💥 The semester is off and running - it's a great time to take a pause and catch up on a few articles. 💥
See our 2026 reading list, with an extended Open Access Deadline until Oct 31.
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Mit »unsichtbaren Institutionen« und dem Verfall von #Vertrauen, #Legitimität und #Autorität befasst sich der frz. Ideenhistoriker Pierre Rosanvallon in seinem neuesten Buch @hhedition.bsky.social. Dirk Jörke hat den Band für uns besprochen. Zur Rezension: ethik-und-gesellschaft.de/ojs/index.ph...
Ni hijos ni futuro: la juventud alemana se plantea emigrar
Entre el precio de la vivienda, los bajos salarios, la guerra y la inflación, la fecundidad de los alemanes se ha hundido
cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2026...
🎤 Neue Podcastfolge: Wie emotional darf Politik sein, Anna Durnová?
"Es geht gar nicht darum, ob wir eine Emotionalisierung in der Politik zulassen, sondern wie wir sie betreiben" @evrop-anka.bsky.social#Podcast#Gerechtigkeit#Emotionen
🎉 Ecstatic that my new article, “How social reporting put poverty on the agenda in Germany: an interpretive process tracing analysis”, is now published open access in @policy-politics.bsky.socialbristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
Wir trauern um die Kolleg*innen, die in Stade ihr Leben verloren haben.
Unser Mitgefühl ist bei den Angehörigen und den vielen weiteren Kolleg*innen in der Jugendhilfe und Sozialarbeit.
Das Pflegeneuordnungsgesetz (PNOG) wieder nicht im Bundeskabinett. Die heftige Kritik von allen Seiten zeigt offenbar Wirkung. Vor der Sommerpause wird sich der Bundestag voraussichtlich nicht mehr mit der Pflegereform beschäftigen, geschweige denn sie verabschieden: www.carevor9.de/care-inside/...
➡️ ➡️ Complete Themed Section on #InterpretiveProcessTracing now #OpenAcces ⬅️ ⬅️
Four papers, one goal: thinking through and advancing PT for interpretive research (post with a tribute to Raúl Pacheco-Vega fellow PT and methods enthusiast). 1/
📢 Call for papers!
Who speaks for the poor in social policy?
For the upcoming ESPANET conference (August 26-28) in Lisbon, Sigrid Leitner and I are organizing a stream examining the political representation of people experiencing poverty.
www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/event/24th-e...
Some of my favorite electronic artists of all time. A gorgeous composition and a blessing to have them back with new material:
"But that's always been the Boards of Canada way: they make what might read as overly earnest feel profound, universal and utterly essential. "
de.ra.co/reviews/36346
Noch nie hat eine Partei so stumm um ihr Überleben gekämpft. Aber wird denn überhaupt gekämpft? Oder ist "kämpfen" für die SPD auch nur noch ein anderes Wort für weiter regieren?
Combining interpretive process tracing with policy feedback theory, I show how poverty became legible as a policy problem in 🇩🇪 through stakeholders’ sustained interventions.
Based on expert interviews, I identify seven key episodes driving three mechanisms at the core of this decades-long process
Ultimately, the article proposes an interpretivist framework that sensitizes process tracing and policy feedback theory to reveal how definitional interventions gain institutional traction through underlying mechanisms over time.
So glad to see this one published:
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In this new article (open access!), we argue for the importance of collective actors in social work policy practice by drawing on research on welfare associations in Germany.
So glad to see this one published:
academic.oup.com/bjsw/advance...
In this new article (open access!), we argue for the importance of collective actors in social work policy practice by drawing on research on welfare associations in Germany.
📢 Call for papers!
Who speaks for the poor in social policy?
For the upcoming ESPANET conference (August 26-28) in Lisbon, Sigrid Leitner and I are organizing a stream examining the political representation of people experiencing poverty.
www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/event/24th-e...
We invite contributions addressing, among others:
• Advocacy and self-representation organizations for people experiencing poverty (in Europe and beyond)
• Their role in social policy: When and why they succeed or remain unheard
• Sustainable models of self-representation and power-sharing
We welcome diverse theoretical and methodological approaches (qualitative, quantitative, mixed; single-country or comparative), including institutional dynamics, participation, policy design, discourse and narrative analysis.
Deadline: May 17
More info: www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/wp-content/u...
📢 Call for papers!
Who speaks for the poor in social policy?
For the upcoming ESPANET conference (August 26-28) in Lisbon, Sigrid Leitner and I are organizing a stream examining the political representation of people experiencing poverty.
www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/event/24th-e...
Research on political responsiveness shows that welfare state decision-making is characterized by unequal influence, skewed toward well-organized and well-resourced actors. People experiencing poverty frequently lack direct representation in policymaking and public discourse.
Ob #Bürgergeld, #Rente, #Pflege, #Bildung, #Kinder oder #Wohnen – der #Sozialstaat in Deutschland spielt für jeden Menschen eine wichtige Rolle. Trotzdem steht er fortwährend in der Kritik. Unsere Studien räumen mit Mythen auf.
💥 Unsere Forschung zum Sozialstaat: www.boeckler.de/de/auf-einen...
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
Proud to have a chapter published (in German) alongside so many incredible people - looking at the successful role of employee buyouts in building union power. Yes, this is an attempt to push German unions in that direction.
Happy to give 30% discounts for those interested in a copy. ✊🏻
Ich freue mich über mein Interview in der SZ @szde.bsky.social! Die Ungleichheit bei den Vermögen in Deutschland ist extrem hoch. Das hat strukturelle Gründe, vor allem Unternehmensbesitz am oberen Ende. Daraus folgen höhere Renditen der Reichen, was die Ungleichheit weiter treibt sz.de/li.3372503
I don’t know how the narrative of American democracy can survive this. The country voted to give the nuclear codes to a mental toddler who’s going to start a war because he didn’t get a participation trophy.
(1/2) Der #Verteilungsbericht unseres WSI Düsseldorf zeigt: In Deutschland haben #Ungleichheit und #Armut spürbar zugenommen. Im Podcast #Systemrelevant wird die #Einkommensverteilung und deren gesellschaftlichen Konsequenzen analysiert.
📲 Hier reinhören: www.boeckler.de/de/p...
🚨Job alert: We are looking for a PhD Researcher at Bielefeld University
✨Research on policy learning, and work-family policies in Mexico & Germany, within the @sfb1342.bsky.social on global dynamics of social policy
Applications until 12.1.26, details at: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/473...
⬇️Februari 2026⬇️
Taking a hands-on approach, this five-day online course introduces you to the essentials of Process Tracing and develops both the theoretical understanding and the practical skills to set-up and conduct a full-fledged PT-study.
Early bird registration still possible.
🔍How do you prove what happened in between cause and outcome?
Join our 5-day online Intro to Causal Process Tracing and learn to design a mechanism-based case study at #KOMEX2026.
Instructor: @hildevanmeegdenburg.com
23–27 Feb 2026
€440 early bird
🔗 Register: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...
Lower-income people are less likely to vote than higher-income people, across racial groups - and that gap has been growing.
That’s a real problem for the future of US democracy.
It’s not apathy or ignorance - for many, it’s a sense that politics is not for or about them.
In a report out in Jan +
Seit 2018 haben #Ungleichheit & #Armut in Deutschland nochmal spürbar zugenommen und zuletzt einen Höchststand erreicht. Das zeigt der neue Verteilungsbericht unseres @wsiinstitut.bsky.social. Der Anteil armer Menschen stieg von 14,4 (2010) auf 17,7 % (2022). 🧵👇
📲 www.boeckler.de/de/pressemit...
Wie kann das über lange Zeit gewachsene Institutionengefüge des deutschen Sozialstaats in systematische Verbindung zur Umwelt- und Klimapolitik gebracht werden und Sozialpolitik im Idealfall sogar eine positive ökologische Wirkung erzielen? Dazu die neuen WSI-Mitteilungen www.wsi.de/de/wsi-mitte...
Der 1. Teil unserer Jobcenter-Serie:
Der Staat investiert Milliarden in Maßnahmen, die helfen sollen, Menschen wieder in Arbeit zu bringen. Doch zu oft fließt das Geld in eine kaum kontrollierte Weiterbildungsindustrie, in der Beschäftigung simuliert wird und Qualität Zufall zu sein scheint.
Der Staat zahlt Milliarden für Jobcenter-Maßnahmen. Doch anstatt Jobs zu schaffen, profitiert vor allem eine kaum kontrollierte Weiterbildungsindustrie. Wir erzählen die Geschichten von Betroffenen und zeigen das System, das sie scheitern lässt: fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...
“The novel’s prescience lies not in foretelling specific events but in diagnosing a culture where power enjoys impunity and cruelty rubs out its traces — a society run by careless people.”
www.ft.com/content/dd6f...
What a brilliant discussion about narrative form and how we necessarily and constantly use it to (re)interpret, (re)define, and legitimize history. Highly recommended.
radioopensource.org/shattered-dr...
New @thedigradio.bsky.social: first of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How neoliberalism remade US capitalism into an engine for endless asset appreciation, and the attendant reactionary politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/coun...
In a new study, Christopher Hoy (World Bank) reveals that people tend to dramatically underestimate wage inequality.
What’s more, when confronted with the actual data, far right voters alter their views about redistribution the most.
#LSEInequalitiesBlogbuff.ly/99zYlGH
“If you can be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or think.
Defend your constitutionally protected rights. No one else will do it for you.“
youtu.be/wnopyFg5msU
Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"