NEW - Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - https://cup.org/47ifc4B "we show that educational divides are diminished in the presence of countervailing networks" - @davidattewell6.bsky.social & @dpzollinger.bsky.social #OpenAccess

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social! Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan: 🧵⬇️

❗Among their electoral potential, social democratic parties face very few strategic dilemmas. Left-progressive appeals resonate most strongly. New study in @worldpolitics.bsky.social with @tabouchadi.bsky.social , @indubioproreto.bsky.social, Nadja Mosimann, and @markuswagner.bsky.social Thread👇

Another packed #EPSA2025 panel with impressive papers by @hilmal.bsky.social, @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social, Dave Hope, @gaetanoinglese.bsky.social & @matteonebbiai.bsky.social. Great to see so much interest in questions around AI and the knowledge economy! One more to go tomorrow (3pm, room -1.A.03)!

🧵 How does education shape political behavior? @professormpersson.bsky.social and I contribute with two chapters to the new Research Handbook on Education and Democracy👇

Do we systematically prefer educated candidates? Or do educational groups select in ways that reward their own? This article by @turnbulldugarte.com and I suggests the answers are yes, and yes - but only for the graduate group. Huge thanks to all who shared their data with us!

IN LATEST ISSUE: The Voter Next Door: @hilmal.bsky.social , Stefan Dahlberg, @richardohrvall.bsky.social & @polhosc.bsky.social examine stigma effects on advance voting for radical right parties: https://buff.ly/3BBKhTC (OPEN ACCESS) @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs

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

To complete the X migration, I am happy to share my recent article, now open access in @jeppjournal.bsky.social. The argument: Intra-party divisions are one important reason why mainstream parties take on the issues and positions of Eurosceptic and anti-immigration parties. doi.org/10.1080/1350...

New publication out! This one took years of data collection, but it clearly illustrates how Sweden's high-quality state bureaucracy is the result of centuries of gradual power struggles and strategic investments in education—a process I term administrative democratization.