David Weisstanner

The Professor Will See You Now: Having A Pint Lessons in political science. This week: having a pint

Latest @thehousemag.bsky.social column, on the politics of pints.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Looking forward to the GREC workshop @sspunil.bsky.social @forsresearch.bsky.social @matthiasenggist.bsky.social @eliemichel.bsky.social @anketresch.bsky.social @dweisstanner.bsky.social @pauluswagner.bsky.social @klaudiakoxha.bsky.social @philiprathgeb.bsky.social @lukaslauener.bsky.social

BJPolS abstract discussing the role of symbolic right-wing politics in cultural consumption, specifically referencing wine and classical music in pubs, based on a survey from Switzerland with 1,550 respondents.

#OpenAccess from July 2025 -

The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - cup.org/44rcdVW

"politicians drinking beer in a pub appeal particularly to radical right working-class voters"

- @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage!
I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

Really happy to see my work with @dweisstanner.bsky.social published with @bjpols.bsky.social. In this letter, we look at symbolic class signalling through cultural consumption and how effective it is across voters of different parties.

A thread 👇 (1/n)

#OpenAccess - cup.org/3GSCIKV

BJPolS abstract discussing the role of symbolic right-wing politics in cultural consumption, specifically referencing wine and classical music in pubs, based on a survey from Switzerland with 1,550 respondents.

"We argue that symbolic class signalling has gained in importance due to the political realignment along the cultural dimension, and we expect radical right parties to benefit most from it" - @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social

Read #OpenAccess - cup.org/3GSCIKV

Thanks Dan, much appreciated!

Ah, this is such a great paper, and such a good home.

BJPolS abstract discussing the role of symbolic right-wing politics in cultural consumption, specifically referencing wine and classical music in pubs, based on a survey from Switzerland with 1,550 respondents.

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The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - cup.org/44rcdVW

- @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

CPDS update 1960-2023 is online 🤓 👇/with @dweisstanner.bsky.social @lucasleemann.bsky.social @klarabruhn.bsky.social

🚨 Newest Comparative Political Data Set released!🚨

Updated until 2023

Available here 👉cpds-data.org/data

@leuphana.bsky.social
@uniluzern.bsky.social
@ipz.bsky.social

PhD position (100%) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne Assistenz, Doktorandin, Mitarbeiter oder Praktikant: Sie suchen einen Job an der Universität Luzern? Hier finden Sie unsere offenen Stellen und Lehrstellen.

🚀 PhD position at @uniluzern.bsky.social in my @snsf-ch.bsky.social-funded project "Party politics and the politicization of health care"
📅 Start in October 2025
🌍 Lucerne, Switzerland
📌 Apply by June 30, 2025.
Details: www.unilu.ch/universitaet...

Paradoxically, firms with more AI experience are more concerned about AI, yet more likely to oppose regulation – indicating a preference for self-regulation over state intervention.
Findings indicate the importance of employers' perspectives in research on the politics of AI.
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Based on a survey of Danish managers:
– Firms concerned about AI tend to support AI regulation
– More firms support social investment (e.g. upskilling) than compensation (e.g. unemployment benefits)
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New article in Social Policy & Administration, with Kees van Kersbergen:
We explore how firms – often overlooked in debates on AI and social policy – perceive AI and what policy responses they support.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467...
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Had a great time presenting in Basel and Lucerne this week!

Many thanks to @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and to @dweisstanner.bsky.social for hosting me.

Great questions and feedback throughout!

@polisciunibas.bsky.social @uniluzern.bsky.social

Very interesting and important study with new measures on political parties' emphases on equality ⬇️

Excited to share that my project "Party politics and the politicization of health care" has been funded by the @snsf-ch.bsky.social! 🚀
The project will examine how parties have politicized health care along economic & cultural lines.
A postdoc & PhD position will be available – stay tuned!

We just launched a call for a workshop and special issue proposal on "The Politics of AI"! Excited to see many great submissions—join us in Oxford!

🎉 The lineup for the Spring 2025 Brown Bag Seminar at PolSem – @uniluzern.bsky.social is set!

🗺️This year, we are opening up to external presenters for the first time, and it has been a great success.

Excited to host them and looking forward to the discussions ahead! Check the calendar below 👇

How does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life?

In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out.

doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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Excited to share my new paper with Leo Azzollini @leoazzollini.bsky.social (@csisunitn.bsky.social) and Franco Bonomi Bezzo on healthcare provision and attitudes toward redistribution in the Journal of European Public Policy @jeppjournal.bsky.social

GitHub - benjann/crosswalk: Stata module to recode variable based on crosswalk table (bulk recoding) Stata module to recode variable based on crosswalk table (bulk recoding) - benjann/crosswalk

More supreme public service from Ben Jann @unibern.bsky.social: the Stata crosswalk package, which replaces iscogen 🫡

Rapidly recode ISCO codes to an even wider range of occupational scales and class schemes, including the Occupational Earning Potential scale

github.com/benjann/cros...

As promised, here is a bit more on my new book, The Welfare Workforce, now available fully open-access from @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social 🧵 1/11

On this note, here is a thread with recent research on what normalization is and how it happens.

It includes links to references, from my work and that of others.

I tried to tag the authors whenever they are on here, in case you are interested in following their work.

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Backlash or Inclusion? The Political Effects of Co-Ethnic Immigration - Political Behavior Immigration often causes backlash, to the benefit of anti-immigrant parties. Most studies that identify the effect of immigration on native attitudes and behaviors leverage variation in inflows of new...

1/ Happy to announce a new paper at @PolBehavior
with Andreas Jozwiak & Eroll Kuhn.

Recent work links ⬆️immigration flows to backlash, esp⬆️far right voting. We ask if it's a general feature of migration politics by testing effects of *co-ethnic* immigration.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

I’m looking for a postdoc to join my Emmy Noether project on the New Climate Divide! 🌍

🔍 It is a 3-year position with a likely extension for another 3 years & no teaching obligations

📄 Check out the job call: uni-heidelberg.de/md/politik/p...

Thanks for sharing! 🤝

The LIS Database now allows one to measure poverty (with their superior poverty/income measures) over a 61 year period of US history (1963-2023).

Here's the trend in Black-white inequalities in poverty.

Today, feeling close to cosmopolitans or feminists separates voters of the left from right voters who identify with people who are down to earth and hard working.

Yet, these identities do have structural roots, just like class identities did.

Our short CUP book on cleavage formation is out in OA.

The role of issue salience and competitive advantages in spatial models of political competition | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

Super happy to finally find this paper with @milenarapp.bsky.social on @thejop.bsky.social website! We analyze under what conditions far right parties benefit electorally from increasing importance of immigration issues/ green parties benefit from increasing importance of environmental issues.