📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now!
'What makes ethnic majorities support the radical right? A combination of relative deprivation and social dominance approaches' by @unddom.bsky.social
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📢 My first dissertation paper is out in the BJPIR! 📢
Why do ethnic majorities support the radical right?
I show that feeling deprived compared to ethnic minorities increases support for hierarchical societies - which in turn fuels radical right support.
doi.org/10.1177/1369...
A short 🧵:
Results from the Danish general election 2026
'Hey, look at #Denmark! Social Democrats can stay relevant and marginalise the #farright by becoming - get this! - a bit like the far right!' Parrotted by every medium, contemplated by every SD party, ridiculed by every political scientist.
Danish Social Democrats adopted hardline, nativist anti-immigration policies and look to have recorded their worst election result in over 100 years. So, the lesson for the European left from the “Danish model” is that copying and normalizing the far-right leads to gutting your own support.
Key takeaway: perceived economic deprivation is a key driver of radical right support - both directly and indirectly through increased support for social hierarchies.
As radical right parties in Western Europe emphasise the preservation of existing social hierarchies (based on ethnicity, gender, class, etc.), preferences for hierarchy are closely linked to support for these parties.
Ethnic majority individuals who feel economically deprived compared to minorities are more likely to support hierarchical social structures, placing minoritised groups lower in the social order.
Political Science literature often emphasises economic, cultural, and place-based explanations for radical right support. I contribute by identifying a mechanism that combines two psychological approaches: relative deprivation and social dominance theories.
📢 My first dissertation paper is out in the BJPIR! 📢
Why do ethnic majorities support the radical right?
I show that feeling deprived compared to ethnic minorities increases support for hierarchical societies - which in turn fuels radical right support.
doi.org/10.1177/1369...
A short 🧵:
Congrats!
🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy?
Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016
🚨 Happy to see this article with the wonderful David Schweizer out online first at European Union Politics!
We examine who is aware of European funding and how citizens prefer these funds to be allocated.
The article is available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
📢 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...
Welcome to the team! We are happy to have you!
Very glad that our first DEMNORM paper found such a great home at @thejop.bsky.social. If you’re interested in the role of social desirability in online surveys, check out the thread and paper below ⬇️
New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social
Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout?
We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out
doi.org/10.1086/740816
Excited to kick off the @mzes-ssdl.bsky.social Spring series 🙌
I’ll talk about different threats to causal inference in quasi-experimental designs and share hands-on tools to tackle common biases.
Hybrid event, so happy to see non-Mannheim folks joining on Zoom as well!
🗓️ Feb 25th, 1.45pm CET
What’s a multiverse good for anyway? Julia M. Rohrer, Jessica Hullman, and Andrew Gelman Multiverse analysis has become a fairly popular approach, as indicated by the present special issue on the matter. Here, we take one step back and ask why one would conduct a multiverse analysis in the first place. We discuss various ways in which a multiverse may be employed – as a tool for reflection and critique, as a persuasive tool, as a serious inferential tool – as well as potential problems that arise depending on the specific purpose. For example, it fails as a persuasive tool when researchers disagree about which variations should be included in the analysis, and it fails as a serious inferential tool when the included analyses do not target a coherent estimand. Then, we take yet another step back and ask what the multiverse discourse has been good for and whether any broader lessons can be drawn. Ultimately, we conclude that the multiverse does remain a valuable tool; however, we urge against taking it too seriously.
New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?>
With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social
juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...
Join us for this year‘s Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social. Applications are open until March 1.
partycoloR is now on CRAN! Started as a simple idea 6 years ago, now it's a full-featured package. Extract party colors and logos from Wikipedia with one line of code. It's already powering ParlGov Dashboard.
install.packages("partycoloR")
stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
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Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD
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Happy to share that our paper on the ideological biases of international organizations is now out in the current issue of the AJPS (@ajpseditor.bsky.social):
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
@the-peio.bsky.social @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social
Highlighted quotation: “As an economist, Low searched for a more precise term to describe how she and other working moms often find themselves stretched for time and energy. She came up with “the squeeze”, and it’s backed by data that shows how women often get burnt out trying to manage competing demands at home and work, especially when they are parenting young children.”
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
New publication on immigrant attitudes toward immigration in 🇫🇷
We find that European origin immigrants attitudes converge with natives over time, while African and other non-European minorities -who are more discriminated against- stay pro-immigration.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?