Why do people maintain that theirs is a meritocratic society? In Social Forces, Adaner Usmani & I present a *sociological simulation* to show how the same social forces that produce inequality also distort people’s ability to see it for what it is academic.oup.com/sf/advance-art… (1/9)

Prima en scherpe analyse van Chris Aalberts. Het zou mooi zijn als er echt een reflectie komt en een debat over de rol van de parlementaire pers. chrisaalberts.nl/2024/07/27/nor…

Those who study arts, humanities and social science become significantly more socially liberal than those who study other subjects. The same pattern is reversed for STEM graduates, who demonstrate a weaker liberalising effect journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Coauthors agreeing to write a “quick” and “simple” article that takes 5 years

Want to know how we liberated embodied cultural capital from its deus ex machina status? Read our new publication "Advancing Stratification Research by Measuring Non-declarative Cultural Capital" #openaccess in American Sociological Review journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

"We find no evidence that preregistration in itself reduces p-hacking and publication bias." But... "When preregistration is accompanied by a preanalysis plan we find evidence consistent with both reduced p-hacking and reduced publication bias."

"We find that voters for populist radical right parties hold national stories that emphasize conflict and exclusion. These Boundary stories frame other nations as outgroups, reinforcing separation between them and the national ingroup."

📚 Tomorrow (16:15 Newman Building, Room: F102) I'm presenting a paper that brings together 2 of my favourite obsessions: #religion and the #farright. It's been a long time in the making and I'm very happy to finally bring it to #ecprgc24. But if you can't make it, here is a 🧵

📘 August issue How do voters react to local school and hospital closures? 🗳️ Using data from 🇩🇰 from 2005-2019, Niels Nyholt finds that mayors lose support 📉 and right-wing #populist parties increase their support 📈 bit.ly/44xDSRY #OA #VotingBehaviour

Es ist wirklich wichtig, dass sich dieses Narrativ nicht etabliert. Es wäre ein großes Misverständnis der Wählerschaft des BSW. Warum ist diese Interpretation problematisch? 1) Viel mehr Leute haben bei der BTW 2021 CDU+SPD gewählt als andere Parteien. Die Grundwahrscheinlichkeit

Since Matthijs Rooduijn started The PopuList initiative, it has become broadly used inside and outside of academia. In this new article, The PopuList team lays out the methodology underlying the dataset.

Incredibly happy to share that I have just been promoted to Full Professor at the University of Oxford. This would have been impossible without the support of so many people over the years. So this is also a moment to say thank you to everyone. I am immensely grateful ❤️

Reading Tip! I get the impression that this excellent article by Tom van der Meer & Bastiaan Rijpkema has not gotten the readership it deserves. Essential reading for people concerned about democratic erosion! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🚨 Thrilled to share that our latest article, co-authored with Silvia Erzeel, Anne Van Bavel, Benjamin Blanckaert, and Didier Caluwaerts is out now in Frontiers - Political Science 🥳🥳🥳 👉Read it here: frontiersin.org/journals/polit…

Afgelegde km’s per spoor bepaalt prijs treintraject. Mijn pleidooi ⁦⁦NRC⁩ varieer prijs obv kwaliteit die ⁦NS⁩ biedt per traject: punctualiteit, zitplaatskans, frequentie, snelheid, voorzieningen aan boord en op stations, omrijdfactor etc nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/08…

🎶Highly recommend this fantastic edited volume on "Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe" by Melanie Schiller & Mario Dunkel. A must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of culture and politics.📚 And it's open access!🔓 routledge.com/Popular-Music-…

New paper with Peter Thisted Dinesen and Kim Sønderskov just published (open access) in EJPR journal: doi.org/10.1111/1475-6… We study the connection between local economic inequality and political system support - and find no systematic relationship. 1/3

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🧵De afgelopen maanden publiceerden (Inter)nationale media over een ‘conservatisme-kloof’ tussen jonge mannen en vrouwen die groter zou zijn dan voorheen. Om deze claim in Nederland te testen voerden wij, Ipsos I&O Publiek, een opinieonderzoek uit in opdracht van EW