love a theoretical framework but try to also give my students concrete examples of what a welfare state can 'feel' like
below the contents of the "motherhood package" (äitiyspakkaus) given to mothers (incl. those adopting) in Finland
www.kela.fi/documents/d/...
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Thank you Jonathan!!
Thank you, Mark!!
1st article from my dissertation is out in Perspectives today!!
two takeaways: a) knowledge economy 'winners' may not be subject to status loss but they sure care about status preservation & b) this is consequential for their attitudes re: immigration & diversity.
Thnx 2 all along this journey!!
a piece that has aged like fine wine. 30 years from post-socialism to post-neoliberalism and the dilemma remains, if not in an even knottier form
Nancy Fraser's "From redistribution to recognition? Dilemmas of justice in a 'post-socialist' age" from 1995
newleftreview.org/issues/i212/...
has me thinking about recent work on the effects of eroding public service access, which is really a kind of (comparative) politics of retrenchment
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
while women are more inclined to view future progress in their favor, this on its own does not make them lean left, mobilization is key
stay tuned for more; we are currently analyzing data from focus groups of women to better understand what (de)mobilizes them
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
in light of exchange re: the role of gender and mobilization in the US election, wanted to share our recent CPS article @dpzollinger.bsky.social in which we use European survey data to test expectations about progressive voters based on gender and upward mobility. our findings suggest that,