The ancient Greeks had a machine for democracy, the kleroterion, today democracies are dominated by the tech of financial markets. My conversation about capitalism, class analysis, and democratic theory - first published in the Swedish magazine Röda Rummet, now in English at @versobooks.bsky.social

Postdoc in Social Stratification, Education, and Genetics with @astabreinholt.bsky.social at Roskilde University, Denmark. The position is for 2 years, starting from May 1st, 2026. Apply by Dec 12th candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Excited to see my article "The affective politics of reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley" has now been officially assigned a volume and issue in Critical Studies on Security (Vol. 13, Issue 3)! I have 50 free copies; let me know if you need one. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4H3KM...

I feel that we need to acknowledge that Marx was possibly the only funny German

That West German motherhood penalty 🥲

This looks very interesting!

NEW BLOG: In my new paper, I map 26 questions on environmental attitudes in social space. I challenge three accounts of the classed nature of environmentalism: the prosperity thesis, ecological distinction, and eco-habitus. Read a short summary on my blog: magneflemmen.com/2025/05/31/g...

Thank God.

There’s a nice collection here www.boredpanda.com/ugly-renaiss...

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Antipolitical sentiment in the working class is not least a symptom of class demobilization. For our German case, we document a steep decline of working class organization, mobilization, political and discursive representation. Others have noted very similar trends across rich democracies.

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A tomato picker handing a full bucket to the dumper who empties it into a trailer which holds up to 6 tons. Workers earn .86 cents for each 25lb bucket. The only work around 5 hours a day, so they go at top speed without many breaks to earn enough to pay their bills. #WeFeedYou

I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV). It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more. #ERCStG

Our paper on clusters of schools across the UK is out. We find five clusters: multi-racial & super-diverse middle & working-class schools of towns & cities, suburban white middle class schools, established elite schools & (post-)industrial white working class schools. doi.org/10.1002/berj...

Det her er enormt problematisk. Jeudan (som også udlejede Lars Løkkes Nyhavn lejlighed til spotpris) er en kæmpe spiller på det københavnske boligmarked og tæt integreret i magteliten politiken.dk/danmark/poli...

Do think tanks coordinate with interest groups or protect their turf? J A H Whittlestone, C K Florczak & @mbklitgaard.bsky.social examine alliances and autonomy in corporatist systems. Read more: buff.ly/GwDWSXg @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9

Landbruget har alt, alt for megen magt i Danmark. Som i: mafialignende magt. Her er et gavelink til en helt gak historie om at lade landbruget eje offentlige kontroldata. Det svarer til at give alle data om lungekræft til tobaksfabrikanterne og lade dem bestemme, hvilke forskere, der får adgang.

Venetians know something about oligarchy.

Network of organisations connected to the BBC's commercial boards via shared directors.

The video abstract for my article “Political Theology: Origins, Concepts, and Contradictions” is now up on @theoryculturesociety.org ’s homepage. Go check it out.

Hvis man ikke kan lige uafhængige forskeres beregning kan man jo altid gøre nogle ikke-forskere i en tænketank til at producere de resultater, man gerne vil have finans.dk/erhverv/ECE1...

The article by Sebastian Diemer Mørk & @antongrau.bsky.social map successful and rejected applications of Danish craftspeople & designers (5/12) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

After 3 years of work the editorial of our “Mapping relational structures in culture” Poetics special issue w/ Marco Serino, Elisa Klüger & Fabien Eloire is out. It introduces 10 amazing papers mapping culture w/ GDA/SNA. Below I introduce the 10 papers 🧵(1/12) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please read our new paper: Neighbourhood CEOs” We show that firms led by neighborhood CEOs-in terms of physical proximity to the company and personal values -exhibit a better working environment, as measured by both a regulatory authority and employees’ perceptions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

For once a little bit of self promotion: interesting paper on M mediation of parental social class via wealth transfers on homeownership by @jaschadraeger.bsky.social @nrmllr.bsky.social and myself www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

EU’s ‘bazooka’ er rettet mod de amerikanske tech-giganter: nye digitale skatter er klar. Normalt ville det kræve opbakning fra alle medlemsstater, men ikke her. Det vidner om et fundamentalt anderledes, et mere magtfuldt og handlekraftigt EU - skriver jeg i dagens kronik i Berlingske:

This is a great piece of new research from @martesaga.bsky.social that analyses capitalist class political action by examining both corporate board interlockers & wealthy owners. Open Access. 👇 academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Are lobbyists influential? The public sure thinks so, but applied political science since lobbying registration data emerged (late 90s) struggled to produce evidence that it does. In new review @wmjunk.bsky.social @heathbrown.bsky.social and I chart a wave of research showing that lobbying matters.

Damn there’s some bleak shit happening out there

Great study - that shows higher variation in parenting among working class parents. 🧪

EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 15! Join us and @samfriedman.bsky.social Friedman (LSE), Annette Zimmer (Uni Münster) and William Genieys (Sciences Po) for a two-day conference/workshop, June 3 and 4. Excellent opportunity for paper feedback. DM me for info and questions. Please share and repost!

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Jeg har en analyse i dagens Information om europæisk afhængighed af amerikanske økonomiske infrastrukturer:

From the department of wild graphs about Danish agricultural history

This statement is nearing 1600 signatories. Have you signed? Have you sent to your friends & colleagues? Your department or university list-serve? Your alumni network? if not, can you? bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd or to go right to signing bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign

I signed in support of my many US friends and colleagues. Maybe you want to sign too?

🚨 New Paper Out! 🚨 🔍 Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015 w/ Jacob Aagaard Lunding in open access in Sociology 📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1177/0038... A thread (1/10)

WED researchers from around the world participate in the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) Conference, in the ‘Wealth and Global Elites’ mini-conference in Boston, Massachusetts. worldelitedatabase.org/wed-members-...

The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.

3 days, 3 universities, 2 associate professor, 1 book 👀 Been presenting our new book #Fragmenting_Cities : www.elgaronline.com/monochap/boo... at Roskilde University, Lund University, Malmö University. 🙏 🙏 🙏 @antongrau.bsky.social @martingrander.bsky.social @iurmalmo.bsky.social and many more

After years of European austerity, budget balancing, absolute public squalor across the continent laying waste to centrist politics "there is no alternative", that all the social democrats, christian democrats are just like, "oh yeah, we coulda turned the taps on at any time", is ... 😐

New article with Narzanin Massoumi in the @bjsociology.bsky.social: ‘Elite Status-Seeking and Class Reproduction in Civil Society.’ Thread.👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Rasende over Trump og J.D Vance uanstændige behandling af Zelenskij? Støt Den Danske Ukraine-komités indsamling på Mobilepay 924084!

If "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity," that's only because the tech workers who can put in all those hours at the office have offloaded all their caregiving responsibilities onto others more vulnerable than them. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...

Da Novo Nordisk Fonden bevilgede to millioner til regeringens "innovationsdistrikt", advarede politikere om en uheldig involvering af særinteresser. Nu belyser dokumenter fondens rolle i projektet. Fonden "får Erhvervsministeriet til at binde sig til nogle meget konkrete krav," siger ekspert.

Online seminar with Kristian Nagel Delica and I were we will present our new book Fragmenting Cities, and focus on symbolic violence and the "ghetto list" in Denmark. March 4 at 13:15 CET. Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon... Book: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/fra... #urban #sociology