🚨 New Open Access publication

In my new paper in Social Justice Research, I explore how migration experiences—and crucially, when migration happens—shape attitudes toward distributive justice.

📖 Read the full (open access) paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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

The first paper of my dissertation is published now in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social!

Press coverage of the richest Germans is rare but focused on a minority of highly visible individuals and varies along the historical origins of fortunes.

doi.org/10.1177/00380385261428292

NEW: Wiebke Schulz, Ineke Maas, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, "Socio-Economic Advancement and Long-Term Trends in the Gender Gap in Early Career Occupational Status in France 1860–1960." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Stratified scars: social inequality in the labour market consequences of apprenticeship dropout Abstract. While the association between apprenticeship dropout and negative labour market consequences is well documented, the causal link and social strat

New in @europeansocreview.bsky.social with brilliant @kostermann.bsky.social & @patzinaalex.bsky.social 🌟

Apprenticeship dropout is known to be associated with €€€ penalties, but less clear whether dropout causes later income losses. Matters for policy: what should interventions target?

Extremely happy that my first single-authored paper is now published (open access) at @EJPRjournal: “Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: the electoral consequences of the coal phase-out in Germany”

Here's a summary thread... 1/n

Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020 By Alexander Horn, University of Konstanz, Martin Haselmayer, University of Applied Sciences Campus Vienna and University of Vienna, and K. Jonathan Klüser, University of Zurich Do parties respond to inequality? Despite the relevance of inequality and its consequences, existing studies fail to capture parties’ emphasis on economic equality and redistribution or to differentiate between existing levels of inequality and increases in inequality.

Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020

By Alexander Horn, University of Konstanz, Martin Haselmayer, University of Applied Sciences Campus Vienna and University of Vienna, and K. Jonathan Klüser, University of Zurich Do parties respond to inequality?…

Does being high-skilled protect you from ethnic bias when applying for a UK visa? In a new pre-registered experiment to be published in International Migration Review, I find that high occupational status doesn't shield immigrants from ethnic prejudice — it may activate it.

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

I never met Leo, but many friends took his classes and worked for him. He must have been an amazing guy. Rest in peace and stay safe 🕊️

www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/polwiss/fors...

QUESTION: Is there a magical European dataset including
1. Gender
2. Sexuality
3. Religion
4. Ethnicity / country of birth (+ for parents)
5. Occupation

ESS is missing 2, EU-LFS is missing 3, EU LGBTIQ Survey is missing 5.

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#sociologysky #surveydata

Heute wurde ein IAB-Kurzbericht veröffentlicht, der zentrale Ergebnisse aus unserem (@mcollischon.bsky.social) Projekt mit der @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social zum Einfluss der Covid-19-Pandemie auf die Beschäftigungsqualität präsentiert.

Den Kurzbericht gibt es hier:

The link seems to have expired by now. If you're interested, just email or DM me!

📢 New data release!

ISSP 2023 National Identity & Citizenship (29 countries) is now available 🌍

Covers national identity, immigration, democracy, trust & more.

🔗 www.gesis.org/en/issp/data...

#ISSP #SurveyData #OpenData

And another one: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Image text relates to Nominee for the Sociology Sage Prize 2026, ‘Wealth and Class Analysis’ by Nora Waitkus, Mike Savage and Maren Toft

Nominee for the Sociology Sage Prize 2026

‘Wealth and Class Analysis’ by Nora Waitkus, Mike Savage and Maren Toft looks at addressing wealth inequality by using the work of Marx and Weber, where capital accumulation and property organisation had central stage:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Very happy that this article with Samir Negash and Lorenzo Piccoli has just been accepted at the European Political Science Review. In it we show that "welfare chauvinism" is much more nuanced than many assume.

On Sunday, one of Germany’s largest states went to the polls in a closely contested election. What can we learn from the results & how do they relate to looming deindustrialization in one of Germany’s industrial heartlands? A thread with some decriptive patterns from data on 1,101 municipalities. 🧵

Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality Abstract. The United States devolves responsibility for providing critical services to local governments. With limited centralized transfers, the ability t

And the paper is online (open access) at: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

I also really like this paper because it uses segregation indicators on the district level (which inequality is supposed to proxy for in the original argument): doi.org/10.3390/socs...

This is the *fifth* study to undermine the idea that the muted political response to inequality is due to growing meritocracy beliefs, esp. among the poor.

- Inequality erodes meritocracy beliefs
- Poor meritocrats still want redistribution
- What matters is the politicization of inequality

Links:

The paradox of inequality that isn’t: rising economic inequality depresses and polarizes citizens’ belief in meritocracy Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat

🔍 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

Alte Wurzeln, neue Wurzeln? Zum Einfluss früherer rechtsradikaler Unterstützung auf den AfD-Wahlerfolg bei der Europawahl 2024 - Politische Vierteljahresschrift Despite ongoing legal proceedings and the classification as right-wing extremists by state domestic intelligence services, the AfD was able to make considerable gains in Germany’s last European electi...

Publication alert @pvs-journal.bsky.social! In a new research note, @marcdebus.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social and I investigate how past support for far-right extremist parties shaped the AfD's electoral success in the 2024 European elections.
A thread 🧵. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We find a similar pattern in a secondary analysis at the more granular level of municipalities in Saxony & Baden-Württemberg. The AfD vote share is strongly correlated with prior DVU/Republikaner support, but gains are not. Only in Baden-Württemberg is a weak effect on the AfD's gains apparent.

Are we underestimating popular discontent with welfare state change, and the damage done to political-institutional trust? New measures of "welfare state emotions" suggest as much. With Tor Syrstad and Atle Haugsgjerd. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I just realised that there are "gift links". So, if anyone is interested but does not have institutional access, please feel free to download the paper through this link: academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

Die Sektion Wirtschaftssoziologie freut sich sehr, auch in diesem Jahr wieder den Karl-Polanyi-Preis für eine herausragende Monografie auf dem Gebiet der Wirtschaftssoziologie auszuloben.

(Selbst-)Nominierungen nimmt der Vorstand gerne bis zum 30.4. entgegen.

Wir freuen uns über Reposts :)

Thanks! Congrats to you for getting your paper into SER - couldn't have thought of a better outlet for it :)!

Effort versus Advantage: Visualizing (Relative) Belief in Meritocracy, 1930 to 2022—A Comment on Mijs (2018) Socius, Volume 12, January-December 2026. In this comment, the authors reevaluate the claim put forward by Mijs that popular belief in meritocracy has increased across a b
#sociology link