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Matthias Enggist

@matthiasenggist.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher in Political Science at University of Lausanne | PhD @IPZ, University of Zurich | welfare state politics, public opinion, party competition, immigration, political geography

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Delia Zollinger @dpzollinger.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Even in times of sociocultural conflict, a progressive left electorate is more averse to sociocultural *and* socioeconomic inequalities than (far) right voters. New paper with @siljahausermann.bsky.social Palmtag @tabouchadi.bsky.social @stefwalter.bsky.social Berkinshaw tinyurl.com/d42wyb79 1/n
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Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
1/3) 📣Out in Party Politics: We trace the equal rights and economic equality positions of 69 center-right and far-right parties since 1970 in 12 countries. We find that center right parties did not react to/address equal rights concerns and economic inequality journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New (first! 🥳) Publication 🚨 High-street retail vacancies, capturing economic decline, are linked to increased support of UK's populist party, UKIP (now Reform).
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
What are the political consequences of long-term population loss? In a new paper for German Politics @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social, Hendrik Träger and I find that East German places more affected by depopulation provided stronger support for the AfD in recent state elections.🧵👇 shorturl.at/cujwa
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Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
In Social progress at the expense of economic equality? we ask if equal rights or equal chances concerns crowded out economic equality as priority of the Left? Mapping equality concepts 1970-2020: not green or far-left parties. Yet, social democrats … 1/2 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Gina-Julia Westenberger @gjwestenberger.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
How does employment change differ across German regions & is it all about the urban-rural divide? 🏙️ 🏡 Happy to see the first paper of my PhD now out in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie and Sozialpsychologie! Read the paper #OpenAccess here doi.org/10.1007/s115... and 🧵👇:
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Beyond Thriving Cities and Declining Rural Areas: Mapping Geographic Divides in Germany’s Employment Structure, 1993–2019 - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
This article assesses the popular thesis of growing regional inequality and urban–rural divides for Germany, focusing on the quality of employment opportunities. Drawing on a 2% sample of individuals ...
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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
New paper out at @cpsjournal.bsky.social! With Ian McAllister, we examine how party competition and party positions condition the presence and size of an age gap in voting for the left. A short 🧵 below! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Is there a ‘Youthquake’? The Structure of Party Competition and Age Differences in Voting - Ruth Dassonneville, Ian McAllister, 2025
Why do age differences matter for voting in some countries and not in others? Despite the prevailing narrative that a ‘youthquake’ in voting is occurring across...
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Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Did German left parties abandon economic equality in favor of equal rights, as the diagnosis of the "Lifestyle-Left" suggests? Analyzing party programs since 1970, we caution against sweeping claims in Unequal German Democracy (open access). 3 key qualifications👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Matthias Enggist @matthiasenggist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
New publication in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @retobuergisser.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, and Michael Pinggera. We map the welfare preferences of voters at the poles of the second, GALTAN dimension of political conflict. 🧵
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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Silja Häusermann, Michael Pinggera (@ipz.bsky.social), & I have a new paper out in European Sociological Review! We study under what conditions citizens support future-oriented welfare reforms. We particularly point at second-dimension positions (GAL-TAN). (Thread) academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
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Under what conditions do citizens support future-oriented welfare reforms? Public opinion and second dimension welfare politics
Abstract. Important reforms are necessary to adjust today’s welfare states to the challenges of post-industrial knowledge economies. Public opinion, howeve
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Macarena Ares @macarenaares.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Happy to share this paper, now online at the JoP about attitudinal consistency in welfare reform preferences with Silja Häusermann @matthiasenggist.bsky.social & Michael Pinggera 👉 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Alexandre Afonso @alexandreafonso.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
New in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: we find that telling people that refugees have access to welfare makes them a bit less open to refugee migration, but only a bit, and it's mostly driven by people who didn't like migration in the first place. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
sciencedirect.com/science/arti... New publication out in Electoral Studies! In this study, I analyze generational voting differences in Western European multiparty systems - focusing on generational realignment *within* political blocs and using individual survey data spanning over 70 years.
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Socialized with "old cleavages" or "new dimensions": An Age-Period-Cohort analysis on electoral supp...
Across Western Europe, the electoral base of formerly dominating parties on the left and the right has been eroding in the past decades. In contrast, …
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Alexandre Afonso @alexandreafonso.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
New paper (*explosion-emoji-bam!-pow!*) forthcoming with the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: we test whether granting welfare access to refugees changes people's attitudes towards refugee migration. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
We just launched the Progressive Politics Research Network. On our website (politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/go/pprn) you can find more information and our 6 research briefs on the theme of Rethinking Progressive Politics Based on Facts Rather than Myths. A summary of our theme and findings here:
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Matthias Enggist @matthiasenggist.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Do shifting patterns of class-voting affect welfare chauvinism policies? In a new paper OA at the EPSR, Eloisa Harris & I show that for social democratic parties, the changing face of their electorate goes hand in hand w/ their policy choices (1/5) doi.org/10.1017/S175...
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Sarah Engler @saengler.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
My book is here! Such a wonderful feeling to see it in print. While the book covers a group of parties that is very successful in the volatile party systems of Centr.&Eastern Europe, I learned a lot from studying these parties for party system change in general. A thread 1/10
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