LinkedIn data offers a unique way to study how professional groups and organizations underpin economic and political life. In this new MPIfG Discussion Paper, Saila Stausholm and Javier Garcia-Bernardo show how LinkedIn’s advertising reach data, which provides anonymized counts of users by job title, skills, employer, and location, can be used to study organizational and professional dynamics relevant to a wide range of issues in political economy and economic sociology. 

July 8, 16:30 | The relationship of German governments and the German people to extreme violence is an enormous analytical task for the social sciences. In his MPIfG Lecture, Kai Koddenbrock from Bielefeld University discusses the analytical resources to tackle it, drawing on the work of Franz Neumann and other Frankfurt School intellectuals.

The MPIfG’s Journalist in Residence between June and August 2026 is Kia Vahland, an editor with Süddeutsche Zeitung. During her stay at the MPIfG she will be working on how German cities are responding to the ecological, social, and political challenges of climate change. Central to her current work are the conditions under which measures to adapt to climate change are politically and socially viable, which actors help or hinder the process, and who benefits.