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Lukas Haffert
@lhaffert.bsky.social
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I teach comparative politics at the University of Geneva, Alumnus @jungeakademie.bsky.social, Autor: "Stadt, Land, Frust. Eine politische Vermessung"
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Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · Oct 17
Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12
lhaffert.bsky.social
Für die @blnreview.bsky.social habe ich das neue Buch von @gabrielzucman.bsky.social gelesen: blnreview.de/ausgaben/202...
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Die zwölf reichsten Menschen der Erde besitzen mehr als die ärmste Hälfte der Weltbevölkerung – bei oft lächerlich geringen Steuersätzen. Wie diese absurde Situation aus einer Nachkriegsanomalie entst...
blnreview.de
February 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM
lhaffert.bsky.social
Freue mich sehr darauf, dieses Paper über das Ruhrgebiet morgen im sozialwissenschaftlichen Kolloquium der @ruhr-uni-bochum.de vorzustellen.
January 27, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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breunig.bsky.social
🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨

We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making.

4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026

Please share widely 🙏

The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...
Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”
Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET
stellen.uni-konstanz.de
January 23, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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juliusk.bsky.social
In just over eight months, Berlin will hold its 20th state election since 1946. While its well known East West divide in voting behaviour is often attributed to the city’s former split into capitalist and socialist halves, these differences existed even before the city’s division. A thread. 🧵
January 23, 2026 at 7:13 AM
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evehubscher.bsky.social
Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social
Austerity and Populism
A large literature explains the rise of populist parties with the economic insecurities stemming from globalization and technological change. But despite the long-standing focus of the comparative and...
www.annualreviews.org
January 22, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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charlottekuberka.bsky.social
📣 Call for Papers:
🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE

Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p

Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!
January 20, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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lseinequalities.bsky.social
The super-rich pay often pay *lower* total tax rates than the rest of the population. How do people respond when they are told about this?

New empirical research from David Hope @lhaffert.bsky.social & @julianlimberg.bsky.social in our latest blog post

#LSEInequalitiesBlog

buff.ly/Es4zLlL
The hidden cost of low taxes on the super-rich
The super-rich pay often pay lower total tax rates than the rest of the population. How do people react - in their tax beliefs - when they find out about this?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 14, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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julianlimberg.bsky.social
New in @bjpols.bsky.social!

Dave Hope, @lhaffert.bsky.social and I show that low taxes on the rich have a hidden cost: They undermine public support for broad-based taxation. 🖋️ cup.org/45lgPwN
How does tax regressivity at the top affect public support for taxation? In this article, we run an information provision experiment in the United States with a quota-representative sample of around 4,000 people and randomly present respondents with factual information about total tax rates by income group. We find that informing respondents that the superrich pay lower total tax rates than other people not only increases support for raising taxes on the rich but also lowers support for taxing the middle class. Our results highlight an important hidden cost of tax regressivity at the top: if left unaddressed, it risks undermining public support for broad-based taxation.
December 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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carlmc.bsky.social
🚨 History buffs of the Holy Roman Empire: We built an app to visualize rulers' itineraries between 919 and 1519 based on the Regesta Imperii. Thank you @albertwendsjo.bsky.social for all the help!

Explore here: carlmc.shinyapps.io/hre-itinerar...

Please let us know of any issues and feedback!
December 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
lhaffert.bsky.social
This is a really interesting paper about the role of knowledge claims in rural resentment and urban-rural divides more broadly.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... cc: @svenhegewald.bsky.social @juliusk.bsky.social @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social @pauruh.bsky.social @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social
‘They don't know what they're doing.’ Epistemic divides and rural consciousness in Switzerland
Established frameworks of rural resentment help explain right-wing voting behavior and anti-establishment attitudes, but they struggle to account for …
www.sciencedirect.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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sophiahunger.bsky.social
🚨🚨 job alert time 🚨🚨 @unibremen.bsky.social

3 PhD positions within the 3rd phase of the @sfb1342.bsky.social, with a focus on computational methods and/or on protest mobilization, specifically with a focus on Africa.

Starting time: early 2026, deadline: 14th of January.

more info below:
December 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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chriswratil.bsky.social
🚨 ‼️ Five days left to apply for the postdoc in Political Text Analysis in the MULTIREP ERC project 👇.

Use your last chance to apply 😉
chriswratil.bsky.social Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · Nov 10
🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project

You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!

⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025

wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

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December 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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swud.bsky.social
📚 Die DGfP und die SW&D vergeben 2026 erneut den mit 2.000€ dotierten Preis "Das politikwissenschaftliche Buch". Eingereicht werden können Monografien, die einen besonderen Beitrag zur Politikwissenschaft leisten.

➡️ Hier findest du die Ausschreibung: www.swud.org/wp-content/u...
December 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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ejprjournal.bsky.social
Why are cities and rural areas drifting apart politically? 🌄🌆

@indubioproreto.bsky.social & @lhaffert.bsky.social conducted a long-term Swiss study to find the biggest divide is amongst younger generations who hold very different views depending on where they grew up 👶 🔎
How generational replacement feeds the urban-rural divide: Evidence from Switzerland (1995–2023) | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
How generational replacement feeds the urban-rural divide: Evidence from Switzerland (1995–2023)
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December 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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cescamat.bsky.social
📢 📢 Call for Papers

IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop

Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social

🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford)

📍 University of Barcelona
🗓 June 29–30, 2026

Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026:
shorturl.at/oZTNy

#pleaseRT
December 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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gessler.bsky.social
We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social
3+3 years
Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester
Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour)
DL 🗓️ 05/01
stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...
Research Associate (Postdoc) Political Science § 28 Subsection 2 HmbHG
stellen.uni-hamburg.de
December 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
lhaffert.bsky.social
I find it odd that academics strongly believe in the power of specialization, yet quality assessment at academic journals still relies on “peer review” rather than on professional, full-time reviewers.
November 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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ansgarw.bsky.social
The Ruhrgebiet, once Europe’s largest industrial region, mined coal from the 13th century. By 1956 it employed almost half a million people, but within two decades the workforce had shrunk by two thirds. The last mine closed in 2018.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 28: Black #rstats #ggplot2
A map of the Ruhr area showing the coal seams as lines. Major cities are marked on the map.
November 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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chriswratil.bsky.social
🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project

You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!

⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025

wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

1/4 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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nathaliegiger.bsky.social
🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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thomasmmeyer.bsky.social
Just learned that Holger Döring retired from ParlGov in October.

If I'm not misreading his message, then this great resource will not be updated anymore 🖤

parlgov.org/2024/10/01/r...
Retiring from ParlGov - ParlGov project
parlgov.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
lhaffert.bsky.social
The urban-rural divide contains a within-generation divide: It is the younger, not the older generations, who are polarized by their place of residence.
indubioproreto.bsky.social Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · Nov 24
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) 🧵👇
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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simonecremaschi.bsky.social
Now out @apsrjournal.bsky.social with page numbers! 🫒

We advance a new argument on how economic crises fuel support for far-right parties in left-behind places by tapping into long-standing community narratives

shorturl.at/bA55v

@catherinedevries.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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twanhuijsmans.bsky.social
New publication!📢
@jvanslageren.bsky.social and I study political socialization during adolescence in urban and rural areas, using data from @adkspanel.bsky.social

Discussing politics with parents and peers is positively related to multiculturalist attitudes in cities, but not in rural places (1/3)
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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moritz-marbach.com
🚨New working paper: Compositional Effects, Internal Migration and Electoral Outcomes

osf.io/preprints/so...

#polisciresearch
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM