What a great start to the sabbatical! Tri-write with @slsalo.bsky.social and @jensrydgren.bsky.social 95% there - “We would like to accept the article for publication, but before we go ahead, we would like to give you the opportunity to make some further minor changes//…//.”

Wrote a brief paper "Second Attempt at America First: Donald Trump and the Survival of International Organizations" Some reflections on the first six months and what we generally know from the academic literature on the crisis of multilateralism www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Public Service Decline and Support for the Populist Right: "Our findings underscore the role of public service decline as a driver of support for populist parties, especially in areas undergoing demographic change"

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on. A quick 🧵:

Our book is out and available to read open access online: academic.oup.com/book/60532. It is dedicated to Niko.

My recent book "Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy" (OUP 2024) argues that minorities can help strengthen and protect democracy. I explain the lessons of the book in a podcast hosted by Licia Cianetti from the @unibirmingham.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/ethnic-minor...

Meet up with Zeth if you are around! Up and coming great scholar!

On my way to Contested Solidarities at CEU Vienna! I'll be presenting my work on the long-term legacies of the 1989 revolution on Tuesday. If you're around and want to catch up, my take-a-coffee-with-great-scholars schedule is wide open.

(2) "When the Far Right Makes the News: Protest Characteristics and Media Coverage of Far-Right Mobilization in Europe" by Pietro Castelli Gattinara @pietrocastellig.bsky.social and Caterina Froio @caterinafr.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From my undergraduate lecture notes on the Weimar Republic's collapse

Our new IMR paper on the great replacement theory is now open-access. We find that about 20% (!) of German adults believe that white majorities are being deliberately replaced by non-white immigrants in a secretive attempt by malevolent elites to undermine their own country. doi.org/10.1177/0197...

Open Ph.D. student position calls in Sociology and Sociological Demography at Stockholm University: Ph.D. student position in Sociology: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Ph.D. student position in Sociological Demography: su.varbi.com/what:job/job... The closing date is March 1. _________

Today I signed the contract for The Oxford Handbook of the Social Movements of the Far Right (OUP), which I will co-edit with Manuela Caiani. More info will follow in due time.

Recently, our book on the Transformation of the Left in Europe came out Open access tinyurl.com/ahuxx6d6 A few interviews that summarize key findings: 🔉 Polisci No problem et al. podcast: tinyurl.com/54tvx3md 🔉 Swiss SD party podcast: tinyurl.com/ds4maabc 📖 SamPol Magazine: tinyurl.com/y93nd6cm

New position at our department: Senior Lecturer in Sociology with specialization in Personnel, Work and Organization Department of Sociology, Stockholm University su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

New position at our department: Senior Lecturer in Sociology with specialization in Personnel, Work and Organization Department of Sociology, Stockholm University su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Border liberalization and immigration increased voting for the far right in Switzerland. This is despite the lack of prominence of traditional predictors associated with anti-immigration, including cultural and economic threats. Instead, we suggest a top-down mechanism to explain this finding.

Class consciousness still shapes voting, but in a different way than in the past. That's the key finding of a study with @thomaslux.bsky.social now out in English. We chart how class identity, interests and status link with voting for the left and right in Germany. A🧵 library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-...

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. 🧵

Sad news. Walter Korpi was a great sociologist.

Important initiative. In Sweden, we had similar major studies on power (in 1985-1990) and democracy (1997-2000). It would be high time to launch a new one here as well.

If there’s one paper to read on local service deprivation & far-right support—this might be THE one!

New(ish) WP by Sanna Salo, @jensrydgren.bsky.social and me - ”Divided We Fall? Negotiating Responses to a Radical Right-Wing Party within the Swedish Labour Movement” su.figshare.com/articles/pre...

My and @johannarickne.bsky.social 's paper on the ”Class Ceiling in Politics” is now out in the APSR with open access! We describe the key findings below. 1/9

"La montée des partis populistes dans les pays nordiques" (together with Ryan Switzer) shs.cairn.info/revue-hermes...

Field of study, political attitudes, and support for the radical right in Sweden and Europe Very interesting paper by Amanda Valldor, sociologist at SOFI at Stockholm Uni www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In this paper we show: (1) Union membership predicts support for the Sweden Democrats; (2) the salience of economic issues mediates this association and is a likely mechanism; and (3) the local presence of trade unions do not predict support for the SD. su.figshare.com/articles/pre...

Working-Class Voters Supporting the Radical Right: Do Trade Unions Have a Shielding Effect? New WP together with Maria Tyrberg: su.figshare.com/articles/pre...

Working-Class Voters Supporting the Radical Right: Do Trade Unions Have a Shielding Effect? New WP together with Maria Tyrberg: su.figshare.com/articles/pre...

New WP together with Sanna Salo and Pontus Odmalm: "Divided We Fall? Negotiating Responses to a Radical Right-wing Party within the Swedish Labour Market" su.figshare.com/articles/pre...

2 year postdoctoral fellowship in sociology at the EUI Florence from the Kohli Foundation: kohlifoundation.eu/programs-koh...

I am very happy about this positive book review, even if my name is misspelled as Rydregen :) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Want to read something light during the summer? Why not our book Sociological Insights of Great Thinkers? Check out e.g., Shakespeare: On Social Stratification; Dante: The Afterworlds Are Hell for Sociologists; and Proust: On Social Status and Capital Forms. www.bloomsbury.com/us/sociologi...

Are you interested in the #RadicalRight in Sweden? → J. Rydgren and M. Tyrberg. “Contextual Explanations of Radical Right-Wing Party Support in Sweden: A Multilevel Analysis”. In: European Societies 22.5 (2020), pp. 555-580. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2020.1793213.

Our paper on far-right demand and rejection is finally available in Nations & Nationalism! Many thanks to my amazing and deeply admired colleagues Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser and @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social You can read it here: doi.org/10.1111/nana...

"The politics of ethnic nationalism, nostalgia and anti-immigrant framing: the trajectory of the Sweden Democrats 1989-2022" Book chapter together with Gabriella Elgenius. Open access. www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o...

Check out our new article where we find a participation gap between anti- and pro-immigrant citizens, and that the size of this gap is contingent on ideological views (left-right placement).

WORK! At Utrecht University's Sociology department, we're hiring an assistant professor, ideally with expertise in the fields of diversity, migration and integration, discrimination, polarization, or policy research. For details: www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

Happy to see this finally in print! It was a very rewarding experience being part of the Ernst Strüngmann Forum and collaborating with great scholars. "Migration Stigma" is an open-access book and all the chapters will be available for download soon: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254812...

What is the core difference between ‘left’ and ‘right’ in politics? New paper out in @ActaPolitica where I show that acceptance of inequality separates left- and right-wing individuals in both Eastern and Western Europe, contrary to previous research. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Polisky

We have a call out for a FULL PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY here in Copenhagen! Come join me and my awesome colleagues!!! Great department, great city employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

Teaching Associate in Sociology University of Cambridge: socioloxy.com/teaching-ass...

We are hiring one or more tenure track assistant professor(s) in Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Trump's admiration for autocrats is one thing; how the US far right is concretely trying to learn from the practices of a kleptocratic autocracy another. Latest column in The Guardian.

Sociologiska institutionen vid Stockholms universitet söker en kommunikatör. Deltid (50%). arbetsformedlingen.se/platsbanken/...

✨NEW CALL FOR PAPERS✨ We have new Call for Papers out for our upcoming special issue, 'Authoritarianism and culture', which will be guest-edited by Pål Csaszni Halvorsen and Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen. Read the full call for papers here 👀🌐👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"The politics of ethnic nationalism, nostalgia and anti-immigrant framing: the trajectory of the Sweden Democrats 1989-2022" Book chapter together with Gabriella Elgenius. Open access. www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o...

Shock, surprise: Americans who score high on Christian nationalism & biblical literalism are more likely to believe in conspiracies 🇺🇸🌐 https://religioninpublic.blog/2023/07/05/christ-country-and-conspiracies-christian-nationalism-biblical-literalism-and-belief-in-conspiracy-theories/

Climate change is the most polarized issue in the US According to a new @Pew poll, 12% of Republicans say that addressing climate change should be a top priority this year compared to 59% of Democrats www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...