Place, education, and voting along the transnational cleavage in Europe

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Logan and Molotch's “urban growth machine” remains foundational in urban theory, describing how coalitions of landowners, developers, and politicians promote urban growth to raise land values. This p...

How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.

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More social interactions, more polarization? The evidence is not there

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Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - Volume 55

This post introduces a new Composite Segregation Index combining ethnicity, class, and education to capture spatial sorting - and shows why UK's census architecture hides the social dynamic beneath.

This years Linz Rokkan Prize for the Best EUI Doctoral Thesis in Political Sociology was awarded to Jona de Jong during the EUI Degree Conferring Ceremony on

Major socio-economic transformations can create new cleavages, altering politics forever. The crucial contemporary transformation is the shift towards post-industrial knowledge economies, placing e...

This thesis advances a relational approach to study the durability of sociocultural polarization between citizens with and without tertiary education in Western democracies, and the severity of partis...

PhD Researcher - Scientific project on Education-based social identities

Hoe komt het dat radicaal-rechtse partijen de afgelopen jaren zo enorm zijn gegroeid? Het antwoord van politicoloog Vicente Valentim: de gevoelens waren er altijd, maar de schaamte om ze te uiten is v...

The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) positions in Political Science with a specializat...

Are you our next postdoc with a focus on using expert surveys to examine political party competition around cleavage politics? The Department of Political Science invites applications for a 2-year pos

In een halve eeuw groeide het aantal hoogopgeleiden in Nederland explosief. Daarnaast isoleren zij zich steeds meer: eigen sportclubs, eigen scholen, eigen media, eigen wijken. Deze ‘verzuiling’ blijf...

Do you have a strong research agenda in international relations? Are you motivated to teach talented Bachelor students? Then please apply for this position that combines research at VU Political Scien...

De verzuiling ligt weliswaar achter ons, maar in de huidige samenleving is een nieuwe zuil ontstaan van hogeropgeleiden, stelt onderzoeker Jona de Jong. Dat heeft grote invloed op het stemgedrag in Ne...

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