With wine and cheese 😍

Thanks @chflachsland.bsky.social for making this possible. Looking forward to working with the team and starting new projects with colleagues from across Europe 🙌
And of course staying close to my special home at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social

Let's assemble a team of scholars from various countries and do qualitative interviews with centrist/centre-left politicians across Europe 🙌

Congrats Diane, what a wonderful project for a fantastic researcher 👏👏

Thank you Federica! You and your team are doing such an awesome work 🙏

Thank you to all those who provided feedback on previous drafts along the way, for instance at EPG and EPSA in June.
Special shout out to the incredible team of @fgenovese.bsky.social who all provided fantastic comments during my stay in Oxford this year 🙏

This paper makes an important contribution by advancing a novel place-based framework for understand people's attitudes towards the green transition, insisting that cultural and material concerns are co-produced and intertwined (it's not ALL about money!).

Read more: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Qual findings reveal shared narratives of discontent, grounded in both perceived material constraints and cultural conflicts. Structural conditions shaped how residents experienced policy burdens, but discontent was also mediated by cultural narratives – about rural identity, norms, and landscapes.

The quant reveals spatial patterns of discontent aligned with key structural dimensions:
- composition (prevalence of vulnerable workers)
- economic structure (reliance on carbon-intensive sectors)
- material conditions (low density, limited infrastructure, constrained access to local services)