David Weisstanner
@dweisstanner.bsky.social
Assistant professor of health and social policy @University of Lucerne
Good morning Lucerne! I enjoyed presenting our book manuscript on Swiss democracy @uniluzern.bsky.social, and got excellent input from engaged students! Heartfelt thanks @dweisstanner.bsky.social for the invite as well as to @victoriahaerter.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social for our lovely collab
📢 New article 🌟 👥 @silkegoubin.bsky.social , @olijacques.bsky.social , @staffankumlin.bsky.social (ISV), & @dweisstanner.bsky.social 👉 Why Some Want Something for Nothing: Three Explanations for Unfunded Spending Demand 📗 Open Access in Scandinavian Political Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1467...
Why Some Want Something for Nothing: Three Explanations for Unfunded Spending Demand
Several studies have documented ‘something for nothing’ (SFN) attitudes among citizens: preferences for increased government spending and lower taxes. Such a demand for unfunded public spending may g....
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Happy to share this new paper @jeppjournal.bsky.social with my great colleagues @dweisstanner.bsky.social & Carsten Jensen. In "Winning with equality", we show "how left-wing parties attract votes but [in doing so] amplify electoral cleavages" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Key points in 📈👇
What explains citizens’ demand for increased government spending and lower taxes simultaneously? Read about an original survey in Norway in the article Why Some Want Something for Nothing: Three Explanations for Unfunded Spending Demand, doi.org/10.1111/1467....
Why Some Want Something for Nothing: Three Explanations for Unfunded Spending Demand
Several studies have documented ‘something for nothing’ (SFN) attitudes among citizens: preferences for increased government spending and lower taxes. Such a demand for unfunded public spending may g...
doi.org
Starting the new year with a new #openaccess #publication! In our article, we explore why citizens oppose taxes while simultaneously demanding more redistributive social policies, aka want "something for nothing". @olivierjacques.bsky.social @staffankumlin.bsky.social @dweisstanner.bsky.social
Why Some Want Something for Nothing: Three Explanations for Unfunded Spending Demand
Several studies have documented ‘something for nothing’ (SFN) attitudes among citizens: preferences for increased government spending and lower taxes. Such a demand for unfunded public spending may g...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
#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
The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - Volume 55
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"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
NEW - 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
CPDS@comppoldataset.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 Newest Comparative Political Data Set released!🚨 Updated until 2023 Available here 👉cpds-data.org/data @leuphana.bsky.social @uniluzern.bsky.social @ipz.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 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...
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.
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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... 🧵
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 ⬇️
Alexander Horn@alexanderhorn.bsky.social · last yr.In Social progress at the expense of economic equality? we ask if equal rights or equal chances concerns crowded out economic equality as priority of the Left? Mapping equality concepts 1970-2020: not green or far-left parties. Yet, social democrats … 1/2 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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!
Matthias Haslberger@mhaslberger.bsky.social · last yr.📢Special issue and workshop on "The Politics of AI: Citizen Perceptions, Preferences, and Priorities" 📢 We aim to bring together cutting-edge research on the political ramifications of AI for a workshop in Oxford and a special issue in a leading political science journal.(1/2)
🎉 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... 🧵 1/9
Crowded Out: The Influence of Mental Load Priming on Intentions to Participate in Public Life | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Crowded Out: The Influence of Mental Load Priming on Intentions to Participate in Public Life - Volume 55
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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
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...
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
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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
Isabel M. Perera@isabelmperera.bsky.social · 2y agoI’m so happy to announce that my book is now published and available open-access! (🧵coming soon, too :)
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. 1/8
C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE@casmudde.bsky.social · 2y agoNo country is immune to the far right. No country is immune to the normalization of the far right.
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...
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...
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🚨 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! 🤝
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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.
