Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki
@mierkezat.bsky.social
Political scientist at Vanderbilt; political parties, social groups, Western Europe. Writing a book about identity politics, past and present.
Prev: Stanford, EUI, MPIfG, Harvard.
Prev: Stanford, EUI, MPIfG, Harvard.
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2/🧵 New piece with @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social in @NewRepublic: We analyzed 60,000+ respondents in the 2024 Cooperative Election Study. Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation. The generational shift overwhelms the education divide that supposedly defines modern politics.
The Shocking Truth About Gen Z Voters Is That They’re Pretty Great
Stop panicking: They are the most progressive generation ever, especially on race. If that surprises you, you’ve been listening to the wrong story.
newrepublic.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
2/🧵 New piece with @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social in @NewRepublic: We analyzed 60,000+ respondents in the 2024 Cooperative Election Study. Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation. The generational shift overwhelms the education divide that supposedly defines modern politics.
Super interesting! Do you have a sense of whether its intentional tailoring vs newer parties having less institutionalized media teams/protocols?
October 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Super interesting! Do you have a sense of whether its intentional tailoring vs newer parties having less institutionalized media teams/protocols?
(also working on my book ofc)
October 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
(also working on my book ofc)
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2/@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I set out 3 puzzles: How does a new cleavage work without strong intermediary orgs? How to reconcile cleavage theory w fragmented party systems? How are structural divides (e.g. ed) mobilized indirectly in political conflict today?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Updating cleavage theory for the twenty-first century
Contemporary cleavage research has linked ‘socio-cultural’ conflicts mobilised by new left and far right parties to structural divides in post-industrial knowledge societies. Contributions in this ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
2/@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I set out 3 puzzles: How does a new cleavage work without strong intermediary orgs? How to reconcile cleavage theory w fragmented party systems? How are structural divides (e.g. ed) mobilized indirectly in political conflict today?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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6/ @mierkezat.bsky.social, @eborbath.bsky.social, and @swenhutter.bsky.social argue that civil society still shapes contemporary cleavage formation, but with a more varied, volatile, and external pressure-based orientation to parties than the membership orgs of old.
bsky.app/profile/mier...
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I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social!)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
6/ @mierkezat.bsky.social, @eborbath.bsky.social, and @swenhutter.bsky.social argue that civil society still shapes contemporary cleavage formation, but with a more varied, volatile, and external pressure-based orientation to parties than the membership orgs of old.
bsky.app/profile/mier...
bsky.app/profile/mier...
Thanks so much Linus!!
September 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Thanks so much Linus!!