In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right. Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements. 1/3

🌅📙 64.3 📚 How do parties talk about education? A new study by J.Gingrich & @anjagiudici.bsky.social looks at 70+ years of party rhetoric across 20 democracies to find 3 trends in discussion: 1️⃣ Consensual 2️⃣ Differential salience 3️⃣ Polarised 🔗

I'm delighted to advertise an exciting job as centre manager, helping me build Oxford's new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). We start this academic year and aim to attract as new faculty some of the world's top people in computational, experimental and qualitative methods.

Postdoc at the University of Edinburgh for a project on “Instability After Adverse Parental Life-Course Events and Educational Inequality.” Open to applicants with the right to work in the UK, deadline Aug 4. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/r...

Yay! @madselk.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, @mhaslberger.bsky.social, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, Laure Bokobza, and my piece on 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 is out in @worldpolitics.bsky.social! Find it here: muse.jhu.edu/article/964464

❗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👇

My op-ed about my research on religion, politics and education in Hungary feps-europe.eu/a-suffocatin...

#FarRight forces in Europe & beyond are trying to redesign education systems to promote their illiberal & authoritarian principles🧑‍🎓 This ProgPost dossier discusses this w/ articles by @anjagiudici.bsky.social @neszter.bsky.social & @jovanakaraulic.bsky.social 🗞️ feps-europe.eu/dossier/the-...

Policy impact for researchers 📣 Join us for a virtual one-day workshop on understanding and engaging with UK government and policy making. Our first available workshop takes place on Wednesday 4 June – sign up now www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/ifg-academy/...

Against all evidence, societies with more income inequality make young people believe they have more chances to climb the social ladder. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

We are seeking a PhD Research Student (70%) to join the Centre for Education and Digital Transformation at @phzuerich.bsky.social! Pursue impactful research in data literacy, media ethics, datification or related topics. Begin September 2025, fixed term (5 years). Apply by 24 May 2025!

From February 2025 - Mini-Publics, (Lack of) Representativeness, and Legitimacy Beliefs - cup.org/42TH1OK "results of this study temper hopes that mini-publics offer an easy fix to perceptions of low democratic legitimacy" - Micha Germann #OpenAccess

Preorder info for Man Up! May it make a difference: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Thrilled to see this finally published! An amazing project developed with @clarafontdevila.bsky.social, Huriya Jabbar and @averger.bsky.social and Huriya Jabbar. It brings together 30 contributions from 50+ amazing authors. e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res... A brief summary of the 4 parts 👇

Our data paper on the Regime Support and Opposition Groups data was just published in @bjpols.bsky.social ! Co-authored with @sirianned.bsky.social , @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social and @torewig.bsky.social Here comes a relatively long thread (as is appropriate for a long-term project)

Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social . We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric. Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric. 1/3

Here's me and Ed Fieldhouse for @conunitucl.bsky.social, summarising our recent paper on voter ID in Britain: with more detail on who is lacking ID and the impact on turnout.

Join us in Lausanne this summer.

Democracy researchers please take note, and tell relevant colleagues: The Dep. of Pol. Sci. in Gothenburg is hiring a new Director for the V-Dem Institute. The Director will also serve as permanent (tenured) member of the Dep., with reduced teaching responsibilities during their tenure as Director.

Exciting day - my book is now out in the online world!! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

For our project Territorial Inequality in Education, Johanna Schnabel @jos38.bsky.social , Paolo Dardanelli, Steven Ballantyne, and I are looking for an RA to support data collection. The position is based at Cardiff University and will be supervised by me. polisky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLT184/r...

Ein Blick über die Grenze zeigt, was passiert, wenn Mitte-rechts-Parteien der radikalen Rechten die Hand reichen. Statt sie zu schwächen, legitimiert und stärkt es sie. Mit besten Grüßen aus den Niederlanden…

Reminder that these protests work: - Evidence from Greece: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... - Evidence from Italy: academic.oup.com/poq/article-... - Evidence from France: academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...

Totally.

How do autocrats stay in power? Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇

Just published: New paper by Kattalina Berriochoa and myself on the link between local knowledge economies and subjective perceptions of social mobility. We surprisingly find that strong economies are associated with more negative mobility perceptions... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Mit einer Amtszeit von nur gerade 6 Jahren + 3 Monaten (per 1.3.2025) war Viola Amherd stark unterdurchschnittlich lang im Amt. (updated con @nenadstojanovic.bsky.social + @anjagiudici.bsky.social in @spsr.bsky.social 🙏)

Childbirth leads men and women’s commuting patterns to diverge, with mothers staying closer to home where access to high-quality jobs is scarce. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I’ve shown here that systems with later tracking do better at exposing students from disadvantaged backgrounds to high achieving peers journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Join us for the upcoming history of education summer school in Leuven! www.kuleuven.be/english/summ...

‘Invoking the Discourse of Children's Rights in Campaigns Around Public Space’. Our latest article discusses the problematic blurring of adult and children’s rights. Has wider importance for the enactment of Future Generations approaches to policy and planning. doi.org/10.1111/chso...

I have advertised two research positions, PhD and Postdoc, in the field of educational history. Applicants should have historical research skills and at least a reading proficiency in both German and French. #histed

Have written a longer version of this, including on the history of social care and how we got here. Enough of acting timidly when you have the largest majority in memory. To govern is to choose. So, choose something. benansell.substack.com/p/profiles-i...

We are hiring: 4-year post doc position at our department, open to all topics in political science. 75% research and 25% teaching, good salary, great department and colleagues, and a beautiful city. Deadline: February 15 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

How do political parties speak about education? Jane Gingrich @jrgingrich.bsky.social and I examine political speech on education in advanced democracies over the last 70 years (open access): ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Polsky #EduSky #Academicsky

Because I am not great at these things myself, here's a thread of some starter packs for people interested in global and international education, education and development, and development studies (writ large) compiled by others who are better at this. bsky.app/starter-pack... #AcademicSky #EduSky

🔓 Oxford University Press has kindly made the introduction of our new book FREE ACCESS for everyone to enjoy! 📖 You can read/download the chapter at this link: doi.org/10.1093/oso/... @pietrocastellig.bsky.social

with dear friends and brilliant co-authors @sebdiessner.bsky.social and David Hope, we have a new paper soon out in @comppol.bsky.social

For the Guardian, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, Jane Gingrich and @hannaschwander.bsky.social synthesize our new PPRN research briefs and write about ways forward for more ambitious climate policies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New paper in @apsrjournal.bsky.social with @andreasbeerli.bsky.social, Dominik Hangartner, and Dalston Ward about #immigration and voting for the #FarRight in #Switzerland

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

Recently accepted by #QJE, “A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution,” by Boning, Hendren, Sprung-Keyser (@bsprungkeyser.bsky.social), and Stuart: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

And another great starter package for Swiss Politics 👇

@fannyisensee.bsky.social @catgqf.bsky.social @stephanieolsen.bsky.social @saraback.bsky.social @johanprytz.bsky.social @mkeynes.bsky.social @heatherlwellis.bsky.social @kdn.bsky.social @anjagiudici.bsky.social @dantoepper.bsky.social @carmenflury.bsky.social

Just a little reminder that there is a history of education feed:

📚PAPERBACK RELEASE DAY 📚 Interested in politics? Want to know why it seems to fail so often? And haven't already bought the book? Good news! Today is paperback release day, just in time for the Reith Lectures, broadcasting in a month. Links to buy 👇 www.penguin.co.uk/authors/2846...

GOVPET is a truly amazing community of scholars - can’t think of a better opportunity for PhD students working on these topics to get feedback on their research!

ICYMI: The entire first chapter of my new book with @ehutt.bsky.social is posted *for free* on the Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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