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2) "Overlooked de- and realignment? Cohort differences in consideration sets", Single-authored, published @wepsocial.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Overlooked de- and realignment? Cohort differences in consideration sets
While it is established that core values and voting behaviour persistently differ between birth cohorts, less is known about the consideration set stage that lies between those two points of the el...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
2) "Overlooked de- and realignment? Cohort differences in consideration sets", Single-authored, published @wepsocial.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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10/ @annakurella.bsky.social & @milenarapp.bsky.social find party positions follow a 2D structure, but public opinion is far less structured. Voter attitudes on nationalism fit into the longstanding moral conflict dimension, but those on gender and environmentalism do not.
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@annakurella.bsky.social & @milenarapp.bsky.social show that public opinion on new cultural policy issues is not strongly aligned with preferences on traditional economic & moral policies.
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Part of forthc. SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies"
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Part of forthc. SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies"
October 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
10/ @annakurella.bsky.social & @milenarapp.bsky.social find party positions follow a 2D structure, but public opinion is far less structured. Voter attitudes on nationalism fit into the longstanding moral conflict dimension, but those on gender and environmentalism do not.
bsky.app/profile/weps...
bsky.app/profile/weps...
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9/ @siljahausermann.bsky.social and co-authors analyze vote preferences within the broader Right electorate, showing the blurring of the divide between preferences for center-right and far-right parties- and the far right’s marked rise among the youngest cohort.
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❗The segmentation of the right field is eroding, especially among young voters❗
New article out by @simonbornschier.bsky.social @dpzollinger.bsky.social
@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself
@ipz.bsky.social @wepsocial.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj
A short 🧵
1/7
New article out by @simonbornschier.bsky.social @dpzollinger.bsky.social
@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself
@ipz.bsky.social @wepsocial.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj
A short 🧵
1/7
October 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
9/ @siljahausermann.bsky.social and co-authors analyze vote preferences within the broader Right electorate, showing the blurring of the divide between preferences for center-right and far-right parties- and the far right’s marked rise among the youngest cohort.
bsky.app/profile/silj...
bsky.app/profile/silj...
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8/ Education anchors contemporary cleavage politics, but what *kind* of education? @nspmartin.bsky.social @ralphscott.bsky.social and @rolandkappe.bsky.social show the specific subjects British adolescents take in secondary school shape their voting behavior as adults.
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📣 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨
"School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support"
Just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @nspmartin.bsky.social and @rolandkappe.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
🧵👇
"School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support"
Just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @nspmartin.bsky.social and @rolandkappe.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
🧵👇
October 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
8/ Education anchors contemporary cleavage politics, but what *kind* of education? @nspmartin.bsky.social @ralphscott.bsky.social and @rolandkappe.bsky.social show the specific subjects British adolescents take in secondary school shape their voting behavior as adults.
bsky.app/profile/ralp...
bsky.app/profile/ralp...
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7/ @arminschaefer.bsky.social and @nilssteiner.bsky.social show how gender & generation condition the educational divide in green & radical right voting. Education divides widen among recent cohorts, and – for green voting- especially among younger women.
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Very happy to see this out as part of a great special issue on cleavage politics: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Building on studies on how (1) education, (2) generation and (3) gender structure voting on the GAL/TAN cleavage, we study how they interact.
Here’s a thread summarizing the paper👇
Here’s a thread summarizing the paper👇
October 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
7/ @arminschaefer.bsky.social and @nilssteiner.bsky.social show how gender & generation condition the educational divide in green & radical right voting. Education divides widen among recent cohorts, and – for green voting- especially among younger women.
bsky.app/profile/nils...
bsky.app/profile/nils...
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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.
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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...
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5/ @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social & Bruno Marino test Lipset & Rokkan’s famous freezing hypothesis w fresh data, finding some conditions for freezing L&R hypothesize are *not* associated with cleavage structuring and other societal/institutional factors were overlooked.
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🎯New publication out in @wepsocial.bsky.social
'Lipset and Rokkan meet data': a 🧵on our study (with Bruno Marino) on the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages (1870–1967) across 17 Western European countries 👇
Read the full article (open access):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
'Lipset and Rokkan meet data': a 🧵on our study (with Bruno Marino) on the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages (1870–1967) across 17 Western European countries 👇
Read the full article (open access):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
5/ @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social & Bruno Marino test Lipset & Rokkan’s famous freezing hypothesis w fresh data, finding some conditions for freezing L&R hypothesize are *not* associated with cleavage structuring and other societal/institutional factors were overlooked.
bsky.app/profile/vinc...
bsky.app/profile/vinc...
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4/How strong is the educational divide in historical context?
@liesbethooghe.bsky.social l & Gary Marks find new left and radical right parties are as strongly structured by education as socialist parties in Norway, Germany, and the UK were by class in the 1950s and 60s.
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@liesbethooghe.bsky.social l & Gary Marks find new left and radical right parties are as strongly structured by education as socialist parties in Norway, Germany, and the UK were by class in the 1950s and 60s.
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We find that (1) education structures voting for GAL and TAN parties in Western Europe; (2) social structuration is as high as for classic social democratic parties in the 1950s; (3) education structures also Republicans and Democrats. Open access, and on our homepages.
@liesbethooghe.bsky.social & Gary Marks measure the extent to which political parties on the contemporary socio-cultural divide are cleavaged.
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Part of the forthcoming Special Issue "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies".
#polisky #academicsky
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Part of the forthcoming Special Issue "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies".
#polisky #academicsky
October 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
4/How strong is the educational divide in historical context?
@liesbethooghe.bsky.social l & Gary Marks find new left and radical right parties are as strongly structured by education as socialist parties in Norway, Germany, and the UK were by class in the 1950s and 60s.
bsky.app/profile/lies...
@liesbethooghe.bsky.social l & Gary Marks find new left and radical right parties are as strongly structured by education as socialist parties in Norway, Germany, and the UK were by class in the 1950s and 60s.
bsky.app/profile/lies...
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3/ @garritzmannj.bsky.social analyzes the past, present & future of educational conflict, arguing the uniqueness of today’s divide is the breadth of the groups it sets in conflict, its links to group identities, and its spillover into almost all political conflicts.
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I have a new paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The paper situates discussions about the Educational Cleavage in a longer temporal context (back to the Medieval time) to show that there have ALWAYS been conflicts between educational groups. (1/3)
The paper situates discussions about the Educational Cleavage in a longer temporal context (back to the Medieval time) to show that there have ALWAYS been conflicts between educational groups. (1/3)
October 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
3/ @garritzmannj.bsky.social analyzes the past, present & future of educational conflict, arguing the uniqueness of today’s divide is the breadth of the groups it sets in conflict, its links to group identities, and its spillover into almost all political conflicts.
bsky.app/profile/garr...
bsky.app/profile/garr...
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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 ...
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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....