Very happy to have @Lucasleemann.bsky.social today giving an IPERG Seminar at the University of Barcelona @ub.edu Seminar at usual time 2.30pm Note the change in the Seminar Room, is not the usual one. @ubeconomics.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social @econhistub.bsky.social

📢 Registration Reminder for EPSS Belfast 2026 If you haven't registered already, please note that the registration deadline for the EPSS Belfast Conference is Friday, 13 March 👇🏼 Register here: app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/eve...

FT: “.. Wherever you look in financial markets, you see signs that global investors are going out of their way to avoid Donald Trump’s America.” @financialtimes.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/cfdc...

📢 Seminari IPERC-UB | 26 Feb 2026, 14:30 @ubeconomics.bsky.social 🎤 Lucas Leeman @lucasleemann.bsky.social (Zurich) presents 📄 Parties and the People: Why Do Parties Support Direct Democracy? 📍Facultat d’Economia i Empresa, UB, room 1020 tuit.cat/fS6Li

🏛️ IV Catalonia Workshop in Political Theory 📢 Call for Abstracts 📍 University of Girona (UdG) @univgirona.bsky.social 🗓 11 June 2026 📚 Identity, self determination, justice, crisis, solidarity, equality, freedom, protest, conflict, war... ⏳ Deadline to submit an abstract: 31 March 2026

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Yesterday Walter Sheidel gave us an interesting talk about his research on slavery as part of the launch of the doctoral programme in economic history at the University of Barcelona.

☀️☀️ Exciting news in Madrid! We are VERY happy to officially announce the creation of the Instituto Juan Linz (aka “IJL”). ijlinz.es The IJL ("Juan Linz Institute" in English) is dedicated to cutting-edge research and teaching in political science, sociology, economic history and more. thread 1/12

Molt content amb la concessió de la Consolidación Investigadora 2025. 🎉 Really happy with this grant. Stay tuned — calls on HPE will be out soon! 😊

Very happy to welcome today Fran Villamil @uc3m.es at IPERG. Seminar at the usual time, 2.30pm. Seminar Room 1038.

📢 IPERC Seminar | Jan 29, 2:30 PM @ubeconomics.bsky.social 🎤 Francisco Villamil (UC3M) @franvillamil.bsky.social presents 📄 The consequences of grassroots human rights: Mass grave exhumations in Spain 📍 Sala de Seminaris 1038, Facultat d’Economia i Empresa, UB www.ub.edu/iperg/events...

Are you about to complete a MA/MSc in social sciences? Do you have a very good idea to write a PhD? If so, please consider applying for one of the 5 doctoral studentships that @kcl-spe.bsky.social and @kingsqpe.bsky.social are currently advertising. All details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Today's #seminar: 'The Seniority Ceiling: Why Some Immigrants Struggle to Rise in Political Office' 🗣️Olle Folke (Uppsala University) ⏰14:30 CET 📍Room 1038, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/oukkcznctn 🗃️ IPERG seminar #EconSky #Economics

📢 Last week to submit proposals to the 2026 Yale-UB HPE workshop. Programs from past editions can be found at www.didacqueralt.com/yale-ub-hpew

Just one week to go! The deadline is next Wednesday, January 21. Send us your proposals.

📢 📢 Call for Papers IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social 🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford) 📍 University of Barcelona 🗓 June 29–30, 2026 Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026: shorturl.at/oZTNy #pleaseRT

The Economic History Review has published a virtual issue collecting the contributions of 2025 Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr in the journal. I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay. You can read it here, together with Joel's articles and reviews. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

#psjminfo: 2 x 3-year PostDoc positions, deadline Jan 4. We'll study the effects of border change, in ways that overlap with many subfields in CompPol and IR: e.g., HPE, PE of development, state formation, pol. geography, identity, ethnic politics. Also lots of (new) methods (ML, GIS, CausalInf...)!

🚨Jobs!🚨 3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you! Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt - a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage - 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

Jane Austen per Virginia Woolf. En traducció de Carme Camacho a @laelageminada.bsky.social.

Noon panels! 🔔 After the coffee break 🥐☕ and the BaNPS presentation 🚀 👉🏻 Join us in room 24.S01 for a panel on Democracies & Rights, in room 24.019 for a panel on Territory & Europe and in room 24.021 for one on Political identities!

L'aula plena per la presentació de la Barcelona Network of Political Science (BaNPS) per part de Jordi Muñoz @jordimunoz.bsky.social i Marc Guinjoan @mguinjoan.bsky.social 👉🏻 www.banps.cat

Good morning and welcome to the JCPOP 2025! 🌞 We kick off in 15 minutes 🎉 Check out the programme 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/jcpop Looking forward to seeing you at the different panels, the keynote @evaanduiza.bsky.social and the presentation of BaNPS! 👀 With @politiquesupf.bsky.social @ibei.org

📅 El 10 de desembre a les 18:30, a la Sala Assumpció Català de l'Edifici Històric de la @ub.edu, tindrà lloc la sessió: "Institucions i ciutadania: una relació en revisió". 📌Inscripció prèvia obligatòria, amb aforament limitat): https://web.ub.edu/ca/web/laubdivulga/institucions-i-ciutadania🧵🔚

Admissions are now open for the MSc in Institutions and Political Economy at the UB @ub.edu! Check it out if you are interested in the intersection of political science, applied economics and economic history. It's a two-year research-oriented and highly internationalized master.

Cada cop més joves mostren desafecció envers les institucions: és desencís polític o un fenomen que afecta també l’educació i la sanitat? ☕ Als #CafèsCientíficsUB debatrem com es pot reconstruir la confiança. ➡️ 10/12/2025 - 18:30 h / Sala Assumpció Català de l'Edifici Històric de la @ub.edu

Això serà demà dimecres 10 de desembre a les 18.30h. Parlarem d'institucions, ciutadans i confiança en les institucions. Veniu!

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

🔊 Applications for the Fall 2026 intake of the MSc in Institutions and Political Economy are now open! The MSc in Institutions and Political Economy is a 2-year program with a strong emphasis on research and a multidisciplinary approach towards the Social Sciences.

DEADLINE APPROACHING The first position with the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods at the University of Oxford has a deadline this Friday at noon UK time. Come be the first member of the team who are going to revolutionise methods training at Oxford! www.politics.ox.ac.uk/opportunity/...

Very happy to host Francisco Garfias (Duke University) today at IPERG. Seminar at the usual time: 2.30pm. Seminar Room 1038. @ubeconomics.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social @econhistub.bsky.social @ub.edu

📢 📢 Call for Papers IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social 🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford) 📍 University of Barcelona 🗓 June 29–30, 2026 Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026: shorturl.at/oZTNy #pleaseRT

I am hiring a 2-year post-doc, starting Sep 1 2026 econjobmarket.org/positions/12... If you are interested in culture, gender and masculinity, please apply and join me in Sydney!

Paisatge de Sant Martí de Provençals, per Isidre Nonell

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵

How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations? In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer. tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp

⚠️ Due to heavy rain warnings, @upf.edu has suspended all academic activity until 1:00 pm tomorrow. 👉 Morning #JCPOP sessions are cancelled until 1 pm. More information about afternoon activities, if they are possible, will be shared tomorrow morning. Thank you for your understanding!

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👋Welcome to the Barcelona Network of Political Science. ▶️We are here to promote research, strengthen ties between institutions, and support young researchers and students in developing their research careers.

The official call is now out! seleccio.uab.cat/seleccio/con...

Joel Mokyr’s genius lies in making us think about the world in an original and insightful way. His recognition is so well deserved. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n

🚨 New LSE job in political science 🚨 We're looking for a *Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy* to join the LSE School of Public Policy Please share! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Here I am again to witness my academic funeral.As I did some years ago with my job at Oxford, here I come to advertise my EUI chair. It has been a great job and I am happy to answer Q's. Also, fyi, I am not (yet) leaving the EUI. I do need, however a new name for my chair:suggestions very welcome.

«L'extrema dreta global no té la batalla guanyada, ni tan sols als Estats Units» | Nació naciodigital.cat/internaciona...

We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

Quan una eminència de la ciència política americana moderadíssima diu “El retrocés democràtic està molt lligat al trencament de la identificació entre l’esquerra i la classe treballadora” alguna cosa està canviant Entrevisto Susan Stokes a @nuvolpuntcom.bsky.social www.nuvol.com/llibres/assa...

Today we are very happy to have @dominic-rohner.bsky.social (Geneva) giving an IPERG Seminar. Usual time: 2.30pm. Room 1038 Everyone is welcomed! @ubeconomics.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social @econhistub.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social @ub.edu

Entrevista d'en @joanburdeus.bsky.social a la Susan Stokes, que la setmana passada ens va visitar a la UB per donar el tret de sortida a l'IPERC. www.nuvol.com/llibres/assa...