Hanna Schwander
@hannaschwander.bsky.social
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.
@HumboldtUni | Co-Spokesperson ERU CAP | Progressive Politics Research Network | political preferences, welfare state, climate change, comparative political economy, political sociology.
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Deadline for EPSS 2026 is this Friday!
Please share!: Last week to apply for @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026
really good news is that there's been an amazing response to the call for papers already; now very excited for this meeting
⬇️ We put together a quick FAQ on Qs that have come up on submitting: epssnet.org/conferences/...
really good news is that there's been an amazing response to the call for papers already; now very excited for this meeting
⬇️ We put together a quick FAQ on Qs that have come up on submitting: epssnet.org/conferences/...
EPSS 2026 submissions FAQ - EPSS
Submissions are coming in fast for Belfast 2026 and so are your questions about submissions. Here are answers to the most common questions: Where do I go to submit? For panel submission: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/events/75765/symposia/create For paper submission: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79266/submissions/new? How many papers can I submit? We put a constraint of max one presentation per person. This does …
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November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Deadline for EPSS 2026 is this Friday!
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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.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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.
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📣 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!
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!
October 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
📣 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!
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!
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Information about the Comparative Politics section at the June 2026 EPSS Conference in Belfast.
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September 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Information about the Comparative Politics section at the June 2026 EPSS Conference in Belfast.
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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
New article out!
@luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social,
@k8ebrown.bsky.social & I teamed up to explore whether the concept of 'cordon sanitaire' remains useful in the current stage of mainstreaming of far right politics
Read the full article, open access, here
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social,
@k8ebrown.bsky.social & I teamed up to explore whether the concept of 'cordon sanitaire' remains useful in the current stage of mainstreaming of far right politics
Read the full article, open access, here
1/
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The pretence of the cordon sanitaire: non-collaboration as a distraction from discursive congruence
Much has been written about how mainstream parties respond to far-right challengers in liberal democracies. Whereas some mainstream parties have become more open to forming coalitions with far-righ...
www.tandfonline.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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
🎉 Congrats to @dom-of-tronina.bsky.social, winner of the 2024 Best Paper Prize! Her paper shows how anti-gender movements build transnational ties on Twitter/X via shared hashtags👏
🪷 Big thanks to our esteemed jury members: @kai-arzheimer.com @caterinafr.bsky.social @ammassarisofia.bsky.social
🪷 Big thanks to our esteemed jury members: @kai-arzheimer.com @caterinafr.bsky.social @ammassarisofia.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
congratulations, Dominika! Well done and well deserved
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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 🧵
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
August 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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 🧵
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
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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.
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.
Homophobic attitudes have fallen in Western Europe and the United States
August 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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.
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.
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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.
📢APPLY NOW!: DPIR seeks a Departmental Lecturer in Comparative European Politics to provide teaching and supervision at the undergraduate and graduate level and contribute to the Departmental examining and graduate admissions processes.🗓️ CLOSES: 12pm, 5 Aug: ow.ly/brXi50WpZav
July 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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.
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🚨 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...
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...
July 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🚨 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...
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...
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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...
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...
Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies
www.cambridge.org
July 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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...
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...
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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 !
July 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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.
@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.
Viel ist darüber debattiert worden, ob radikale Proteste wie etwa von @letztegeneration.bsky.social der Klimabewegung schaden. @dasalgon.bsky.social & Swen Hutter (beide @wzb.bsky.social) zeigen empirisch: Straßenblockaden polarisieren, doch die Unterstützung für Klimapolitik bleibt stabil. #PPRNet
Portal für Politikwissenschaft – Wirken Klimaproteste? Die politischen Potenziale der Klimamobilisierung
www.pw-portal.de
June 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🚧 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.
@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.
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Direktor*in (m/w/d) im Bereich Demokratieforschung für eine neu einzurichtende Abteilung am WZB gesucht.
🔄Gerne teilen: www.wzb.eu/de/jobs/dire...
🔄Gerne teilen: www.wzb.eu/de/jobs/dire...
June 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Direktor*in (m/w/d) im Bereich Demokratieforschung für eine neu einzurichtende Abteilung am WZB gesucht.
🔄Gerne teilen: www.wzb.eu/de/jobs/dire...
🔄Gerne teilen: www.wzb.eu/de/jobs/dire...
Excited to join the newly founded European Political Science Society 🥳
Please support our fabulous colleagues by...
📌 joining the mailing list by sending a message to epss-info-join@list.epssnet.org
📌 joining *now* to show support
📌 spreading the word
@epssnet.bsky.social #epss2026
Please support our fabulous colleagues by...
📌 joining the mailing list by sending a message to epss-info-join@list.epssnet.org
📌 joining *now* to show support
📌 spreading the word
@epssnet.bsky.social #epss2026
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
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We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
June 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Excited to present work on the impact of local unemployment in formative years on anti-immigration attitudes in adulthood tomorrow at #epsa2025
Saturday 11.20am-1pm
Room 1A.08
Saturday 11.20am-1pm
Room 1A.08
June 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Excited to present work on the impact of local unemployment in formative years on anti-immigration attitudes in adulthood tomorrow at #epsa2025
Saturday 11.20am-1pm
Room 1A.08
Saturday 11.20am-1pm
Room 1A.08
Im Teil 3 der PPRNet Series zeigt Christina L. Tönshoff, dass die öffentliche Unterstützung für Klimapolitik stark vom Vertrauen in die Regierung abhängt. Wer Fairness & Effektivität erwartet, sagt eher Ja zu CO₂-Steuern & Kohleausstieg.
#PPRNet #polisky #Klima
#PPRNet #polisky #Klima
Teil 3 der PPRNet-Serie: Wie Vertrauen in die Regierung die gesellschaftliche Unterstützung von Klimaschutzmaßnahmen beeinflusst
Wie kann Klimapolitik mehr Rückhalt in der Bevölkerung gewinnen? @christinaluiset.bsky.social zeigt auf, dass das Vertrauen in die Regierung für die Akzeptanz von Maßnahmen wie CO₂-Steuern entscheidend ist.
#PPRNet #polisky
#PPRNet #polisky
June 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
📢 Teil 2: Am Beispiel der Schliessung von Kohlemienen zeigen @dianebolet.bsky.social & @fergusgreen.bsky.social, dass Klimapolitik nicht electoral costly sein muss, wenn die Betroffenen in den Prozess einbezogen und entschädigt werden.
Teil 2 der PPRNet-Serie: Wie ambitionierte Klimapolitik mehrheitsfähig werden kann:
Wie können Regierungen ehrgeizige Klimapolitik umsetzen, ohne Wähler*innen zu verlieren? @dianebolet.bsky.social & @fergusgreen.bsky.social zeigen am Beispiel Spanien: Selbst weitgehende Maßnahmen finden Rückhalt – wenn sie fair, transparent & lokal verankert sind. #PPRNet #polisky
June 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
📢 Teil 2: Am Beispiel der Schliessung von Kohlemienen zeigen @dianebolet.bsky.social & @fergusgreen.bsky.social, dass Klimapolitik nicht electoral costly sein muss, wenn die Betroffenen in den Prozess einbezogen und entschädigt werden.
📢 @fgenovese.bsky.social und @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social erklären im 1 Teil der PPRNet-Serie wie Kompensationen für Policy Losers die Unterstützung für klimapolitische Massnahmen erhöhen können.
Teil 1 der PPRNet-Serie: Wie Kompensationen die Unterstützung für ambitionierte Klimapolitik stärken können:
Wie lässt sich Klimaschutz sozial gerecht gestalten? @fgenovese.bsky.social & @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social erläutern das Konzept der Just Transition & beschreiben unter welchen Umständen Kompensationen für Klimaverlierer*innen Akzeptanz für ambitionierte Klimapolitik stärken können. #PPRnet #polisky
June 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
📢 @fgenovese.bsky.social und @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social erklären im 1 Teil der PPRNet-Serie wie Kompensationen für Policy Losers die Unterstützung für klimapolitische Massnahmen erhöhen können.
Neu im @pwportal:
Wir starten die PPRnet Brief Serie zur politischen Machbarkeit von Klimapolitik mit der Einleitung: „Klimapolitik – aber machbar“.
Warum Klimapolitik nur wirkt, wenn sie tragfähig ist
#Klima #Polisky #PPRnet
Mit @bjoernbremer.bsky.social & Jane Gingrich
Wir starten die PPRnet Brief Serie zur politischen Machbarkeit von Klimapolitik mit der Einleitung: „Klimapolitik – aber machbar“.
Warum Klimapolitik nur wirkt, wenn sie tragfähig ist
#Klima #Polisky #PPRnet
Mit @bjoernbremer.bsky.social & Jane Gingrich
Wie kann wirksame Klimapolitik mehrheitsfähig werden? Zu dieser Frage veröffentlichen wir diese Woche Policy-Briefs, die den Stand der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zusammenfassen. Zur Einführung von @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @hannaschwander.bsky.social & Jane Gingrich. #pprn #polisky #klima
Portal für Politikwissenschaft – Klimapolitik, aber machbar? Sozialwissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse
www.pw-portal.de
June 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Neu im @pwportal:
Wir starten die PPRnet Brief Serie zur politischen Machbarkeit von Klimapolitik mit der Einleitung: „Klimapolitik – aber machbar“.
Warum Klimapolitik nur wirkt, wenn sie tragfähig ist
#Klima #Polisky #PPRnet
Mit @bjoernbremer.bsky.social & Jane Gingrich
Wir starten die PPRnet Brief Serie zur politischen Machbarkeit von Klimapolitik mit der Einleitung: „Klimapolitik – aber machbar“.
Warum Klimapolitik nur wirkt, wenn sie tragfähig ist
#Klima #Polisky #PPRnet
Mit @bjoernbremer.bsky.social & Jane Gingrich
Congratulations, Anna!
Congratulations to Anna Nordnes Helgøy @annanhelgoy.bsky.social on receiving the The King's Gold Medal for her PhD dissertation on gender divisions in labor and politics! Anna is now a postdoctoral fellow at ISV.
www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...
www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...
Anna Nordnes Helgøy awarded the King's Gold Medal for dissertation on gender division in private and public spheres
- Department of Political Science
– It is a great honour to receive recognition for a doctoral dissertation on gender equality at a time when the American president is actively working against research in this field, says Anna Nordnes...
www.sv.uio.no
June 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Congratulations, Anna!
We are pleased to announce a bonus talk at the Politics Lecture Series @HumboldtUni: Kris-Stella Trump presents exciting work on „Perceptions of income vs. wealth inequality: a distinction without a difference?“
Come and join us!
Tuesday 17.6.25
12.00-13.00
ISW, Universitätsstrasse 3b, 002
Come and join us!
Tuesday 17.6.25
12.00-13.00
ISW, Universitätsstrasse 3b, 002
June 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
We are pleased to announce a bonus talk at the Politics Lecture Series @HumboldtUni: Kris-Stella Trump presents exciting work on „Perceptions of income vs. wealth inequality: a distinction without a difference?“
Come and join us!
Tuesday 17.6.25
12.00-13.00
ISW, Universitätsstrasse 3b, 002
Come and join us!
Tuesday 17.6.25
12.00-13.00
ISW, Universitätsstrasse 3b, 002
Delighted to welcome @indubioproreto.bsky.social to our team at the Chair of Political Sociology and Social Policy! Looking forward to the collaboration ahead
I am happy and excited to announce that I have just started a new postdoctoral position @humboldtuni.bsky.social in Berlin where I will be joining @hannaschwander.bsky.social's chair of Political Sociology and Social Policy!
I am very much looking forward to this new academic chapter in Berlin!
I am very much looking forward to this new academic chapter in Berlin!
June 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Delighted to welcome @indubioproreto.bsky.social to our team at the Chair of Political Sociology and Social Policy! Looking forward to the collaboration ahead
Was trennt uns wirklich? „Die Zeit“ analysiert gesellschaftliche Polarisierung mit Daten unserer Einstein Research Unit Coping with Affective Polarization, mit Jule Specht,
@cvscheve.bsky.social & Swen Hutter, ua.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
@cvscheve.bsky.social & Swen Hutter, ua.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Polarisierung: Wie tief Deutschland emotional gespalten ist
Erstmals zeigen Daten im Detail, wie zerrissen das Land ist – in Meinungen, aber auch in Gefühlen. Forscher erkennen gefährliche Muster und warnen vor einem Großkonflikt.
www.zeit.de
May 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Was trennt uns wirklich? „Die Zeit“ analysiert gesellschaftliche Polarisierung mit Daten unserer Einstein Research Unit Coping with Affective Polarization, mit Jule Specht,
@cvscheve.bsky.social & Swen Hutter, ua.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
@cvscheve.bsky.social & Swen Hutter, ua.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
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We are excited to publish the second series of research briefs from the Progressive Politics Research Network (PPRNet).
We start with this article:
The political viability of climate policies – @bjoernbremer.bsky.social @hannaschwander.bsky.social Jane Gingrich
www.defacto.expert/2025/04/22/t...
We start with this article:
The political viability of climate policies – @bjoernbremer.bsky.social @hannaschwander.bsky.social Jane Gingrich
www.defacto.expert/2025/04/22/t...
April 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
We are excited to publish the second series of research briefs from the Progressive Politics Research Network (PPRNet).
We start with this article:
The political viability of climate policies – @bjoernbremer.bsky.social @hannaschwander.bsky.social Jane Gingrich
www.defacto.expert/2025/04/22/t...
We start with this article:
The political viability of climate policies – @bjoernbremer.bsky.social @hannaschwander.bsky.social Jane Gingrich
www.defacto.expert/2025/04/22/t...