Doet me altijd aan het volgende denken... www.denktankminerva.be/analyse/2025...

Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?

Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed

Here are the key take-aways 🧵

Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!

Looking back on #InequalityConference2026: inspiring keynotes, the In_equality Research Award, engaging talks, fresh insights from the satellite program, and a vibrant social program in Konstanz. Thanks to everyone who joined us-we’re already looking forward to the next conference! @uni-konstanz.de

initial results: current theories are much better at explaining political reactions to income inequalities than wealth inequalities. At first sight, the latter are much less consistently associated with political disparities (but many more analyses to be done!)...

Throwback to last week's #InequalityConference2026 where @mjjgillissen.bsky.social and I presented ongoing work on how income and wealth inequalities reshape socio-economic disparities in political participation.

Thanks @excinequality.bsky.social for the wonderful programme!

Waarom we vermogensongelijkheid maar niet aanpakken De roep om ‘de rijken’ meer te belasten klinkt luid in de Belgische politiek....

Het Parlement stemde zonet de meerwaardebelasting van @vooruit-nu.bsky.social. In deze column in De Gids op Maatschappelijk Gebied, haal ik aan waarom dat maar een druppel op een hete plaat is 👉
visie.net/de-gids-arti...

Minister Van Bossuyt zaagt verder aan de poten van de rechtsstaat De argumentatie van de minister van Asiel om haar opvangbeleid verder te zetten tegen rechterlijke uitspraken in, vertoont gaten, stellen academici met expertise in rechten.

Zie ook www.standaard.be/opinies/mini...

Open brief van 477 medewerkers Fedasil aan hun minister, Anneleen Van Bossuyt: “Wij willen de gevolgen van uw beleid niet op ons geweten hebben” 477 medewerkers van Fedasil schrijven een open brief aan hun minister, Anneleen Van Bossuyt (N-VA).

Wat een blamage! Ministers/staatssecretarissen die de rechtsstaat telkens naast zich neerleggen zijn een bedreiging voor de democratie...

www.standaard.be/opinies/open...

Does public service deprivation boost support for the populist right?

New evidence in our paper, conditionally accepted at APSR 🥳, where we study how GP closures shape voting intentions in England. 👇

Academic Job Market Trends in Politics and International Relations - Political Studies Association Academic Job Market Trends in Politics and International Relations: Evidence from the UK, 2012-25 Authored by: Dr Ralph Scott, Dr Lawrence McKay, and Dr William Allen Read the full report here   Execu...

🚨 NEW REPORT! 🚨

What is the state of the UK academic job market in politics, and what does this mean for the field and #highered?

In a new @psaecn.bsky.social report, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social and I find worrying trends in job adverts and HESA data from 2012-25

#PSA26

📉 Zeer laag vertrouwen in politieke partijen in Vlaanderen. In @demorgen.be gaf ik duiding met @davesinardet.bsky.social.

Burgers zijn niet enkel hun geloof in de betrouwbaarheid van partijen verloren, maar actief wantrouwend/cynisch. Een ideale voedingsbodem voor anti-democratische bewegingen.

🎉Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming @elinakk.bsky.social and @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social.

Their engaging seminars on child-parent socialisation of political values and critical political trust, along with valuable exchanges with our team, made for two inspiring days.

📸 Some highlights below.

Normal colleagues, several of people I know are engaging with the platform, as author or reviewers also because of the strict requirements of European funded projects (ERC, Horizon). It's trial and error for now, I'ld say, but I tend to prefer the journal system (and making them open access)!

To be clear: I think it's great we're moving towards open access and science, but the way the platform is currently working does not allow for any gatekeeping, and opens the floor towards favouritism. I'm not sure this is beneficial for science in the longer run...

You upload your initial draft on the platform, and it afterwards gets a peer review, with the reviewer's name and report published too. I'm honestly not a fan at all of this system - there's a reason we introduced double-blind peer review...

Perhaps the nicest thing in academia is being able to work together and discuss research with terrific colleagues. Many thanks @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social and @elinakk.bsky.social for visiting us in Leuven this week, and for the many great seminars and discussions! @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social

Is trust learned or earned? Lessons from adolescents Democratic legitimacy runs on citizens’ trust in public institutions. We often assume citizens critically monitor their institutions, only granting trust when they perform well. However, Linde Stals a...

📈 We often assume citizens only grant institutions their trust when they perform well.
📘 However, based on @ejprjournal.bsky.social research, @lindestals.bsky.social & @cvalebeek.bsky.social reveal that much of this institutional trust is learned, rather than earned.
👉️ bit.ly/47njlnw

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?…

zoiets ja - al zijn veel commentaren op zich wel "ok dat kunnen we zeggen". Het draagt gewoon niks bij aan de algemene kwaliteit van het stuk...

I'm not sure if I would have spotted it as editor; it's a mixed bag of own comments (less polished) and a ton of very generalistic comments (AI written), and the whole text is repetitive (saying points again). We'll flag it to the editors and see what happens next ;-)

Ja maar, sommige punten zijn duidelijk AI gegenereerd (heel lang en vaag), toch vervelend, niet weten wat mens is en wat machine ;-)

Working on an R&R. R2 wrote seven pages. Probably not only written by him/herself...

Why Some Want Something for Nothing: Three Explanations for Unfunded Spending Demand Several studies have documented ‘something for nothing’ (SFN) attitudes among citizens: preferences for increased government spending and lower taxes. Such a demand for unfunded public spending may g....

📢 New article 🌟
👥 @silkegoubin.bsky.social , @olijacques.bsky.social , @staffankumlin.bsky.social (ISV), & @dweisstanner.bsky.social
👉 Why Some Want Something for Nothing: Three Explanations for Unfunded Spending Demand
📗 Open Access in Scandinavian Political Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

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:

Don’t forget to register for our upcoming lecture on March 26 at 16:30!

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Final call.
The deadline to submit a paper proposal to the Politicologenetmaal is March 15th!
Our panel welcomes papers on support for democracy and its institutions.

Ik kijk heel erg uit naar deze lezing van @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social ! Ben je op 26 maart in Leuven of in de buurt, schrijf dan zeker in! 👇

❗️Hoog bezoek in Leuven deze maand! Interesse in Nederlandse politiek en verkiezingen? Zeer zeer welkom! 🗳

These studies don't deal with the actual offer of jobs necessarily, but do point to rather low switches to permanent positions (10-20%)

And my colleagues at KU Leuven also collaborated on a couple of studies (ppw.kuleuven.be/en/research/...) and (zenodo.org/records/7188...)