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And we find that different sociocultural conflicts differ regarding their political contention. We find zero-sum thinking around shifts in racial hierarchies among social conservatives. But for gender and sexuality, these shifts are much more salient to progressives, and perceived positively.

We show that static, top-vs.-bottom perceptions of societal hierarchies are dominated by economic characteristics (wealth, income, occupation), wheras sociocultural groups (women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people) show up in dynamic perceptions of status shifts.

New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.

🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

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Especially occupation and race/ethnicity stand out as important for how people place others on the social status hierarchy.

In contrast, I do not find that a strong increase of the share of women in parliament leads to a male radical right backlash, neither in voting propensities nor attitudes (absent an explicit elite cue).
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I find that a stagnating representation trajectory mobilizes women voters to vote for a progressive party, the German Greens. Thus, discontent with persisting inequality can be a mobilizing factor for progressive parties.
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I showed the following experimental treatments to survey respondents. They do not involve deception but simply display differing time windows for the trajectory of women's representation in the German Bundestag in the past and (projected) future.
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How do voters react to different women's representation trajectories, and what does this tell us about progressive mobilization and backlash dynamics?

I tackle this question in a paper that was part of my PhD and is now out in CPS:
doi.org/10.1177/0010...
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