In our piece for @zentrum-neue-sozialpolitik.org we uncover the sources of public backlash against the decarbonisation of Germany's housing sector ("Heizungsgesetz"), emphasizing how the lack of social policy compensation creates opportunities for opposition forces to contest the green transition 👇
05.11.2025 09:30 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨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.
29.10.2025 09:55 — 👍 105 🔁 49 💬 1 📌 0
We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions.
www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
23.10.2025 14:03 — 👍 91 🔁 85 💬 0 📌 5
Looking forward as well! Thanks to @linerenn.bsky.social and Oscar Mazzoleni for organising
22.10.2025 09:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interesting! Seems to resonate w/ the finding that RR parties pursue trade protectionism only in trade deficit contexts (US) while prioritising welfare chauvinism in generous welfare states (Western Europe) and selective economic nationalism in FDI-dependent growth models (Visegrad).
15.10.2025 08:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A game of tariffs: is there demand for tariffs in Europe?
In April 2025, the United States introduced sweeping tariffs on imports from the European Union and the United Kingdom, raising transatlantic tensions and prompting debate over Europe’s response. T...
Tariffs might be the word of 2025.
Given the state of *looks around* we asked: is there demand for tariffs in Europe?
@grahn.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @sophiemainz.bsky.social Maria Nordbrandt & I show the answer is a resolute no
@jeppjournal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
13.10.2025 08:01 — 👍 48 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 2
CITYPERC is organising a workshop on the Economic Project of the Far Right on October 6 at City, University of London. To join us in person or via Teams sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cityperc-w...
15.09.2025 09:09 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
04.08.2025 09:53 — 👍 176 🔁 58 💬 4 📌 9
I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word.
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637
07.08.2025 08:11 — 👍 92 🔁 112 💬 0 📌 5
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
15.07.2025 08:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
11.07.2025 10:38 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Book I Philip Rathgeb
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
10.07.2025 16:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
04.07.2025 10:18 — 👍 45 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
Another recently published review, this time by @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social in Economic Sociology:
econsoc.mpifg.de/50255/06_Boo...
So great to see folks read and engage 😀, thanks Jonathan!
25.06.2025 09:22 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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...
03.06.2025 09:25 — 👍 23 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 2
This looks extremely relevant. Looking forward to reading it.
03.06.2025 06:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📢 I am hiring: I am looking for a researcher to work with me in Vienna on my new project on 🎿 climate change adaptation in skiing tourism ⛷️
💡Requirements: undergraduate degree in social sciences, experience with qualitative data collection through interviews, excellent German skills
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20.05.2025 10:08 — 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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
19.05.2025 13:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
‼️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‼️
19.05.2025 07:45 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 6
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"
13.05.2025 14:32 — 👍 21 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 2ND MAY 👇
29.04.2025 09:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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?...
Pre-order your copy on our website, www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
#SocialEurope #SocialConstructivism #SocialPolicy #PoliticalScience
22.04.2025 10:43 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Postdoc @ Uni Siegen, Political Economy | Interested in all political sociology and political economy | before: Unis Duisburg, Oxford & Mannheim + Politics
Companion blog to the Journal of Social Policy, Social Policy & Society, and the Journal of International & Comparative Social Policy, published by Cambridge University Press for the Social Policy Association.
PhD @ Uni Zurich & Uni Konstanz. Working on the politics of labour market inequality. Previously @ Bertelsmann Stiftung.
political science university of zurich | urpp equality of opportunity | inequality cluster konstanz | occupational change, social hierarchies, political behavior
Postdoctoral researcher in Political Science at
University of Lausanne | PhD @IPZ, University of Zurich | welfare state politics, public opinion, party competition, immigration, political geography
Professor of Austrian Politics in the European Context @univie.ac.at. Views are my own.
Ramon y Cajal & Deputy Director of IPERG http://www.ub.edu/iperg/. Advancing https://www.ub.edu/mipe/ at University of Barcelona
https://sites.google.com/site/cescamat
Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI & Assistant Professor at Leiden University. Political Economy, EU Governance, Crises, Central Banks & the Twin Transition.
PhD candidate at University of Geneva. Interested in geographic differences in political attitudes and representation
Leading research centre for the study of constitutional change and territorial politics in the UK & beyond.
Researching the issues. Informing the debate.
More at https://www.centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk/
Political Scientist - Université de Lausanne & FORS
Elections | Political Behavior | Parties | Public Opinion
Political scientist & researcher at FORS (@forsresearch.bsky.social), UNIL (@sspunil.bsky.social) | Before: Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau (@zdaarau.bsky.social), IPZ (@ipz.bsky.social)
Political scientist 🇿🇦🏳️🌈
he/him
Far-right, social identities, & electoral behaviour
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President Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council Fiskalrat), Chairman National Productivity Board, Prof. Emeritus and former Rector, WU Vienna, Former Director WIFO
Migration researcher, Political scientist, Dep. Head Policy Research & Migration Law at IOM, AT; Co-coordinating European Migration Network (EMN) Austria. Ex-EUI/Migration Policy Centre. On this platform in a private capacity. leilahadjabdou.com
political sociologist @wzb.bsky.social & @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
🔎 civil society, movements, organizations, secessionism, and the far right.
🎓 PhD from Scuola Normale Superiore
📖 "Organizing for Independence" AUP
Academic @york.ac.uk
Sociology of Professions /
Critical Management Studies / History
Professor of the Political Economy of Europe at LSE. Interested in democratic representation and inequality, worried about the survival of democracy. Author of Anti-System Politics (OUP, 2020). Also random thoughts on football, cycling, the weather etc
Politics. Now Political Economy | PhD Researcher at the European University Institute | Education, Work & Welfare
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