New Review from Frank Bandau on our book (written by Silja Häusermann, Tarik Abou-Chadi, Reto Bürgisser Matthias Enggist, nadja mosimann, Delia Zollinger, and myself) on the electorate and perspectives of the Swiss social democratic party SP Schweiz in the Swiss Political Science Review 👇👇

UK followers might be interested in this from Matthias Enggist: huge pro-immigration shift since 1990s in London, much smaller shift elsewhere (but crucially no 'backlash' in rural/post-industrial regions) Rob Ford (Not the Canadian one. Or his brother.) Patrick English

We've all heard about "immigration backlash." But what happens to immigration attitudes when populists win? Reverse backlash! Our new study finds that public opinion is usually more pro-immigration *after* the electoral success of anti-immigration parties doi.org/10.1093/poq/nf…

We have a cover. New book "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" forthcoming Oxford Academic on 29th February 24. Thanks so much to Doro Bohle, Silja Häusermann & @jrhopkin for their advance praise.

🚨 Publication alert 🚨 My first dissertation paper has just been published in JEPP 🎉🎉 In the paper I investigate the relationship between place-based resentment and political trust in local and national institutions. Link: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 🧵(1/9)

"Why welfare chauvinism is not a winning strategy for the Left" by Matthias Enggist (6/7) politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-po…

✨ Exceptional ✨ Elegantly crafted 🏆 Delia Zollinger claimed our 2023 Jean Blondel PhD Prize for her thesis 'Structural Change, Identity Formation, and Cleavage Consolidation in 21st Century Politics', completed at IPZ - Political Science UZH 🙌 📰 More: ecpr.eu/news/news/deta… University of Zurich #ECPRPrizes

New open access article with Samir Mustafa Negash in Journal of European social policy, where we look at people's preferences for a) including migrants in the welfare state and b) letting them in the country the first place journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

New article on place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society, out in Electoral Studies. If you study spatial inequalities, rural resentment, and/or generally cleavage politics, this might be of interest! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨Pre-print alert: Is the urban-rural divide affectively polarised? 🏙️🏞️ In a new working paper, @DominikSchraff and I explore this question using comparative survey data from 9 European countries. Link: doi.org/10.31219/osf.i… 🧵 (1/7)

New in Swiss Political Science Review: Youth perspectives on welfare deservingness and welfare attitudes. Young people in Switzerland provide valuable and interesting insights. Surprising: EU unemployed are NOT seen as less deserving than Swiss unemployed! Read: doi.org/10.1111/spsr.1…

The EU's regional funds are one of the biggest spending items of the EU and a key sticking point in the next budget negotiations. In a new paper, Valentin Lang, @DanBischof and I use new data to see who benefits from them. And we show they need fundamental reforms. Here's why:

PPRNet-Serie: Wohlfahrtschauvinismus als elektoral erfolgreiche Strategie für linke Parteien? - Matthias Enggist defacto.expert/2024/07/15/woh… PPRNet-Series: Why Welfare Chauvinism is not a Winning Strategy for the Left defacto.expert/2024/07/15/why…

New article accepted at World Politics. Silja Häusermann Reto Mitteregger (@indubioproreto.bsky.social) nadja mosimann Markus Wagner and I investigate trade-offs of social democratic party strategies. In a conjoint experiment in 6 European countries, we analyze how different groups react to varying programs. 🧵

#OpenAccess from European Political Science Review - An urban–rural divide of political discontent in Europe? Conflicting results on satisfaction with democracy - cup.org/3XcujY9 - Vigna Nathalie #FirstView

Who Cares? is now published PSRM Journal tinyurl.com/2sdawws9 (1/)

🎀Announcing Ares & Van Ditmars #3 💃💃 In our latest WEP Journal article, Macarena Ares & I use a life course approach to study political differences by social class.🗃️We observe respondents during youth and later employment trajectories, accounting for family origin. (1/5)