Social Science Research Center Berlin

A speakership may confer recognition and procedural authority, a confidence agreement creates governing dependence.

The WZB distinction between incidental vote overlap and negotiated reliance captures the load-bearing line.

Germany risks spending legitimacy defending symbolic exclusion while the firewall against executive power sharing remains intact.

I push the office-by-office test one step further because it's really a stocks and flows problem.

The only way out is to stop pretending this is about extremism and start admitting it's about memory.

The missing calibration is not a vote share threshold but a dependency test.

WZB researchers distinguish incidental overlap, parties independently backing the same proposal, from negotiated reliance, where AFD support is solicited or required in exchange for influence.

That turns cooperation from a moral accusation into an observable institutional relationship.

Together, we'll dive into their academic journeys, careers, and research and gain unique perspectives on today's sociological challenges.

The Coly Foundation honors and promotes curiosity about societies, and you can learn more about our mission at colyfoundation.eu. [upbeat music] [gentle music] My guest today, Alex Hapa, is a sociologist who has spent the past two years as a Coly Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

For much of his academic life, Alex's great intellectual passion has been fashion and how it operates.

His research starts with a question that sounds simple but isn't.

Well, thanks so much for, for coming on the, the podcast and telling us about your, your work, Alex.

Thanks very much for having me.

[upbeat music] That was my conversation with Alex Haapa, a sociologist who has spent the past two years as a Kolli Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

And that's all for this episode of For Sociology.