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Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Der Spiegel macht den politischen Gender Gap zur Titelgeschichte und fragt auch, was das für Dating und Paarbeziehungen heißt. Ich durfte einige Einschätzungen beisteuern, auf Basis meiner Forschung zum Wahlverhalten und einer Studie von Shannon Taflinger und mir zu Politik und Dating in den USA.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 24/09/2026

These are the completed fertility rates by gender and education in the US for the last 5 decades, from a paper by @hudde.bsky.social and me: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Figure 1. Mean completed fertility (children ever born) by birth cohort in decades, sex, and education level. The height of the bars indicates the relative size of each education group within the sex cohort. Completed fertility is from the General Social Survey for respondents age 40 or older; cohort education composition is calculated from the decennial census (1950–1990) and American Community Survey (2000–2021) data from IPUMS.org. All data are weighted.

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Voting & Democracy Research Group - KU Leuven @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Would you date someone who supports a different political party? 🗳️💕 In our next V&D Speaker Series talk, @hudde.bsky.social explores why political differences are increasingly shaping personal relationships, not just public life. In person or online. Register: 🔗 soc.kuleuven.be/fsw/english/...

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nachgerechnet: Friedrich Merz müsste noch bis Ende März 2028 im Amt bleiben, um nicht der Bundeskanzler mit der kürzesten Amtszeit zu werden. Erst dann hätte er Kiesinger überholt.

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Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📊Wie außergewöhnlich ist die Unbeliebtheit von Friedrich Merz?📊 Sehr außergewöhnlich. Seit 1977 startete kein Kanzler seine Amtszeit mit so niedrigen Werten, und bei keinem ging die Kurve danach so steil bergab. DIE ZEIT hat die Grafik dazu zum Titelthema der aktuellen Ausgabe gedruckt.

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Deutschlands konfessionelle Trennlinie isn’t dead yet

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Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🗳️Fast jede zweite Frau zwischen 35 und 59 hat die AfD gewählt.🗳️ Bei der LTW und der Altersgruppe 35–59 haben 47% und 57% der Männer die AfD gewählt. Der Gender Gap ist also moderat. Mein Eindruck: die AfD-Stärke bei Frauen mittleren Alters wird relativ wenig diskutiert.

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Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Im ZDF heute journal durfte ich Einschätzungen zum politischen Gender Gap bei jungen Menschen beitragen: ➡️„Beim Thema Dating wird's komplizierter" ➡️„Es wird schwieriger, politische Unterschiede zu ignorieren." www.zdfheute.de/video/heute-... 🧵Dazu eine Auswahl weiterer Medienberichte

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Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

📝 Ich bin Mitherausgeber der KZfSS 📝 Seit diesem Monat gehöre ich zum Herausgebergremium der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. Ich bin vor allem für den Bereich der politischen Soziologie zuständig und freue mich riesig auf diese neue Aufgabe!

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Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Mein Buch 📕Wo wir wie wählen: Politische Muster in Deutschlands Nachbarschaften📕 jetzt als @bpb.de-Sonderausgabe! Dafür habe ich: • Wahlergebnisse alle 94.000 Stimmbezirke analysiert • Daten zur Sozialstruktur gesammelt • & bin durchs Land gereist, um Gespräche zu führen www.bpb.de/shop/buecher...

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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

🔓New #OpenAccess at ESR Do people avoid dating political opponents because of politics itself? #ShannonTaflinger @hudde.bsky.social suggest otherwise! Political affiliation is used as a proxy for non-political characteristics: similarity, character, and social approval! doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag020

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If anyone had any doubt about what kind of publisher Frontiers is, this is a shocking whistleblower account

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WiSo Faculty Uni Cologne @wisocologne.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Politics shapes more than elections — it can shape our love lives too. Study by Shanon Taflinger and @hudde.bsky.social from Wiso Faculty's DSS shows how political polarization influences dating preferences in the U.S. and why “different views” can mean instant rejection. 👉 uni.koeln/C9RDU

A highly symbolic and stylized composite photograph illustrating political polarization in American partner choice, as researched by the WiSo Faculty at the University of Cologne. The image features the dark, back-to-back silhouettes of a young woman on the right and a young man on the left. The background sky is vertically split, presenting a dramatic contrast: a churning, dark red and purple storm sky on the left (male side), and a turbulent, deep blue and grey storm sky on the right (female side). Overlaying the entire central figures and division is an American flag (Stars and Stripes), which appears tattered and split down the vertical center where the silhouettes meet. At the lower-right edge, a hand holds a pole attached to the flag.

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Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

📝Why do Americans avoid cross-partisan dating? New paper w/ Shannon Taflinger in ESR We test 3 mechanisms: •perceived similarity in values & lifestyle •character judgments •fear of social disapproval ➡️All matter, similarity leads And: Dem women penalize out-partisans most doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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US Americans are divided along party lines, both in politics and personal relationships. While prior research shows a preference for dating co-partisans, it remains unclear why people prefer to date co-partisans and for whom the effects are strongest. Therefore, we examine whether perceived character quality of a potential partner, perceived similarity, and expected social approval mediate the effects of matching and non-matching political party on romantic interest and whether effects vary by gender and party combinations. We conducted an online dating experiment with US American partisans and partisan leaners aged 20–33 (N = 1,097). Respondents viewed six fictional dating profiles that randomly included ‘Democrat’, ‘Republican’, or no political information. Results show that romantic interest was largely driven by preference against out-partisans, rather than for co-partisans. Out-partisan rejection was driven by perceived similarity, followed by expected social approval and perceived character quality, while co-partisan preference was driven by perceived similarity and, to a lesser extent, perceived quality. The in-group preference was strongest for Republican men and women, while out-group rejection was strongest for Democratic women. Overall, our findings show that people use politics as a proxy for non-political characteristics. They also highlight the importance of distinguishing between in-party preference and out-party animosity.

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Scientists for Future Leipzig @s4f-leipzig.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Dr. Hudde ist auch Autor von "Wo wir wie wählen" (campus.de/wissenschaft...; s. auch www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMbt...) sowie einer Studie zum Radfahren: Je gebildeter und urbaner Menschen sind, desto häufiger radeln sie (www.3sat.de/wissen/wisse...).

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Wo wir wie wählen

Hat sich Deutschland politisch auseinandergelebt? Grenzen sich Anhänger der unterschiedlichen politischen Gruppen auch räumlich vermehrt voneinander ab? Finden wir politisch typische und untypische Or...

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Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

📝New preprint: A golden era for open-ended questions? Using LLMs for text classification tasks ➡️Advanced LLMs outperform student assistants in text coding accuracy. We provide replication files & practical guidance for applied social scientists. Feedback welcome! 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so...

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Bruno Arpino @brunoarpino.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I will soon be recruiting researchers for SOCIAL – Social relations, digital technologies and wellbeing of older people, a FIS-2 project on ageing, digitalisation, social relations, and wellbeing. Expressions of interest are now welcome.

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Kathrin Kühn @kathrinkuehn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Im DLF Podcast „Nach Redaktionsschluss“ schauen wir kritisch auf uns im Journalismus. In dieser Folge fragt Hörer Florian Lipp, warum das Thema Stadt/Land oft so lückenhaft berichtet wird: Klein- & Mittelstädte wie ein blinder Fleck. Es war eine spannende www.deutschlandfunk.de/stadt-land-u... 1/2

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Stadt, Land, und sonst nix - Vergessen Medien die Mittelstädte und Gemeinden?

Vergessen Medien die Mittelstädte? Wird die Realität in Deutschland richtig abgebildet? Es diskutieren Dlf-Hörer Florian Lipp, Kathrin Kühn und Ansgar Hudde

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Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Bewerbungsschluss morgen: Im Projekt "Knowledge, Epistemic Marginalization, and the Politics of Resentment" (Co-PI: Joachim Blatter) gibt es eine Postdocstelle an der Uni Bremen. Vertragsdauer: 3,5 Jahre Stelle: 100% Bewerbung: Bis 05.05. Stellenausschreibung: www.uni-bremen.de/universitaet...

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Offene Stellen - Universität Bremen

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

ICE is everywhere. In 2022, ICE made arrests in 30% of counties. In 2025, ICE made arrests in 62% of counties. We ask: Do ICE arrests spark political action? Theory and prior evidence suggest it should. We find that ICE activity mostly does not mobilize citizens.

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Jan Georg Plavec @jangeorgplavec.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Den typischen Grünen-Stadtteil hat Harald Schmidt schon 2022 in einem Interview mit der Stuttgarter Zeitung geschildert. Für CDU- und AfD-Hochburgen haben wir weniger scharfe Bilder im Kopf.

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Thomas Lux @thomaslux.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Bodenständige gegen Weltoffene? In unserer neuen Studie prüfen wir, wie stark die Lebensführung mit politischen Einstellungen zusammenhängt. Befund: systematische Zusammenhänge, aber wenig Hinweise auf tiefe Spaltung. Unterschiede vor allem bei Klima und Migration.🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

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Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies @europeatharvard.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Meet Ansgar Hudde one of our visiting scholars from Universität zu Köln. Join him for a seminar on “Political Attitudes in Romantic Relationships.” 🗓️4/8 @ 3:30pm ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2026/04/…

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Vincent Heddesheimer @vheddesheimer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

🚨 Just shipped a major update to GERDA, the German Election Database. - State elections update: new years + mail-in - 3 new election types: Mayoral, County, European - Municipal elections: 1984-2025 - Meinungsbild public opinion - New website & features german-elections.com

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Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Für @katapultmagazin.bsky.social haben @nilsblossey.bsky.social und ich aufgeschrieben, wie die Tiefe der Kohle und die Wahlergebnisse der AfD im Ruhrgebiet zusammenhängen. Und die Katapult-Redaktion hat ein paar sehr schöne Karten erstellt: katapult-magazin.de/de/artikel/w...

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Wie die AfD von der Geschichte des Bergbaus profitiert

Im nördlichen Ruhrgebiet legte die AfD bei der letzten Bundestagswahl deutlich zu. Der Süden liegt weiterhin fest in der Hand der SPD. Wie beeinflusst die Industrialisierung das Wahlverhalten?

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Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I had a few inspiring days on the road*: meet with Delia Baldassarri at NYU, catch up with @philipncohen.com & give a talk at U of Maryland, and a workshop by @teele.bsky.social at Johns Hopkins. *Well, rather "on the tracks" – the train between Boston & Baltimore is actually quite all right 🚂

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 26/03/2026

Got to visit with Ansgar @hudde.bsky.social today, as he gave a fabulous talk at @socyumd.bsky.social. Look for his work, with Shannon Taflinger, on cross-partisan dating in the US, using a survey experiment with open-ended responses, and a rigorous test of LLM-assisted qualitative coding.

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Sebastian Jungkunz @sjungkunz.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

New paper in Political Psychology: The age of virtue signaling: Moral grandstanding as competitive display among young men This study examines moral grandstanding (i.e., using moral discourse to enhance status) across 4 European countries (N=8,420). 🧵 doi.org/10.1111/pops...

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The age of virtue signaling: Moral grandstanding as competitive display among young men

Moral grandstanding—the use of moral discourse to enhance one's status—has become a central feature of contemporary political expression. Drawing on representative survey data from Germany, France, G...

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Thorsten Faas @wahlforschung.thorstenfaas.de · 22/03/2026

@ansgarw.bsky.social u ich sind bekannt für unsere Serviceorientierung. Daher haben wir - um die Zeit bis 18 Uhr (deutscher Zeit!) zu überbrücken - diese nigelnagelneue Grafik für Euch gebaut. Zu sehen sind die Übereinstimmungen zwischen Parteien, die sich aus dem RLP-Wahl-O-Mat ergeben. Enjoy!

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Julien Gaffuri @jgaffuri.eurosky.social · 16/03/2026

Amazing #map by @lemonde.fr showing the results of local elections on the entire country ! See online: shorturl.at/ByQZy #cartography #election #france #mapping #gischat

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Texting daily with a random human peer is more effective at reducing loneliness than texting with a highly supportive chatbot. Next time you feel lonely reach out to a human, any human. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies @europeatharvard.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Meet @manesweisskircher.bsky.social, one of our visiting scholars from TU Dresden. Join him next week for a seminar on “Electromobility and the Politics of Climate Change: Far-Right Climate Obstruction and Its Impact on Mainstream Parties.” 🗓️ 3/12 @ 1pm 🔗 ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2026/...

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Jan Georg Plavec @jangeorgplavec.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Experte für die #AfD Hood #Stuttgart Giebel bin ich bekanntlich (so wie @kesseltv.bsky.social). Nur: in Freiberg ist es schlimmer. War 1992 mit den "Republikanern" schon. Zwei Generationen rechtsextrem? @hudde.bsky.social und @juliusk.bsky.social finden es nach ungefähr jeder Wahl genau so raus.

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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Two more days to apply!

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Anne Stroppe @astroppe.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

📢 Study out in Research & Politics! We (@lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social @wurthmann.bsky.social @msaeltzer.bsky.social) find that directly elected MPs talk more about local & deprived places than list MPs on social media. 🔍 doi.org/10.1177/2053... Some Highlights [1/3]

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Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies @europeatharvard.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Meet @tevoelker.bsky.social, one of our Visiting Scholars from @wzb.bsky.social. Join her TODAY for a seminar on “Democratic Resilience: How Parties, Civil Society, and the Media Resist Far-Right Politics.” 🗓️ Feb 25 @ 2:00 - 3:15pm 🔗 ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2026/...

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

An era has come to an end

As we write our final editorial for European Societies, we return to the spirit of our first editorial (Präg, Ersanilli and Gugushvili, 2022) and to the question that guided our tenure: did we deliver on what we promised? At the outset, we set out a twofold vision. We wanted to keep European Societies a genuinely general sociology journal with a focus on Europe and European sociology, open to all substantive areas and to authors worldwide. At the same time, we wanted to modernize the journal by lowering barriers to participation, moving toward open access and open science, and by running peer review as fairly, comprehensively, and efficiently as possible. Looking back, we believe the direction of travel has been consistent with that agenda, even if some constraints have become more pronounced as submissions have grown.

The most tangible step toward barrier reduction has been the shift in the journal's publishing model. The move to MIT Press and the adoption of a noncommercial, diamond open-access model have made the journal free to read and free to publish in. This has mattered not only as an institutional achievement by ESA, but also as a signal of what a flagship journal of the European Sociological Association can be: a truly public scholarly resource rather than a gated space shaped by the ability to pay. In parallel, we worked to reduce friction in submission and production by making procedures more predictable and less resource-intensive for authors, and by strengthening the journal's commitment to transparency, including the routine expectation of replication materials for quantitative work published in the journal (Präg, Ersanilli and Gugushvili, 2025). We have thought of these changes as working on “access” and “voice” simultaneously. By “access,” we mean making it easier for people to read the journal and to submit their work. By “voice,” we mean that a broader range of scholars, institutions, and regions appears on our pages and shapes the debates. Bot…

European societies in motion, and a commitment to voice

A general sociology journal should reflect the major currents shaping European societies, not by chasing headlines, but by publishing sociological work that helps explain how Europe is changing. Over the past years, the journal has continued to engage research on inequalities and social stratification, climate change and ecological transition, migration and shifting borders, transformations in work and welfare, population aging and health inequalities, and the reconfiguration of social trust and political contestation. The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 further underlined how quickly the horizon of “normal” European development can rupture, and how urgent it becomes to understand societies that have too often been treated as peripheral in general sociological publishing. The Special Issue on understanding Ukrainian society before and after the invasion (Martsenyuk et al., 2024) was therefore an attempt to contribute to that understanding while also practicing what we had argued for from the start: that underrepresented parts of Europe should not appear only through external observation, but should be visible through scholarship that is locally grounded, rigorously theoretical, and fully integrated into European sociology.

Throughout our tenure, we also sought to ensure that the journal provided space for the plurality of sociological traditions across Europe. European sociology remains multi-paradigmatic and unevenly structured by regional and institutional inequalities. We therefore aimed to combine a high threshold for publication with broad openness to different intellectual styles, methods, and substantive agendas, and to keep ourselves accountable by paying attention to patterns in submissions and editorial outcomes across regions and approaches. This is unfinished work, but it is work that cannot be postponed if we want a journal that represents European sociology as it exists, rather th…

the structural reality remains that a general journal with finite capacity cannot publish all of the strong sociology it receives, even when that sociology deserves a wide readership.

This pressure is intertwined with another growing challenge: the difficulty of securing peer reviewers. Reviewing is the central infrastructure of scholarly publishing, but it rests on time and goodwill that are increasingly stretched. Across our term, it has become harder to find the right expertise quickly, particularly for more specialized topics or for underrepresented contexts where the pool of suitable reviewers is smaller. We therefore want to thank reviewers once more, not as a ritual, but as recognition that the journal's quality and fairness depend directly on their labor. We also hope that our community continues to treat reviewing as part of academic reciprocity, because without a sustainable reviewing culture, no editorial team can reliably balance speed, rigor, and equity.
Thanks, acknowledgments, and handover

We owe special thanks to Patrick Präg, who left his editorial role slightly earlier but contributed enormously to the journal's direction and to the everyday work that makes a journal function. His intellectual judgment, practical ambition, and commitment to fairness and transparency shaped many of the changes implemented during our tenure, and the journal is stronger because of his contributions. We also thank our associate editors, without whom our work would have been impossible: Plamen Akaliyski (Lingnan University), Çetin Çelik (Koç University), Roxanne Connelly (University of Edinburgh), Ivana Dobrotić (University of Zagreb), Marta Dominguez Folgueras (Sciences Po), Magne P. Flemmen (University of Oslo), Pablo Gracia (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Mobarak Hossain (London School of Economics and Political Science), Mathieu Ichou (INED), Katya Ivanova (Tilburg University), Cyril Jayet (Sorbonne University), Agnieszka Kubal (University of Oxford), Anna K…

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Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Last week I started as Visiting Scholar at Harvard's Center for European Studies, and I'm super excited to be here! Thanks to @dziblatt.bsky.social & everyone at the Center for hosting me and the warm welcome. I'm here til early May -> let me know if you're in the Boston area and want to catch up!

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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 23/01/2026

🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

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Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”

Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

In just over eight months, Berlin will hold its 20th state election since 1946. While its well known East West divide in voting behaviour is often attributed to the city’s former split into capitalist and socialist halves, these differences existed even before the city’s division. A thread. 🧵

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WiSo Faculty Uni Cologne @wisocologne.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

🎓 Advance your academic career! The Cologne Graduate School (Univ. of Cologne) offers a 3-year PhD scholarship in Business Administration starting Oct 1, 2026. 🌐 Focus: analytics, AI & digital transformation. Apply by Mar 15, 2026 👉 uni.koeln/JQGW2 #DoctoralScholarship #PhDOpportunity #wisocgn

Promotional graphic from Cologne Graduate School showing a person holding a doctoral certificate folder. Text reads: “Interested in a doctoral programme? Apply now. Doctoral Scholarship Business Administration.”

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity

Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.

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Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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 📈👇

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Leo Klimm @leoklimm.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

"Walk like a penguin." 🐧❄️ Good advice for snowy days in French media.

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Piotr Zagórski @pzag.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

📣 Kicking off 2026 with a new article in @eepolitics.bsky.social! When do voters with left-wing economic views support populist radical right parties? Many supporters of 🇵🇱 PiS are left-authoritarians (left-wing econ & authoritarian socio-cult views)... 1/4 👇 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EISET...

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS 📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026 We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization

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Dt. Gesellschaft f. Soziologie @dgsoziologie.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2025

Wo Deutschland am typischsten wählt (Paywall) www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buec… Wo wir wie wählen und das „Typischdeutschland“ liegt, zeigt Ansgar Hudde. Der Soziologe bietet eine eindrucksvolle politische Kartographie.

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Wo Deutschland am typischsten wählt

Wo wir wie wählen und das „Typischdeutschland“ liegt, zeigt Ansgar Hudde. Der Soziologe bietet eine eindrucksvolle politische Kartographie.

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