Publications

See also my Google Scholar Page.

Book

• Mau, Steffen; Lux, Thomas; Westheuser, Linus (2023): Triggerpunkte. Konsens und Konflikt in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft. Berlin: Suhrkamp. www.suhrkamp.de/triggerpunkte

⸺ SPIEGEL best seller list (48 weeks); best seller list of FOCUS / stern / Börsenblatt
⸺ Best Non-Fiction 2023 by DIE ZEIT / Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Welt / Neue Zürcher Zeitung
⸺ Prize “Best Political Book” 2024, Friedrich Ebert Foundation
⸺ Reviews see here

• Coming: Moral Roots of a New Political Cleavage. Working and Middle Class Lives and the Transformation of Political Conflicts in Germany. Under contract at Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• 2024 – “Cleavage Theory Meets Bourdieu. Studying the Role of Group Identities in Cleavage Formation” (with Delia Zollinger). European Political Science Review. [LINK]
• 2024 – “‘Ja, aber’. Gesellschaftliche Konflikte verstehen.” (with Steffen Mau and Thomas Lux), Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. [LINK]
• 2024 – “Cleavage Politics in Ordinary Reasoning. How Common Sense Divides” (with Koen Damhuis). European Societies, Online First. [LINK]
• 2024 – “The Sociocultural Approach to Populism. Toward a Cultural Class Analysis of Populist Appeals.” (with Pierre Ostiguy) In: Elgar Research Handbook of Populism, ed. Giorgos Katsambekis and Yannis Stavrakakis. Edward Elgar. [LINK]
• 2022 – “Verletzte Ansprüche. Zur Grammatik des politischen Bewusstseins von ArbeiterInnen” (with Linda Beck), Berliner Journal für Soziologie 32(2), 279-316. [LINK] 
• 2022 – “Class Without Consciousness. The Politics of Demobilized Class Society” (with Donatella della Porta), Berliner Journal für Soziologie 32(2), 165-172. [LINK]
• 2020 – “Populism as Symbolic Class Struggle. Homology, Metaphor, and English Ale”, in Participation & Conflict 13(1) 2020: 256-283. [LINK]
• 2015 – “Männer, Frauen und Stefan Hirschauer: Undoing Gender zwischen Praxeologie und Rhetorischer Modernisierung”, GENDER – Zeitschrift für Gesellschaft, Geschlecht und Kultur 3: 109-125. [LINK]

Working Paper

• 2024 – Class consciousness and voting. Class as a political compass? (with Thomas Lux), Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. [LINK]
• Deutsche Fassung: “Klassenbewusstsein und Wahlentscheidung. Klasse als politischer Kompass?”[LINK]

Other Publications

• 2024 – “Quanto conta la classe? Strutture e concezioni in mutamento.” (with Donatella della Porta), Parole-Chiave 1/2024. DOI: 10.7377/113871 [LINK]
• 2024 – “Migration as a Trigger Point?” (with Steffen Mau and Thomas Lux), German Research 1/2024, 8-11. [LINK]
• 2023 – “Die ewige Wiederkehr der Halbstarken. Zur Moralpanik um die Berliner Silvesternacht.”, Jacobin [LINK]  
• 2023 – “Die feinen Unterschiede in den Couchecken.”, Soziopolis [LINK]
• 2022 – “This is not America. Politische Polarisierung in Deutschland als Schimäre.”, Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 35(2). [LINK]  
• 2020 – “The Symbolic Politics of Populism Reflects the Class Alliances it Seeks to Assemble.”, LSE Politics Blog.  [LINK]
• 2019 – “The Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and the Great Recession.”, Mobilization 24(4): 531-2. [LINK]
• 2018 – “Doing Gender”. [Encylopedia Entry] Gender Glossar. [LINK]

Data set

Mau, Steffen, Lux, Thomas, & Westheuser, Linus (2024). Survey Ungleichheit und Konflikt. GESIS, Köln. ZA8826 Datenfile Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14419.

Work in Progress

“Politicizing Work. Changing Rhetorical Paradigms in the Reinventions of European Social Democracy”. Working Paper. With Koen Damhuis, Susi Meret, and Paulus Wagner.

“Toward a Second Wave of Climate Social Policy.” Working Paper. With Michael Pahle, Simon Feindt, Laura Iozzelli and Antonia Schwarz.

“The Moral Economy of Fuel Prices.” Work in progress. With Till Hilmar.

“Four Arenas of Inequality Conflicts”. Under Review. With Steffen Mau and Thomas Lux.

“Asymmetrical Cleavage Formation. Mapping the Uneven Structure of Contemporary Conflicts”. Work in Progress. With Steffen Mau and Thomas Lux.

“Theorizing Cleavage Identities: The Contribution of Cultural Sociology”. Under Review. Preprint: [LINK]