Philip Rathgeb

Deeply thankful for these five excellent reviews and to @sasemeeting.bsky.social for curating this discussion!

I learned a lot from these different perspectives on my work and hope readers/colleagues will find the conversation useful for understanding our current political & economic moment

Glad to share a symposium on my book "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare" with SER: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-....

Featuring @alexandreafonso.bsky.social, @vapunkt.bsky.social, @ankehassel.bsky.social, @danielk24.bsky.social, @gscheiring.bsky.social, & rejoinder by myself 👇

Whose interests do radical right parties serve? I have a short contribution in a Socio-economic Review symposium on @philiprathgeb.bsky.social's great book on the political economy of the radical right academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Last week @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social we presented our 2025 @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social award winners. Some fabulous winners this year includ: @drantoniasimon.bsky.social @francesryan.bsky.social @philiprathgeb.bsky.social Zoe Irving, John Mckendrick, @edithengland.bsky.social Anna Baillie & more!

The book awarded is "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" with Oxford UP (2024).

Link to Preface, Acknowledgements, and First chapter of the book (Author's Accepted Manuscript) here: www.philiprathgeb.com/book

Social Policy Association Award Winners Celebrated at 2025 Conference - Social Policy Association Excellence in social policy teaching, research and impact has been recognised by the 2025 Social Policy Association awards. The list of winners for each category [...]

Great honour to receive the Richard Titmuss Book Award @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social alongside a set of impressive scholars recognised for their social policy teaching, research and impact.

Many thanks to the jury @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social!

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1/3) 📣Out in Party Politics:
We trace the equal rights and economic equality positions of 69 center-right and far-right parties since 1970 in 12 countries. We find that center right parties did not react to/address equal rights concerns and economic inequality

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Another recently published review, this time by @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social in Economic Sociology:

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So great to see folks read and engage 😀, thanks Jonathan!

Hardcopy of the book "The eco-social polity?" on a desk

It has arrived! First ideas for this project were already exchanged with @brisunipress.bsky.social at ESPAnet 2019 - but now it has become real! As hardcopy, but (thanks to generous funding by @uni-hamburg.de) also open access: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-eco-soci...

This looks extremely relevant. Looking forward to reading it.

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It's been a great pleasure to give this year's MacKenzie Lecture @uofglasgow.bsky.social presenting my book How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism & Welfare in Europe and the USA. Many thanks to the PIR department, especially to @drjparker.bsky.social, for the invitation and dinner afterwards

‼️Save the date: Wednesday 4th of June we'll have Quinn Slobodian talk about his work at our @psabcpe.bsky.social online seminar series - sign up and share widely‼️

This interesting new paper argues that cuts to taxes on top incomes disproportionately benefit the financial sector. The finance industry gains more from top income tax cuts than other industries. "Cuts in top income tax rates increase the (relative) size of the financial sector"

How the Eurozone shapes populism: a comparative political economy approach The rise of populist parties is a defining feature of political change in the advanced capitalist countries. Whereas a large body of research explores populist parties in domestic politics, we know...

▶️ @philiprathgeb.bsky.social and @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social assess how Eurozone membership shapes the strategies of populist parties.

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YouTube video by Edward Elgar Publishing Dominic Afscharian discusses his new book, Ideas of Social Europe

🎥 @afscharian.bsky.social discusses his forthcoming title, Ideas of Social Europe, Enhancing or Eroding European Integration?: youtu.be/sSLOGBWpSF8?...

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Had a great time in Scotland for our pilot within the Leiden-Edinburgh "Global Futures Hub" with @alexandreafonso.bsky.social @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social @eawolff.bsky.social @fbulfone.bsky.social

Thanks for having us @philiprathgeb.bsky.social @lukaslehner.bsky.social Daniel Clegg Elke Heins!

🔈Next week, I´ll talk about my book on far-right populism and exclusionary neoliberalism with the wonderful @dorobohle.bsky.social, @philiprathgeb.bsky.social and @danielk24.bsky.social - tune in for a sadly topical discussion ‼️

Auf den Unis fehlt oft eine Perspektive die gewerkschaftliche Fragestellungen und die Lohnabhängigen in den Blick nimmt. Freu mich sehr, dass wir hier jetzt mit einer öffentlichen Ringvorlesung zum sozialen und ökologischen Umbau ansetzen. Tolle Themen und spannende Vortragende:

📢 Next week is our first seminar of the @psabcpe.bsky.social online series with fantastic @ankehassel.bsky.social talking about Growth Strategies And Welfare Reforms: How Nations Cope With Economic Transitions💡Please sign up 💻 & share widely ‼️

BP dropping its green ambitions is a travesty. But that’s exactly how capitalism works The failure to deal with the climate emergency is not a problem of greedy individual companies, but a system rigged against positive change, says Brett Christophers, a professor of economic geography

For the Guardian, I did a piece about BP, climate change and capitalism.

Happy to be in @jeppjournal.bsky.social with the incredible @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social

Look no further if you're interested in populism and its policy implications 👇

Strategische Bezugnahme auf Gruppen in der politischen Kommunikation Das Projekt „Group Appeals" untersucht systematisch die Verwendung von gruppenspezifischen Ansprachen im Kontext klimapolitischer Maßnahmen. In ihrem Gastbeitrag erläutern Dr. Leonce Röth und Dr. Phil...

Malocher, Migrantinnen, Mieter - im Wahlkampf haben die Parteien unterschiedliche Gruppen in den Fokus ihrer Kommunikation gerückt. Was hinter den "Group Appeals" steckt, erläutern unsere Grantees @philiprathgeb.bsky.social und Leonce Röth: zentrum-neue-sozialpolitik.org/strategische...

Extremely happy that my first single-authored paper is now published (open access) at @EJPRjournal: “Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: the electoral consequences of the coal phase-out in Germany”

Here's a summary thread... 1/n

Here's a podcast interview I gave to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social on my book How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare with Oxford UP: newbooksnetwork.com/how-the-radi...

Wie die Normalisierung der radikalen Rechten deren Wahlerfolge begünstigte Der Aufstieg der radikalen Rechten ist weniger das Ergebnis eines plötzlichen Sinneswandels der Wähler, sondern vielmehr das Produkt einer schleichenden Normalisierung, die bisher verborgene Ansichten...

For the German speakers among you, @makronom.bsky.social features a piece summarizing my recent book.

If you're interested, this is the link: makronom.de/wie-die-norm...

Ein Grund, warum das hier Leute so triggert, dürfte sein, dass die Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik der FPÖ nicht gut in übliche Kategorien passt. Wie man sie dennoch analytisch erfassen kann, hat @philiprathgeb.bsky.social hier sehr schön beschrieben: doi.org/10.1080/0140...

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