Aber das werden doch wieder nur Theorien!

Die letzte Folge unseres Heimaten-Podcast ist raus! Mit dem klugen & informierten @lwestheuser.bsky.social unterhalte ich mich darüber, wem Deutschland wirklich gehört. & was ökonomische Ungleichheit mit den Verwerfungen der Gegenwart zu tun hat. Hört doch mal rein! open.spotify.com/episode/6rCo...

Im @hkw-berlin.bsky.social Podcast sprechen Max und ich darüber, wem Deutschland gehört, was Privateigentum mit Nationalgrenzen zu tun hat und wie eine Politik gegen die Oligarchie aussieht. Ich war kränker als ich wusste an dem Tag, also keine Kohärenz-Garantie aber ich zumindest hatte großen Spaß!

Interessantes Messinstrument zur Erfassung von #Triggerpunkten jenseits klassischer Surveyitems: "This paper aims to transcend the classical methods used in surveys to measure salience (...) with physiological measures." (OA 🔓) @steffenmau.bsky.social @thomaslux.bsky.social @lwestheuser.bsky.social

This is a brilliant piece on the restructuring of political competition in Western Europe and goes far beyond the question of populism. Great also for teaching.

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Interesting: 17% of US Americans identify as "socialists". (More than I would have thought!) Also, American socialists are not class reductionists: they tack strongly left not just on economic matters, but also on immigration and race. More in this study: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Das reichste Prozent der Welt vermehrt sein Vermögen massiv, während Millionen weiter abrutschen. Das ist ein Risiko für die Demokratie – auch in Deutschland.

"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."

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

Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD

For the Guardian, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social and I write about how building new homes is not enough to tackle the housing crisis. Housing is a redistributive issue and progressive policy solutions need to acknowledge that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

With the Progressive Politics Research Network, we have published 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. What does a progressive agenda on housing look like? Which elements are important? What the hurdles are and how can they be overcome? politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

For the Guardian, @jonhenley.bsky.social reports on our new research briefs on the politics of housing. Current policies too often treat housing as an asset. Housing as a social right has nearly disappeared from the agenda of even progressive parties. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

This from @stephenkb.bsky.social cuts to the heart of the matter. Does the government not understand how toxic this argument is? Do they think they can somehow weaponise it? The last governments at least had the merit not of making this kind of foul claim.

Antitrust policy is highly technocratic and has a specialized cadre of regulators/lawyers/economists to enforce it. But ideological capture may be a useful concept for scholars focused on other domains, too.

Good use of this medium. More book summary threads please!

🟢 Climate change hits the poorest the hardest shows *Chapter 2.1 of the 2025 #ClimateInequality Report* ⚠️The bottom 50% wil bear ¾ of all income losses from climate change by 2050. Read more in the report 🔗 wid.world/news-article...

quantitative forscher machen sich sorgen um ihre modelle während ihr gehirn nicht mehr dazu fähig ist mehr als einen abstract zu lesen. bro du kümmerst dich um die falsche regression

Fascinating how often political commentary in the UK still refers to the median voter. In a multi-dimensional space with salience endogenous to positions, it‘s unclear to me who that should be. In a multi-party system, winning the median voter is of course not necessarily a vote-maximizing strategy.

Finde unironisch lieb, wie sich das Technikmuseum gerade auf seinen Kern-Appeal besinnt

This is out today in open access, and while it's very much a methodology piece, I think it's really important to building the foundation for how we move forward with understanding the role of gender in politics.

Second, while we've long known that gender traditionalism was related to Trump supoort, this is the first indication that the relationship is reciprocal. Greater gender traditionalism makes people like Trump more, but liking Trump, over time, makes people's gender identities more traditional.

Do you also sometimes wonder what kind of beauty and possibility our species could achieve if a handful of people didn't sponge up all the surplus we, together, create and spend it on generating "artificial intelligence" and running away, into space? m.youtube.com/watch?v=ANhA...

Jugendliche mit Migrationsgeschichte (der Eltern) - Für führende Politiker*innen zwar unerwünscht im #Stadtbild, aber für den Schützengraben reicht es. #Wehrpflicht

„Remember only that I was innocent and, just like you, mortal on that day, I too had a face, marked by rage, by pity and joy, Quite simply a human face." Benjamin Fondane 14. November 1898 schrieb Lyrik, Dramen, Drehbücher. Am 2.od.3. Oktober 1944 in Auschwitz ermordet 

The claim of the article is that a recognition theory of class can compliment a structuralist account of class, not by reducing class to subjective identity but by exploring how the structural vulnerability to economic domination is experienced first-hand as a form of injury to one's self-worth.

🚨new publication🚨 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆 in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025. Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...

Fliegen wird billiger, Deutschlandticket wird teuer. Das ist die Politik der Bundesregierung.

really key point. polls, particularly issue polls, are a WILDLY unrealistic way to measure how people actually interact with political messaging these days

The Democrats take young women for granted, but this graph should give them pause. Young women no longer trust national institutions (why should they, as these institutions do not protect their rights). This distrust can easily extend to the Democratic Party in the future (for the same reasons).

🔥 @oxfaminternational.bsky.social latest report exposes how billionaires are fuelling the climate crisis — hoarding profits, polluting at extreme levels, and blocking progress. As #COP30 begins, we need bold action to stop this climate plunder & put people before profit. 🔗 Report: buff.ly/BrKIiCS

🚨 New paper with Maria Grasso on generational shifts in political values. Despite talk of rising age polarisation, we show that gaps in attitudes are stable or even narrowing. Economic attitudes move in cycles, while social values have become more liberal – mainly due to generational replacement.

Drawing on 41 semi-structured interviews with wealthy members of the business class living in and around Manchester, this paper explores how therapy culture has travelled upwards, to the executive and owning class, through CEO peer groups. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/3nhvM3M

The AxPo Observatory on Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po is offering a 2-year postdoctoral position focusing on socioeconomic polarization and fragmentation. Ph.Ds in sociology, economics, political science, and related fields are encouraged to apply. www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/applica...

Wir möchten Krisen mit der wachsharten Zuversicht eines Hildegard-Knef-Kopfes begegnen, der im Keller des Hamburger Panoptikums der Zukunft harrt.

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Ist die AfD die neue Arbeiterpartei? - Das fragen Roland Zschächner und ich uns in unserem neuen Radiofeature. Wir fragen: warum wenden sich so viele Beschäftigte den Rechten zu – sogar Gewerkschafter und Betriebsräte? Wie reagieren die Gewerkschaften auf den Rechtsruck in den eigenen Reihen?

Erich Fried: Wo sie wohnt? / Im Haus neben der Verzweiflung Berliner:innen: Was zahlt sie da warm?

Die Berliner Stadtmission sammelt in dieser Woche warme Kleidung für Bedürftige. Wintermäntel und -jacken werden Di bis Do, 7 - 9 Uhr an der Sammelstelle am Washingtonplatz, bei der Stadtmission in der Lehrter Straße in Mitte oder im Textilhafen in der Storkower Straße in Pankow angenommen.

Heute ist Welttag des unzuverlässigen Erzählens. Vielleicht auch erst morgen.

Unter „ARMUT“ leiden heutzutage nur noch Randgruppen. Die Mehrheit der Leute hat GANZ ANDERE Probleme: Preissteigerung, Inflationsschock, Cost-of-Living-Crisis, sinkende „Affordability“, Mietenexolosionen…

Wenn man jahrelang bei der Lyrikförderung spart, fällt das vielleicht erstmal nicht auf. Aber wenn die Metaphern irgendwann schlackern wie eine eingestürzte Hängebrücke, ist es zu spät noch umzusteuern.

🧵💚Does the Green Party's wider focus on economic/social justice issues mean that climate is being crowded out? Not for their voters - in fact those who now say they would vote green are more likely to back a range of 'climate action' measures than those who voted Green in 2024.

www.researchgate.net/profile/Juan... What a great and necessary paper: "This article contends that this ‘polarisation narrative’ simplifies complex issues through a bad analogy: the construction of a spectrum where good should be found in the middle of diametrically opposed political positions."

I summarize one of the themes of my new book -- on how to rebuild the middle class -- in this NYT guest essay www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

Am Morgen des 10.11. brannten viele Synagogen noch. Straßen waren überzogen mit Glassplittern, Juden wurden durch Gassen getrieben, bespuckt, beschimpft, geschlagen - ermordet. Auch Kinder und Alte. Nicht nur in großen Städten. Es geschah nicht heimlich, sondern in aller Öffentlichkeit. (1)

She’s here!

If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we’ve drifted from democracy’s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. But an antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world. My latest www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...