🎙️ New episode of the In_equality Podcast: „Who Pays the Price of Parenthood?“ @pietervanhuysse.bsky.social, Gabriele Spilker, and @mbusemeyer.bsky.social discuss welfare states, and inequalities between parents and non-parents. 🎧 tune in now: t1p.de/bt6j0 @uni-konstanz.de

Out now in #Socio-EconomicReview ( @sasemeeting.bsky.social) "Individual ideology and biased perceptions of relative income position" Jointly with @mbusemeyer.bsky.social (@excinequality.bsky.social) & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Great post-doc opportunity with great people in a wonderful town

@arnovanhootegem.bsky.social : The impact of issue politicization around redistribution on support for equality and its ideological divides 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎉 New issue: Public Opinion and the Welfare State: Sources, Processes, and Consequences. Guest Editors: @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social, Zhen Im, Maria Grasso, Franco Bonomi Bezzo 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

📢 New article 🌟 👥 @silkegoubin.bsky.social , @olijacques.bsky.social , @staffankumlin.bsky.social (ISV), & @dweisstanner.bsky.social 👉 Why Some Want Something for Nothing: Three Explanations for Unfunded Spending Demand 📗 Open Access in Scandinavian Political Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

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/...

The Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz offers several doctoral positions!

➡️ Policy Paper Alert: New findings from the Konstanz Inequality Barometer show widespread public doubts about the fairness and financial sustainability of Germany’s welfare state. By @mbusemeyer.bsky.social and @felixja.bsky.social from the @uni-konstanz.de

Maybe not trust crisis, but the scandalization of Norwegian politics has reached a new level. And as I say here, political trust isn't extremely important for any one thing in particular, but it plays a role in many things, like voter turnout, welfare systems, acceptance of foreigners, and more.

Massive interest in Norwegian political-institutional trust right now. Here is the overview @jonaslinde.bsky.social and I published recently on what we know, and don't know, about this topic.

📢 New article🌟 👥 Sofi Granö (ISV) & Johannes Bergh @johannesbergh.bsky.social 👉 Does local context matter for individual level turnout? Analysing the effect of the social context in the neighbourhood, in Norwegian elections 📖 Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1745...

📢 New article 👤 Tor Gaute Syrstad (ISV) 👉 Origins of societal anger: the interplay between perceived personal economic decline and anti-immigration attitudes 📗 Open Access in Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1745...

📢 New book chapter 👥 Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social (ISV) & Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social 🔎 Political Trust in Norway; A Large But Lopsided Research Field 📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Why do some want government spending without supporting the necessary taxation? Such a "something for nothing" mindset is often seen as an information or even sophistication problem. But we find it is equally due to rational interests among the economically vulnerable.

📣 New article 🌟 👥 Atle Haugsgjerd, Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social &Ruben B. Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social 👉 Populist radical right party representation and satisfaction with democracy in Europe 📗 Open Access in Journal of European Public Policy 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

New paper out w/ @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social in @epsrjournal.bsky.social. We show that political trust dynamics matter for electoral behavior. While stable and variable distrusters behave similarly, declining trust boosts both abstention and anti-establishment voting. 🧵

Gratulerer med dagen der ute

On December 10th Master in Political Science and Cand. Psychol. Tor Syrstad will be defending his dissertation at the Department of Political Science: "Trouble in Paradise? - Studies on Fear and Anger in the Norwegian Electorate" @statsvitenskap.bsky.social

On December 11th Sofi Granö will be defending her dissertation at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social. "Economic inequality and electoral participation: A register-based study on the effects of contextual factors and economic disparities in Norwegian neighbourhoods."

I am thrilled to announce the publication of the Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics! Over 70 scholars from various institutions in Norway and abroad have contributed their expertise and insights to 48 chapters on different aspects of Norwegian politics. A short🧵 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Our introduction to to the special issue on the formation of public opinion in the welfare state is now out in the @jeppjournal.bsky.social! 📖 Freely available: doi.org/10.1080/1350... A big thanks to Zhen Jie Im, Maria Grasso, and Franco Bonomi Bezzo for outstanding co-editorship.

Excited to share a glimpse of my book on party families via LSE European Politics and Policy! The book delves into the heart of what constitutes a party family, offer updated categorisations, contemporary descriptions, and an insight into their supporters. #polisky blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Shout-out to all #PoliticalTrust researchers interested in attending the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference in #Belfast @annakern.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @cvalebeek.bsky.social, @hannesbey.bsky.social and I are coordinating 3 trust panels!

ISV’s Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social receives 12 million NOK from the RCN program 'Welfare and Education' for the research project 'Struggling Women and Men: Political-Democratic Gender Gaps in a High-Trust Welfare State.'🌟👏Congratulations! www.sv.uio.no/isv/om/aktue...

New chapter on political trust in Norway, co-authored with @staffankumlin.bsky.social.

Finding: political trust can influence how people experience socio-economic risks 💡 In our article in @joftrustres.bsky.social, Atle Haugsgjerd & I show that political trust works as a psychological coping-mechanism - especially for those who believe the welfare state should manage economic risks.

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Miroslav Kreos-Nemcok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social (ISV), Hanna Wass @hannawass.bsky.social & Juho Vesa 🔎 Partisan Influence on Policy Preferences in Retrenching the Welfare State 📖 Open access in Public Opinion Quarterly doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

As global population growth starts to hit the brakes, Rein Taagepera and I consider what this means for our future and look for lessons from the past. 🔽👇⬇️

📣1 PhD fellow position open at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. 👉We invite applications from excellent candidates in all sub-fields of political science. 📅Deadline: September 1st, 2025 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Do generous welfare policies foster political trust? Matthijs Gillissen, @silkegoubin.bsky.social & Anna Ruelens examine the long-term effects of welfare generosity on trust in political institutions. Read more: buff.ly/tBe6gLG @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

Later that day, he will present “The Causal Effects of Poor and Corrupt Welfare State Service Delivery on Political Solidarity and Political Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Novel Virtual-State Approach” (co-authored with Achim Goerres, Philipp Chapkovski and @jeicheler.bsky.social )!

Really honored to be awarded the King’s Gold Medal for my dissertation! You can read more about it below, and then I want to add that I was incredibly lucky with my workplace, colleagues, co-authors and supervisors during my PhD<3 feeling grateful!!

📢 New article 👥 Tor Gaute Syrstad, Atle Hennum Haugsgjerd & Staffan Kumlin, staffankumlin.bsky.social. 🔎 Iceberg of discontent? Emotional responses to welfare state development and political trust. 📖 Open access in Journal of European Social Policy 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0958...

First Wednesday of the month – time for a new In_equality podcast! This time, our hosts @mbusemeyer.bsky.social and Gabriele Spilker @uni-konstanz.de talk with @juandiego48cr.bsky.social about how people (mis-)perceive inequality – and why it matters for politics. ➡️ inequality.uni.kn/podcast

Interested in how public services affect political distrust, populist support, and similar? Longitudinal evidence from Germany and Norway. doi.org/10.1080/1471...

Sunny Saarland days. Very enjoyable!

Technological change has had important consequences for labour markets in recent decades. What about its electoral consequences? In this new article in EJPR, we use administrative data to follow nearly a million workers over 16 years to study this. 🧵 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Very happy to share our new article in JoP @thejop.bsky.social, where we explore how parties forge links with social groups (here: social classes) through different appeals and how citizens respond to such appeals. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

New article w brilliant @anacweeks.bsky.social on the mental load and effects on public participation out in @bjpols.bsky.social! Ana summarizes the article nicely in the thread below 👇

Happy to see my new paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social!

One week left to apply for this postdoctoral fellow position!👇

Political trust is likely in global decline. What are the consequences? Our experiment suggests low-trusters more often accept info saying immigration threatens the welfare state. Trust matters more than most economic, cultural, and contextual factors - with @finseraas.bsky.social & Atle Haugsgjerd

Follow this pack to connect with interesting people and learn about social policy. go.bsky.app/AvJWyV4

Stoler vi på velferdsstaten? Ikke nødvendigvis. Uttaler meg i @mentaltperspektiv.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social @statsvitenskap.bsky.social mentaltperspektiv.no/aktuelt/velf...

Six days left to apply!👇

Finally out! Together with @liserakner.bsky.social we discuss notions around taxation and solidarity! “Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Jean-François Daoust @jfdaoust.bsky.social, Miroslav Nemcok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social, Philipp Christian Broniecki & Peter J. Loewen 🔎 Reassessing the winner-loser gap in satisfaction with democracy 📖 Open access in PLOS ONE journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Excited to share a new publication with Sharon Baute! In our latest paper @bjpols.bsky.social , we explore how the growing educational divide in EU support is partly shaped by European institutional integration itself. Check it out here, it's open access: