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David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social · 1d

3/ @garritzmannj.bsky.social analyzes the past, present & future of educational conflict, arguing the uniqueness of today’s divide is the breadth of the groups it sets in conflict, its links to group identities, and its spillover into almost all political conflicts.

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · Jun 23

I have a new paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The paper situates discussions about the Educational Cleavage in a longer temporal context (back to the Medieval time) to show that there have ALWAYS been conflicts between educational groups. (1/3)

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David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social · 1d

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan:

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 23h

More jobs: Senior lecturer for "Foundations of Political Science" jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

Senior Lecturer (Academic Teaching) for 'Foundations of Political Science'

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 23h

We're hiring! 📢

Senior Lecturer in ‘Quantitative Methods and the Political System of Austria’ for 23 hours per week

The position is to be filled from September 1, 2026, and is limited until August 31, 2030

Deadline: 27 October 2025

More details: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

Senior Lecturer (Academic Teaching)

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 2d

and being cited for the complete opposite

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Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 5d

Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Sozialwissenschaftler Claus Offe gestorben

Claus Offe prägte die Sozialwissenschaften mit scharfsinnigen Analysen und gesellschaftskritischen Perspektiven. Als Grenzgänger zwischen Soziologie und Politologie bleibt sein Werk wegweisend.

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Andreas Kötzing @akoetzing.bsky.social · 8d

Wer ihn im Kino verpasst hat, kann jetzt "Die Unbeugsamen" @3sat.bluesky.com.de nachholen. Ein Lehrstück über den jahrzehntelangen Kampf um Emanzipation in der Politik, mit grandiosem Archivmaterial.

Die Unbeugsamen

Der Dokumentarfilmer Torsten Körner zeigt durch Interviews und eindrucksvolles Archivmaterial namhafter Politikerinnen die Geschichte des bundesdeutschen Parlamentarismus konsequent aus ihrer Perspekt...

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 5d

This is kinda sad

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Daniel Mertens @danmertens.bsky.social · 7d

Hi bsky people - if you care about how the EU seeks to fund all things "social-ecological transformation", which institutional architecture has emerged out of it, and why it is both contested and an unrealized promise: please have a look at our special issue on the politics of sustainable finance 👇

JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 21d

🌱🪙 In their introduction to the Special Issue "Puzzling, powering, profiting: The politics of sustainable finance in Europe", editors
@danmertens.bsky.social and @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social define EU sustainable finance & outline how best to analyse it 💡

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 6d

📣 New call for postdoctoral researchers!

We are seeking candidates with a doctorate in the social sciences for our research areas Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro) and Economic Sociology (Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert).

Please share widely!

s.gwdg.de/ySJx5p

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 7d

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Acta Sociologica @actasociologica.bsky.social · 7d

👉 New comment out 👀

Garritzmann, Häusermann and Palier argue that the key problem of the ongoing debate is that scholars and politicians refer to social investment as if it was one single type of policy, whereas there are quite different variants of this paradigm.

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 7d

spannend, herzliche Gratulation!

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Anne Rasmussen @annerasmussen.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social

Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are?

@simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 9d

yah, my goal is to learn how to spell "bureaucracy" correctly on first try before my 3-year project on that ends

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 12d

www.dfg.de/de/service/p...

DFG fördert vier neue Forschungsgruppen

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 12d

The week ends with excellent news: the @dfg.de grants the renewal of our research group #RISS "Reconfiguration and Internalization of Social Structure" for a second funding phase!

Thus, more fascinating research ongoing & more jobs opening up at @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social!

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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you to all who joined us in Cologne this week for the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! A fantastic line-up of speakers and participants, thoughtful discussions and global perspectives. Huge thanks to organizers @palmapolyak.bsky.social and @dustinvoss.bsky.social!

Pauline Kohlhase speaking in a group setting

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participant speaking in group discussion

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 15d

not everyone is here on bluesky but check out the work by @timo-sprang.net @manuelwagner.bsky.social @konstadulin.bsky.social & guests: @mwegemann.bsky.social @mandelkern.bsky.social @davidbroska.bsky.social

Bluesky

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 15d

I'm super happy & proud to be able to work with this rock star group of a team (and academic guests)! 🧠🧠🧠💫🙏 @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social

- and it's really nice to check out parts of Frankfurt that I hadn't been to as part of our team event

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 15d

congrats Mirko! @mwegemann.bsky.social

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 15d

congrats again mein Lieber!

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 15d

Amen to that

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 15d

Gratuliere!!

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Ilari Ilmakunnas @ilmakunnasilari.bsky.social · 16d

"Social investments, in contrast, are usually still treated as one big box and as one supposedly coherent policy approach, which defies the complexity of reality and renders discussions unproductive"

Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 16d

Can we have 8 min of your time please?

@siljahausermann.bsky.social @bpalier.bsky.social & I wrote a very brief reflection on why social investment might be a misleading paradigm. Way forward: please distinguish different types of social investments!

More here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Social investment—A (mis)leading paradigm? Why we need to distinguish different types of social investments - Julian Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, Bruno Palier, 2025

Social investment has become a buzzword among social policy-makers and welfare state scholars alike. Social investments seem to be the natural social policy res...

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 16d

here's the 30-second version: There's 9 types of social investment - each has their own political dynamics, different normative underpinnings, & different consequences.

By talking about social investment in the singular we risk comparing 🍎 and 🍊!

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