David Weisstanner
@DWeisstanner
Assistant professor of health and social policy @UniLuzern
Excited to share that my project "Party politics and the politicization of health care" has been funded by the @snsf_ch! 🚀 The project will examine how parties have politicized health care along economic & cultural lines. A postdoc & PhD position will be available – stay tuned!
"We argue that symbolic class signalling has gained in importance due to the political realignment along the cultural dimension, and we expect radical right parties to benefit most from it" - @DWeisstanner & Sarah Engler (@leuphana) Read #OpenAccess - cup.org/4kw4MkU
NEW - The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - cup.org/4kAEGgV - @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social #OpenAccess
📬🙌 Our paper on parties' programmatic responses to inequality - and more often the lack of responses - will come out @apsrjournal ! Here is the @EXCInequality working paper: kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstreams/424… with @klueserthan.bsky.social & M. Haselmayer 🧗 voe-project.org
I am happy to announce that my book with Andrea Aldrich is out. Using an original party leadership dataset from 11 democracies, Andrea and I show that women candidates face a glass ceiling for leadership and quickly sink once elected (the quicksand theory) cup.org/3HqJXty
Thrilled to see our new paper out now in @cps_journal: ‘They Take Our Healthcare’: Health and Attitudes towards Immigration in Europe 👉Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/F6UHJUQ… Why are people in poor health more hostile toward immigrants? Our study pushes the debate beyond income or…
🚀 PhD position at @UniLuzern in my @snsf_ch-funded project "Party politics and the politicization of health care" 📅 Start in October 2025 🌍 Lucerne, Switzerland 📌 Apply by June 30, 2025. Details: unilu.ch/universitaet/p…
Forthcoming: Handbook on Welfare State Reform with 28 chapters examining main approaches, advanced methods, policy areas, and reform trends for the study of welfare states, August 2025: e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handb…
I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @ERC_Research project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni @InFER_Frankfurt German call: fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share!
Just published in EJPR "Poor choices? Examining the electoral connection behind unequal policy representation" with @JesLindqvist , Anders Sundell and Wouter Schakel. (1) ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…
Glad to see this one on EarlyView! Our new paper with @A_Gugushvili and Tim Vlandas in @PolBehavior examines whether and how actual intergenerational class mobility is associated with far-right party support. Available open access: link.springer.com/article/10.100…
It's release day for How Politicians Polarize! To celebrate, my husband made a board book version so we can teach our 14-month-old about political representation in an age of negative partisanship. Some key findings from the book (in baby-friendly language)🧵
🚨Nou article 🗳️Comptar vots pot ser una murga, però també fomenta la socialització política. ➡ En un estudi a @BJPolS amb @pauvallprat, analitzem com va impactar en moltes dones formar part de les meses per primer cop l'any 1933 @PolitiquesUPF cambridge.org/core/journals/… 🧵(1/)
Excited to share our open access new article in the American Journal of Political Science (@AJPS_Editor) with @SBorwein, @rmichaelalvarez, @bartbonikowski & @PeejLoewen onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…
Privatization reforms have a bitter aftertaste. New paper out in @jepp_journal w @PopicTamara We show that privatization leads to worse evaluations of health systems down the line, despite initial optimism. Proximity to policy is key, ideology less so tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
As promised, here is a bit more on my new book, The Welfare Workforce, now available fully open-access from @CUP_PoliSci 🧵1/11
I’m so happy to share that my book is now published and available open-access 🥳 Thank you, @CUP_PoliSci and @jrgingrich for this endorsement! (🧵coming soon, too :)
📢Our new paper in @polanalysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 📷 1/7
#OpenAccess from @PolAnalysis - Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging - cup.org/4axBEXo - @gael_lemens & @ainagallego