🏆 The 2025 ECPR Best Paper Prize from the Standing Group on Public Policy goes to @elifcan.bsky.social & @v-yilmaz.bsky.social for their work on narrative power in electoral autocracies — a fascinating study of the Turkish pension movement. Congratulations! 👏 ecpr.eu/News/News/De...

Want to expand your knowledge on the Narrative Policy Framework? Join us for the pre-conference workshop at @polprocessrsch.bsky.social led by me, @jo-kuenzler.bsky.social, Bettina Stauffer, and @cschlaufer.bsky.social #COPPR2026 policyprocessresearch.org/coppr26-prop...

Coming up: the next event in our #ECPR webinar series: Florence Metz from University of Kaiserslautern-Landau will share insights on using network approaches to unpack complexity in EU climate policy. Join us! 😊 🗓: Wednesday, December 8, 15.00 BST / 16.00 CET ✍: sign up: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Coming up: the next event in our #ECPR webinar series: @laura-mas.bsky.social from University of Bologna will provide insights on the connection between #crises, policy processes and EU policymaking. Join us!! 😊 🗓: Wednesday, September 10, 15.00 BST / 16.00 CET ✍: sign up: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Integration for whom? New publication mit @lutzphilipp.bsky.social 🙌 🎯 In diesem Paper untersuchen wir typische "Integrationsnormen" in der Gesellschaft. Dabei stellen wir fest, dass gewisse soziale Normen für "Ausländer" stärker gelten als für die Gesellschaft als ganzes. (1/3)

This past Monday, at our webinar, @sonjablum.bsky.social & @evrop-anka.bsky.social presented valuable insights on emotions in public policy. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us! And also thanks to our strongly engaged audience, which made for a truly interesting discussion! 💭

Coming up: the next event in our #ECPR webinar series: @sonjablum.bsky.social and @evrop-anka.bsky.social will talk about #emotions in #publicpolicy and present finding from their research project (cidape.eu). Join us!! 🗓: Monday, June 2, 15.00 BST / 16.00 CET ✍: sign up FREE: ecpr.eu/Events/316

💁‍♀️ Conference presentation: Last week, I attended the meeting of the DVPW’s Public Policy and Public Administration Group. Ilana Schröder and me presented joint work with Colette Vogeler in a DFG-funded project: “Determinants and International Variation of Farm Animal Welfare Policy”.

The first Issue of 2025 is here! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... Thanks to all of our incredible authors: @elsor.bsky.social, Mark E. Warren, @verschuerebram.bsky.social, Kristof Steyvers...

Wie definiert man eigentlich #Energiepolitik? Welchen energiepolitischen Herausforderungen sehen wir uns heutzutage gegenüber? Diese Fragen durfte ich gestern in einem hybriden Gastvortrag an der Uni Speyer zusammen mit einer interessierten Studierendenschaft diskutieren. Danke für die Einladung!

It’s our pleasure. A lovely piece I cannot wait to cite and teach. Be sure to follow @policy-politics.bsky.social for more Policy & Politics highlights and updates.

I feel honored that our systematic review on the Narrative Policy Framework is featured in Policy & Politics' quarterly highlights blog post! 👇

Was bringt die zweite Trump-Administration? Und was hält die US-Demokratie aus? Gerade in Europa sollte es unserer Meinung nach weiterhin die Zeit sein, Fragen zu stellen > vorschnell zu analysieren, schreiben @istad.bsky.social, @jschmd.bsky.social & ich @republik.ch www.republik.ch/2024/11/21/w...

Yesterday at the ECPR Standing Group on Public Policy’s webinar, @sam-workman.bsky.social presented his thoughts on what the new Trump presidency will mean for public policy. Thank you for sharing your expertise with us, Sam! And thanks @kariningold.bsky.social for the thoughtful moderation!

#dvpw2024 officially kicked off this afternoon in Göttingen! Together with Sandra Plümer and @csmithochoa.bsky.social , I hosted a highly interesting panel on crises and theories of the policy process. Today only hybrid participation, but tomorrow I am happy to join in person 🤩

So hopefully, there is a new generation of policy analysts and NPF’ers in the making in Winterthur 😊 Thank you very much for the invitation to your summer school, Jörn Ege! I really enjoyed doing this class, and I was impressed by the innovative repurposing of the old Sulzer factories!

Just #unboxed: I don't know about you guys, but I still love physical copies 😍

Available #OA until Sept 13: Our systematic review of the Narrative Policy Framework #NPF! @NpfOnline 1/11 doi.org/10.1332/030557

🤔 Do narratives matter in policy implementation? Of course they do! Check out our new handbook chapter to learn about existing research and gaps in need of exploration. Co-written with Michael D. Jones and Bettina Stauffer from @unibern.bsky.social. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

I am very grateful that I could present my current research @univie.ac.at today. Thank you very much for the invitation, Pedro Alarcón! It was truly a pleasure.

Very big news for #Switzerland and #ClimatePolicy more generally! www.reuters.com/business/env...

✨Neu in der PVS: Ich durfte das neue Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation rezensieren, herausgegeben von Frédéric Varone, Steve Jacob und @pbundi.bsky.social. Das Handbuch ist ein echter #MustRead für Public Policy Scholars! U.a. mit C. Schlaufer, @evathomann.bsky.social, J. Tosun, E. Lieberherr.

One week left to register for our satellite of the Conference on Policy Process Research. Join us this May for inspiring presentations and lively debates on policy process theories in beautiful Zurich! 👉 policyprocessresearch.org/conference-s... (photo by Amit Lahav on Unsplash).

Gentle reminder: This Monday we have a great talk by one of the #NPF's founders: Elizabeth A. Shanahan Make sure not to miss this opportunity to hear about her latest exciting research! Also: Participation is completely free See quoted thread for more info.

Bye St. Gallen, it was great to be here at the annual SVPW conference! I received many helpful inputs for my project on narratives and fossil fuel phase-outs. And so inspiring to learn about fellow researchers’ latest projects! Grateful to belong to this community.

Speaking of public choice theory, this is why the cowards at Niskanen will never invite me over.

Out now in Administration & Society: My article on reputational support (RS). I introduce this new concept to bureaucratic reputation theory to show that actors in an organization’s environment may exhibit behavior that resembles reputation management. 1/4 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Coming soon: The @ecpr.bsky.social Standing Group on Public Policy’s next online seminar, with an outstanding expert on the Narrative Policy Framework and a member of the esteemed US National Academy of Public Administration: Professor Elizabeth Shanahan! Join us on February 19 ecpr.eu/Events/254

Today I had the pleasure of doing a digital presentation about my research in a lecture series by @sonjablum.bsky.social and and Sandra Pluemer at Uni Bielefeld. The topic of "Narratives and policy change in social policy" sparked a lively and inspiring discussion. Thanks for having me, Bielefeld!

👀 One week left to submit your abstracts to the ECPR GC! Do not miss this opportunity if you want to discuss your latest research with the public policy community, all the while enjoying the lovely city of Dublin (photo by Diogo Palhais on Unsplash) ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

I learnt a lot at last week’s workshop on #sustainability, #transitions, and #discourse organized by Rosa Lehmann & Alejandro Ecker (HCIAS and HCE, Heidelberg University). Many fascinating presentations by and fruitful exchanges with scholars from Latin America and Europe!

🚨 Just out 🚨 How does the European Union use its Preferential Trade Agreements for migration governance? In a new article, we explore the frequency and nature of migration control provisions in EU PTAs and what drives their inclusion. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @pzlotnik.bsky.social

Overwhelmed by all the recent AI news? Come & chat all things AI, power, politics & policy with @annajobin.bsky.social Roxana Radu, Juan David Gutiérrez & Stefan Larsson at @ecpr.bsky.social webinar this Thursday, 9 November 13:00 GMT/ 14:00 CET Register here ecpr.eu/Events/255 polisky sts

Dear @profmusgrave.bsky.social, it would be great if you added me to the polisky feed. Thanks in advance!

Coming up soon: The Standing Group on Public Policy's first online seminar event with our esteemed guest speaker Claudio Radaelli! Do not miss this highly topical presentation and discussion. @ecpr.bsky.social #ECPRSeminars

I'm very happy that Bettina Stauffer's and my article on the policy dimension in the Narrative Policy Framework #NPF made it to PSJ's new blog! If you want to know to get a brief overview of what the article is about (➡️ tl;dr 😉), click here: psjblog.net/2023/10/25/p...

📣 Call for Papers 📣 With Caroline Schlaufer, I'm organizing a panel on policy processes in authoritarian settings, for submission to the Conference on Policy Process Research (14-17 May '24, Syracuse University). Deadline 10 October. More information: tinyurl.com/muvs6mky policysky Dictatorsky