🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥 Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk international.au.dk/about/profil...

Excited to be visiting the University of Milan for the upcoming weeks to continue my research on the intergenerational transmission of economic insecurity & how it affects political behavior. Thanks @mathildevanditmars.eu for hosting me! If you're around Milan while I’m here feel free to reach out!

Really excited to see my final dissertation paper out 🎉 Do parties shift their issue priorities when polls decline? Looking at press releases from 68 parties in 9 countries, we find little evidence that they do.

Periodic reminder that paper-picnic.com is a terrific one-stop-shop to stay updated on the latest publications in the social sciences. Thanks Moritz! Pro tip: installing the website as an app on your phone to easily access it from your home screen: support.google.com/chrome/answe... (Android/iOS)

New working paper! I examine whether exposure to local unemployment during adolescence shapes immigration attitudes in adulthood, focusing on the long-term imprint of early economic insecurity doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The next conference of the DVPW Section Political Economy takes place 24–25 Sept 2026 at Freie Universität Berlin. Contributions in English and German are welcome. Please send us your paper or panel proposal by next Friday, 27 Feb 2026. All info in our Call for Papers: www.dvpw.de/fileadmin/us...

NEW - Adolescent Exposure to Economic Inequality and Belief in the ‘American Dream’ on Entering Adulthood - https://cup.org/4rmfyyE - @sldemora.bsky.social & Benjamin J. Newman #OpenAccess

Excited to welcome the fabulous @tinepaulsen.bsky.social today at our Politics Lecture Series at @humboldtuni.bsky.social. Come and join us!

🚨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social) ⁉️ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*? doi.org/10.1017/S147...

📣 Call for Papers: 🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

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 📈👇

The real ones know: there is only one SPSA conference today! 🇨🇭 Looking forward to present two brand-new paper projects ((Paper 1) co-authored with @hannaschwander.bsky.social and @franziskaveit.bsky.social & (Paper 2) co-authored with @juliusk.bsky.social) in Zurich today and tomorrow!

Very happy to see this out in CPS! We study class identities and their social and political relevance over several decades in Britain, Denmark, Norway, and the US. A small thread: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SIRW4...

How polarized was occupational change in Germany's and UK's largest cities? Happy to share a new paper with Daniel Oesch and @katymorris.bsky.social out in Journal for Labour Market Research. Read the paper #OpenAccess here doi.org/10.1186/s126... and 🧵👇:

Happy to see my article with @joostvanspanje.bsky.social on the short-term political consequences of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy announcement published in @psrm.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

📣 Publication alert: Data paper on the Berlin Polarization Monitor now on OSF. The study documents a panel survey on partisan and issue-based affective polarization, emotions, political behavior, and well-being in Germany (2025–2027). osf.io/preprints/so... #PoliticalScience #Polarization #Germany

From October 2025 - Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - cup.org/47ifc4B "we show that educational divides are diminished in the presence of countervailing networks" - @davidattewell6.bsky.social & @dpzollinger.bsky.social #OpenAccess

An English translation of our book "Trigger Points. Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society" will come out @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/triggerpoints It studies the social bases of political divides over migration, climate, diversity & redistribution

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

📢📢 Happy to announce a new update to the PPEG database! The data now covers - > 3.000 parties - 1.100 parliamentary elections - 402 presidential elections - 2.044 cabinets across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31). All info: ppeg.wzb.eu We hope that data is helpful to the community!

🚨What are the political consequences of memory policy? In a new paper @francescocolombo.bsky.social and I show that a public initiative to rename antisemitic streets in Berlin mobilized left voters, induced no backlash, and benefited left parties in the subsequent election. osf.io/preprints/so...

New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies. Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇

Happy that our paper with @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, and @lstoetze.bsky.social found a home at @thejop.bsky.social. You can read it here 👇 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Thanks to all the fantastic people giving feedback and supporting us

💡 How does moving to opportunity reshape political behavior? 🗞️ In our new BJPolS paper, @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that residential relocations that increase access to opportunity foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left. 👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65

New publication!📢 @jvanslageren.bsky.social and I study political socialization during adolescence in urban and rural areas, using data from @adkspanel.bsky.social Discussing politics with parents and peers is positively related to multiculturalist attitudes in cities, but not in rural places (1/3)

🚨New working paper: Compositional Effects, Internal Migration and Electoral Outcomes osf.io/preprints/so... #polisciresearch

🚨Elites often warn: taxing the rich hurts everyone. 🤔But do citizens buy that story? With @bcastanho.bsky.social & Hanna Lierse, we find: They don’t! Most people believe progressive taxes can deliver both — more equality and more growth. @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social #openaccess cup.org/3JVuvHm

More and more young people are turning to the far right. Why and what can we do about it? Join our #COVIDEU Workshop on Nov 21 (2–5 PM) to discuss causes and counter-strategies. 🚀 Hosted by @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social 💡 Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/bdenyfnw

I’m happy to see this short paper with @fluegeldo.bsky.social on unexpected hikes in voting costs out in @thejop.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1086/739405 [1/5]

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

📣 The Politics Lecture Series is back with a fantastic line-up! Opening talk: Melissa Sands (LSE) on “Measuring Racial Avoidance on Virtual Streets” Tue, 28 Oct 2025, 12–1 pm, Room 002 Everyone is welcomed to attend!

Very happy to see "The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines" out in the @apsrjournal.bsky.social. w/ @erikvoeten.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

🚨 New paper out! Very happy to see our (Tom Arend, @fabioellger.bsky.social and mine) paper out at the @bjpols.bsky.social. We explore how voters react to new, disruptive political actors. 1/3

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

Great talk by @jacobhacker.bsky.social at the American Academy in Berlin today on the future of the Democratic Party, the role of inequality, and the Progressive Dilemma

Still processing all the incredible insights from this week. Big thanks to the organizers and everyone who contributed

📣 Check out the latest post on @transformecon.bsky.social, a blog by @bertelsmannst.bsky.social. It's by researchers affiliated with Humboldt GovLab: @timwapps.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social & @antvalentim.bsky.social. 🎉 🧵1/2

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

⏳Beyond thrilled to co-launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy next week — with this *incredible* lineup of female talent 🙌 @dustinvoss.bsky.social @mpifg.bsky.social

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

New article out! @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social, @k8ebrown.bsky.social & I teamed up to explore whether the concept of 'cordon sanitaire' remains useful in the current stage of mainstreaming of far right politics Read the full article, open access, here 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/8 🧵

On top of getting an intense and informative introduction to machine learning by Marco Steenbergen, the whole package of the @usi.ch Summer School in Lugano was pretty memorable 🦦⛰ From what I've heard around, this week's quant courses were excellent and there is more on the program next week 🧑‍💻

Excited to host the 4th iteration of the Transformations of Democracy Junior Scholars Workshop at WZB Berlin together with Hanno Hilbig! Amazing talks & exchanges with colleagues from Princeton, Harvard, UC Davis, Toulouse School of Economics, Copenhagen, Humboldt, Chemnitz, EUI, and beyond..

Excited to present work on the impact of local unemployment in formative years on anti-immigration attitudes in adulthood tomorrow at #epsa2025 Saturday 11.20am-1pm Room 1A.08