Why do people turn to populist parties? 🤔
📣 Our new study just published at @ejprjournal.bsky.social shows it’s not just real inequality - it’s perceived inequality that drives populism.
📌 Blog: hu-govlab.de/en/perceived...
📊 Study: tinyurl.com/msnndnpn
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15.10.2025 14:42 — 👍 53 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0
Eine seltene Chance
Kinder starten mit ungleichen Chancen ins Leben. Die europäische „Child Guarantee“ soll Abhilfe schaffen. Das kann gelingen – wenn die Staaten der EU bereit sind, voneinander zu lernen.
Die europäische Child Guarantee eröffnet einen politischen Innovationsraum mit dem Ziel, allen Kindern Zugang zu Betreuung, Bildung, Gesundheit, Ernährung und Wohnraum zu sichern. Welche Rolle Forschung und Zivilgesellschaft dabei zukommt ⬇️
11.09.2025 08:00 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
That's it. Consultants have gone too far.
07.09.2025 20:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
05.09.2025 06:50 — 👍 2182 🔁 984 💬 58 📌 175
Der Sozialstaat steht in der Dauerkritik. Dabei leistet er mehr, als ihm zugestanden wird.
Deshalb habe ich mit Nicholas Czichi-Welzer ein Plädoyer für eine gesellschaftliche Errungenschaft geschrieben, die wir nicht als selbstverständlich ansehen sollten. 👇
01.09.2025 19:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries
18.08.2025 05:01 — 👍 33 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 0
The beautiful, treasured fourth territory of Sakahonek
14.08.2025 13:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I believe Forsa had them in the lead in April already, no? Either way, this will draw attention for sure.
12.08.2025 12:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All I know is I'm gonna have a long and serious conversation with my past self who foolishly overlooked that developing an interest in politics would ultimately lead to... weird elephant stories??
10.08.2025 20:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What have I just read
10.08.2025 20:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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
Bar charts have officially been deconstructed.
Not gonna lie, I didn't expect this to be the way that AI would replace data-viz folks.
07.08.2025 18:43 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I'm not sure people outside of academia fully grasp just how poorly prepared the current system of academic research is for the dual onslaught of AI slob and politically motivated spending. The ways through which researchers & journals build credibility will need a lot of rethinking. Tough stuff.
04.08.2025 21:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bildung als Investition - Zentrum neue Sozialpolitik
Ein moderner Sozialstaat ist mehr als eine Absicherung in der Krise. Er kann auch ein zentraler Wachstumsmotor sein. Welche Schritte dafür nötig sind, erläutern unsere Grantees Dr. Fabian Mushövel und Prof. Dr. Anton Hemerijck im neuen Schlaglicht: zentrum-neue-sozialpolitik.org/projekte/bil...
04.08.2025 08:50 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
If EU leaders openly admitted that they were strong-armed, a case for a stronger EU could be made. Yet, selling this as a success will shift the discourse towards asking what the EU is good for if these are the results it produces.
By sugarcoating this, pro-Europeans undermine their own project.
30.07.2025 16:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Humanity has peaked, it's all downhill from here.
Also fascinating to see what elements of a fish get punished by the algorithm. P-hackers, assemble!
29.07.2025 18:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.
If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!
shorturl.at/kcTbG
28.07.2025 09:50 — 👍 178 🔁 132 💬 3 📌 2
Mal wieder die Forderung, die Deutschen müssten mehr arbeiten. Dabei wäre es zunächst sinnvoll, die soziale Basis zu schaffen, dass Mehrarbeit im Alter eine freiwillige Entscheidung und keine Überlebensfrage ist. Dazu ein paar OECD-Daten aus anderen Staaten 👇
www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
28.07.2025 07:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
23.07.2025 21:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Realising you never actually left the Zoom call.
23.07.2025 21:11 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Surely, all governments will swiftly implement the necessary policies now.
Oh wait.
23.07.2025 15:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Did the US just pull a British Museum on... the UK?
23.07.2025 06:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Es ging aber auch um Wiederaufnahme in die betriebliche Whatsapp-Gruppe" 🔥
21.07.2025 20:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Stellenausschreibung: Programmkoordinator*in (m/w/d) Vollzeitbeschäftigung befristet bis 31.12.2032
📢 SCRIPTS sucht eine*n Programmkoordinator*in (m/w/d) in Vollzeit (befristet bis 31.12.2032)!
Schwerpunkt: Veranstaltungsmanagement & Forschungskoordination im internationalen Umfeld.
🗓️ Frist: 11.08.2025
💼 E13 TV-L FU
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#Jobs #Berlin #SCRIPTS
21.07.2025 15:09 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Man gets rejected, concludes he must "touch more people".
16.07.2025 20:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Having been on the receiving end of a very similar review, it is quite refreshing to hear about others' experiences in this regard. Thanks for sharing!
Rather odd how the academic community sometimes actively contributes to making its own output less accessible for no reason whatsoever.
15.07.2025 15:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Student Assistant for the Eastern Partnership Think Tank Network (m/w/d)
To start on 01/09/2025 and limited to 31/12/2027, we are looking for a Student Assistant (m/w/d; 50%, based on TVöD E5), Reference Number 11-2025 to offer organizational, administrative, and content-r...
Looking for a student/project assistant to support the Eastern Partnership Think Tank Network at @dgap.org . Work on #EU policy, #Ukraine, #enlargement & regional shifts. Tasks: newsletter, website, events. DM me if interested or share!
dgap.org/de/dgap/jobs..., dgap.org/de/dgap/jobs...
15.07.2025 08:36 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Political sociology at Freie Universität Berlin and WZB Berlin Social Science Center
berlin - reporter und autor @tagesspiegel - extremismus // antisemitismus // proteste // ostdeutschland
We are a young grassroots think tank on European & Foreign Affairs.
Head of data journalism at The Economist
Head of Education & Social Mobility @SMFThinkTank, education/skills/HE • Opinions my own & evolving • 🏳️🌈
Chair in Comparative Politics, University of York
Research on far right, populism, nationalism and European Politics
Joint Editor-In-Chief of Nations and Nationalism, Political Studies
Steering Committee ECPR Extremism&Democracy
LSE PhD
The professional journal of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), publishing contributions written by and for the political science community.
Publishing original and substantial contributions to the study of comparative European politics. A journal from the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14756765
1) Income inequality; 2) Politics; 3) History; 4) Soccer.
Author of "Global inequality" and "Capitalism, Alone" (2019).
Stone Center, CUNY; LSE, London
🌍📘 GSP is a fully peer-reviewed journal advancing understandings of social policy, health governance, gender, eco-policy, and poverty from transnational and global perspectives 🌍
🔗 gsp.sagepub.com
Professor für Öffentliches Recht / Public Law, WZB Berlin/Uni Hildesheim ...twittert über Recht, Bildung und Soziales - and #SocioLegalStudies
Sociologist & Social Demographer | Postdoc at ECPD @einsteinberlin.bsky.social & @wzb.bsky.social 🇩🇪 | Affiliated with Bocconi University 🇮🇹 & @pophel.bsky.social 🇫🇮 | 🪄 Health, Family, Life Course & Child Disability | she/her
Public policy professor at the Hobby School. Enthusiastic about food, dogs, travel, and research. I write books about many failures of local democracy. Bad opinions my own.
Believer in democratic renewal and its ability to tackle today’s and tomorrow’s problems
Professor of political science @unigreifswald.bsky.social. Mainly interested in political parties, parliaments and public opinion.
PhD @ Greifswald University | working on all things political representation, the role of parliamentary staff & MPs legislative behaviour
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https://lenastephan.wixsite.com/lenastephan
Assistant Professor at Georgetown's McCourt School, comparative political scientist. Spend most of my time thinking about gender + bureaucracy in India.
Applying leading-edge thinking from social & physical sciences to major economic & social challenges. Starter pack to connect with our researchers ⇢ https://go.bsky.app/G4R3Gza
Communication scholar @ifpmainz.bsky.social, interested in (social) media, politics, extremism | Currently visiting professor @hmtmh.bsky.social | co-speaker @dgpuk-meth.bsky.social