The opinions of policymakers are more congruent with those of the better off & policy choices also reflect their preferences more clearly. As social distance between rulers & ruled increases, representative democracy gets more class biased annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

We are hiring a PhD student in the (kind of timely) SNFS project “Transformation of Swiss Finance” Faculté des SSP - UNIL (inactif) Université de Lausanne. 4 years, 100%, nice working conditions and a dynamic team with @LAjdacic and #FelixBühlmann OBELIS. Advertisement is here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?career_…

💡You like comparative politics and political behaviour? You think that research infrastructures are essential? ▶️This job is for you! Faculté des SSP - UNIL (inactif) FORS MEDem

Poor people in rich countries: Usually the richer the country ➡️ the better off the poor are. But not always. The US, Saudi Arabia, and Switzerland are just as rich as Norway, but the poor are closer to the poor in Slovakia, than the poor in Norway. #dataviz

I’m looking to fill a postdoc position in my snsf-funded project “class identity politics”. Please spread widely! jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen…

[OPEN ACCESS] "Emotions and climate strike participation among young and old demonstrators", by Jasmine Lorenzini & Jan Rosset tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

hurrah! "Youth Activism in Environmental Politics" - - the second edition of free pdf and epub book versions of all 12 open access articles Matt Henn and I coedited Frontiers - Political Science can now be downloaded⬇️ Thank you to all the authors and reviewers😍 frontiersin.org/research-topic…

Doing research into youth, politics, generational issues? Send us your abstract for #NoPSA2024 👇

New MOOC on political citizenship ! This 14h introduction course has been set up by my brilliant former colleagues unige. I am happy to have contributed to the bits on electoral behaviour and on political representation.

🚨Excited to moderate this week's #MaxCPE session on a great paper: 🗞️Jonas Pontusson, Jan Rosset & Jérémie Poltier: Uneven Responsiveness: Public Opinion, Fiscal Austerity & Redistributive Policy Shifts in W Eur since '08 Join us Wednesday @ 3pm! See👉 mpifg.de/1030945/curren…

Why are governments in wealthy democracies not doing more to reduce inequality? Happy to report that the volume Jonas Pontusson and I co-edited on this question is finally out with Cambridge University Press - Politics and open access: cambridge.org/core/books/une… A long🧵

New article in EJPR journal with Carsten Jensen. We use election surveys going back to the 1960s to show that inequality in policy congruence varies depending on the political mobilization of less affluent voters (through unions & turnout). doi.org/10.1111/1475-6… 🧵... 1/

🔦🔦🔦 Je suis à la recherche d'une personne passionnée par la recherche en communication politique pour un poste d'assistant-e diplômé-e financé à 💯%! Venez rejoindre notre équipe! 👇 #hiring

Interested in learning more about Living Labs? Our Learning Hub is the place to be. ✅ ➡️ sweet-lantern.ch/learning-hub-2/ Performed by #SWEETLantern, Energy Living Lab BFE - OFEN - UFE #SFOE, and hessovalais

Participe dans l’etude sur l’impingement de hanche dans le sport de Rahel Caliesch , doctorante de notre Physiolab ! Pls RTs. hevs.ch/fr/actualites/…

A new P&S article by Jan Rosset, Jérémie Poltier, and Jonas Pontusson argues that insights about unequal policy responsiveness can be gained by exploring temporal dynamics and variation across policy domains, as well as variation across countries. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

"Citizens’ policy preferences are a constraint on government choices pertaining to redistribution rather a (let alone *the*) driver of policy change." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Évolution de la situation sociale et politique du logement. es données statistiques sont essentielles pour orienter les politiques publiques.👇 vs.ch/byY7iSbZMq Mathias Reynard