After secularisation? A comparative analysis of religious cleavages in Western Europe Religion has long been considered an important determinant of voting behaviour. However, the secularisation of Western societies has changed its role. Secularisation not only limits the political relevance of religion, it may also affect the nature of religious cleavages themselves.

#Research published by @ecpr.bsky.social assessed our #data (2002-22) on #voting in the context of #religion.

The analysis was conducted by Martin Elff (Zeppelin University 🇩🇪), Ruth Dassonneville (@umontreal-en.bsky.social 🇨🇦) and Kamil Marcinkiewicz (University of Wrocławski 🇵🇱).

Joint work with @fseiffert.bsky.social @alexandra-heyden.bsky.social @maxpi.bsky.social

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...

🚀 Förderung der @dfg.de für Forschungsprojekt "Rechtszynismus in Deutschland" bewilligt!

Wir freuen uns auf spannende Ergebnisse & Kooperationen mit (inter)nationalen Forschungspartner*innen! 🤝

💡 Good to know: Derzeit ist eine Doktorand*innenstelle im Projekt ausgeschrieben: lnkd.in/dPpHtgyT

🆕 Also possible with us: The Hannah Arendt Fellowships offer international scholars the opportunity to conduct their own research in Lower Saxony, Germany, for up to six months (April-September 2027).

Further general information about the Fellowships: adw-goe.de/artikel/fell...

Stellenangebote

We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict is looking for Postdoc & Doc Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict www.ips.mpg.de/13135/stelle...

#ALLBUS #Kumulation 1980-2023 veröffentlicht

Mit allen #Zeitreihen aus dem ALLBUS-Frageprogramm, d.h. Daten für alle Fragen, die in wenigstens zwei der bisher 23 ALLBUS-Umfragen erhoben wurden. Damit lässt sich bspw. der Abwärtstrend beim #Vertrauen in die #Kirchen ablesen: search.gesis.org/res...

From Victim to Offender: The Role of Dark Personality Traits in School Violence Findings on the victim-offender overlap show that victimization often leads individuals to engage in criminal behavior, influenced by societal, situational, and personal factors. However, the role ...

🚨 New publication 🚨
“From Victim to Offender: The Role of Dark Personality Traits in School Violence” is now published! With Laura Bartz, Leonie Dreißigacker, and Daniel Seddig, we study dark personality traits and the victim–offender overlap in school violence.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1556...

One position is in our interdisciplinary „PerFair“ project on highschool students‘ fairness perceptions and meritocratic beliefs - and how these translate into behavior towards students from different backgrounds. Please apply and/or get in touch if you have any questions!

🚨 Job alert! 🚨

We’re #hiring a #PhD candidate at NIDI (The Hague).

Together with @frankvantubergen.bsky.social and @glorenz.bsky.social, I will supervise a project on the connection of different dimensions of social cohesion in ethnically diverse schools.

Deadline 1 April 2026.

More information:

📢 New in IMR. We often ask whether #refugees “integrate.” But what happens when the host society becomes hostile? I develop the concept of social marginalization and show that refugees in more #violent German counties report stronger feelings of exclusion and discrimination. doi.org/10.1177/0197...

InRa-Studie | Institutionen & Rassismus Das FGZ erforscht als Verbundprojekt an elf Standorten Begriff und Konzeptionen, Quellen und Gefährdungen, Folgen und Wirkungen sowie historische, globale und regionale Kontexte gesellschaftlichen Zus...

Die InRa‑Studie zeigt: Rassismus in deutschen Behörden ist kein Randphänomen, sondern ein strukturelles Risiko.

Mehr zu Ergebnissen, Methoden und den 23 Teilprojekten: fgz-risc.de/forschung/in...

🎓 Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Frau Dr. Schüttler! 🥳

Wir gratulieren unserer Doktorandin Helena ganz herzlich zur erfolgreich bestandenen Disputation!

@helenaschuettler.bsky.social

The tipping point of intolerance: radical-right elections and terrorist attacks as catalysts for anti-Muslim hate crime in Europe - Comparative Migration Studies Comparative Migration Studies - This paper provides a cross-country analysis of anti-Muslim hate crimes in Europe, using ODHIR-OSCE data for 30 countries between 2016 and 2022. We systematically...

Happy to share our new paper in Comparative Migration Studies, with @hcebolla.bsky.social , @borchgrevink.bsky.social , and Inmaculada Serrano, within @equalstrength.bsky.social, where we show that #Radical-Right electoral gains increase anti-Muslim #HateCrime across Europe.

shorturl.at/UDGh9

A new publication at www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We find that religious markers (esp. beards) can reduce perceived trustworthiness in Turkey.

(That's why you often see me clean shaven ;-)

Migrant rent penalties in the German housing market Abstract. We investigate whether migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics using nationally representative data from the 2018 German Microcensus. The d...

For a change, something we made ourselves: Together with my colleagues Tobias Roth, Andreas Horr, and @nataliebackes.bsky.social, we examined ethnic rent penalties. Do migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics? direct.mit.edu/euso/article...

🚨🔓 New publication with Ragnhild Nordås & Ingrid Vik Bakken in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social: We explore how the public perceives the demobilizing effects of repression academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...

My first paper is out in #SociologicalScience!
With Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx, we found robust evidence of ideological #bias in #secularization research: researchers' own religiosity is correlated with their probability of finding evidence of religious decline in their publications.
Read more: 👇

Religious Elites, (Non)Politicization, and Intergroup Attitudes among Muslim Immigrants in Germany | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

🎉 I am excited and grateful to share that the second chapter of my dissertation is now forthcoming in the @thejop.bsky.social.

it has been a long journey. Hours, thoughts, and re-assessments at each stage of the study, but it is finally here🥲
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
1/9

Now officially published in jpeaceresearch.bsky.social.

Link to full-text:
academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...

#PoliticalScience #PoliticalPsychology

Can culture help to explain prejudice? We (@maxschaub.bsky.social) explore this question by examining the rise of antisemitism during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.

@wzb.bsky.social @socfub.bsky.social @politikuhh.bsky.social @poppublicsphere.bsky.social

Poster for the “Sociological Ash Wednesday” event at the University of Cologne on 18 February 2026, 16:00–18:00, in lecture hall A2, with a background photo of the Cologne skyline and cathedral at sunset over the Rhine. Large white text announces the title “SOZIOLOGISCHER ASCHERMITTWOCH”, with green banner slogans reading “Universitäre Diskursräume” and “Zwischen Freiheit und Beschränkung”. The lower left lists a panel discussion with Claudia Diehl (Konstanz), Naika Foroutan (Berlin), Markus Ogorek (Köln), Uwe Schimank (Bremen) and Richard Traunmüller (Mannheim), moderated by Jan‑Martin Wiarda, and organisation credit to Clemens Kroneberg with a website link. The logos of the University of Cologne, the Adenauer School of Government and the WiSo Faculty’s 125‑year anniversary (1901–2026) appear at the top and bottom of the poster.

Am 18. Februar findet in Köln zum zweiten Mal ein "Soziologischer Aschermittwoch" statt. Im Mittelpunkt steht dieses Jahr die Frage nach dem angemessenen Umgang mit akademischer Freiheit und Standpunktvielfalt an Hochschulen und in der Wissenschaft.

Kostenlose Tickets: bit.ly/soziologisch....

Beyond absolute education: relative educational attainment and perceived discrimination among immigrants Abstract. The integration paradox—the positive association between absolute education and perceived discrimination among more visible immigrant groups—has

New at ESR: The integration paradox reconsidered!

@frankvantubergen.bsky.social shows that higher perceived discrimination is not driven by education alone
What matters is relative premigration education and status loss, pointing to education as a positional resource!
➡ doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf054

📣 Ich freue mich sehr, morgen im Rahmen der IRex-Studium-Generale-Ringvorlesung an der @unituebingen.bsky.social zum Thema Umgang mit der extremen Rechten sprechen zu dürfen.

📹 Die bisherigen Vorträge der Ringvorlesung sind bereits online in der Mediathek verfügbar:
👉 tinyurl.com/5fnh2ce4

Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Matthias Koenig. He inspired me to follow an academic path and taught the very first sociology course I ever took. I will always admire the brilliance and unique precision of his thinking.

☃️ Das Kriminologische Kolloquium ist zurück aus der Winterpause!

Mit "Künstlicher Intelligenz" von selektiver zu totaler Sozialkontrolle?
🎙️ Prof. Dr. Klaus Boers (@uni-muenster.de)

📅 03. Februar 2026
🕕 17.00 – 18.30 Uhr
📍 Präsenz & online

Anmeldung & weitere Infos: kfn.de/veranstaltun...

Check out our new paper in the European Journal of Political Research (@ejprjournal.bsky.social):

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In einem Beitrag im frisch erschienenen Band Subjektive Sicherheit und politische Kultur in #Sachsen zeigen @langenkamp.bsky.social und ich: In Gemeinden mit mehr Zuwanderung sind Menschen weniger besorgt vor islamistischer Gewalt und wählen seltener die #AfD:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

📣 New open-access article on political knowledge among naturalized German citizens in International Migration Review.

“Becoming an Informed Citizen — the Relationship Between Naturalization Regimes, Language, and Political Knowledge Among Naturalized Citizens”.

doi.org/10.1177/0197...

⏳ Time is running out! We’re looking for you #ReliDeli – find all the details below 👇