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Delia Zollinger @dpzollinger.bsky.social · Jul 29

Even in times of sociocultural conflict, a progressive left electorate is more averse to sociocultural *and* socioeconomic inequalities than (far) right voters.

New paper with @siljahausermann.bsky.social Palmtag @tabouchadi.bsky.social @stefwalter.bsky.social Berkinshaw
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Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social · Jul 4

1/3) 📣Out in Party Politics:
We trace the equal rights and economic equality positions of 69 center-right and far-right parties since 1970 in 12 countries. We find that center right parties did not react to/address equal rights concerns and economic inequality

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · May 6

New (first! 🥳) Publication 🚨

High-street retail vacancies, capturing economic decline, are linked to increased support of UK's populist party, UKIP (now Reform).

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · Apr 22

What are the political consequences of long-term population loss? In a new paper for German Politics @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social, Hendrik Träger and I find that East German places more affected by depopulation provided stronger support for the AfD in recent state elections.🧵👇
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Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social · Apr 11

In Social progress at the expense of economic equality? we ask if equal rights or equal chances concerns crowded out economic equality as priority of the Left? Mapping equality concepts 1970-2020: not green or far-left parties. Yet, social democrats … 1/2
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Gina-Julia Westenberger @gjwestenberger.bsky.social · Mar 31

How does employment change differ across German regions & is it all about the urban-rural divide? 🏙️ 🏡

Happy to see the first paper of my PhD now out in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie and Sozialpsychologie!

Read the paper #OpenAccess here doi.org/10.1007/s115... and 🧵👇:

Beyond Thriving Cities and Declining Rural Areas: Mapping Geographic Divides in Germany’s Employment Structure, 1993–2019 - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

This article assesses the popular thesis of growing regional inequality and urban–rural divides for Germany, focusing on the quality of employment opportunities. Drawing on a 2% sample of individuals ...

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · Mar 20

New paper out at @cpsjournal.bsky.social! With Ian McAllister, we examine how party competition and party positions condition the presence and size of an age gap in voting for the left. A short 🧵 below!

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Is there a ‘Youthquake’? The Structure of Party Competition and Age Differences in Voting - Ruth Dassonneville, Ian McAllister, 2025

Why do age differences matter for voting in some countries and not in others? Despite the prevailing narrative that a ‘youthquake’ in voting is occurring across...

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Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social · Mar 14

Did German left parties abandon economic equality in favor of equal rights, as the diagnosis of the "Lifestyle-Left" suggests? Analyzing party programs since 1970, we caution against sweeping claims in Unequal German Democracy (open access). 3 key qualifications👇
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Matthias Enggist @matthiasenggist.bsky.social · Mar 4

9/ Many thanks to @macarenaares.bsky.social, @alexanderhorn.bsky.social, @evehubscher.bsky.social and many others for providing invaluable feedback on previous versions of this paper.

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Matthias Enggist @matthiasenggist.bsky.social · Mar 4

8/ 🟢 Generational differences among GAL voters may reshape the future of social policies directed at the most vulnerable groups. If differences reflect cohort effects (as we assume but cannot empirically test), social assistance could soon lose one of its key support groups.

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Matthias Enggist @matthiasenggist.bsky.social · Mar 4

7/ What does this tell us?
🟢 The second dimension of political conflict matters for welfare preferences – it shapes which specific welfare programs are prioritized.

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Matthias Enggist @matthiasenggist.bsky.social · Mar 4

6/ These age difference findings are almost exclusively driven by West Germany (as we expected), where early GAL mobilization was more closely tied to left-wing, anti-capitalist movements than in East Germany.

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Matthias Enggist @matthiasenggist.bsky.social · Mar 4

5/ However, younger GAL voters, socialized in a context, in which the GALTAN cleavage is dominated by the radical right, do not attach particular importance to social assistance. What they really care about is social investment.

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Matthias Enggist @matthiasenggist.bsky.social · Mar 4

4/ Among elderly GAL voters, who were socialized into the GALTAN cleavage when it was dominated by post-1968 New Social Movements, the importance of social assistance benefits is higher than among TAN voters.

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Matthias Enggist @matthiasenggist.bsky.social · Mar 4

3/ Meanwhile, TAN voters strongly favor pensions – more so than GAL voters. The picture is less clear for social assistance and unemployment benefits, but we uncover important age differences in how GAL voters see social assistance.

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Matthias Enggist @matthiasenggist.bsky.social · Mar 4

2/ In line with previous research (e.g. @garritzmannj.bsky.social, @mbusemeyer.bsky.social, @eneimanns.bsky.social), we show that GAL voters are more supportive of and find expansion more important for social investment policies (university education, childcare, active labour market policies).

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Matthias Enggist @matthiasenggist.bsky.social · Mar 4

1/ Using original survey data from 🇩🇪, we show that GAL and TAN voters differ in their welfare preferences (measured by positions, importance and conjoint experiments) - even when controlling for first dimension, economic attitudes.

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Matthias Enggist @matthiasenggist.bsky.social · Mar 4

New publication in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @retobuergisser.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, and Michael Pinggera. We map the welfare preferences of voters at the poles of the second, GALTAN dimension of political conflict. 🧵

WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · Mar 3

Online first & open access:

"The welfare preferences of socially liberal and socially conservative voters"

by @matthiasenggist.bsky.social @retobuergisser.bsky.social @siljahausermann.bsky.social & Michael Pinggera

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

#Polisky #Academicsky

Abstract of the article "The welfare preferences of socially liberal and socially conservative voters" by Matthias Enggist, Reto Bürgisser, Silja Häusermann and Michael Pinggera. Published online first in West European Politics.

Figure 3, displaying AMCEs from conjoint experiment for people at the poles of the GALTAN dimension.

Figure 4, displaying the relationship of GALTAN attitudes with unconstrained importance attributed to social policies by age.

Figure 5, displaying AMCEs from conjoint experiment for people aged 70 (top panel) and people aged 30 (bottom panel), shown for the people at the poles of the GALTAN dimension.

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · Dec 6

Silja Häusermann, Michael Pinggera (@ipz.bsky.social), & I have a new paper out in European Sociological Review!
We study under what conditions citizens support future-oriented welfare reforms. We particularly point at second-dimension positions (GAL-TAN). (Thread)
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Under what conditions do citizens support future-oriented welfare reforms? Public opinion and second dimension welfare politics

Abstract. Important reforms are necessary to adjust today’s welfare states to the challenges of post-industrial knowledge economies. Public opinion, howeve

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Macarena Ares @macarenaares.bsky.social · Feb 20

Happy to share this paper, now online at the JoP
about attitudinal consistency in welfare reform preferences with Silja Häusermann @matthiasenggist.bsky.social & Michael Pinggera
👉 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Alexandre Afonso @alexandreafonso.bsky.social · Feb 7

New in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: we find that telling people that refugees have access to welfare makes them a bit less open to refugee migration, but only a bit, and it's mostly driven by people who didn't like migration in the first place.
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · Jan 19

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New publication out in Electoral Studies!

In this study, I analyze generational voting differences in Western European multiparty systems - focusing on generational realignment *within* political blocs and using individual survey data spanning over 70 years.

Socialized with "old cleavages" or "new dimensions": An Age-Period-Cohort analysis on electoral supp...

Across Western Europe, the electoral base of formerly dominating parties on the left and the right has been eroding in the past decades. In contrast, …

https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379424000027…

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Alexandre Afonso @alexandreafonso.bsky.social · Jan 15

New paper (*explosion-emoji-bam!-pow!*) forthcoming with the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: we test whether granting welfare access to refugees changes people's attitudes towards refugee migration. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Jan 10

We just launched the Progressive Politics Research Network. On our website (politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/go/pprn) you can find more information and our 6 research briefs on the theme of Rethinking Progressive Politics Based on Facts Rather than Myths. A summary of our theme and findings here:

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Matthias Enggist @matthiasenggist.bsky.social · Dec 6

We measure welfare chauvinism policies using ImmigSR data, which Eloisa collected w/Friederike Römer and Jakob Henninger.
Thanks to European Political Science Review for giving us a home & those who gave feedback on drafts: @julianachueri.bsky.social , Silja Häusermann, Samir Negash, Leonce Röth.

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