Timo Wiesner

Class-based network segregation, economic inequality, and redistributive preferences across societies Abstract. Rising economic inequality has renewed interest in how class-based social networks shape redistributive preferences across societies. While previ

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My new article in European Sociological Review (@europeansocreview.bsky.social) examines how class-based network segregation and national-level inequality shape support for redistribution, using data from 32,717 individuals across 31 countries.
DOI: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
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Alzheimer’s decline slows with just a few thousand steps a day A modest increase in physical activity can delay cognitive decline by three years — or more.

Jeepers @nature.com I thought we were past this

Abstract: "we demonstrated an association between higher physical activity and slower cognitive and functional decline"

Press brief: "taking as few as 3,000 to 5,000 steps per day can help to stave off mental decline"

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cassandra from the far right: how the German and Austrian populist radical right links climate skepticism with economic issues This article asks how two populist radical right parties, the German AfD and the Austrian FPÖ, communicate about climate on Twitter/X. Analyzing a corpus of 6,254 tweets, it pays special attention ...

📣 In a new open access article in @environmentalpol.bsky.social, I examine how appeals to "economic realism" – like the claim that we "can’t afford climate policy" – have long structured far-right #climateskepticism @cidape.bsky.social @ifswien.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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'Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020' by @alexanderhorn.bsky.social, Martin Haselmayer & @klueserthan.bsky.social was the most-downloaded @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper in August 2025.

You can read it #OpenAccess here - https://cup.org/4nwEeCo

Das Argument bleibt recht dünn.. aber es existiert doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Saw the presentation, also a really cool paper! I I think the "leaky pipeline" + only diffuse/superficial (or maybe also "potential") demand might be able to explain a lot.

Rising inequality: is the public response really lacking? A comparative longitudinal analysis of perceived inequality and evaluative attitudes Abstract. Rising income inequality in the past decades has triggered an ongoing discussion about how the public perceives and evaluates this trend. Contrar

Sadly not OA. In case you don't have institutional access, hit me up :)
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"Overall, our findings suggest a “ratchet-effect” heuristic: left parties may still push back against rising disparities but have given up on lowering existing levels of inequality"

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Fascinating paper. In my diss. paper I basically find the demand side equivalent: Rising inequality is met with increased demand for redistribution, while higher levels are not. In fact, higher levels are rather met with lower demand, especially among low-income individuals..

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

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 👇

Gender and wealth accumulation: an international perspective Abstract. Why do women accumulate less wealth than men globally? As wealth inequality rises both within countries and worldwide, studies on gender and weal

Very happy to be part of this special issue on "Gender and Wealth Accumulation" in @sasemeeting.bsky.social next to a fantastic group of scholars ✨
@dariatisch.bsky.social @schechtlm.bsky.social @nicolekapelle.bsky.social @pmlersch.bsky.social @shayobrien.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

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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Our article on parties' programmatic responses to inequality - and more often the lack of responses - will come out in APSR!

Here is the @excinequality.bsky.social working paper:

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with @klueserthan.bsky.social & Martin Haselmayer 🧗🙏

We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM.

If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request.

Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...

Thanks to everybody who chimed in!

I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.

So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

First Wednesday of the month – time for a new In_equality podcast! This time, our hosts @mbusemeyer.bsky.social and Gabriele Spilker @uni-konstanz.de talk with @juandiego48cr.bsky.social about how people (mis-)perceive inequality – and why it matters for politics. ➡️ inequality.uni.kn/podcast

Family feelings: affective ties and the reproduction of wealth in super-rich families Rising wealth inequalities, concentrated in the hands of a few super-rich families, have recently sparked sociological interest in how these families sustain and legitimise their wealth across generat...

My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access!

Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource.

@bupjournals.bsky.social

Book jacket for Multiverse Analysis: Computational Methods for Robust Results by Cristobal Young and Erin Cumberworth.

My colleague Cristobal Young and co-author Erin Cumberworth just released their book on multiverse analysis, a set of tools that help resolve the "garden of forking paths" and "file-drawer" problems and, in the process, improve quantitative social & behavioral science.

Highly recommend.

🔔 Call for Participation 🔔
Lab² is inviting researchers to take part in a multi-analyst study on the effects of having daughters on various outcomes.
Join this metascience project as a co-author and gain the opportunity to work with SOEP data!

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Here's an update on sociology (and some demography) journal editorial polices with regard to sharing preprints before submission and after acceptance. A big improvement from the last edition of this table. With one exception.

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🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨

Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

Since the publication of our study on rising inequality ➡️ public support for redistribution (doi.org/10.1111/1475...), 2 independent studies on this relation have come out.

Reassuringly, they come to the same conclusion:
1. doi.org/10.1093/ijpo...
2. @twiesner.bsky.social‬: doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

The deadline has now been extended to *14 April*.
I am also extremely happy that there will be keynotes by two of my sociological heroes, Patrick Sachweh and Michael Vester.

Had a great time at the conference #SocialPolicy and #Inequality in the #Polycrisis.

Thanks to Corinna Kleinert, @apweiland.bsky.social (📸) and @katjamoe.bsky.social for the opportunity to present my first paper, which is now available to read in SER (academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...)

Already next week: Very much looking forward to host you at our conference Social Policy and Inequality in the Polycrisis @uni-bamberg.de !
Supported by @lifbi.bsky.social @difis.bsky.social
#Sozialpolitik #SozialeUngleichheit #socialpolicy #SocialInequality
www.uni-bamberg.de/sfa/veransta...