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!

New 📝 out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social

1. Governments are taking a more active role in education and training

2. Linking technical issues to politically salient debates, such as climate change and digitalization, helps open the door to new public policies

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025.

epssnet.org/belfast-2026/

@rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!

New article out! 🥳 We study whether & how internal political efficacy contributes to unequal turnout among newly enfranchised citizens - open access with Politics & Governance. 🙏 for the great cooperation to @aleininger.bsky.social, @wahlforschung.thorstenfaas.de, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Armin Schäfer!

My fantastic co-author Julian Voss has meticulously compiled municipality-level election results for Post-WW2 Western German elections (1949-1969) from historical records. What a great resource! Read the paper, use the data: osf.io/preprints/os...

polisky cpesky

I have 2 open positions in my team Goethe Uni #Frankfurt: I am looking for
- a PhD student
- a student assistant.
You should be interested in comparative politics, ideally with a focus in public policy, comparative political economy, welfare research, or education/social policy.

I have been productively procrastinating today, but at least I have finally set up my personal web page!

Looking forward to connect with people and discuss inequality related topics on this platform!

Did educational expansion make cognitive ability more predictive of attainment? Meritocratic logics would suggest so.

Our results reveal the opposite pattern: a decoupling between ability and education over birth cohorts!

Out now in Scientific Reports!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There will be another TOPIQ talk @ipz.bsky.social tomorrow 5pm CET (online) Andrew McNeil will present new work on the effects of (lacking) social mobility on political discontent. Registration here: www.urpp-equality.uzh.ch/en/registrat...

Now online with OUP Handbooks: a @sgarritzmann.bsky.social - @garritzmannj.bsky.social co-production on "Why Globalization Hardly Affects Education Systems: A Historical Institutionalist View"
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Ungated version here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...