Devolving powers on paper is only half the story — the real challenge is implementation. In this post, I discuss my recent @jeppjournal.bsky.social article with @jmfernandes86.bsky.social on when decentralization actually works in practice. Thanks @ccc-research.bsky.social y.social for the invite!

How do governments mobilise public opinion in times of uncertainty? Do they gauche public opinion systematically across policy domains or unevenly depending on the issue ?🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💥 How to crises impact public attention? Amnon Cavari and Asif Efrat contribute to this debate with evidence from Israel (2023-2024): they show how a constitutional crisis and a security crisis reshaped public priorities👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As I am fairly new to Bluesky, this comes a bit late, but it is still worth checking out: Our #oa introduction to the @jeppjournal.bsky.social special issue on "Europe’s Changing Protest Landscape" with @sophiahunger.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

🌱🪙 In their introduction to the Special Issue "Puzzling, powering, profiting: The politics of sustainable finance in Europe", editors @danmertens.bsky.social and @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social define EU sustainable finance & outline how best to analyse it 💡 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to see another great paper out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social .

Happy to see this out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! ➜ doi.org/10.1080/1350... The paper asks why the European Commission @ec.europa.eu increasingly sponsors participatory innovations – such as the European Citizens' Panels – although their strategic and functional value remains elusive 🧵 1/6

🚨Very excited to see our new paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social! We looked at how working with AI shapes people's risk perceptions and social policy preferences, with some surprising results ⬇️

📊 @mhaslberger.bsky.social, Jane Gingrich, and Jasmine Bhatia explore how exposure to AI shapes social policy preferences in a UK survey experiment. 💡 Their key finding: when faced with AI, people want support, not just protection 🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️ It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades... It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350... Short 🧵 ...

⚖️ Why did Hungary accept losing billions in EU funds rather than reform? 🔎 @kingakoranyi.bsky.social explains Hungary’s partial compliance: legal ambiguities allowed selective reforms, while regime-sensitive policies proved too costly to change 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📺 Sneak preview of the upcoming Special Issue "Policymaking in Times of Crisis"! In their introduction, editors Frank R. Baumgartner and Laura Chaqués Bonafont set the stage and outline the contributions👇

📚 #Back2School with JEPP! Kick off the semester with our collections 👇 ⚖️ Reacting to democratic backsliding in the European Union 📈 The politics of European competitiveness in the twin transition 💥 EU Integration in Crisis 💪 Public Legitimacy in and about the EU

💥Your country may have a deregulation potential of 36% - argue Yves Steinebach, Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Markus Hinterleitner & @cknill.bsky.social. Find out more 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💥 Are gas and nuclear sustainable? The EU says yes, but that’s contested. Clément Fontan unpacks how lobbying shaped the EU Taxonomy and how the Commission managed its own expert group in the process 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New issue just published 🚨 🗣️ Discussion: Getting gender onto the radar of comparative political economy. Guest editors: Dorothee Bohle and Deborah Mabbett 🧠 And more research articles 👇

Leonce Röth, Christoph Ivanusch, Klaus H. Goetz & Radu-Mihai Triculescu on how the Commission communicates migration 👇 🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really great to talk about our recent euro paper on @france24.com @steffenmurau.bsky.social @jeppjournal.bsky.social youtu.be/N19iSOqPIcc?...

🔦 Dan Mocanu and Matthias Thiemann shed light on the European Investment Bank's ambition to become "Europe’s climate bank" 👇 🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Buket Buse Demirci, @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social, and Frank Schimmelfennig examine how the EU reacts to geopolitical pressures 👇 🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A while back @martinlodge.bsky.social and I wrote an essay in @jeppjournal.bsky.social arguing Brexit was a product of a political class that had grown disinterested in governing. This remains true for large parts of Britain’s political elite and commentariat (though not entirely for the govt).

✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/8 🧵

Publication Alert!🚨Check out the new paper by #EISS Interim Secretary General Moritz Weiss and his colleagues in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! "Politics of de-risking: How the EU confronts vulnerabilities in critical digital infrastructures” 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our short article pairs nicely with @sarahobolt.bsky.social et al’s introductory essay for the @jeppjournal.bsky.social special issue on the 2024 EP elections: doi.org/10.1080/1350... And, as in previous waves, our teams have coordinated on question wording to facilitate party-voter comparison 6/

Slobodan Tomic and Vid Štimac on the EU AI Act and the challenges that come with it 👇

⚖️ Poland has a new president, but democratic backsliding and rule of law concerns remain. ❗ For anyone wanting to learn more about democratic backsliding or planning their course syllabi on the topic, look no further! Discover our JEPP collection on how the EU responds to democratic backsliding 👇

📢 Europe's Changing Protest Landscape Protests have grown more fragmented in recent years. New actors, claims, and tactics have emerged. A special issue @jeppjournal.bsky.social ‪with an introduction by Swen Hutter & @sophiahunger.bsky.social provides insights. www.wzb.eu/en/news/euro...

Why do parties do what they do? Excited to share my 2nd dissertation paper, just published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social In the paper, I argue that parties seek internal unity and try to keep the team together: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/11 🧵

🤔 Who shape's the EU's economic security measures? 🥁 @andduer.bsky.social, Gemma Mateo González & @loranevisart.bsky.social suggest that part of the answer is business interests 💼👇

Does the EU's ambition to become a geopolitical actor change the EU itself? 🌍 @johanadriaensen.bsky.social, Sophie Vanhoonacker & Igor Sarkissian propose a framework to analyse how adaptive pressures on the EU's institutional setup and sketch where these changes are already visible. 👇

Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Duncan Liefferink & Maurizio Di Lullo examine the 'persistent informality' surrounding the EU's preparation of international climate negotiations 👇

2yrs since #Robodebt Report, we turn our attention to whether the APS is responding/learning. In this ANU Policy Brief @mariamaley4 & I look at how the broader APS is responding. policybrief.anu.edu.au/aps-leaders-... @themandarin.bsky.social @anucrawfordschool.bsky.social

Happy to share a new open-access article from the SuFi project at Witten/Herdecke University, just published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social @naguila.bsky.social @janina urban @paulahaufe.bsky.social @simonschairer.bsky.social @jwullweber.bsky.social 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🌡️ Does public opinion influence immigration legislation and vice versa? Grace Morris uses public attitude data and Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) bills data across Belgium, Denmark, Germany & the Netherlands to test for thermostatic responsiveness 👇

Rearmament challenges modern welfare states, pitting military vs. social spending. In our new #OA article in @jeppjournal.bsky.social, Stefano Sacchi, Caroline de la Porte and I show that citizens prioritize the welfare state—though important divisions emerge www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Unrelated to my trying to write a grant proposal, here's some stats on: - Reviewer responses at two journals - Reviewer times These are only papers I've handled (N reviewers = 271), with an almost 50/50 split between @jeppjournal.bsky.social and @poqjournal.bsky.social .

Two is better than one in lobbying too? Adrià Albareda, David Coen & Angel Saz-Carranza examine firm- and association-level drivers behind 'parallel lobbying' 👇

@riccardobaioni.bsky.social, Nicolás Águila, Janina Urban, @paulahaufe.bsky.social, @simonschairer.bsky.social & @jwullweber.bsky.social discuss how the European Commission attempted to reinvigorate the stalled Capital Markets Union project by reframing it as a vehicle for green investments 👇

😎 No. 5 in Google Scholar Metrics 🙏 A big thank you goes to our authors, reviewers, and readers! 🔗 scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

📫 Latest special issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape, edited by ‪@sophiahunger.bsky.social and Swen Hutter. In their introductory article, they sketch Europe's ‘new contentious politics’ landscape and preview the issue's articles 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📖 Our @jeppjournal.bsky.social article now has a volume & issue number! In our work, @pietrocastellig.bsky.social, @caterinafr.bsky.social & I overview far-right contentious politics in Europe and argue for a ‘normalisation of protest’. 🔗 50 free copies available at this link: shorturl.at/iiDrt

It's a real journal article! 🥳 Delve in to explore with me how sustainable finance differs depending on institutional context and what this means for the EUs sustainable finance agenda!

@apsmolenska.bsky.social investigates green bonds across the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and Sweden 👇

💪 An underestimated power: prime ministers’ last-minute changes to the cabinet agenda Ilana Shpaizman and Sharon Gilad provide evidence from Israel 👇

🤔 Why don’t workers hurt by technological change reliably vote centre-left? Zhen Jie Im shows it depends on their social class (routine manual vs. non-manual class) and whether centre-left parties emphasise economic issues 👇

Evidence 🧪 vs. emotions❤️? @dovilerimkute.bsky.social formulates a research agenda on how emotions shape citizen–regulator interactions 👇

🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.22 🌍 What motivates #EU enlargement? Based on @jeppjournal.bsky.social research, @mariusghincea.bsky.social & Laurențiu Pleșca argue that the Union's approach has evolved through 3 overlapping logics 🔀 : transformation, stabilisation, and demarcation. 👉 bit.ly/44udqMf

We've made some small changes at JEPP to bring it in line with other journals: - Experiments to be pre-registered - Quantitative data to be deposited in a registry before formal acceptance - Apparently a new cover as well.

✨ Transparency at JEPP ✨ At JEPP, we’re committed to the norms of openness and transparency in research. But what does that mean in practice? 🔍 Pre-registration: We require authors to pre-register their experimental designs and share this information with reviewers during submission. 1/2

❓When do EP rapporteurs push party group preferences over institutional mandates? 📄 A new article by Nicolas Bicchi and Javier Arregui shows that rapporteurs only steer legislation toward their party groups when this aligns with the Council’s position (and to some extent, the Commission's stance).