Beginning soon - 🤝☕EPSS First Gen Social Gathering: Bring your own coffee, and meet other First Gen academics 10:50-12:30 | Bar 2 (ICC), with Ana Carolina Garriga and @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

Out now and open access: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Right on time to present some follow up work at @ councilforeuropeanstudies.org/2026-confere... and @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

Join us for the @epssnet.bsky.social First Gen Meeting on Saturday 20 June. Here is the poster that @carogarriga.bsky.social and I will talk about (no worries, we'll be quick!), based on a roundtable on First Gens in political science a couple of years ago.

Are you a first generation political scientist? Then join the EPSS First Gen Social Gathering 📆10:50-12:30 Saturday, 20 June, 2026, Bar 2 (ICC) 👥Organizers: @carogarriga.bsky.social and @sattlersthomas.bsky.social Please drop by, bring your own coffee ☕️ and meet other First Gen PhDs 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓🧑‍🎓.

The deadline is approaching fast (next Tuesday). If you are an EPSS member and can mentor, or would like to get advice (or both), we look forward to your applications!

EPSS Diversity Committee is happy to announce the launch of our mentoring program: a new initiative designed to develop a new network within the EPSS community. March 31 is deadline, and program runs from May 1, 2026, to April 30, 2027. More info: epssnet.org/about/divers...

Paper w/ @carogarriga.bsky.social: Academia’s Class Problem. PoliSci is dominated by the upper middle class / people with parents who went to university – unlike society as a whole. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

▶️ Political Economy 👉🏽 Section chairs: Jane Gingrich & Thomas Sattler 📢 Our section welcomes submissions examining how economic & political processes, policies and outcomes influence each other. We welcome studies from both comparative (CPE) or international (IPE) political economy >>> 4/

🌍 Diversity matters
The EPSS Diversity Committee has convened and is planning activities for EPSS and Belfast. More updates soon. 6/

🙌 Section Chairs
We’ve assembled an impressive team of Section Chairs for #EPSS2026.
 We’ll be highlighting two sections per week across our channels, stay tuned! 5/

📄 Call for Papers: #EPSS2026 Belfast
The call is out! Submit your proposals here:
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Proposals are already coming in, please help us spread the word! 4/

‼️ New paper out in EJPR! With @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, we use a new survey item that we fielded in surveys in five countries to examine who accepts party policy change. Check out the 🧵 by Maurits below for an overview of our findings!

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to - not publish - have outstanding publication records - introduce more novel scientific concepts - less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards. www.nber.org/papers/w33289

🆕 Are citizens in declining powers less supportive of bilateral economic cooperation than those in rising powers? ↕️ Quynh Nguyen, @sattlersthomas.bsky.social and I explore this with survey-embedded experiments in 🇨🇳 and the 🇺🇸! More👉 bit.ly/4iIm6DG #China #USA

Full paper available here: thomassattler.org/Publications/

The fear of a power transition between explains the trade war between U.S / China. doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Austerity, economic vulnerability, and populism by Leonardo Baccini and Thomas Sattler is now available in Early View. @sattlersthomas.bsky.social ajps.org/2024/05/17/a...

Do exchange rates affect elections? Yes!   See new paper in International Organization, with Dennis Quinn and Stephen Weymouth: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I wish I had written this paper.

Here it is one more time, then I'll stop, I promise :). @evehubscher.bsky.social, @markuswagner.bsky.social

Our paper on the effect of fiscal austerity on political polarization is now officially published in the current issue of @bjpols.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... With @evehubscher.bsky.social and @markuswagner.bsky.social

My first post over here: our new paper in @cpsjournal.bsky.social shows that IMF interventions can increase public support for adjustment policies.

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