🚨 New article🔥 with @mguinjoan.bsky.social & @joelardiaca.bsky.social in @wepsocial.bsky.social ➡️Climate action often enjoys broad public support... until governments propose specific measures. The key? Costs, benefits, and who pays 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Public support for climate policies: costs, redistribution, and ideological divides

Securing public support for climate policies remains a major challenge. Citizens’ perceptions of the costs, benefits, and distributive consequences of these policies are key factors shaping their a...

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For anyone wondering about sociology being too left or too much existing, ASA is cutting their dissertation grants. Thats its, you can all go on and write your clever comments

Dan Hirschman@asociologist.bsky.social · last wk.

The war on science comes to the @asanews.bsky.social dissertation grants:

New publication out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social! We know young voters vote for different parties and hold different attitudes than older citizens. What we know less about: whether they also care differently about political issues. Using novel experimental survey data, I show: they do! 👇

“Nothing else matters?” Salience differences between young and old | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

“Nothing else matters?” Salience differences between young and old

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What do people in 7 countries see as the biggest global threats? France: Climate change: 48% UK: Climate change: 35% Canada: Climate change: 31% Poland: Military attack: 43% USA: Political extremism: 39% Germany: Mass migration: 36% Australia: Religious terrorism: 31% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Wir sind einfach unfassbar verletzlich. Es ist krass, dieser Moment, wo das wieder so deutlich wird. Einmal mehr: die Frage, wie es hierzulande weitergeht, hängt auch am Umgang mit uns. Wir sind die Kanarienvögel im Grubenschacht der Demokratie. Ich hoffe gerade sehr für alle, die betroffen sind. 😢

📣 Der Zeitplan DGS-Kongresses 2026 ist jetzt online!  Über unsere Homepage gelangen Sie zur Kongress-Software Converia, in der Sie durch das Programm stöbern, Sessions und Beiträge favorisieren sowie eine Liste aller Referent:innen einsehen können.

🎉 I could not be happier that my dissertation on migrants’ views on inequality has been awarded a 2nd prize in the Social Sciences section of the Deutscher Studienpreis!

Zusammen mit TTRex habe ich einen Beitrag zum Narrativ der "AfD als Partei der jungen Männer“ geschrieben; weswegen Differenzierung hier relevant ist und welche anderen Gruppen und Erklärungsmuster (zu) häufig vernachlässigt werden: thinktank-rechtsextremismus.campact.de/wp-content/u...

A great success: our first Gegenwartslese! A new format at the MPIPS bringing together social science, literature & the public. @steffenmau.bsky.social opened, followed by @mafaalani.bsky.social & Julia Friedrichs. Thanks to all our guests, next on 24.06.26. Supported by @kohli-sociology.bsky.social

First data release from @glen-study.bsky.social doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

There’s been a lot of buzz around the Borjas/Breznau (2026) paper (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and potential ideological bias in research. We took a closer look at the data. Could there be a "bias in bias research"? Here is what we found: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

"Umfrage: Z​wei Drittel der Deutschen denken über einen Job im Ausland nach" So überschreibt Indeed eine Pressemitteilung vom 22. Juni 2026. Viele Medien berichten über die Ergebnisse (u.a. dpa, Spiegel, tagesschau, handelsblatt). Wie seriös ist die Studie? Ein Thread 🧵

What do political scientists know about prejudice? I'm trying to answer this question in a new review piece being prepared for submission as an annual review! Comments most welcome! 🔗 to paper: www.chagaiweiss.com/papers/inpro...

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

Very happy to see our book "Trigger Points" finally out in English, and fully open access! Hopefully a useful resource for anyone working on polarization, class, inequality, migration, diversity, and climate change.

The Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science@mpips.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Why do our societies seem so deeply divided when most citizens actually occupy a broad political middle ground? @steffenmau.bsky.social, @thomaslux.bsky.social & @lwestheuser.bsky.social unpack this paradox in Trigger Points, pub. today @brisunipress.bsky.social, Foreward @mikesavagelse.bsky.social

📢 New OA paper in JEMS @scmrjems.bsky.social We assume migrants evaluate destination countries in terms of jobs and opportunities. But many migrants in my study valued something else: living in a society where those who fall on hard times are not left behind. 🔓 doi.org/10.1080/1369...

🚨Our article “Who deserves? Ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions?” is out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social. Joint work with @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social and @iguinaudeau.bsky.social from the 🇫🇷🇩🇪 UNEQUALMAND project. 👉🏻 shorturl.at/qoBDU%F0%9F%... 1/3

Universities are expected to be places of tolerance, universalism, and open inquiry. Our new study in European Societies finds evidence that visibly Jewish instructors face less favorable evaluations from students than otherwise identical instructors. doi.org/10.1162/EUSO...

Anti-Jewish bias in German higher education: results from a survey experiment among students at a German university

Abstract. This study examines the extent of anti-Jewish bias in German higher education through a survey experiment conducted among students (N=1,416) at a regional, average-sized German university (a...

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We launched our Open Lectures Series 2026 with a fascinating talk by John Levi Martin (U Chicago, editor of AJS), on the Weimar Reichstag – revealing a 2D political field that left–right alone can't capture. Based on work with Benjamin Rohr (Uni Mannheim) #OpenLectures2026 #Sociology #WeimarRepublic

Our Open Lectures Series 2026 opens tomorrow with John Levi Martin (University of Chicago): "Taking a Position in the Political Field: Voting, Speeches and Interactions in the Weimar Reichstag, 1920–1932". Hosted by our ICT Dept @steffenmau.bsky.social & Institute of Sociology @uni-goettingen.de

Taking a Position in the Political Field: Voting, Speeches and Interactions in the German Weimar Reichstag, 1920-1932 (Benjamin Rohr, co-author)

Political analysts have long used spatial representa tions as a substrate for behavioral models, especially for legislators’ voting choices. Most commonly, we think in terms of a single-dimension cont...

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New article out in @wepsocial.bsky.social, with Lucca Hoffeller: doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2026.2662884 We add a new perspective to research on congruence and political support: Group-based congruence, where citizens’ support depends on how well their social group’s preferences are represented. 🧵

New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Luck and Predictability in the Life Course

There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...

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Do waitresses receive the same occupational prestige as waiters? Using German gendered occupational titles, we find that feminine job titles receive slightly lower prestige than masculine ones, especially among male-domindated occupations. Out now in Social Forces. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Warum die deutsche Gesellschaft nicht in zwei Lager („Kosmopoliten vs. Kommunitaristen“) gespalten, aber der Eindruck auseinanderdriftender Einstellungen nicht ganz aus der Luft gegriffen ist, untersuchen Christian Schneickert & ich im @berlinerjournal.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sozialer Raum, gesellschaftspolitische Lager und Polarisierung im Strukturwandel - Berliner Journal für Soziologie

The article makes a theoretical and empirical contribution to the debate on the polarization of society and politics in Germany. From the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology and the further dev...

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Running survey-weighted multinomial regressions in R and getting output that matches Stata is surprisingly fiddly. Here is a step by step walkthrough comparing logits, AMEs, and predictive margins. #rstats #stata #polisci 🔗 thomaslux-multinomial-logistic-regression.share.connect.posit.cloud

This looks like a great resource - particularly, but not only for people researching group appeals 👇

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW - Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals https://cup.org/43fmXFj - @alonadolinsky.com, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & @rwillh11.bsky.social #FirstView

Reviewed @faznet.bsky.social: a new article by @thomaslux.bsky.social, @steffenmau.bsky.social & @lwestheuser.bsky.social. Building on their book Triggerpunkte which examined what makes society flare up, this article asks: is Germany really politically divided along different ways of life?

Neue Studie hinterfragt die Zweiteilung der Gesellschaft

Deutschland zerfällt nicht in zwei Lager, sondern in neun. Eine neue Studie zeigt komplexe Konfliktlinien und hinterfragt die Spaltungsthese.

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Gehen kulturelle Lebensführungen mit polarisierten politischen Einstellungen einher, wie oft behauptet wird (etwa von Goodhart & Reckwitz)? Die FAZ bespricht einen Aufsatz, in dem ich das zusammen mit @steffenmau.bsky.social & @lwestheuser.bsky.social geprüft habe www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...

Neue Studie hinterfragt die Zweiteilung der Gesellschaft

Deutschland zerfällt nicht in zwei Lager, sondern in neun. Eine neue Studie zeigt komplexe Konfliktlinien und hinterfragt die Spaltungsthese.

faz.net

Artikel mit @julianheide.bsky.social und @thomaslux.bsky.social (1) Ostdeutsche gelten als besonders unzufrieden mit der Demokratie, migrationsfeindlich, rechtspopulistisch. Oft werden diese Orientierungen durch Sozialisationseffekte des DDR-Systems erklärt www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

Der lange Schatten der DDR? Zum Zusammenhang von ehemaliger Systemnähe und aktuellen politischen Orientierungen von Ostdeutschen

Zusammenfassung Ostdeutsche gelten als besonders unzufrieden mit der Demokratie, migrationsfeindlich und dem Rechtspopulismus zugeneigt. Oft werden diese Orientierungen durch Sozialisationseffekte des...

degruyterbrill.com

📚 New publication! Sören Petermann, Karen Schönwälder, Eloisa Harris and I explored how people characterize those around them, and what this reveals about attitudes toward migration and diversity. Read the full paper here: inlibra.com/de/document/...