Briitta van Staalduinen @briittavs.bsky.social · 03/11/2025love a theoretical framework but try to also give my students concrete examples of what a welfare state can 'feel' like below the contents of the "motherhood package" (äitiyspakkaus) given to mothers (incl. those adopting) in Finland www.kela.fi/documents/d/... 000
Briitta van Staalduinen @briittavs.bsky.social · 10/10/20251st article from my dissertation is out in Perspectives today!! two takeaways: a) knowledge economy 'winners' may not be subject to status loss but they sure care about status preservation & b) this is consequential for their attitudes re: immigration & diversity. Thnx 2 all along this journey!! 43713
Briitta van Staalduinen @briittavs.bsky.social · 26/05/2025a piece that has aged like fine wine. 30 years from post-socialism to post-neoliberalism and the dilemma remains, if not in an even knottier form Nancy Fraser's "From redistribution to recognition? Dilemmas of justice in a 'post-socialist' age" from 1995 newleftreview.org/issues/i212/... 010
Briitta van Staalduinen @briittavs.bsky.social · 17/04/2025has me thinking about recent work on the effects of eroding public service access, which is really a kind of (comparative) politics of retrenchment www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgAccess to Healthcare and Voting: The Case of Hospital Closures in Rural America | American Political Science Review | Cambridge CoreAccess to Healthcare and Voting: The Case of Hospital Closures in Rural America 000
Briitta van Staalduinen @briittavs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025while women are more inclined to view future progress in their favor, this on its own does not make them lean left, mobilization is key stay tuned for more; we are currently analyzing data from focus groups of women to better understand what (de)mobilizes them journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 040
Briitta van Staalduinen @briittavs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025in light of exchange re: the role of gender and mobilization in the US election, wanted to share our recent CPS article @dpzollinger.bsky.social in which we use European survey data to test expectations about progressive voters based on gender and upward mobility. our findings suggest that, 1205