@hannaschwander
Professor of Political Sociology and Social Policy @HumboldtUni | Co-Spokesperson ERU CAP | Progressive Politics Research Network | political preferences, welfare state, climate change, comparative political economy, political sociology.
Polarisierung in Deutschland ist kein statischer Zustand. Daten aus dem Polarisierungsmonitor zeigen: Affektive Polarisierung nimmt nach Wahlen wieder ab.
Unser Beitrag in Forschung & Lehre (mit @bastianmlb.bsky.social und @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social):
www.forschung-und-lehre.de/zeitfragen/p...
Congrats @gefjonoff.bsky.social! excellent work! I just forwarded the article to two of my students who work on similar questions in the German context.
New publication in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social!
Who perceives feminism as a threat, and why do a lot of women perceive feminism as threatening?
With @evaanduiza.bsky.social, we explore these questions in the context of Spain.
We find: ⬇️
doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Very excited to welcome @tinepaulsen.bsky.social at the Politics Lecture Series of the HU. Tine will give a talk about the fiscal consequences of ballot extensions.
Come and join us if you are in town!
📢 Call for nominations for the Henrik #EnderleinPrize!
We are looking to honour an excellent early-or mid-career 🇪🇺 researcher in the social sciences.
🗓️ Deadline: 20 March
bit.ly/4hafVqI
@delorsberlin.bsky.social
Here is a short thread summarizing the main insights from our paper on polarization of attitudes towards UBI @Journal of European Social Policy
📣Thrilled to share our new article with @beckerbastian.bsky.social in JESP on attitude polarization around UBI. We show that despite high aggregate support for UBI, attitude polarization over policy design strongly shapes its political feasibility.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🥳 New year, new publication
📑"Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals" @jeppjournal.bsky.social
With Francesco Colombo, we study a street renaming proposal in Berlin and find -contrary to conventional wisdom- no political backlash, but a positive feedback effect.
Many thanks to my gerat coauthors:
@beckerbastian.bsky.social, @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social, @wahlforschung.thorstenfaas.de, Denis Gerstorf, Jule Specht, and Céline Teney.
The monitor is the data output of the Einstein Research Unit Coping with Affective Polarization and covers - for now - the electoral campaign of the 2025 federal election, the election itself and the first year of the new government.
📣 Publication alert:
Data paper on the Berlin Polarization Monitor now on OSF. The study documents a panel survey on partisan and issue-based affective polarization, emotions, political behavior, and well-being in Germany (2025–2027).
osf.io/preprints/so...
#PoliticalScience #Polarization #Germany
Das reichste Prozent der Welt vermehrt sein Vermögen massiv, während Millionen weiter abrutschen. Das ist ein Risiko für die Demokratie – auch in Deutschland.
News from the ProgressivePoliticsResearchNetwork: @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social and @tabouchadi.bsky.social write about the need to fix the housing issues from a progressive perspective.
New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social!
We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies.
Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
Great article of my colleague @heikekluever.bsky.social on empirical evidence on the cordon sanitaire
Deadline for EPSS 2026 is this Friday!
Congrats, Dominika!
We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions.
www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
📣 The Politics Lecture Series is back with a fantastic line-up!
Opening talk: Melissa Sands (LSE) on “Measuring Racial Avoidance on Virtual Streets”
Tue, 28 Oct 2025, 12–1 pm, Room 002
Everyone is welcomed to attend!
Information about the Comparative Politics section at the June 2026 EPSS Conference in Belfast.
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
check out the new publication by @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social, @aurelmondon.bsky.social and @k8em0.bsky.social on how useful the concept of cordong sanitaire still is for studying the far right
congratulations, Dominika! Well done and well deserved
EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
Similar patterns are visible for other attitudes related to social liberalism, gender equality, and multiculturalism.
People often tend to neglect/forget that European societies have become much more progressive over the past decades, largely, but not only, due to generational replacement.
We are looking for a lecturer in Comparative European Politics at Oxford. Join an incredibly stimulating intellectual environment. It is a 5-year position that should be great for early career researchers. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
🚨 New article out in Journal of Civil Society with Swen Hutter!
We explore how civil society organizations (CSOs) mobilized volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic, a moment of both rising need and shrinking organizational capacity.
📖 Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1744...
Our Element is out! 🎉
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
For a data collection we want to launch soon, we're looking for a German speaker who could translate our survey instrument to German. This should only take a few hours of work. Of course we are remunerating! Interested? Please reach out to @alexjabbour.bsky.social !
🚧 Schaden radikale Klimaproteste der Bewegung?
@dasalgon.bsky.social & Swen Hutter (@wzb.bsky.social) zeigen: Straßenblockaden polarisieren, aber die Unterstützung für Klimapolitik bleibt stabil.
Einblicke & Implikationen für Strategien der Klimabewegung in Teil 4 der #PPRnet Series.
Das WZB von oben. Foto: Nadim Bazze
Direktor*in (m/w/d) im Bereich Demokratieforschung für eine neu einzurichtende Abteilung am WZB gesucht.
🔄Gerne teilen: www.wzb.eu/de/jobs/dire...