As promised, here is a bit more on my new book, The Welfare Workforce, now available fully open-access from Cambridge University Press - Politics 🧵1/11

Privatization reforms have a bitter aftertaste. New paper out in JEPP w Tamara Popic We show that privatization leads to worse evaluations of health systems down the line, despite initial optimism. Proximity to policy is key, ideology less so tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Excited to share our open access new article in the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) with Sophie Borwein, R. Michael Alvarez, Bart Bonikowski & Peter Loewen onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

🚨Nou article 🗳️Comptar vots pot ser una murga, però també fomenta la socialització política. ➡ En un estudi a British Jnl Poli Sci amb Pau Vall-Prat, analitzem com va impactar en moltes dones formar part de les meses per primer cop l'any 1933 UPF Ciències Polítiques i Socials cambridge.org/core/journals/… 🧵(1/)

It's release day for How Politicians Polarize! To celebrate, my husband made a board book version so we can teach our 14-month-old about political representation in an age of negative partisanship. Some key findings from the book (in baby-friendly language)🧵

Glad to see this one on EarlyView! Our new paper with Alexi Gugushvili and Tim Vlandas in Political Behavior examines whether and how actual intergenerational class mobility is associated with far-right party support. Available open access: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Just published in EJPR "Poor choices? Examining the electoral connection behind unequal policy representation" with Jesper Lindqvist , Anders Sundell and Wouter Schakel. (1) ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my European Research Council (ERC) project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at Goethe-Universität InFER Frankfurt German call: fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share!

Forthcoming: Handbook on Welfare State Reform with 28 chapters examining main approaches, advanced methods, policy areas, and reform trends for the study of welfare states, August 2025: e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handb…

🚀 PhD position at Universität Luzern in my Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project "Party politics and the politicization of health care" 📅 Start in October 2025 🌍 Lucerne, Switzerland 📌 Apply by June 30, 2025. Details: unilu.ch/universitaet/p…

Thrilled to see our new paper out now in Comparative Political Studies: ‘They Take Our Healthcare’: Health and Attitudes towards Immigration in Europe 👉Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/F6UHJUQ… Why are people in poor health more hostile toward immigrants? Our study pushes the debate beyond income or

I am happy to announce that my book with Andrea Aldrich is out. Using an original party leadership dataset from 11 democracies, Andrea and I show that women candidates face a glass ceiling for leadership and quickly sink once elected (the quicksand theory) cup.org/3HqJXty

📬🙌 Our paper on parties' programmatic responses to inequality - and more often the lack of responses - will come out American Political Science Review ! Here is the Politics of Inequality working paper: kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstreams/424… with Jonathan Klüser.bsky.social & M. Haselmayer 🧗 voe-project.org

NEW - The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - cup.org/4kAEGgV - @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social #OpenAccess

"We argue that symbolic class signalling has gained in importance due to the political realignment along the cultural dimension, and we expect radical right parties to benefit most from it" - David Weisstanner & Sarah Engler (Leuphana) Read #OpenAccess - cup.org/4kw4MkU

#OpenAccess from July 2025 - The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - cup.org/4pAeCWM "politicians drinking beer in a pub appeal particularly to radical right working-class voters" - David Weisstanner & Sarah Engler