My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)

Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence - Shay O’Brien, 2026

How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...

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Last week @mansmag.bsky.social and I organized a workshop for researchers working with Swedish Parliamentary Data, hosted in the Riksdag. The only photo I managed to get was of @benjaminrohr.bsky.social during his great keynote. Thanks to everyone who participated and shared their research!

Consider submitting a paper to the session I am organizing at ASA this year on “Comparative-Historical Sociology and Computational Social Science.” The submission deadline is February 25.

My paper on the emergence and structure of the first American party system of the 1790s just came out in the American Sociological Review. doi.org/10.1177/0003...

The State and the Emergence of the First American Party System: Roll Call Voting in the New York State Assembly during the Early Republic - Benjamin Rohr, John Levi Martin, 2025

Prevailing theories about the nature and development of the democratic party system fail to account for the important case of the United States. Using a novel d...

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New paper out in Social Science History about elite networks in the American administrative state doi.org/10.1017/ssh....

Yesterday we had the pleasure to welcome @benjaminrohr.bsky.social to present his new work on the Weimar Republic!