Thank you, Luca 🙏 I also look forward to the next chance to catch up and hear about your current projects!

We stress the importance of social structure for polarization along a new cleavage --> policies shaping network segregation matter!

Also see this paper by @jonadejong.bsky.social @jonnekamphorst.bsky.social who come to similar conclusions based on different data/countries. tinyurl.com/47edtwtc

We fielded a survey in UK/DE/CH to study people’s close social ties. We observationally show that educational divides regarding party support, attitudes & identities are moderated by network composition.

Our theoretical argument on networks' stabilizing role links cleavage/social network research.

Congrats to both of you! 🥳

But at the party system level, the lower divisiveness of socioeconomic inequalities may reduce incentives for parties to mobilize on these as opposed to sociocultural issues, potentially fostering a crowding out of traditional socioeconomic inequalities by sociocultural conflicts.

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For the progressive left, this article confirms previous findings that there does not seem to be an electoral tradeoff between adopting economically redistributive and culturally progressive positions. See e.g. tinyurl.com/mrpdzc9p

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Studying the structural foundations of these inequality perceptions highlights that even the social groups who belong to the relative “winners” of socioeconomic change–known to support the progressive left–are still averse to inequality across the board.

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We find support for the second hypothesis: Progressive left voters are more concerned about all types of inequality than conservative center right and especially far right constituencies.

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