de l'ouvrage de @connandom.cpesr.fr "Faire partie du club. Élites et pouvoir au Kenya" (2024) dans le séminaire "In Search of Britain" 📅 24.09.2025 🕔 17h 📍 Salle E002, Pôle Citadelle @upjv-univ.bsky.social 🔗 searchofbritain.wordpress.com @cnrseditions.bsky.social

Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (@actesrss.bsky.social) a 50 ans. Pour l’occasion, nous publions un numéro spécial. Anniversaire oblige, ce numéro double comporte aussi des surprises. Un 🧵: shs.cairn.info/revue-actes-...

[📑Parution #socioelites] "« Pauvres riches » : la précarité relative des milliardaires russes en mobilité internationale" de Vitalina Dragun - @crestsociology.bsky.social 🔗 journals.openedition.org/emulations/4...

🚨 New publication 🇫🇷! Maxime Béhar and I introduce and theorize Precarious Privilege to a french-Speaking audience: how social, cultural, economic & symbolic resources can be destabilized, devalued, or reinvented in international mobility. 📖 (FR) journals.openedition.org/emulations/4...

Another update 🚨 We just launched Beyond the Core: Elites and Power in Swiss Second-Tier City-Regions (1890–2020) at @unil.bsky.social, funded by @snf-fns.ch I’m thrilled to coordinate this 4-year project with a multidisciplinary team @obelitessuisses.bsky.social #BeyondTheCore #EliteStudies

"L'élite russe continue de faire le calcul risque-bénéfice de son soutien au pouvoir. Tant que les risques d'une défection sont plus importants que les rétributions de la loyauté, elle n'a pas intérêt à faire défection." Victor Violier reçu par @alexjubelin.bsky.social lerubicon.org/collimateur-...

The Swiss People’s Party is one of the most electorally successful far-right parties, and the largest party in Switzerland. Its rise over the past 30 y has been fueled by anti-elite rhetoric & a libertarian, anti-govt stance. New data reveals: 40% of the SVP’s budget comes directly from the govt

Applicants are required to submit a 3-5 page research agenda tackling one of the above themes. Deadline is October 15th. More information here: www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...

Very excited to share my new paper in Socius, "Unicorns and Hacks": Revolving Door Lobbyists and the Cultivation of Political Credibility ! And it's open access!! Many thanks to my respondents, research assistants, and colleagues for making this paper possible. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Wer in der Schweiz und in der Welt die wirtschaftliche Macht besitzt, wie man in diese Kreise gelangt und warum «Elite» heute ein Schimpfwort ist, erklärt der Soziologe Felix Bühlmann im Gespräch. trib.al/Fs8NURB

These are really insane numbers. Even if we only look at formal political offices, billionaires are more than 10,000x more likely to hold a national political position than the average person.

[📑 #Socioelites ] "Les discrètes" par Carl Petersen à propos de l'ouvrage d'Isabelle Dasque, Le pouvoir des femmes de diplomates, XIXe-XXIe siècles. laviedesidees.fr/Les-discretes

We just released version 3.1 of WhoGov, a global dataset on members of government from 1966-2023. The update fixes the mistakes that came to our attention while creating the Paths to Power dataset + mistakes users have notified us of More additions and updates to WhoGov are on their way, including:

We have a brand new paper, again by a team of crack undergrads, about the networks of these anti-wind lawyers. The Marcella case happened to be first. 10/n www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/legal-e...

Very pleased to announce the full programme for this year's Finance and Society conference, which will take place on 11-12 September at Copenhagen Business School. Registration now open to the public. Come join us! @finandsoc.bsky.social financeandsocietynetwork.org/prog-finands...

This paper shows how elites' racialised identities and their understanding of racialised inequality shape their redistributive preferences, but this varies depending on whether they are evaluating race-conscious or race-neutral policies. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This intra-elite power struggle has implications for efforts to save freedom and democracy in the US. I'm looking forward to thinking with this piece.

A lire dans notre série sur l'actualité de l'#openscience en Suisse: Moritz Mähr et Moritz Twente: Open Access and Open Peer Review in the Digita Humanities Felix Bühlmann: Ouvrir les données de l'Observatoire suisse des élites (OBELIS) www.infoclio.ch/fr/actualit%...

Penultimate episode of this season's Culture & Inequality Podcast, in which @bryanboyle.bsky.social (Free U Brussels) talks with Kristina Kolbe and @aaronreeves.bsky.social about the Sound of Elites: How Elites Navigate a Meritocratic and Anti-Elite World >> pod.link/1533967764/e...

[ #socioelites] "Réexaminer les élites au Maghreb et au Moyen-Orient", c'était ce mercredi 25 juin 2025, au congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans. 🔗 momm-strasbourg.sciencesconf.org/browse/autho... @manonlaroche.bsky.social

[📑Parution et mise en ligne #Socioelites] "Vers le haut. Enquêter sur l’élite au pouvoir" de François Denord, Paul Lagneau-Ymonet et Sylvain Laurens @Ed_LaDecouverte shs.cairn.info/vers-le-haut...

Allez, c'est parti, petit fil sur mon chapitre sur comment le rapport des ancien·nes élèves des ENS avec la tèse et la carrière académique éclaire les évolutions récentes du champ académique français (depuis les années 1960) 🧵

Neuer Artikel von Michael Hartmann im Berliner Journal für Soziologie: Mehr Kontinuität als Wandel – Die deutschen Eliten vom Kaiserreich bis heute. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@tgiddey.bsky.social is presenting the first results of what will become a book in the (near?) future on business lawyers in Switzerland. For more information: thibaudgiddey.com/research-pro...

Ready for the workshop on lawyers and capitalism www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...

New research note out in @bjsociology.bsky.social on the Power Elite in Greenland. The main finding: There is a highly knit elite network in Greenland. However, there are also clear fracturing lines based on the Greenlandic-Danish divide. A 🧵on findings doi.org/10.1111/1468...

How do elites navigate a world with meritocratic expectations and calls for diversity? I had the absolute privilege to talk to both Kristina Kolbe and @aaronreeves.bsky.social about their new books that address these very questions! Listen to the podcast here: open.spotify.com/episode/1t5V...

Is technocracy the shared ideology of the Danish power elite? In a new paper with Anders Esmark and @antongrau.bsky.social we explore this through biographical data and qualitative interviews with 30 members of the Danish power elite www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.

Only ~25% of leaders around the world used to be over 60. Today it is more than half of them.

Why is environmentalism class divided? My new paper in The British Journal of Sociology maps attitudes to green issues in the social space of economic and cultural capital. Spoiler: it’s not just about being rich. 🧵https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.13231

My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access! Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource. @bupjournals.bsky.social

Neue Analyse zeigt: Seitenwechsel zwischen Pharma, Swissmedic & BAG nehmen zu und gefährden die Unabhängigkeit der Arzneimittelpolitik. Die Gesetze reichen nicht zur Vermeidung von Interessenkonflikten – es braucht mehr Transparenz & Schranken gegen Einflussnahme. 👇 www.publiceye.ch/de/themen/ph...

Gil Mayencourt, historien: «La gymnastique est un ciment national d’importation» ➡️ https://l.letemps.ch/YNs

Rejoignez-moi à l' @sspunil.bsky.social ! Come work with me @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland🇨🇭! Nous recrutons un·e assistant·e diplômé·e en science politique, avec spécialisation en politique suisse (100%)! We're hiring a PhD candidate / research assistant in political science Please share polisky

The third paper of the special section on the "Scientization of Central Banks" is now online in @finandsoc.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/fas.... Aykiz dogan & Frédéric Lebaron propose a sociological approach to scientisation, by building and analysing a prosopographic database of central bankers

[ #socioelites] Demi-journée "Dans les coulisses du pouvoir : Ethnographier et interviewer les élites" organisée par @obelitessuisses.bsky.social 🔗 www.unil.ch/events/fr/17... @sspunil.bsky.social @johannamb.bsky.social @skzh.bsky.social @asdelval.bsky.social

Reminder: The deadline to submit for our workshop on the education and training of the entrepreneurial elite is coming up soon (30.05.)! We look forward to reading your submissions and meeting you at the Swiss Elite Observatory @obelitessuisses.bsky.social, University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social

[📣Evènement #socioelites] Shamus Khan (professeur de l'université de Princeton) est invité par le Lise-CNAM. Il reviendra sur ses travaux sur les élites, les inégalités sociales et les violences sexistes et sexuelles lors de trois évènements. ⬇️ Inscription : lise-cnrs.cnam.fr/le-laboratoi...

@araujopedro.bsky.social de l’OBELIS @sspunil.bsky.social explique le World Elite Database dans la Matinale de la RTS. Ici le lien : www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...

Le World Elite Database et notre article comparatiste sur les élites économiques de 16 pays, paru récemment dans le @bjsociology.bsky.social, sont discutés aujourd’hui dans @lemonde.fr. www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...

After 3 years of work the editorial of our “Mapping relational structures in culture” Poetics special issue w/ Marco Serino, Elisa Klüger & Fabien Eloire is out. It introduces 10 amazing papers mapping culture w/ GDA/SNA. Below I introduce the 10 papers 🧵(1/12) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 L’Observatoire des élites suisses recrute ! Dans le cadre du projet « Beyond the Core: Elites and Power in Swiss Second-Tier City-Regions, 1890–2020 », 3 postes sont ouverts : 🔹 2 doctorant·e·s → bit.ly/3GjdXHg 🔹 1 postdoctorant·e → bit.ly/3RsoXnW 🔍 Description du projet : bit.ly/4cFqqRv

« Tant pis, on n’est pas nés sous la même étoile. » La méritocratie, mythe ou réalité ? Mon entretien dans @lemonde.fr 👇 www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...

Vendredi 11 avril, notre carte « Édition française, qui possède quoi ? » s’est promenée à travers quelques stands du Festival du Livre. La carte est disponible dans le numéro du mois, à retrouver en kiosques 📰 ou en ligne 📱

Who runs Britain? April 30, @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social will present their book "Born to Rule" on elite formation and reproduction at UvA. Organized by AMCIS and the Cultural Sociology group. Join us! More information and registration here: amcis.uva.nl/shared/subsi...