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.
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Thanks, Joan!
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Many thanks to you (those we may have forgotten to mention here), to our extremely thorough reviewers, and to the @poppublicsphere.bsky.social team for an amazingly engaged publication process!
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PS: Our work profited from discussions with many scholars, including @aksoyundan.bsky.social, @amaliaab.bsky.social, @pablobalan.bsky.social, @vcharnysh.bsky.social, @lchristensen.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social, @ainagallego.bsky.social, @dasalgon.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social,
Please let us know what you think!
Beyond this more narrow focus, we believe that our concepts and empirical tests hold promise to advance the study of prejudice (e.g., anti-Black resentment), and more systematically explore the role of culture therein.
We demonstrate the plausibility of this proposition in a series of tests, using text-as-data and experimental methods, plus a concept association task, among others.
Our answer: culture — which we conceptualize as cultural scripts that link Judaism to disease and contagion.
Why did antisemitism rise in Germany during the Covid pandemic? And why was this increase concentrated among political centrists, rather than on the fringes?
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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Why does armed conflict harm child health?
In a new paper, we show that victimization of caregivers causes lower vaccination rates and reduced healthcare-seeking, mostly due to a loss of trust in state institutions.
Improving trust after conflict can potentially be life-saving.
We are very excited to host Noam Gidron today in our Hamburg Political Science Seminar Series (info below) - very much looking forward to your talk, @noamgidron.bsky.social !
Please all join if you are interested. Everyone is welcome to attend, no prior registration necessary.
Protest gegen die Streichung einer IB-Professur an der Universität Hamburg
Die Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg droht eine Professur für Internationale Beziehungen zu verlieren. Bitte teilt und unterschreibt den Protestbrief auf uhh-ib-erhalten.de
Congrats, Kasia - looks very interesting indeed!
The 2024 Nils Petter Gleditsch JPR Article of the Year Award goes to @melinscribe.bsky.social (University of Mannheim) for her article entitled ‘Politicized health emergencies and violent resistance against healthcare responders’. Congratulations to the author! 🏆
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We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq)
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!
Join us for a keynote by Halvard Buhaug, Research Director at PRIO and Professor at NTNU, on the climate-conflict-migration nexus.
🗓️ Date: November 27, 2024
🕔 Time: 5:00 - 6:15 PM
📍 Location: WZB Berlin Social Science Center
🔗 Register here: events.wzb.eu/madconf24/ 2/2🧵
Why are civilians abused and killed in during conventional war?
Using data from Ukraine, Julius Koch and I put forward a new explanation: The threat to combatants posed by long-range weapon technology.
The paper is here: osf.io/z38sq/
, and we would be grateful for comments!