We're also happy to announce the calendar for the 2025-2026 CONNECT Seminar Series, featuring a brilliant line up of CONNECT members from @unibo.it and SPS visiting scholars @fbulfone.bsky.social (Leiden) & Anuscher Farahat (UWien). Every first Tuesday of the month, 1-2pm - all welcome!

The slumbering giant: towards a political economy of financialised insurance, by Vanessa Endrejat, @fbulfone.bsky.social, and Arjen van der Heide

We are delighted that our Special Issue on "The Politics of Growth, Stagnation and Upgrading in Peripheral Economies" coedited w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & Aldo Madariaga is now out in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social, Vol. 29(3–4). 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...

📘🇪🇺 Much more than a report In our new @jcms-eu.bsky.social piece, Lucia Quaglia and I argue that the Draghi and Letta reports go beyond competitiveness - they mark a shift in the EU’s political identity. But this entails huge challenges! Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Trump took a "golden share" in US Steel. What does this say about the steel industry, Trump's priorities, and how industrial policy is being used in 2025? @fbulfone.bsky.social and I spent the hour with On Point getting into it. Margaret Thatcher makes an appearance! www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

In a new MPIfG Discussion Paper, @fbulfone.bsky.social, @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social, and @aritassinari.bsky.social trace the growth trajectories of Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain from the financial crisis to the covid pandemic. ‬ 🔗 pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces...

The PEPP group at Leiden University’s Institute of Public Administration is pleased to announce the next PE_PP Talk by Aneta Spendzharova (Maastricht University) on May 12! Details below Please PM if interested @sebdiessner.bsky.social @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social @alexandreafonso.bsky.social

Interested in teaching EU governance, political economy and crises—but don't know where to start? Then this one’s for you doi.org/10.1080/0703... Thanks to 3 excellent recent volumes by @manuelamoschella.bsky.social+co-authors @amyverdun.bsky.social @achimhurrelmann.bsky.social A Bongardt/F Torres

🌟 Excited to announce our latest article in New Political Economy 🌟 @fbulfone.bsky.social and I investigate the complex interplay of politics and banking challenging the notion that political influence always harms banks. "Is Politics Bad for Banking?" - Full article here: doi.org/10.1080/1356...

On my way to Bochum where I'll spend the next days discussing the nuts and bolts of industrial policy with a stellar line-up of scholars. This workshop, co-organized with Salih Bora and @fbulfone.bsky.social, is hosted and generously supported by the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS). 👇

Come work with us! 📢 Fully-funded PhD position (4 years) at the Institute of Public Administration at Leiden University on political economy of the green and digital transition Deadline: March 31 🚨 Supervised by the amazing @fbulfone.bsky.social & myself www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Our Political Economy and Public Policy research group at Leiden University finally has a website! Check out our work 🔽 With @alexandreafonso.bsky.social, @fbulfone.bsky.social @sebdiessner.bsky.social, Samir Negash, Emily Anne Wolff, Janna Goijaerts and Roelien van der Wel