Anna Pless

PhD researcher @KU_Leuven | cultural and political sociology | suffering from secularization, value change, and cleavages | formerly known as Anna Kulkova

[Anna Pless @an_pless]

@dick_zijp @FSW_KULEUVEN @GMMKuipers Residentially - yes, PhD-wise also yes, work-wise nope 😀 Will you be moving here?

[Anna Pless @an_pless]

@dick_zijp @FSW_KULEUVEN @GMMKuipers Congrats!

[Anna Pless @an_pless]

...And yet another one, on how religious decline makes libertarians increasingly more morally progressive as well:

https://t.co/b7PnRrRAoh

[Anna Pless @an_pless]

📢Publication alert📢

Have cultural motives behind voting choice become more important in West European politics? Well, not moral traditionalism as its relevance for religious and conservative voting decreased in the last 4 decades. All because of religious decline!
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[Anna Pless @an_pless]

And if you are curious about other effects of secularization on cultural politics in Western Europe, here is our other article:
https://t.co/uJCl65nnTt

[Anna Pless @an_pless]

📢How cultural divides are changing in Western Europe? From morality to immigration, due to religious decline!

Check out our new article in @IPSR_Journal with Paul Tromp and Dick Houtman 🔽 Key findings below
https://t.co/GUaE8IVhEX

[Anna Pless @an_pless]

@kai_arzheimer This is a brilliant paper that I somehow missed so far. Thanks for sharing it here!

[Anna Pless @an_pless]

@RijnMichiel @AngelicaMaineri @TilburgU Huge congrats! 🎉

[Dima Kortukov @DimaKortukov]

Special fellowships for Russian researchers affected by Russia's war on Ukraine via the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
https://t.co/BA7aSb2Ony

[Anna Pless @an_pless]

Sad and ironic how so many sanctions won't hurt Putin's regime but will do exactly the opposite and support it. Canceling independent social surveys in Russia is def no threat to the regime. If Putin himself is likely to ban something, perhaps it's not a sanction at all?

[Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @MaksimRudnev]

@ESS_Survey has banished https://t.co/UGa2MWC0Mr Russia’s participation. I get the emotions, but I think it may be bad for ESS, for the EU, as well as for European and predominantly liberal anti-dictatorship Russian social scientists. Here is why -> a thread 1/5

[Anna Pless @an_pless]

@sergsagara I suppose it’s because of Putin’s nuclear threats? Easy to imagine his response to NATO being involved too actively

[Anna Pless @an_pless]

3. We connect both transformations to religious decline that causes a shift in how problems of social order are framed: from religious framing to predominantly secular

4. Hence, religious societies are divided over morality, while secular societies clash over immigration

[Anna Pless @an_pless]

📢How cultural divides are changing in Western Europe? From morality to immigration, due to religious decline!

Check out our new article in @IPSR_Journal with Paul Tromp and Dick Houtman 🔽 Key findings below
https://t.co/GUaE8IVhEX

[Anna Pless @an_pless]

1. The divide between religious and secular Europeans over moral issues (abortion, euthanasia…) shrinks between 1981 and 2008

2. At the same time, the divide between the high- and low-educated over immigration, and law and order only gets wider!