Marius Busemeyer

Who Supports the Digitalization of Education? New Survey Evidence From Six OECD Countries This paper investigates how citizens perceive and evaluate the digitalization of education. Drawing on original survey data from six OECD countries (Germany, Japan, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the US)...

Another new paper out - this one is about public support for the digitalization of education systems. Many in politics believe that the promotion of digitalization in education is a no-brainer, this paper shows that the public is more cautious...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper published on public support for Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the case of Germany!! (joint work with Adrian Rinscheid)

We find that overall, support is actually surprisingly high, in particular in the supposedly conservative German welfare state.

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The #UniKonstanz Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social will continue to receive funding in the context of the German #ExcellenceStrategy @dfg.de @wissenschaftsrat.de. Details: t1p.de/ouhyj

The new In_equality podcast is here: ‘Is Trump the End of Democracy?’ with Herbert Kitschelt. From now on, tune in on the first Wednesday of every month for exciting insights from inequality research! Curious to learn more? Visit: inequality.uni.kn/podcast @uni-konstanz.de @mbusemeyer.bsky.social

Freue mich sehr über die Zuwahl zur Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften als ordentliches Mitglied:
www.hadw-bw.de/neues-mitgli...

‼️ Hiring ‼️

Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich

📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years)
📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years)

Application deadline in early March.

Job ads & details:
tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk

We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions

Keeping up with the Joneses? Perceptions of mobility and opportunity within local knowledge economies across Germany - Acta Politica Recent work on the rise of the knowledge economy has identified the importance of economic context in shaping individual perceptions and preferences. Combining novel survey and locally fine-grained da...

Just published: New paper by Kattalina Berriochoa and myself on the link between local knowledge economies and subjective perceptions of social mobility. We surprisingly find that strong economies are associated with more negative mobility perceptions...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

FAKT vom 10. Dezember - hier anschauen Chancengleichheit - gibt es die in Deutschland? Wo wenige riesige Vermögen angehäuft haben und fast unendliche Möglichkeiten besitzen, während die Mittelschicht mit großer Angst vor dem Abrutschen in ...

Gestern interessanter Beitrag vom ARD-Magazin FAKT zum Thema Ungleichheit, speziell Vermögensungleichheit, mit kleinen Interview-Beiträgen von mir (und anderen...).
www.ardmediathek.de/video/fakt/f...

Hohoho! New paper out in the EJPR, just in time for Xmas:
Liam Beiser-McGrath and me show how the selective provision of information about carbon inequality can alter public support for carbon taxes...

Can welfare states buffer technostress? Income and technostress in the context of various OECD count... Many workers are experiencing the downsides of being exposed to an overload of information and communication technology (ICT), highlighting the need for resources to cope with the resulting technostre...

First post on @bsky.app. Of course, it should and has to be a new publication which just came out with Ann Sophie Lauterbach, Tobias Tober and Florian Kunze on the link between the welfare state and perceived techno stress: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...