Practical Social Democracy by Magnus Feldmann, Jonas Hinnfors and Mark Wickham-Jones. A new understanding of social democracy, emphasising its practical orientation and the varied choices that social democratic actors make. 📚 https://cup.org/3PZl7oH

Prof. Ian Greener and my paper 'Education and Training, Institutionalism and the Social Determinants of Health: Using QCA to Explore Better and Worse Health in Dundee, Aberdeen and Glasgow' is out in open access in Social Policy & Administration. doi.org/10.1111/spol...

Spannende Tagung, hat mich gefreut dabei zu sein!

Our dear friend Anne died on Christmas of ovarian cancer, leaving her wife Valerie and their son Bobby. This family matters so much to me. They got to know us after Bobby was diagnosed with Down syndrome before he was born, and our families remain close. Help if you can. Just a repost helps.

🚨 Vacancies at Maastricht in research programme "Europe: Society, Politics and Global Order" (do share!) - Assistant Prof Political Philosophy in Euro Democracy - Assistant Prof Euro Political History - PostDoc Disinformation and Euro Democracy vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/search/?crea...

Europe’s housing crisis is worsening while progressives stay silent. DPIR's @tabouchadi.bsky.social argues in @theguardian.com that we need bold policies that make homes affordable, fair and a social right again:

Excellent RT on Europe during Trump 2.0 at @ces-europe.bsky.social at #Temple U. Thought-provoking presentations by @katemcnamara.bsky.social‬ @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social @dermothodson.bsky.social & Matthias Matthijs. Great start to the conference!

Fantastic panel on the state of the art in welfare state research at @ces-europe.bsky.social in Philly at #Temple Univ. Great audience & magnificent presentations by some of the leading researchers of welfare state politics Kimberly Morgan #GWU Sara Watson #OSU & ‪@jlynch13.bsky.social‬ at Penn

Scenes from the Council for European Studies conference in Philly, at #Temple University. Fantastic presentations and lots of fun making new contacts and hanging out with old friends. @ofioretos.bsky.social @ces-europe.bsky.social @dalriada77.bsky.social ‪@maxinedavid.bsky.social‬

What do Europeans think about their public-private pension income mix? In our (@karendublin.bsky.social and Juan J Fernandez) new study in the Journal of European Social Policy, we analyse pension attitudes across 6 countries based on a novel survey: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

In the absence of adequate staff, the lion's share of the administrative burden of helping the elderly navigate SSA will fall on adult daughters, DILs, and female friends. The war on the elderly, the war on lower income Americans, and the war on women are the same war. @jessicacalarco.bsky.social

A new report by ESPAN on flexible retirement pathways in Europe has just been released. Read it here: - Synthesis report bit.ly/flexible-ret... - 28 country reports bit.ly/flexible-ret... - Article & map bit.ly/flexible-ret...

Two great job opportunities in polisci/CPE at @ipz.bsky.social Less than 2 weeks left to apply!

Another job opening in my school - this one in partnership with the Geary Institute of Public Policy: Ad Astra Fellow (Assistant Professor) in Public Policy and Administration. Info here: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport... I joined UCD as an Ad Astra Fellow, so happy to answer any questions if I can!

My school @ucdpolitics.bsky.social has 2 positions (deadline Feb 21) one in Global Governance, one in Environmental Politics. They're called "Ad Astra Fellows" but between you & me they're basically tenure-track posts. It's a good deal. You get a PhD line & annual €5000 research budget for 5 years.

Fill your feed with photos honoring this courageous American.

Absolutely delighted to announce that @inigoaldama.bsky.social passed his PhD viva today w/ minor corrections! Many thanks to extern @karlobasta.bsky.social, intern @karendublin.bsky.social & chair @nessawinston-ucd.bsky.social for a great viva! @ucdspswsj.bsky.social Congrats again Dr. Aldama!

The final deadline for the CES conference is TODAY! Make sure to submit your paper for the 31st International Conference of Europeanists: ces-temple.secure-platform.com/a