26.05.2026SNF Weave Grant awarded to Jörg Rössel et al. for RISE project on Mobilization around Inequalities

Why do citizens who care about inequality sometimes reject redistribution? We are very happy to share that the project «Mobilization around Inequalities: Navigating Deservingness, State Capacity, and Political Actors in Eastern Europe (RISE)» has been awarded funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, starting this September 2026.

The project brings together an international consortium of researchers across Eastern Europe and Switzerland, including Prof. Dr. Jörg Rössel and Dr. Valentina Petrović (University of Zurich), Prof. Dr. Andrija Henjak and Dr. Karlo Kralj (University of Zagreb), Prof. Dr. Natalia Letki (University of Warsaw), as well as Prof. Dr. Alexey Pamporov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Dr. Daniel Mikecz (Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary), and Dr. Henry Rammelt (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest).

The project explores how trust in the state, perceptions of corruption, and ideas about who deserves support shape attitudes toward policies addressing inequality - and why concern about inequality does not always translate into support for redistribution in Eastern European contexts.

Weiterführende Informationen

Prof. Dr. Jörg Rössel teaches and researches at the Department of Sociology as an Ordinarius of Sociology. His research interests are sociological theory, economic cociology, migration and integration.

Dr. Valentina Petrović is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Jörg Rössel and a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna at the Chair of Comparitive Political Science. Her research interests focus on democratisation, europeanisation, political mobilisation, and comparative political economy in a postcommunist context.

valentinapetrovic.com

Mobilization around Inequalities: Navigating Deservingness, State Capacity, and Political Actors in Eastern Europe (RISE) project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation Weave Grant. Researchers from several countries work together to provide a multinational perspective:

- Prof. Dr. Jörg Rössel and Dr. Valentina Petrović (University of Zurich)

- Prof. Dr. Andrija Henjak and Dr. Karlo Kralj (University of Zagreb)

- Prof. Dr. Natalia Letki (University of Warsaw)

- Prof. Dr. Alexey Pamporov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

- Dr. Daniel Mikecz (Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary)

- Dr. Henry Rammelt (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest).

LinkedIn Bluesky Mail Instagram

Zurück zur News-Übersicht