Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

Do local labour markets shape support for the radical right? @rubenruizrufino.bsky.social examines how labour-intensive industries foster exclusionary attitudes and boost far-right voting across Europe. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/s6YPYs6 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci #RadicalRight

Back to one of my regular moans about democracy measurement - present bias. According to VDEM the UK's 'level of liberal democracy' is now lower than any time since 1945 - a period of time in which business owners and graduates had multiple votes and during which the Troubles occurred. WRONG.

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Very happy to have this article published in @polstudies.bsky.social. Working on this project has been a long journey but rewarding and enriching. I am convinced about its contribution also. Not just another article confirming usual factors of why RRPs are successful. Let me know what you think!

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This is a great join degree with lots of potential good opportunities. I look forward to engaging with enrolled students.

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This looks like a very relevant piece of work!

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Comparto una breve reflexión sobre por qué paridad no es lo mismo que igualdad. Gracias a @agendapublica.es por la oportunidad de contribuir a este espacio de debate. agendapublica.es/noticia/2053...

Is there good contemporary historian work comparing dynamics between Western countries in the 1930s with the dynamics between same countries that we are currently observing? If so, please share. Thanks!

Artículo de un “think tanker” conservador estadounidense defendiendo a Franco, en el Wall Street Journal. El problema no son los jóvenes españoles. @marujatorres.bsky.social @mariaramirez.bsky.social @robiols.bsky.social

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Tremendous turnout for the launch of my wonderful @kcl-spe.bsky.social colleague @rubenruizrufino.bsky.social's timely new book. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Ha! I see your point now. And I agree that would be a good empirical question. Would be worth checking if some of the usual surveys in Spain are being fielded at the moment.

Perhaps. But perhaps not. I would agree if there was evidence of factions within conservative parties across EUP over climate change issues. But I,m not sure if that´s the case. The position of Spain´s PP seems motivated by a domestic agenda, i.e. negotiations with VOX to hold Valencia regional gov.

Fully agree with this observation. It is quite an interesting question to examine in detail what is driving this surge across this particular group. Some claims - housing, econ security…- are logical but thet existed already when I was young (2000) and support for radical-right was unthinkable.

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Ojalá debates tan relevantes como estos dominaran la agenda política. Fantástica como siempre @leire-salazar.bsky.social

Hoy escribo en @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social sobre por qué urge volver a atraer a las clases medias a los servicios públicos 👇👇 Si te gusta, difunde. www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...

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This is a really important thread for those considering doing a PhD in the UK. Happy to answer questions about this matter if @kcl-spe.bsky.social is under your radar. Thanks @chanret.bsky.social for your usual clarity on complicated issues!

This is an amazing resource. Congratulations

I love this type of work. I have great admiration for the "classics" of modern polisci as they did a lot with limited data. Articles like this one, however, are extremely useful to really consolidate the relevance, or irrelevance, of their findings! Straight to my Comparative Politics Syllabus.

Si se bajan los impuestos a los dividendos, ¿aumentará la inversión empresarial? Sobre esto escribo en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social, resumiendo un artículo de #Laurent_Bach, @antoine-bozio.bsky.social, @leroyclaire.bsky.social y coautores. Link al paper: parisschoolofeconomics.com/bozio-antoin...

What does it mean for democracy when governments have to accept externally imposed policies? A new book by @rubenruizrufino.bsky.social shows how democracy can come under strain when supranational institutions and national governments fail to work collaboratively. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Very grateful to @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social for their interest my book #DemocracyUnderStrain. The entry also considers contexts beyond the 2010 sovereign debt crisis. What if military assitance from NATO came with political conditionalities? More here blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Another busy open day @kcl-spe.bsky.social. As ever, huge thanks to all the Department of Political Economy staff, and especially the wonderful student ambassadors, who gave up their weekend to help.

On my reading list!

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This is great news for the discipline! Thank you to all committed colleagues who made it happen.

Looks awesome! In my reading list

Really looking forward to this!!

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Very proud of this new publication. My fantastic co-author, Lea Heyne, and I look at how the management of the COVID19 economic shock affected attitudes towards democracy in the same group of countries that had experienced the 2010 sovereign debt crisis. And we found good news! #DemocracyUnderStrain

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An amazing place to work. Incredible researchers and, more importantly, very friendly!

Estos diarios son una lectura obligatoria para cualquier persona interesada en entender el estado de la democracia hoy. Y explicado, nada menos, por el que posiblemente es el mejor experto en el tema. Y si quieres lo puedes seguir en Bluesky @adamprz.bsky.social

Shout out to Lea Heyne and Luca Manucci @populismblog.bsky.social whose work on populist radical right electorate in Portugal was mentioned on my fav politics podcast @therestpolitics.bsky.social this morning!

My colleague @mgerver.bsky.social has created this open letter to Keir Starmer opposing the measures announced in last week's Immigration White Paper, on economic, political and moral grounds. Open to all academics/researchers to sign. molliegerver.weebly.com/petition.html