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🚨 Job Alert We are loooking for a 3year Postdoc @excinequality.bsky.social Work with @mbusemeyer.bsky.social, Sebastian Koos, and me Focus: computational social science, analysis of political texts, future-oriented policies and parties 📅Apply by June 5th stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/c...

🚨 New Open Access publication In my new paper in Social Justice Research, I explore how migration experiences—and crucially, when migration happens—shape attitudes toward distributive justice. 📖 Read the full (open access) paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New Publication in the British Journal of Sociology on „Hot Politics“ and Trigger Points.

The first paper of my dissertation is published now in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social! Press coverage of the richest Germans is rare but focused on a minority of highly visible individuals and varies along the historical origins of fortunes. doi.org/10.1177/00380385261428292

NEW: Wiebke Schulz, Ineke Maas, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, "Socio-Economic Advancement and Long-Term Trends in the Gender Gap in Early Career Occupational Status in France 1860–1960." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

New in @europeansocreview.bsky.social with brilliant @kostermann.bsky.social & @patzinaalex.bsky.social 🌟 Apprenticeship dropout is known to be associated with €€€ penalties, but less clear whether dropout causes later income losses. Matters for policy: what should interventions target?

Extremely happy that my first single-authored paper is now published (open access) at @EJPRjournal: “Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: the electoral consequences of the coal phase-out in Germany” Here's a summary thread... 1/n

Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020 By Alexander Horn, University of Konstanz, Martin Haselmayer, University of Applied Sciences Campus Vienna and University of Vienna, and K. Jonathan Klüser, University of Zurich Do parties respond to inequality?…

Does being high-skilled protect you from ethnic bias when applying for a UK visa? In a new pre-registered experiment to be published in International Migration Review, I find that high occupational status doesn't shield immigrants from ethnic prejudice — it may activate it.

We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict under @steffenmau.bsky.social is looking for Postdoctoral & Doctoral Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict

I never met Leo, but many friends took his classes and worked for him. He must have been an amazing guy. Rest in peace and stay safe 🕊️ www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/polwiss/fors...

QUESTION: Is there a magical European dataset including 1. Gender 2. Sexuality 3. Religion 4. Ethnicity / country of birth (+ for parents) 5. Occupation ESS is missing 2, EU-LFS is missing 3, EU LGBTIQ Survey is missing 5. Sharing is caring! #sociologysky #surveydata

Heute wurde ein IAB-Kurzbericht veröffentlicht, der zentrale Ergebnisse aus unserem (@mcollischon.bsky.social) Projekt mit der @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social zum Einfluss der Covid-19-Pandemie auf die Beschäftigungsqualität präsentiert. Den Kurzbericht gibt es hier:

📢 New data release! ISSP 2023 National Identity & Citizenship (29 countries) is now available 🌍 Covers national identity, immigration, democracy, trust & more. 🔗 www.gesis.org/en/issp/data... #ISSP #SurveyData #OpenData

And another one: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Also finding it hard to keep up with new research? I built something to fix this. SciLove — swipe through recent papers in your field. The feed learns from your saves. Also matches you with researchers saving your work back (opt-out if you prefer). www.scilove.app 3,000+ journals, updated daily

Nominee for the Sociology Sage Prize 2026 ‘Wealth and Class Analysis’ by Nora Waitkus, Mike Savage and Maren Toft looks at addressing wealth inequality by using the work of Marx and Weber, where capital accumulation and property organisation had central stage: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Very happy that this article with Samir Negash and Lorenzo Piccoli has just been accepted at the European Political Science Review. In it we show that "welfare chauvinism" is much more nuanced than many assume.

On Sunday, one of Germany’s largest states went to the polls in a closely contested election. What can we learn from the results & how do they relate to looming deindustrialization in one of Germany’s industrial heartlands? A thread with some decriptive patterns from data on 1,101 municipalities. 🧵

And the paper is online (open access) at: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

This is the *fifth* study to undermine the idea that the muted political response to inequality is due to growing meritocracy beliefs, esp. among the poor. - Inequality erodes meritocracy beliefs - Poor meritocrats still want redistribution - What matters is the politicization of inequality Links:

🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy? Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016

Publication alert @pvs-journal.bsky.social! In a new research note, @marcdebus.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social and I investigate how past support for far-right extremist parties shaped the AfD's electoral success in the 2024 European elections. A thread 🧵. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We find a similar pattern in a secondary analysis at the more granular level of municipalities in Saxony & Baden-Württemberg. The AfD vote share is strongly correlated with prior DVU/Republikaner support, but gains are not. Only in Baden-Württemberg is a weak effect on the AfD's gains apparent.

Are we underestimating popular discontent with welfare state change, and the damage done to political-institutional trust? New measures of "welfare state emotions" suggest as much. With Tor Syrstad and Atle Haugsgjerd. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I just realised that there are "gift links". So, if anyone is interested but does not have institutional access, please feel free to download the paper through this link: academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

Die Sektion Wirtschaftssoziologie freut sich sehr, auch in diesem Jahr wieder den Karl-Polanyi-Preis für eine herausragende Monografie auf dem Gebiet der Wirtschaftssoziologie auszuloben. (Selbst-)Nominierungen nimmt der Vorstand gerne bis zum 30.4. entgegen. Wir freuen uns über Reposts :)

Effort versus Advantage: Visualizing (Relative) Belief in Meritocracy, 1930 to 2022—A Comment on Mijs (2018) Socius, Volume 12, January-December 2026. In this comment, the authors reevaluate the claim put forward by Mijs that popular belief in meritocracy has increased across a b #sociology link

🎙️Can #Inequality be Fair? In the latest episode of the In_equality Podcast, @mbusemeyer.bsky.social & Gabi Spilker @uni-konstanz.de speak with David Rueda (@ox.ac.uk)about fairness, meritocracy & redistribution. Tune in now: t1p.de/bt6j0 🎧 New episodes every first Wednesday of the month.

One position is in our interdisciplinary „PerFair“ project on highschool students‘ fairness perceptions and meritocratic beliefs - and how these translate into behavior towards students from different backgrounds. Please apply and/or get in touch if you have any questions!

5/6 🧵In JEPP, @alexanderhorn.bsky.social & co-authors study equality & party competition. Text & election data in 🇦🇺🇩🇰🇩🇪🇸🇪🇨🇭🇬🇧. Show center-left parties can gain votes by emphasizing econ. equality & equal rights, postmaterialist left parties only by emphasizing the latter. doi.org/qm52

How has the public belief in meritocracy changed over time? We address this question in our new Data Viz (@sociusjournal.bsky.social) by examining trends in popular beliefs across cohorts and periods in 35 countries, based on two datasets. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231261425841

💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

Excited to share a new #OA study with @dariatisch.bsky.social and @schechtlm.bsky.social🎉We show that while most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Excited to see page numbers on our paper. 👇 If you are interested in the link between perceptions of inequality in society and support for populism, this paper is for you. We present both observational and experimental evidence on it.

"Behind Closed Doors: Intra-Couple Pension and Wealth Gaps in Germany and Beyond" 🚪👩‍🦳👴 @lisdata.bsky.social / @liser.lu policy brief by @nicolekapelle.bsky.social and me out now! Read more here 👉 www.lisdatacenter.org/newsletter/n...

📢 We're hiring!!! 📢 If you are interested in comparative social policy, welfare state research and quantitative methods, then this might be the job for you! Interested? Link to the call: www.mpisoc.mpg.de/karriere/ste... Need more info? Please check out our website!  inequalityhub.org

Happy to share this new paper @jeppjournal.bsky.social with my great colleagues @dweisstanner.bsky.social & Carsten Jensen. In "Winning with equality", we show "how left-wing parties attract votes but [in doing so] amplify electoral cleavages" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Key points in 📈👇

Even after two world wars and a century of upheaval, wealth in 🇩🇪 shows strong persistence. About 8% of today’s top fortunes trace back to the early 1900s: 82 of the richest families today were already among the richest in 1913, challenging the idea of a fully meritocratic elite.

⏰ Job alert: We are looking for PhD Researchers! Only one week left to apply for our open #PhD positions in #socialpolicy at CRC 1342 | @unibremen.bsky.social. 🗓️ Application deadline: 14.01.2026 Details: www.socialpolicydynamics.de/about-the-cr...

🚨Job alert! 🚨 I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills. ⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26 More info:

This article seeks to differentiate between different types of radical right-wing voters in Europe, analysing their social characteristics and identifying different voting motives. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Just in time before the end of the year: My first dissertation paper, in which I examine whether the public response to rising income inequality is really lacking, has officially been published in the latest issue of the Socio-Economic Review #SER. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

My main current research focus is on the way statistical significance (SS) can mislead us when evaluating quantitative results. A new demonstration: Use of SS suggested that Right-to-Work laws had a “null” impact on occupational fatalities. But the data came from (US) state-level death rates. 1/3

1/ Does growing up poor always lead to political apathy? Very happy to share my first paper published (open access) in @electoralstudies.bsky.social, where I show that parents' influence mitigates the poverty gap in participation, while economic mobility does not. 🔗 shorturl.at/p5Bac

📢New publication: The poor want redistribution regardless of whether they think society is meritocratic. 🎉 Big congrats to my former supervisees — now co-authors, @irenepaneda.bsky.social, @jonnekamphorst.bsky.social, and Bala Battu! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1/ My new article in European Sociological Review (@europeansocreview.bsky.social) examines how class-based network segregation and national-level inequality shape support for redistribution, using data from 32,717 individuals across 31 countries. DOI: doi.org/10.1093/esr/... 👇

Jeepers @nature.com I thought we were past this Abstract: "we demonstrated an association between higher physical activity and slower cognitive and functional decline" Press brief: "taking as few as 3,000 to 5,000 steps per day can help to stave off mental decline" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📣 In a new open access article in @environmentalpol.bsky.social, I examine how appeals to "economic realism" – like the claim that we "can’t afford climate policy" – have long structured far-right #climateskepticism @cidape.bsky.social @ifswien.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....