Frank and I have a new-ish chapter out reviewing the electoral politics of welfare state reforms. A preprint is available on my website (leoahrens.eu/publications). doi.org/10.4337/9781...

✨ NEW SPECIAL ISSUE ✨ Our new special issue, 'Social Investment in Action', edited by @ditteandersen.bsky.social and Magnus Paulsen Hansen, is now out featuring an editors' introduction, 9 original articles, an interview, and two comments! Read more below 👇 journals.sagepub.com/toc/asja/68/4

Excited to have this paper on social networks as a mechanism for cleavage stabilization with @dpzollinger.bsky.social out! If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Eigene Studien mit Teilnehmenden des #NEPS durchführen? Der Call NEPS Add-on bietet Forschenden jetzt die Möglichkeit, Fragen in Teilstudien des #NEPS einzubringen oder Zusatzstudien durchzuführen und mit bestehenden NEPS-Daten verknüpfen zu lassen. 👉 Alle Infos dazu: www.lifbi.de/de-de/Start/...

NEW - Globalization, Higher Education, and Neoliberal Values: Evidence from the Bologna Process - https://cup.org/3LG3lVj - @mgiani.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Next Monday we're welcoming Hannah Werner @ipz.bsky.social for the first #ComparativPolitics and #PoliticalEconomy Colloquium talk @uni-konstanz.de in the winter term on "Climate Change and the Democratic Dilemma: Experimental Evidence on Citizens’ Willingness to Bypass Democratic Procedures"

NEW - Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos "moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties" - @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350... @manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

I'm excited to teach my course on longitudinal data & analysis in the context of #KOMEX2026 again. For me, the first iteration of this earlier this year was a lot of nerdy 🤓 fun, and the participants agreed - even anonymously in the evals 😜 Let me know if you have any questions! More info ⬇️

Next Monday we're welcoming Hannah Werner @ipz.bsky.social for the first #ComparativPolitics and #PoliticalEconomy Colloquium talk @uni-konstanz.de in the winter term on "Climate Change and the Democratic Dilemma: Experimental Evidence on Citizens’ Willingness to Bypass Democratic Procedures"

🚨 New article out! “Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right” in @bjpols.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000... We (Alex De Juan, @juvoss.bsky.social & I) examine how right-wing attacks shape support for the far-right in Germany. Short summary thread below 👇

🎉 We’ve just kicked off the new semester with our 100th In_equality Colloquium @uni-konstanz.de — featuring Sonja Zmerli (Science Po Grenoble), Franco Bastias (University Grenoble Alpes), and some confetti! You can find the full program for the winter semester 2025/26 here: t1p.de/1f7o5

Check out the #LINEup Education Data Explorer — a new open-source map of longitudinal datasets across Europe! 🇪🇺 → Explore what data exist, where, and on what topics. Great tool for comparative education research www.lineup-project.eu/map/

Job Alert! We are hiring two post-docs (full time, 4+ years) in our project SCEPTIC - Social, Computational and Ethical Premises of Trust and Informational Cohesion with @annanosthoff.bsky.social @guzoch.bsky.social and Prof. Andreas Peters (uol.de/informatik/s...)

New semester, new great lineup for our #InternationalStudies seminar with amazing speakers at @uni-konstanz.de ➡️ Gabriella Gricius @ggricius.bsky.social ➡️ Fabio Franchino ➡️ Livia Schubiger ➡️ Kenneth Schultz ➡️ Giorgio Malet @giorgiomalet.bsky.social ➡️ Timon Forster @timonforster.bsky.social

++ACHTUNG++Neue Bewerbungsfrist. ➡️Bewerbungen werden bis zum 24.10. angenommen ➡️Bewerbungsgespräche finden am 28.10. statt! Weitere Details ⬇️ und hier: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/ungleichheit...

📢𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻!📢 We’re now accepting applications for the 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social Apply via our online portal: kohlifoundation.eu/programs-koh... 📆 Deadline 16 November 2025

Why do people turn to populist parties? 🤔 📣 Our new study just published at @ejprjournal.bsky.social shows it’s not just real inequality - it’s perceived inequality that drives populism. 📌 Blog: hu-govlab.de/en/perceived... 📊 Study: tinyurl.com/msnndnpn 🏛️ Funded by: @scripts-berlin.eu

#OpenAccess from August 2025 - Parents, Peers and Political Participation: Social Influence among Roommates - cup.org/4oTQEFF "roommates’ influence on turnout decisions rivals the association between students’ turnout and that of their parents" - Brad T. Gomez & @mtp.bsky.social#OpenAccess

🆕 Democratic disaffection and resentment ✊ Using survey data 📊 from 6 European countries 🇪🇺 @mfilsinger.bsky.social & Steffen Wamsler examine how #SGRD, already linked to radical political support, relates to general support for democracy 🏛️ #OA 📖

📢 #PolSci #Powi #Soziologie Studierende aufgepasst! Ich suche eine Hilfskraft! ➡️Quantitative Analyse mit Stata ➡️ab 01.12. ➡️Ungleichheit & politische Einstellungen/Verhalten CC @excinequality.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/ungleichheit...

1st article from my dissertation is out in Perspectives today!! two takeaways: a) knowledge economy 'winners' may not be subject to status loss but they sure care about status preservation & b) this is consequential for their attitudes re: immigration & diversity. Thnx 2 all along this journey!!

One of the best things I did in Amsterdam is to tell students that I’d make the taped lectures only available to them when the average turnout at lectures was 67%. Taught them a lesson on collective goods and coordination. It worked!

I'm hiring! Post-doctoral researcher-KOMEX director Wanted: talent in social science research methodology/ methods-versed inequality researcher, interest in global knowledge production! @excinequality.bsky.social @komex.bsky.social @methodsnet.bsky.social stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...

Very excited about the lineup for our #ComparativePolitics & #PoliticalEconomy colloquium in the winter @uni-konstanz.de !! ▶️Hannah Werner @ipz.bsky.social ▶️Fabio Franchino ▶️ @ashelshehawy.bsky.social ▶️Kevin Munger @eui-sps.bsky.social ▶️@rdassonneville.bsky.social ▶️@svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

2/@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I set out 3 puzzles: How does a new cleavage work without strong intermediary orgs? How to reconcile cleavage theory w fragmented party systems? How are structural divides (e.g. ed) mobilized indirectly in political conflict today? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@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: 🧵⬇️

Structural unemployment drives support for income redistribution in Europe, while cyclical unemployment shows no general effect. 👉 Discover how welfare state size moderates the effect of cyclical unemployment in the latest study by Ivan Petrúšek & Kristyna Basna doi.org/10.1080/0140...

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...

🎓 Excited to share this term’s PoliSci Brown Bag seminar @uniluzern.bsky.social ! ✨ Small dept = lively discussions 🙌 Thanks to this great line-up (80% women!): @erendiraleonsa.bsky.social @denisetraber.bsky.social @elivolpi.bsky.social @silviaporciuleanu.bsky.social 📍 Around Lucerne? Join us!

⚠️ Job Opportunity! RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany, seeks applications for a professorship of Political Psychology (W2, tenure). International applications are very welcome. More details: jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...

Our study thus speaks against the "electoral explanation" of unequal opinion-policy congruence. @annakurella.bsky.social @nathaliegiger.bsky.social and @janrosset.bsky.social found evidence pointing in a similar direction in an interesting study last year: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to see our study out! Our main takeaway is that while poor voters vote less often, are less ideologically aligned with their preferred party, and see their preferred party less often in government - voting still does not seem to explain unequal representation.

🚨 Why do people protest against authoritarian regimes even when facing extreme danger? 🚨 In our new paper on Romania's 1989 Revolution, we find that communities exposed to the communist Gulag showed 5x higher dissent levels. doi.org/10.1177/0010... 1/🧵

Workers on temporary contracts are more likely to strongly support redistribution. But in times of economic uncertainty, preferences converge as permanent workers also demand more government intervention www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In-depth workshop with a wonderful group of people at a beautiful location 🇳🇴 Salma and I got to present the current iteration of our historical paper on how the German occupation impacted membership in the Danish Nazi party. Thanks to the organizing team and for the super productive feedback!

You can fool some of the people some of the time, but as campaigns unfold, you can fool fewer of the people. New paper w/ Derek Beach and Jannik Fenger on framing effects out in @ejprjournal.bsky.social Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S147...

"However, more advantageous social origins influence the likelihood of employment at more prestigious institutions and higher earnings among faculty members, indicating that socioeconomic origins impact academic careers beyond their effects on entering academia."

🏭 How can we measure firms' political influence across countries? ➡️Using surveys of 27,000+ firms in 41 countries and a Bayesian IRT model, D C. Francis & @rmkubinec.bsky.social estimate firm-level influence scores and show how they vary across regimes www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

New paper with @lucasgeese.bsky.social at @commsearth.nature.com UK MPs + publics in Britain, Canada, Chile & Germany underestimated the urgency of peaking global GHG emissions when surveyed in 2023. @tyndallcentre.bsky.social @cast-centre.bsky.social @climateuea.bsky.social rdcu.be/eI4J3

The @zeit.de has 3 pages on one of our PolPop articles, led by @jacklucas.bsky.social, where politicians reflect on our finding that they perceive voters differently than voters perceive themselves. Would love to see this more often, where the subjects get a chance to reflect on the findings.

Me & my very able former colleague and now doctoral candidate Lisa Walter (not on Bluesky yet) just published a new article in @ersjournal.com We examine how discrimination shapes immigrants and their descendants’ trust in the police in Germany. 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to announce the IPERG Seminar Series at @ub.edu for this academic year! A great lineup of seminars and events is coming up — don’t miss it. 📅 Full schedule here: www.ub.edu/iperg/activi... @ubeconomics.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social

Jetzt auch Open Access!

✨ For those who missed it: Our Article on Perceived Track Mismatch among Minority and Majority Students in the German Education System is published in RSSM ❗️🥳❗️ Free copies until Oct 1 under this link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lbJn~uWr6... Small 💈⬇️

A chilling reminder that catastrophes often feel distant until they happen. "Thank you Mother Mary for saving us from war. 1938." Marienthal Monastery, Hesse

‘Huge energy challenges’: how can India make the leap to become a green, clean country?

📢 New OA Paper Does education similarly foster reports of discrimination for women and ethno-racial minorities? @chlolv.bsky.social and co-authors try to answer this question, extending previous findings on the integration paradox with French survey data. 📃Read at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

In light of Keir Starmer's turn on immigration & debates in the UK about Denmark as an example to follow, I was invited by @ukandeu.bsky.social to reflect on what the research tells us about lessons to draw from Danish migration policy. Here's my take on the pitfalls: ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...