I am excited and honored to receive this prize, and grateful to everyone who helped along the way. Special thanks to the IPZ - Political Science UZH community, to my advisor Silja Häusermann , and to the jury for engaging with the thesis. 🙏🙏🙏

I am delighted to see my article on the electoral risks of austerity published in print at EJPR journal. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

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/

This paper by my amazing coauthor and friend Loreto Cox just came out. It shows how unmet expectations about labor market outcomes associated with higher education are consequential for policy preferences, particularly for demand for government. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

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…

Important piece by jon henley in the Guardian on the housing crisis and far right support. Also discusses our study on increasing local rents and voting for the AfD. Plus some expert comment by my fabulous colleague Vicente Valentim theguardian.com/news/article/2…

Are you an early career researcher working on digitalization and technological change? Please apply for this one-day conference 👇

Happy to see our review essay on the political economy of AI published today! Musckaan Chauhan & I argue for greater attention to macro factors, as well as for how AI's distributional impact may differ from other forms of automation link.springer.com/article/10.105…

Very excited that my paper with @SattlersThomas is now published in AJPS. We contribute to a big controversial debate: Does austerity fuel populism? Our answer: Yes, it does especially among the most vulnerable part of the workforce. Enjoy it! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

🚨New article❗️ Where has everyone gone? Depopulation and voting behaviour in Spain EJPR journal with my brilliant coauthors Álvaro Sánchez-García Maria Delgado-García ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… UPF Ciències Polítiques i Socials 🚜Does depopulation change electoral support? Which party benefits from it?🧵

Very interesting new evidence on intergenerational mobility and anti-system support using Diagonal Reference Models. Great paper by Andrew McNeil (UCL) in SASE's Socio-Economic Review. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-ar…

🚨 New Working Paper 🆕 Discussions about new disruptive technologies often have a tone of inevitability. For example, it is popular to attempt to estimate the number of jobs which will be automated in the future, because technology is expected to advance at a certain rate. 1/

Heading to ASA to present a paper on what determines social status in Britain using a new conjoint experiment that had people 30,720 status judgements (screenshot below)

In light of the UK extreme-right (ER) riots & Tommy Robinson's role in them, our conditionally accepted British Jnl Poli Sci paper w/@FlorianFoos shows a causal effect of media exposure to extreme right actors, incl. Robinson, on support for extreme right views: osf.io/preprints/soca… 1/11

📚 Our book on the transformation of the Left in emerging knowledge societies is out 📚 OPEN ACCESS tinyurl.com/ahuxx6d6 🧵 on key findings. Today: the voters @IPZ @UZH Cambridge University Press - Politics 1/9

Only a few days left to submit your abstract for our #ecprjs25 workshop! If you study #labor 🛠️💼🩺, #workplaces, #firms🏭 + #politics🏛️, join Bruno Palier and I to discuss how changes in the world of work impact democratic politics. Below a teaser. ecpr.eu/Events/Event/W…

#JMP Alert #EconTwitter Restful activities can boost productivity, allowing you to earn more by working less. But do people get this trade-off right? In my JMP, we show they don’t. lexischubert.github.io/uploads/Schube…

Jeffrey Yusof: Behavioral Economist presenting important evidence on why, despite the large role of “market luck,” there remains resistance to income redistribution. Website: sites.google.com/view/jeffreyyu… JMP: drive.google.com/file/d/1vVwBe6… (5/5)

Feeling gloomy about inequality? 😩 Join @mariusbusemeyer's URPP public lecture to find out why your perceptions might be just as skewed as the system itself. Sign up here 👉 urpp-equality.uzh.ch/en/registratio… #inequality #policy #urpp

New article accepted at Comparative Political Studies. @denis-cohen.bsky.social Thomas Kurer and I analyze how rental market risk affects radical right support. Combining data on local rent increases with the SOEP, we find that individuals facing increasing local rents become more likely to support the AfD. 🧵