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Enes Ataç

@ienesatac.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate in Sociology and Social Data Analytics at Penn State | Prev. University of Mannheim & Bogazici University www.enesatac.org

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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 13h
Check out our article on Christian nationalism and government spending views (w/ Lena Kunjan, Forrest Lovette, & @profsamperry.bsky.social)! I'm also on the 2026–27 academic job market! I study political sociology, intergroup relations, and immigration using quantitative and computational methods.
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Daniel Tavana @danieltavana.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
New paper out in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, with @alexandra-blackman.bsky.social, @lotito.bsky.social, and @ernugent.bsky.social: "The Social Legacies of Repression: Family, Friends, and Political Participation."
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨new working paper🚨 Chris Blair (@chriswblair.bsky.social), Jeremy Weinstein, and I describe here The Dataset of World Refugee and Asylum Policies, in which we code de jure asylum policy for 205 countries, from 1951-2022. We hope you will find the paper and data helpful. osf.io/preprints/so...
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The Dataset of World Refugee and Asylum Policies (DWRAP): de jure asylum policy for 205 countries, 1951-2022
More than two-thirds of the world's refugees and asylum-seekers are hosted in the developing world, yet the national laws governing their reception have never been measured comprehensively across coun...
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Pat Hastings @ophastings.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
How well can we predict which children will end up poor adults or rich adults? Or how much education they'll earn? In a new working paper, @zparolin.bsky.social and I show the predictability of life outcomes depends on the country and outcome. www.inet.ox.ac.uk/publications... Highlights below! 🧵👇
Title: Rags or Riches? Predicting Life Outcomes from the Birth Lottery Across Five High-Income Countries

Authors: Orestes P. Hastings and Zach Parolin

Abstract: The stratification of life outcomes is a central concern of sociology, but to what extent can adult outcomes be predicted from childhood circumstances? Although decades of research have identified important family and socioeconomic factors associated with mobility and attainment, these models explain only a modest share of individual variation in outcomes. Using harmonized longitudinal data from the Cross-National Equivalent Files (CNEF) and an ensemble of machine-learning models, we estimate the predictability of adult outcomes in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and South Korea. Predictability varies substantially across outcomes and national contexts: educational attainment is more predictable than economic outcomes, poverty is far more predictable in the U.S., and income mobility is substantially less predictable than overall attainment outcomes. Additional U.S. analyses show that adding race, wealth, parental incarceration, and other variables improves predictions only slightly. We further show that predictability captures a distinct dimension of stratification not fully captured in other traditional measures of mobility, inequality, and opportunity. Together, these findings provide new insights into where and how the birth lottery most strongly shapes life chances.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Excited to attend #ASA2026 and present two of my papers: one on religious nationalism and authoritarian leadership, and another on elections and anti-refugee sentiment in Turkey. Come and join us if you have time tomorrow morning and/or afternoon! @asapolisoc.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Excited to attend #ASA2026 and present two of my papers: one on religious nationalism and authoritarian leadership, and another on elections and anti-refugee sentiment in Turkey. Come and join us if you have time tomorrow morning and/or afternoon! @asapolisoc.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Tesekkur ederim Paul!
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
As I prepare to enter the academic job market this fall, I’m excited to share some good news: Our paper, “Cultural Solidarity, Economic Threat: How Discrimination Influences Anti-Immigrant Attitudes,” has been published in Current Sociology. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Cultural solidarity, economic threat: How discrimination influences anti-immigrant attitudes - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Charles Seguin, Brandon Gorman, 2026
Studies on the attitudes of minorities toward immigrants have produced mixed results, as while some suggest that minorities are more tolerant of immigrants, oth...
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
At the same time, however, concerns about economic competition remain comparable across minority and majority groups. The article is open access, but please let me know if you have any problems accessing the article.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
while expressing similar levels of concern about immigration’s economic consequences. Our findings suggest that shared experiences of discrimination may foster a sense of solidarity between minority groups and immigrants by reducing perceptions of cultural threat.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We examine how minority and majority group members evaluate immigration across cultural and economic dimensions. We find that minority group members are significantly less likely than majority group members to perceive immigrants as a cultural threat,
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
As I prepare to enter the academic job market this fall, I’m excited to share some good news: Our paper, “Cultural Solidarity, Economic Threat: How Discrimination Influences Anti-Immigrant Attitudes,” has been published in Current Sociology. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Cultural solidarity, economic threat: How discrimination influences anti-immigrant attitudes - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Charles Seguin, Brandon Gorman, 2026
Studies on the attitudes of minorities toward immigrants have produced mixed results, as while some suggest that minorities are more tolerant of immigrants, oth...
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Thrilled to share our new paper, "What Would Jesus Fund? Christian Nationalism and Americans' Views on Government Spending," just out in Socius! 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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What Would Jesus Fund? Christian Nationalism and Americans’ Views on Government Spending - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Lena Kunjan, Forrest Lovette, Samuel L. Perry, 2026
Research on government spending focuses primarily on the roles of partisanship, ideology, and in-group self-interest. Beyond these, the authors propose that rel...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The "hydration break" really is a perfect American capitalist innovation: a nakedly commercial play to insert more ad revenue into a game that doesn't have ads anywhere else in the world, all under the guise of some humanitarian interest in the players' wellbeing.
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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Sarah Brothers @sarahbrothers.bsky.social (Pennsylvania State University) is a recipient of the inaugural Early Career Award for Community-Engaged Scholarship,
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Alexandre Afonso @alexandreafonso.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Very happy to see this out on perceptions of welfare deservingness for different categories of migrants, together with @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social and Samir Negash @fggaleiden.bsky.social, open access in EPSR:
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It’s so interesting that I’ve been seeing new games like this almost every day lately! I completed Guess NBA Players by their Jumpshot (Easy Mode) with a 25 combo streak! Can you beat my score? 🏀 guessjumpshot.com
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Guess the Jumpshot - Can You Guess The NBA Player By Jumpshot?
Challenge yourself to identify NBA players by their blurred jumpshot videos. Play the ultimate NBA jumpshot guessing game and share your scores with friends.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I had a similar plan with my friends but one of them got a rejection from his visa application. And then I remember that I am still a grad student :)
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Unfortunately, this is inevitable for the entire tournament because even the cheapest tickets start at $300-400. For comparison, people were comfortably able to find tickets around $50-100 for most Euro 2024 games in Germany two years ago.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Finally!
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
:)
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Whoa I am jealous now because I’ve been trying to get another 82-0 without Wilt and it feels almost impossible :) These are the ones I got closest so far 👇 I think the game favors the rebounding a lot in general
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
Shawn Smucker
Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
And can anyone explain to me how this one could not make 82-0???
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I appreciate that I am not the only one obsessed this game today :) Took me a while to reach 82-0 though!
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
We also owe a special debt of gratitude to @profsamperry.bsky.social , whose mentorship shaped this paper from the very early stages of research design through the intricacies of peer review and publication. We have more papers in the pipeline together, so stay tuned for those as well!
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This project grew out of the Religion and Politics workshop at BYU last summer, which allowed me to connect with colleagues like Forrest and Lena working on similar questions.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Another interesting finding we have is that CN's associations with spending views are stronger among non-Republicans and non-conservatives, suggesting CN captures a moral-cultural logic of hierarchy that operates at least partly independently of partisan identity.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
But CN is unrelated to spending on parks, highways, and Social Security, areas where in-group/out-group distinctions are less salient. This validates our core argument that CN's imprint on spending preferences is rather selective and ideologically patterned.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Using GSS 2021 data, we find CN predicts greater support for spending on crime, law enforcement, and the military, and less for spending on Blacks, safety nets, science, the environment, and other Democratic priorities even after controlling for partisanship, ideology, and White victimhood.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
We conceptualize CN as a schema rooted in "us vs. them" hierarchical social order and neoliberal ideas of government, leading it to push support toward spending that controls and punishes problematized populations, and away from vulnerable populations and out-group interests..
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Research on spending attitudes has focused mainly on partisanship, ideology, and self-interest. We argue that religio-political schemas also play an independent role in shaping how Americans think about government's purpose, its beneficiaries, and resource allocation.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Thrilled to share our new paper, "What Would Jesus Fund? Christian Nationalism and Americans' Views on Government Spending," just out in Socius! 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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What Would Jesus Fund? Christian Nationalism and Americans’ Views on Government Spending - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Lena Kunjan, Forrest Lovette, Samuel L. Perry, 2026
Research on government spending focuses primarily on the roles of partisanship, ideology, and in-group self-interest. Beyond these, the authors propose that rel...
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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
1/ Excited to report we have a new paper out @nature.com today! The bottom line: training data for LLMs does not just fall from the sky - it is created in the context of existing social political institutions - and that has consequences for LLM output. nature.com/articles/s41...
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State media control influences large language models - Nature
Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
New study @sfjournal.bsky.social: Initial work on my theory of "rulling class religion," which I'll developfurther at @russellsagefdn.bsky.social next year. Using 3 data sets, we link Christian nationalism with endorsing economic inequality BUT only among higher earners. 1/3 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I am thrilled to share that our article "Moral Intuitions and Support for Immigration" has just been published at Social Science Quarterly! In this paper, we examine the association between moral intuitions and support for immigration.
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Moral Intuitions and Support for Immigration
Introduction Attitudes toward immigration are often shaped by whether immigrants are perceived as a threat to one's racial, ethnic, or nativity group status. Yet recent research shows that such perc...
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Feel free to reach out or check out my website if you don't have institutional access to the paper.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Among these, authority emerged as a particularly strong predictor, suggesting that concerns about rule-breaking and law enforcement play a central role in shaping opposition to immigration.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In contrast, those with strong binding intuitions, especially those emphasizing a respect for authority and sanctity, are less supportive.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
We find that immigration attitudes aren't just about ideology, race, nativity, or education. They're also shaped by how people think about right and wrong. People with strong individualizing intuitions, including those emphasizing care and fairness, are more likely to support immigration.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I am thrilled to share that our article "Moral Intuitions and Support for Immigration" has just been published at Social Science Quarterly! In this paper, we examine the association between moral intuitions and support for immigration.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Moral Intuitions and Support for Immigration
Introduction Attitudes toward immigration are often shaped by whether immigrants are perceived as a threat to one's racial, ethnic, or nativity group status. Yet recent research shows that such perc...
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Our recent article tackles this question directly. TL;DR: Turkey is not secularizing like Europe, where each younger generation is less religious. Instead, religiosity is being reshaped by political polarization, with decline concentrated among non-AKP supporters. A 🧵
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
However, we need more data on subsequent birth cohorts to confirm this possibility. Please check out my article for a more detailed discussion of this. If you do not have institutional access, you can find it on my website as well. academic.oup.com/sf/article-a...
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Religious rebound, political backlash, and the youngest cohort: understanding religious change in Turkey
Abstract. We distinguish two streams of theory that dominate explanations of religious change: cohort-based cumulative decline theory, which emphasizes sma
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I should note that the data are available only for those born before 2000 (the last WVS wave for Turkey was conducted in 2018). Looking at the trends for the youngest birth cohort (1990–1999), Turkey may be beginning to enter a secularization phase, potentially offset by increasing polarization.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Yet, the increase in attendance across all groups suggests that the party’s transformation into a more authoritarian actor encouraged performance signaling. Here, public religious behaviors may function as signals of regime support that potentially generates political and economic opportunities.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Although the AKP’s relatively liberal stance during its early years led to a short-term increase in the number of individuals who identified as religious, the figure below shows a general decline even among AKP supporters after 2011.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Performance signaling, in contrast, is more characteristic of authoritarian regimes, where existing research shows how public religious behaviors can operate as signals of political loyalty.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Identity updating also mirrors the rise in evangelical identification in the US following Trump’s 2016 election. Although more individuals began identifying as evangelical during this period, church attendance did not increase and in some cases even declined.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
In other words, such behaviors may signal support for the regime and potentially provide access to political and economic opportunities associated with that support.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
In the second phase, as the AKP evolved into a more conservative and authoritarian political actor, public religious behaviors such as attending Friday prayers may have functioned as performance signaling.
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