🎯New publication out in @wepsocial.bsky.social 'Lipset and Rokkan meet data': a 🧵on our study (with Bruno Marino) on the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages (1870–1967) across 17 Western European countries 👇 Read the full article (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New Research 🚨 Ahead of the release of Wave 30 of the BES Internet Panel, the team has examined Labour's decline since the 2024 GE. Labour's support has splintered into mostly indecision or left-liberal parties, but they've also lost their few right-wing voters. 🧵⬇️ tinyurl.com/3m62exph

Another fantastic piece out in our "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" special issue! (co-edited with @davidattewell6.bsky.social ) @mierkezat.bsky.social et al investigate the role of civil society in contemporary cleavage formation.  There are a few more SI contributions still to come!

“A racial reckoning?” New study by @amengel.bsky.social & Cindy Kam: “Challenging the conventional wisdom, our analyses demonstrate that racial attitudes changed following George Floyd’s murder, but in ways dependent upon attitude measure and population subgroup.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The French government is set to fall, with a politically toxic austerity budget looming and a threatened strike/protest wave set for September 10th. www.lemonde.fr/politique/li...

✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/8 🧵

NEW - Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL "exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population" - @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

Even in times of sociocultural conflict, a progressive left electorate is more averse to sociocultural *and* socioeconomic inequalities than (far) right voters. New paper with @siljahausermann.bsky.social Palmtag @tabouchadi.bsky.social @stefwalter.bsky.social Berkinshaw tinyurl.com/d42wyb79 1/n

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

We are looking for a lecturer in Comparative European Politics at Oxford. Join an incredibly stimulating intellectual environment. It is a 5-year position that should be great for early career researchers. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

If I went back in a time machine and told 2010-me that only fifteen years later a Labour government with a massive majority would be deregulating the financial industry *AGAIN* I would not have been cynical enough to believe it. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

📣 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨 "School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support" Just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @nspmartin.bsky.social and @rolandkappe.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1080/0140... 🧵👇

❗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

An important correction in the NYT, to a chart that was shared a lot in recent days & that I shared myself, shows they'd made a mistake with the 18-24 year old turnout, and so it's not the case that age group outvoted all others. Still: nothing to sneeze at here, still a huge surge in youth vote.

Mobilizing and winning young voters was key to the Sanders/Corbyn strategy. Researchers generally found they dominated among young voters, but failed to transform the age composition of the electorate. In the Mamdani/Cuomo race, the 3 youngest categories had the MOST votes. That's unprecedented.

It was a pleasure and an honor to review @ccavaille.bsky.social's book Fair Enough? for @epsjournal.bsky.social As I describe in the review, I think her insights on fairness beliefs are a breakthrough in understanding today's upside-down redistributive coalitions. You won't regret reading it!

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

"Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.... [I]mmigration—and aggressive law enforcement responses to immigration-related protests—were key mobilizing issues in April and May."

Only 10 days left to apply for this phd position on education-based identities, status, and political attitudes! Open to those interested in sociology, social psychology, political science, communication science or indeed a combination of all. jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

Please join me online this Thursday afternoon for an #ECPRHouseSeries discussion of recent elections across Europe, featuring expert input from: @cristinachiva.bsky.social, @hferrinholopes.bsky.social, @alesmichal.bsky.social, @sarahwagner.bsky.social, and @aleksszczerbiak.bsky.social. Details 👇

ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

Interesting assessment of Spain's large 2019 minimum wage hike, based on micro payments and household survey data. Substantial consumption demand boost w/out significant negative employment or price effects. @wzwysen.bsky.social @thorsten-schulten.bsky.social

A wildly unpopular Labour govt is shifting back towards public investment - good for climate & long-term growth. But time horizons matter: you have to spend money fast, wide and make an obvious difference for people's lives - before the next election. A lesson from Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.

Can government policies moderate political backlash to structural change? Yes, the effect operates through material benefits and social recognition. 🚨New WP by @retobuergisser.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @thmskrr.bsky.social and @susanadptavares.bsky.social 🚨 shorturl.at/zFbZE

Interview bei ZEIT ONLINE: Hat die SPD die Arbeiter verloren, weil sie zu viel über das Bürgergeld redet? Unsinn, findet der Soziologe Linus Westheuser. Die SPD brauche ein völlig anderes Konzept. Sie muss bereit sein, sich mit den ökonomischen Eliten anzulegen. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

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

I've updated this chart with the 2024 SHED survey data and it confirms what I thought when I wrote my analysis in November- more people were worse off than better off from the previous year and this is the single best guide to the election. www.crisesnotes.com/one-election...

🚨Contrary to our expectations, we find that people perceive arrangements where women perform a higher proportion of housework as less fair than scenarios where men do so.

The two big stories in the Catalist report: 1) turnout in Dem areas declined dramatically in 2024 (and massive drop in Black & AAPI turnout) 2) Gen Z still the most left generation catalist.us/whathappened...

Excited to head to Prague (1st time!) for the #ecprjs25 workshop "Bringing Politics Back to Work." I'll be presenting a paper analyzing the relationship between workplace authority and attitudes towards welfare state free-riding and benefit sanctions. Happy to see colleagues, new and familiar!

Reassuring narrative: politics is about illiberal populists vs. liberal institutions that safeguard human rights & the rule of law. Reality: core liberal institutions (press, universities, liberal parties) have embraced Orwellian lies and actively repressed dissent to an open, explicit genocide.

Thrilled to share my article “The Right Kind of (Gay) Man?” was accepted @thejop.bsky.social I started it as a 1st-year grad student, it became my MA, then a dissertation & job market paper. It’s the piece I’m most proud of (and relieved to finally share) 🏳️‍🌈 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🏫 How central is schooling in your country? In their new #Socius study, Drs. Kavadias, @bramspruyt.bsky.social & @tkupp.bsky.social introduce the Schooled Society Index—a global measure of how #education acts as a force of #institutionalization and #stratification. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Shockingly, it turns out Labour voters don't like it when their leader apes Enoch Powell. And voters who *do* like that shift towards the authentic, far-right version instead of the guy who was a pro-EU human rights lawyer?

When politicians use simple language, citizens understand more and see them as less elite. New paper with @danbischof.bsky.social out in @thejop.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1086/736693

Consultants push Democrats to chase billionaire cash that barely impacts elections (0.02% vote shift) while crippling their economic message. For this pittance, Dems validate “both parties are bought” cynicism. They’re paying to alienate voters. The big money trap costs more votes than it buys.

🛎️New WP with @morganlcj.bsky.social @timallinger.bsky.social and @danbischof.bsky.social Against the surge of conjoints and other hypothetical experiments in relation to democratic backsliding, we study the consequences of using hypotheticals versus real-world scenarios. osf.io/preprints/os...

Really pleased to see "Party brands, issue salience, and electoral volatility" published at @jeppjournal.bsky.social . I argue that if electoral volatility increases as parties become more similar, that logic applies to both positional and salience differences. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 “We just need to recognize that we’re all citizens of this country.” –– Politicians + citizens often stress a shared national identity when trying to bridge racial, partisan, or other group divides. @stysyropoulos.bsky.social & I show why such “shared” identities are doomed to fail. 🧵1/9

I appreciate that the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences has this prominently placed at the top of their main webpage right now. as.tufts.edu

Rumeysa Ozturk, Tufts PhD student snatched off the street by masked ICE thugs and spirited across state lines for the crime of writing an op-ed, has been ordered freed.

Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

Mainstream media think Elon Musk has failed on his own terms b/c DOGE didn't reduce the deficit. But reducing the deficit is never the point. Oligarchs want to gut state capacity, ramp up outsourcing, and leave the public realm operationally dependent on private companies/consultants. Big success.

Must-read by @catherinedevries.bsky.social! A recent study on🇩🇪 also finds: the fewer buses run in a region, the higher the vote share for the AfD. When people feel left behind,they lose trust in institutions &become more susceptible to far-right narratives presseportal.greenpeace.de/249505-schle...

2nd Anglosphere conservative party leader to lose their seat in a completely unexpected turnaround since declaration of Trump's tariff war. Curious to see if opportunistic progressive and centrist politicians start to tie their domestic right-wing opponents to Trump.

🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social ❓Political implications of labor market transformation Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city. Deadline: May 18, 2025. tinyurl.com/postdoczurich #polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo

You've still got two weeks to apply 💫 Don't be afraid to reach out if you have any questions about the position, the department, or me 💁🏻‍♀️ #polisky #poliscijobs #poliscijobmarket #psjminfo #academicjobs

CBC finally calls Carleton - the Canadian Tory leader Pierre Poilievre has lost his own seat