Armin Schaefer

We are gearing up for the #ISIWealthConference2025.

It starts tomorrow and you can find the full program here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thanks to this marvelous team 👇, we are ready to host a wonderful set of wealth inequality scholars from across the globe.

Watch the hashtag for updates!

Calling all comparative legislative scholars! We’ve got a new dataset with committee memberships from 14 countries over 35 years, spanning almost 15,000 MPs in 260 parties! Grateful for my excellent coauthors! #polisky #gendersky

This is gonna be a busy but exciting term @powimz!! 👇👇👇

Right now: Gunnar Otte and Natasha Nisic opening this year's congress of the Academy of Sociology @unimainz.bsky.social sponsored by @ipp-jgu.bsky.social
Looking forward to three inspiring days in Mainz!

I promise @davidattewell6.bsky.social 🧵 is worth your time - in fact, the entire @wepsocial.bsky.social SI is 👇

ARE YOU LISTENING MAURICE DUVERGER?? YOUR BOYS TOOK A HELL OF A BEATING

TONY DOWNS, CAN YOU HEAR ME? WHERE IS YOUR MEDIAN VOTER NOW???

Sozialwissenschaftler Claus Offe gestorben Claus Offe prägte die Sozialwissenschaften mit scharfsinnigen Analysen und gesellschaftskritischen Perspektiven. Als Grenzgänger zwischen Soziologie und Politologie bleibt sein Werk wegweisend.

Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Hi bsky people - if you care about how the EU seeks to fund all things "social-ecological transformation", which institutional architecture has emerged out of it, and why it is both contested and an unrealized promise: please have a look at our special issue on the politics of sustainable finance 👇

Finde gut, dass Teile der Schäl Sick wahltechnisch zur Innenstadt gehören. Mülheim 58% Aymaz

Morgen Abend, 18 Uhr (deutscher Zeit). InstaLive zu diesen jungen Leuten, was sie denken, was sie wählen. Sneak Preview zu Ergebnissen unserer Jugendwahlstudie zur btw 2025, die wir mit der @fesonline.bsky.social durchgeführt haben @arminschaefer.bsky.social @juliareuschenbach.bsky.social

Group photo of the participants

Pauline Kohlhase speaking in a group setting

Audience member speaking at a panel session

participant speaking in group discussion

Thank you to all who joined us in Cologne this week for the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! A fantastic line-up of speakers and participants, thoughtful discussions and global perspectives. Huge thanks to organizers @palmapolyak.bsky.social and @dustinvoss.bsky.social!

America’s accelerating exit from itself After the Kirk murder, Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease

'It has been widely observed that the speed of America’s democratic slide surpasses that of other “elective autocracies” such as Narendra Modi’s India and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey. But that understates Trump’s impatience.'

had a really good time at last week's DVPW Political Economy section meeting in @unimainz.bsky.social @ipp-jgu.bsky.social!
Many thanks to the organizers & hosts: @bjoernbremer.bsky.social @leaelsaesser.bsky.social @thomasrixen.bsky.social @claraweinhardt.bsky.social

No pun intended!

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure

I cannot think of a democracy anywhere in the world where this sort of thing could happen. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

"Warum junge Männer die AfD wählen – und junge Frauen die Linke"
- (unter anderem) darüber habe ich mit dem Handelsblatt gesprochen: www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deut...

Just out at JOP (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....) : Why do so few working-class people hold office? It's not lack of interest. Noam Lupu and I ran 10 surveys in 8 countries and found no evidence of a social class gap in how often qualified people consider running.

2 more days to apply for this 5-year research-focused postdoc position in my @erc.europa.eu team at @goetheuni.bsky.social on the politics of the educational cleavage!

Oh no, I might have to change my Introduction to Comparative Politics slides yet again... have a look at @ganghof.bsky.social 's paper 👇

Abstract of the article "Pathways to politics: a sequence analysis of political apathy and involvement" by Sebastian Jungkunz and Paul Marx. Published online first in West European Politics.

Figure 4, displaying predicted probabilities of cluster membership by parental covariates (Germany).

Figure 5, displaying estimated probabilities of late involvement and independents by individual level covariates (Germany).

Figure 6, displaying the sequence distribution and sequence frequency by cluster (UK, age 11–15).

Online first:

"Pathways to politics: a sequence analysis of political apathy and involvement"

by @sjungkunz.bsky.social l & Paul Marx

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Great recommendation!

The @powimz.bsky.social crowd enjoys the sunset cruise at the @ecpr.bsky.social conference in Thessaloniki. 😎
Together with @clandwehr.bsky.social, @arminschaefer.bsky.social, @stallbaum.bsky.social, @lionmert.bsky.social & @kwalz.bsky.social.

@powimz.bsky.social at #ECPRGC25 in Thessaloniki

We cannot think of democratic innovations as simple add-ons to existing institutions. Instead, we need to reform the institutions that are already in place.

What a powerful pitch of my dear colleagues @clandwehr.bsky.social and @arminschaefer.bsky.social’s super important book! #ecprgc25 #deminno

Class, Gender, Diversity and Political Representation: Intersections of Identity and Responsiveness I European Consortium for Political Research

Missed my flight to Thessaloniki but still made it on time for the first panel this morning. I look forward to our discussions tomorrow morning at #ecprgc25 on 'Class, Gender, Diversity and Political Representation.'
ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

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Thrilled to share this 16-country conjoint experiment with @catherinedevries.bsky.social & @simonhix.bsky.social. We find strong support for majoritarian reforms and tougher legal enforcement, even when paired with policies people dislike. Policy-inelastic institutional preferences exist! A 🧵...

Are poor people poorly heard? JULIE SEVENANS, AWENIG MARIÉ, CHRISTIAN BREUNIG, STEFAAN WALGRAVE, KAROLIN SOONTJENS, RENS VLIEGENTHART

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Are poor people poorly heard?👂

These authors (🧵⬇️) use citizen surveys in 🇧🇪🇨🇭🇨🇦 & 🇩🇪 to claim that politicians hold biased views of what citizens want & shows that politicians perceptions parallel the rich for the most pressing economic issues.

buff.ly/5UlH75b

How does the second-order national election (SONE) theory hold up in the 2024 European Parliament election?

I explore this in a short letter now published in @eupthejournal.bsky.social.

Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sounds very interesting! 👇

Look at the distribution of wealth among politicians around the world relative to the people they represent!

The median politician in South Africa's has 200x the wealth of the typical household in that country.