Sociologist | MPI for Political and Social Science, Göttingen https://www.ips.mpg.de | HU Berlin https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/makro/mitarbeiter/Prof_Mau l social change, inequality, conflict, borders (pic Gesine Born), personal views
Steffen Mau
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Very happy to see our book "Trigger Points" finally out in English, and fully open access!
Hopefully a useful resource for anyone working on polarization, class, inequality, migration, diversity, and climate change.
Why do our societies seem so deeply divided when most citizens actually occupy a broad political middle ground?
@steffenmau.bsky.social, @thomaslux.bsky.social & @lwestheuser.bsky.social unpack this paradox in Trigger Points, pub. today @brisunipress.bsky.social, Foreward @mikesavagelse.bsky.social
Trigger Points - Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Is society really polarized? This book explores key conflicts...
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We launched our Open Lectures Series 2026 with a fascinating talk by John Levi Martin (U Chicago, editor of AJS), on the Weimar Reichstag – revealing a 2D political field that left–right alone can't capture. Based on work with Benjamin Rohr (Uni Mannheim) #OpenLectures2026 #Sociology #WeimarRepublic
Why do our societies seem so deeply divided when most citizens actually occupy a broad political middle ground?
@steffenmau.bsky.social, @thomaslux.bsky.social & @lwestheuser.bsky.social unpack this paradox in Trigger Points, pub. today @brisunipress.bsky.social, Foreward @mikesavagelse.bsky.social
Vom 16. bis 17. Juni sind wir in #Frankfurt zu Gast: Während unserer Jahresversammlung wird das #Startup Ovo Labs den Max-Planck-Gründungspreis des Stifterverbandes erhalten. Hedwig Richter und Steffen Mau diskutieren die Zukunft der #Demokratie.
@hedwigrichter.bsky.social @steffenmau.bsky.social
Steffen Mau
Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams?
A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...
Des rechten Deutschen echtes Deutschland.
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Am Donnerstag halte ich die Koeppen Lecture in Greifswald. Freue mich, mal wieder im Norden zu sein www.uni-greifswald.de/forschung/fo...
Our Open Lectures Series 2026 opens tomorrow with John Levi Martin (University of Chicago): "Taking a Position in the Political Field: Voting, Speeches and Interactions in the Weimar Reichstag, 1920–1932". Hosted by our ICT Dept @steffenmau.bsky.social & Institute of Sociology @uni-goettingen.de
2026 DIE ZEIT No. 24 - Feuilleton
“How can the AfD be stopped?”
DIE ZEIT invited leading voices from art, literature, and science to reflect on one of the defining political questions of our time.
Our Director, @steffenmau.bsky.social Mau, is among the contributors featured.
Trigger Points - Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Is society really polarized? This book explores key conflicts...
The Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science
Why do our societies seem so deeply divided when most citizens actually occupy a broad political middle ground?
@steffenmau.bsky.social, @thomaslux.bsky.social & @lwestheuser.bsky.social unpack this paradox in Trigger Points, pub. today @brisunipress.bsky.social, Foreward @mikesavagelse.bsky.social
Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft tagt in Frankfurt a.M.: Highlights sind die Verleihung des Max-Planck-Gründungspreises des Stifterverbandes sowie die Festversammlung mit einem Expertengespräch zur Zukunft...
Öffentlicher Abendvortrag von Professor Dr. Steffen Mau (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Max-Planck-Institut für multireligiöse und multiethnische Gesellschaften in Göttingen) in Kooperation mit der ...
Political analysts have long used spatial representa tions as a substrate for behavioral models, especially for legislators’ voting choices. Most commonly, we think in terms of a single-dimension cont...
Trigger Points - Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Is society really polarized? This book explores key conflicts...
