The rise of stratification research in sociology, economics, and political science. My new blog. With a conclusion that European universities should rather sponsor inequality centers than to dismantle them. @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social hermwerf.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

Billions of 🇪🇺 money flow into regional development. But do citizens trust the EU more in return? 🔬 Find out in this Electoral Studies article with Paul Maneuvrier-Hervieu and Anne-Marie Jeannet. ❗Spoiler: EU 💶 regional funds do build trust in the 🇪🇺 , especially among working-class citizens.

New Open Access paper published in PNAS Nexus! “Ingroup preferences, segregation, and intergroup contact in neighborhoods and civic organizations” with my co-authors Rob Franken, @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social, and Jochem Tolsma. doi.org/10.1093/pnas... Thread below.

Class-based gaps in voter turnout and political representation in Britain are likely to widen further. Our study, with Nan Dirk de Graaf and Geoff Evans (@nuffieldcollege.bsky.social), reveals how social mobility creates a cycle that reinforces democratic inequalities. 🗳️🪜

In countries where income inequality is high, those who feel privileged are often more supportive of redistribution.

Why do people with similar jobs or classes see inequality so differently? My new piece in @theconversation.com explains why where you think you stand in society is key.

Nice opportunity. Deadline closing soon. TN-Square 6th Edition, Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research, 22-24 October 2025, Trento Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies

New paper in Quality & Quantity, just in time for your summer methodological reading! With @giorgiodolci.bsky.social, we validate the measurement of populist attitudes in the @ess-survey.bsky.social. Because nothing says 'break' like Structural Equation Modelling and Measurement Invariance.

Check this out!

🧠 A paper by DPhil student Giacomo Melli highlights the power of subjective social status in shaping attitudes to wealth redistribution. But context matters: in more unequal societies, support for redistribution is less divided by perceived status. 🔗➡️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/stud...

1-year opportunity for a Departmental Lecturer in Sociology at @sociologyoxford.bsky.social for the academic year 25/26. This position has a focus on life course research and quant methods. Apply by 27/6. tinyurl.com/2tydswwj

Should the government 🏛️ fight economic inequality? You probably have a strong take. But why do you believe that? 📌 Spoilers from our new Social Science Research paper with Giacomo Melli: it depends jointly on where you think you stand in society🪜 and how unequal your surroundings actually are!

What happens when we look at support for redistribution through the lens of how people feel about their place in society? 🔎 My new article in Social Science Research with Leo Azzollini (@leoazzollini.bsky.social) explores this in 25 countries, 1987-2019. 🚀 @ssreditorial.bsky.social

🗳️ Populism is a warning sign. English local elections show it again: People feel abandoned & look scapegoats. Drawing on own research & others, I argue 👇🏽 💡 To counter populism: We need to reinvest in citizens, e.g. housing, health & dignity. Short 🧵 📖 www.socialeurope.eu/to-counter-p...

That blinking cursor. The empty page. The weight of what should be written. Every writer, academic, student knows this feeling. I unpack the fear of the blank page & share practical tips for moving past it. 🧵 🔗 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/meeting-th...

Today!

Excited to share my first insights on how class and family socialisation influence electoral participation over the life course at the University of Milan on 10 April at 3:30 PM (CEST)! Join me in person or online, details below or on the website.

Out now in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility! Drawing on 19 waves of ISSP data (2002–2021), I explore how social class and subjective status influence electoral participation across 25 European democracies.

Published Today in PSRM: Based on a novel “Multiple Unexpected Events during Survey Design” (MUESD), I contextualize previous findings suggesting that Europeans become more empathetic toward migrants when exposed to migrant suffering. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A Summary Thread: 1/15

Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for. In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Just did the proofs for this short methods paper that I really like! Not everyday you get to 'solve' a problem identified 30 years ago in some of the most widely used statistical models in #sociology 👀 - and with two super awesome collaborators, what a blast 🥳

Time for some reading recommendations! 🗞️ Earlier this week, our @leoazzollini.bsky.social (w/ @giacomomelli.bsky.social & F. Bonomi Bezzo) work on healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution in 🇪🇺 got published! You don't want to miss it! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

💥 New: The German left has lost its monopoly on class consciousness ✍️ @lwestheuser.bsky.social & @thomaslux.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

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...

Glad to have had the opportunity to present my work on class mobility and electoral turnout at the Conference of the Italian Society of Economic Sociology (@sisec.bsky.social) in Pavia! @trinityoxford.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

📢Calling all social science scholars from and/or researching Italy: applications for the 2025-26 Jemolo Fellowships are now open. 🗓️Deadline: 21 Feb 2025 ℹ️More info & applications: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...

Workers were never well-represented among cabinet ministers globally, but things have deteriorated over time. From our Paths to Power project where we have collected biographical data on almost 45,000 ministers from 137 countries in the period 1966-2021.

Important new study -> OPEN ACCESS! 🚨 Note for the media: "Misinformation and radical-right populism must hence be under- stood as inextricable and synergistic—two expressions of the same political moment." Note for public debate: Misinformation is POLITICAL rather than social media phenomenon!

My look at 2025 (in Italian)

My new blog on substack. Avoiding the causality trap. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Britons more likely to see your social class as being determined by your upbringing than by your current circumstances Entirely/more by upbringing: 33% Equally by upbringing and current circumstances: 39% Entirely/more by current circumstances: 19% yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

Which jobs do Britons see as middle or working class? yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

Today, @politico.eu listed #GiorgiaMeloni as the most influential person in #Europe. How did this occur in foreign and security policy and what does this mean? A short thread 🧵 www.politico.eu/list/politic...

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue on ESR @europeansocreview.bsky.social Education and Social Mobility: Celebrating Richard Breen’s Contribution to Sociology Deadline for submission: 15 of June 2025 More details on the call 👇

This piece today in the Guardian, by @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, Jane Gingrich, and @hannaschwander.bsky.social , is great. Sums up very well what the social science currently says about public attitudes towards climate action: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨 How are more ambitious climate policies feasible politically? We have published 4 new research briefs on the political viability of climate policies. You can find all the briefs on our website. Here is a 🧵summarizing the briefs. Please share. politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

Tomorrow, we publish 4 new research briefs from the Progressive Politics Research Network. The focus is on the "Political Viability of Climate Policies" - a political science perspective on how more ambitious climate policies are possible. Here a preview of the theme introduction.

"Homecoming After Brexit," by @ebrusanliturk.bsky.social @samin.mas.to.ap.brid.gy @ezagheni.bsky.social & F Billari, uses Scopus data to assess “immediate effects of the 2016 Brexit referendum on the mobility of top talent in British academia.” @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

I just gave a guest lecture in @chflachsland.bsky.social's "Policy Process class" on (right-wing) populism. I hope the students enjoyed it as much as I did. Here are my slides -- perhaps they are of interest to some of you. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gho7v...

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. 🧵

Interested in inequality research? Here is a starter pack containing research centers / institutes / organizations dedicated to the study of socioeconomic inequality. Time seemed ripe as, finally, organizations are moving to Bluesky. Let me know if others should be added. go.bsky.app/5daYr6v

💥New: How to get started with academic Bluesky 👨‍💻 @nedpotter.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PhDSky

A thread about being wrong: 5 years ago, we wrote a paper about how how newly enfranchised 16-year-olds vote in Austria. But we were wrong. This year, @elisabethgraf.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger and I are setting the record straight: authors.elsevier.com/c/1juT5xRaZk...

Are you considering applying for a DPhil/PhD in Sociology with us? 🧑‍🎓 Don't miss our online info session and Q&A next week! Sign up here 👉 forms.office.com/e/UeUZDjwaTD

Our recent special issue looks at the consequences of the educational expansion for mating patterns. Want to know more? 👇 comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP... #socsky #OpenAccess @csisunitn.bsky.social @gcorti.bsky.social @flaviamazzeo.bsky.social @WilfredUunk and many bskyless others

It seems that there was no Sociology Journals starter pack, so we created one: go.bsky.app/93ta3Gs -- do let us know which journals we missed!

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

Happy to be in Manchester to present my paper on intergenerational mobility and turnout at the EPOP Conference 2024. Yesterday I attended the Early Career Research event and now the main sessions. Looking forward to great discussions and exploring Manchester! #EPOP2024 @psaepop.bsky.social

Next Wednesday @robfordmancs.bsky.social & myself have arranged an ECR the day before EPOP officially begins. It includes @edmundkelly.bsky.social @giacomomelli.bsky.social @elenapro.bsky.social @vlazarov.bsky.social @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social @anandmenon.bsky.social @bogatyrev.bsky.social