It’s amazing how clearly he lays it out and how literally no one has picked it up.

📢New WP!📢 The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia, w/ Kyra Rodriguez Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

I am grateful to the conference team, all the network organizers and the presenters for the great CES conference and all the meetings last week in Lyon. Engaging discussions with smart colleagues in an inspiring people-centered city - academia at its best.

By picking “Hillbilly Elegy” author @JDVance1 as his running mate, Trump is solidifying the deep divide between centrist-globalist liberalism and national-protectionist populism. This means trouble for #democracy. When the #workingclass is left to be represented by the

The left is struggling, rightwing populists are on the march, and democracy is under threat. This is a story about a global political revolution that I don't think either the left or right has truly reckoned with. And it’s the story you can read here. globalreports.columbia.edu/books/left-adr…

This: "The commercial stranglehold on academic publishing is damaging our intellectual and scientific culture. As disinformation and propaganda spread freely online, genuine scholarship remains gated and prohibitively expensive." Arash Abi𝔃adeh The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

My department, Political Science, at Middlebury College is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Russian and Eastern European politics. Please apply or spread the word. For the application link follow apply.interfolio.com/149901

We are hiring 2 assistant professors in European politics! Deadline still quite far away, but please spread the word. Feel free to reach out for any questions. P.S. we are a great team to work with (ask our recent arrivals e.g. Ronja Sczepanski)

A hard-to-forget first: I gave a 20-minute online interview on Trump-Orban-Ukraine to a Japanese TV station; part of it is available online from about 29.50. With Japanese voiceover, AI subtitles + Google translate returns about 10% of the meaning. youtu.be/UrJbX2K53CY?si…

Branko Milanović (Branko Milanovic) on why Karl Polanyi's classic text 'The Great Transformation', which has been republished by Penguin, is worth reading in 2024. "Our time is indeed one of malaise, provoked precisely by the same forces that readers of Polanyi would easily

Whose interests, whose democracy? Harris raised more than $200 million over the past week — that’s more than President Biden had raised in the first three months of the year when he was still running for reelection. Meanwhile, some of the biggest donors, including LinkedIn

#OpenAccess from our latest issue - The Effects of Import Shocks, Electoral Institutions, and Radical Party Competition on Legislator Ideology: Evidence from France - cambridge.org/core/journals/… - Anna Meyerrose & Sara Watson (OSU Polisci)

📣 #ISAforum25 Call for Abstracts is now open! Review the guidelines and prepare your submission here 🌐 isa-sociology.org/en/conferences… ⏰ October 15, 2024 is the final date to submit your abstract. No extensions to the deadline will be provided.

Political sociologists of the world! With Cihan Tugal, we're organizing a session on #GlobalPopulism at the ISA conference in Morocco in July 2025 as part of the Research Committee on Political Sociology (CPS) stream. Send your abstracts, and let's meet for stimulation in the great city of Rabat!

According to Stiglitz, neoliberal capitalism has made it possible for the wealthy to buy political power. In turn, this has undermined democratic institutions, contributing to new types of fascism. "The challenges to democracy have never been greater in my lifetime."

📩Call of pappers The International Journal of Comparative Sociology is seeking submissions for a special issue titled "Confronting Challenges to Democracy: Civic Resistance and Institutional Resilience". 🗓️Deadlines: - Abstract submission: October 15, 2024

Exciting milestone alert 🎉: My book just hit 200 citations! 🎯 Grateful for all the brilliant minds out there who found something worth citing—now if only I could remember how I wrote something like that! 😅 Here's to the next 200, or at least a few more footnotes! #academiclife

FT View on Economics “gatekeeping & a steep hierarchy of prestige foster groupthink overseen by a self-perpetuating priesthood…When career incentives & social pressures concentrate influence in a small group, neither big policy mistakes nor petty personal abuse should surprise”

Sociologists, political scientists, and kindred souls. Reminder to send in your papers on populism by the deadline (October 15). ISA Gabor Scheiring Research Committee on Political Sociology (CPS) Georgetown University in Qatar UC Berkeley Sociology