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Acta Sociologica @actasociologica.bsky.social · Jun 24

In "What's so new about social investment? Evidence from the history of the Danish welfare state" @aludvig.bsky.social and Troels Krarup find utilitarian logics similar to the modern social investment paradigm were central in the early formative period of the welfare state.

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What's so new about social investment? Evidence from the history of the Danish welfare state - Anders Sevelsted, Troels Krarup, 2025

Social Investment is heralded as a new social policy logic that views present social expenditure in light of future benefits for a greater good. Seeking to qual...

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · May 22

Science is more art than science
- Rick Sanchez

Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · Apr 10

Is it now time to take him literally, but not seriously?

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · Mar 7

EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 15!

Join us and @samfriedman.bsky.social Friedman (LSE), Annette Zimmer (Uni Münster) and William Genieys (Sciences Po) for a two-day conference/workshop, June 3 and 4. Excellent opportunity for paper feedback. DM me for info and questions.

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · Feb 14

Happy to announce two more excellent keynotes for the MORALITES opening conference! @samfriedman.bsky.social and Annette Zimmer (Uni Münster)! More info and registration : cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/1152/ Deadline for registration: February 28.

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · Apr 3

Deadline is tomorrow!

If you are researching political elites and want to combine your research with brown cheese and salmon, then there is one day left to apply for our workshop in Oslo.

Find the call for papers in the previous post.

𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · Mar 28

Political elites are important. Some, for example, post classified info on Signal.

If you do research on political elites, and want to go to Oslo on September 1-2, 2025, we have the workshop for you. Deadline is in one week!

Find the call for papers here: bit.ly/WhoGovWorksh...

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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · Mar 29

Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.

VP JD Vance in Greenland pointing off in the distance

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · Mar 29

My two brilliant colleagues, Milka Hadjievska (working w me on the ERC MORALITES project, CBS) and Håkan Johansson (Lund) just published their paper on the state consecration of civil society elites in Sociology! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · Mar 28

The very first paper from our large comparative project - the World Elite Database - is out.

Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)

The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic re...

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · Mar 26

Hvornår begyndte vi at sige 'anden-dame' i stedet for vicepræsidentfrue?

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · Mar 25

Curious about the civil society elites in Sweden? Able to read Swedish? Well, here's a book for you. I contribute w 2 chapters, 1 on revalist leaders' hist. role in SWE society & 1 on the hyperagents, the very well connected, with Roberto Scaramuzzino.

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · Mar 17

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢

"Moral Economies of the Polycrisis. Conflict, Critique, and Legitimation in Critical Times"

Workshop, June 16-17
University of Hamburg

Deadline for abstracts: 07/04
Supported by the Economic Sociology section of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social

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Moral Economies of the Polycrisis
Conflict, Critique and Legitimation in Critical Times

International Workshop. 16-17 June 2025. University of Hamburg. Organizers: Laura Lüth (University of Hamburg), Till Hilmar (University of Vienna), and Linus Westheuser (Humboldt University Berlin).

By disrupting what is taken for granted, moments of economic, political, and ecological crisis reveal the implicit modus operandi of a society. As routines get derailed and settled arrangements come under strain, institutions are forced to explicate the “implicit social contract” (Barrington Moore) underpinning power, domination, and inequality. Who deserves protection when times get rough? Whose suffering matters and whose claims are made to count? Who is blamed? And what even counts as a crisis and what is shrugged off and fades into a ‘new normal’?

These questions touch on a tacit structure of social expectations commonly discussed under the heading of moral economy. Drawing on thinkers like E.P. Thompson, James C. Scott, or Marion Fourcade, the moral economy perspective examines expectations of unequal reciprocity and distributive claims in economic relations; ideas of systemic legitimacy resting on mutual obligations between dominant and dominated groups; or political priorities tied to assumptions about the (un)deservingness and moral worth of social groups. Moral economy approaches focalize the ideational and institutional architecture of capitalist societies by parsing how legitimacy and hegemony are embedded in everyday moral reasoning. In addition these approaches also often look at social practices, struggles, and forms of critique centered around the violation of moral claims.

At our workshop, we want to discuss work in the moral economy paradigm that sheds light on the current “polycrisis” composed of geopolitical turmoil, economic shocks, ecological breakdown, as well as crises of care and political legitimacy.

What can the moral economy perspective teach us about the way capitalist societies navigate these crises?
To what extent do crises open up a space in which dominated groups can critique inequality and demand a renegotiation of the implicit social contract?
How do demands and political responses informed by existing moral economies deepen inequality and domination?
How do institutions like the welfare state or social and eco-social policies seek to mend rifts in the moral economy?
What are moral background assumptions that make some developments (such as migration) but not others (such as poverty and extreme wealth) appear as crises?
And what is the explanatory status of moral economy as a concept? For instance, are popular moral sentiments and subjective aspirations a driver of political and economic action, or are they merely a symptom of existing power relations? Is moral economy about agency or structure? And if both, how exactly?

These are some of the questions we want to discuss with a group of international scholars.

We invite papers taking a moral economy perspective to empirically research or theorize the current conjuncture. Papers can be at all stages of development, the event is meant to collaboratively discuss work in progress. We especially welcome submissions from doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. Limited funds are available to assist with travel and accommodation for those lacking institutional support.

Please send an abstract of max. 500 words to: laura.lueth@uni-hamburg.de, till.hilmar@univie.ac.at and linus.westheuser@hu-berlin.de

Deadline for abstract submissions: 7 April, 2025

The workshop is supported by the Economic Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS), the Research Unit Economic Sociology at the University of Hamburg, and the Research Unit Macrosociology at Humboldt University Berlin.

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · Mar 13

No cultural elite, eh? Can be for better or for worse I guess 😀

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · Mar 13

Very cool! A story of how political/administrative power and economic power are once again divided? And the waning importance of educational credentials for the economic elite?

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Thierry Rossier @thierryrossier.bsky.social · Mar 13

🚨 New Paper Out! 🚨
🔍 Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015
w/ Jacob Aagaard Lunding in open access in Sociology
📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1177/0038...
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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · Mar 7

EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 15!

Join us and @samfriedman.bsky.social Friedman (LSE), Annette Zimmer (Uni Münster) and William Genieys (Sciences Po) for a two-day conference/workshop, June 3 and 4. Excellent opportunity for paper feedback. DM me for info and questions.

Please share and repost!

Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · Feb 14

Happy to announce two more excellent keynotes for the MORALITES opening conference! @samfriedman.bsky.social and Annette Zimmer (Uni Münster)! More info and registration : cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/1152/ Deadline for registration: February 28.

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Jonathan Báez Valencia @jbaezvalencia.bsky.social · Mar 1

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · Feb 28

New article with Narzanin Massoumi in the @bjsociology.bsky.social: ‘Elite Status-Seeking and Class Reproduction in Civil Society.’ Thread.👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Elite Status‐Seeking and Class Reproduction in Civil Society: An Analysis of Corporate Elite Appointments to Charity Boards

This article examines the relationship between economic elites and civil society by analysing the appointments of corporate elites to the boards of charitable companies in the UK. Whilst previous res...

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · Feb 19

Starting to miss the days when history had ended.

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · Feb 14

Happy to announce two more excellent keynotes for the MORALITES opening conference! @samfriedman.bsky.social and Annette Zimmer (Uni Münster)! More info and registration : cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/1152/ Deadline for registration: February 28.

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Morten Frederiksen @frederiksen.bsky.social · Feb 11

Come work with us! We are looking to hire an Associate Professor in Business Studies with a focus on Management, Leadership, and Organization at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University. Great Department and near Copenhagen.
Please share or apply!
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Associate Professor in Business Studies: Management, Leadership, Organization

Offering a high-performing, large and truly interdisciplinary social science environment, the Department of Social Sciences and Business (ISE) at Roskilde Unive

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · Feb 7

MORALITES is an @erc.europa.eu funded project (grant agreement No. 101114850). The project analyses the historical role of the moral elites of civil society and their impact on moral economies in four countries: Italy, Poland, UK, and Denmark since from the late 19th century until today.

Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · Feb 7

bring scholars from elite studies, civil society research and expertise research together to discuss the role of elites in shaping norms and policies within or across social fields. We are working on adding one or two more keynotes so stay tuned! Registration: cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/1152/

MORALITES opening conference 2025 | Copenhagen Business School

New perspectives on Ideas and Elites in Social Welfare Transformations in Europe. Organized by the ERC MORALITES project. Venue: Copenhagen Business School; Kilen, Ks.43. June 3-4 2025.

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · Feb 7

⚡⚡First keynote confirmed for our June 3-4 MORALITES opening conference in Copenhagen! Very excited to have William Genieys - @sciencespo.bsky.social and @cnrs.bsky.social - present on his work on elites and state power. Come join us! Deadline for abstracts on February 28! The conference aims to ⬇️

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Birthe Larsen @birthelarsen.bsky.social · Feb 6

The economics department at Copenhagen Business School has PhD scholarships ☺️- please apply.

Please share.

www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...

PhD scholarships in Economics | CBS - Copenhagen Business School

The Department of Economics at Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a number of vacant PhD scholarships. The expected start date is September 1, 2025. The Department of Economics provid...

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · Feb 5

New PhD positions in political economy(+)!

We have two new 3-year PhD scholarships at the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School: (1) open call, (2) green transition.

If you have questions, feel free to reach out.

(1): www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...

(2): www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Jan 28

Six days left to apply! 👇Come join us in Oslo.

Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Dec 9

📣We are hiring! Please share!
👉2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science
🇳🇴 Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
📅 Deadline: February 3rd, 2025
🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034) | University of Oslo

Job title: 2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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