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Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy.

I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all.

Out in October with Random House.

Eric Hobsbawm on E.P. Thompson (published in International Labor and Working-Class History, vol. 46, 1994)

Man Woman Machine

New Publication in the British Journal of Sociology on „Hot Politics“ and Trigger Points.

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics” Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordi...

Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵

Vortragsreihe "Ökologische Konflikte" mit Stephan Lessenich (20.04.), Anita Engels (11.05.), Melanie Pichler (01.06.), Ingolfur Blühdorn (22.06.), 16-18 Uhr, Dorotheenstr. 26

Heute: Auftakt für unsere Vortragsreihe "Ökologische Konflikte" mit Stephan Lessenich (Direktor des Frankfurter Instituts für Sozialforschung).

DLF Headline: Zahl der Asylanträge in D auf Rekordtief

Umfrage FGW mit AfD auf erstem Platz

Vielleicht hat die Stärke der AfD ja gar nichts mit der Zahl der Geflüchteten zu tun? Vielleicht war es falsch zu versuchen AfD Wähler:innen mit immer restriktiveren Maßnahmen zurückzugewinnen? Vielleicht hat man so die AfD normalisiert und ihr zu einer neuen Kernwählerschaft verholfen? Vielleicht.

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Focusing on centrism as a purported set of ideas – a centre beyond left and right – @karlpike.bsky.social offers a new theory of centrism as a structure for political action: a politics which oscillates between left and right. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/r8Nq38r

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polisky

Build-a-voter is back! @fransham.bsky.social's creation is now updated for 2026 with data from More in Common. www.economist.com/interactive/...

My profile is predictably Labour-leaning...

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Thanks! I hope you like it.

The German publication of "Triggerpunkte" had a huge impact on how people in politics and broader society think about current political conflicts. I can only encourage people in the UK to engage and better understand some of the essential dynamics underpinning the ongoing political transformations.

Trigger Points Trigger Points - Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Is society really polarized? This book explores key conflicts...

I really enjoyed doing this study. It is part of a larger research project written up more in a book about to appear in English translation @brisunipress.bsky.social. More about this soon, but you can pre-order here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/triggerpoints.

...much greater affective power if framed as violations of a deep structure of popular moral expectations. At the moment, "polarization entrepreneurs" on the far right are particularly good at tapping into this type of energy, aided by certain incentives of media ecologies. But this could change.

We think these are relatively generic forms which occur across issue domains and can be articulated by the right, left and center. Debates can ignite around criminal migrants or welfare fraudsters, poor pensioners, or the arrogance of billionaires. The point is just that issues will have...

In our material, we collected moments of affective escalation (trigger points). We saw that the outrage fueling them derived from breaches of implicit moral expectations. Four types of breaches were very common:

-Unequal treatments
-Disrupted normality
-Behavioral impositions
-Threatened boundaries

Observing group interviews (and daily reality) @thomaslux.bsky.social @steffenmau.bsky.social and I were puzzled to see how, even among fairly apolitical citizens, specific issues almost always lead to heated debates. Why do people get so much more worked up about bathrooms than about wealth taxes?

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics” Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordi...

Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Wir machen am 26. Juni eine öffentliche Veranstaltung und bringen die Sozialwissenschaften ins Gespräch; im Garten unseres Max-Planck-Instituts für Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft in Göttingen @mpips.bsky.social

Who is a populist? Comparing Blair and Macron to Corbyn and Mélenchon | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Who is a populist? Comparing Blair and Macron to Corbyn and Mélenchon

🆕 Putting #Populism to the test?📝

Or Dar critically examines the concept of #Populism, using a comparative analysis of Tony Blair, Emmanuel Macron, Jeremy Corbyn, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon to challenge definitions, & highlight the importance of relationships between actors and elites

2 two-year postdocs on children’s political socialization at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

📯One month left to apply 📯If you want to join our team @au.dk to study young people's beliefs about political power, this is your chance! Two 2-year postdocs in my ERC-funded project YOPOW: international.au.dk/about/profil...

Auftauende Konfliktlandschaften oder stabiler Untergrund? Article Auftauende Konfliktlandschaften oder stabiler Untergrund? was published on February 1, 2026 in the journal Soziologische Revue (volume 49, issue 1).

Thomas Schwinn hat eine sehr schöne Rezension unseres Buches "Triggerpunkte" geschrieben, die auf sehr präzise und eindenkende Weise auf Lücken in unserem Ansatz hinweist. Es ist wirklich toll, dass das Buch immer wieder so kluge Rezensenten gefunden hat. Link: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Somewheres versus Anywheres?
Lastenrad versus Gartenzwerg? @thomaslux.bsky.social, @steffenmau.bsky.social und ich schauen empirisch, wie eng Lebensführung und politische Haltungen zusammenhängen. Frisch erschienen und Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy!

This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply.

However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️

...this is very much an argument against 'deliverism'. Getting the goods is a necessary but insufficient strategy, it only works when coupled with a clear politicizing message about the deservingness of recipients that explicitly counters the ethnonationalist divides the far right thrives on.

Whether more social housing weakens the far right depends on whether housing is politicized as a (natives vs migrants) group conflict. This is similar in areas like climate policy: How objective distributive effects are perceived is mediated by politically induced group scripts. Politically,...

Somewheres versus Anywheres?
Lastenrad versus Gartenzwerg? @thomaslux.bsky.social, @steffenmau.bsky.social und ich schauen empirisch, wie eng Lebensführung und politische Haltungen zusammenhängen. Frisch erschienen und Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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.🧵
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