👏 We've been thrilled to welcome 2️⃣ new Assistant Professors this month! @dianebolet.bsky.social, working on the green backlash and the rise of the far right. Jonne Kamphorst, jointly affiliated with @cdsp-sciencespo.bsky.social, bringing expertise on democratic engagement & LLMs in social science.

Wenn deutsche Unis so weiterschlafen, haben wir AGI bevor auch nur eine Prüfungsordnung im KI-Zeitalter angekommen ist. @elvirarosert.bsky.social, Eva Herschinger und ich mit einem konstruktiven Vorschlag, wie man das Problem löst statt es nur zu bewundern. Danke an @taz.de - keine Paywall.

🚨 new publication alert The European Union increasingly faces external pressures. Whilst external pressures always mattered for European integration and EU studies, this article holds that they are more consequential today than in the past.

This text by @sophiabesch.bsky.social is well worth your time. Very good analysis, superbly written. carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

@andreaseisl.bsky.social & @dzurstrassen.bsky.social on the EU's Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs) Part of the Special Issue: European Integration in the Geopolitical Age by @lucasschramm91.bsky.social @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It is almost 10 years since Hanspeter Kriesi published his seminal article on the politicization of European Integration @jcms-eu.bsky.social. A short thread on how things stand as of 2024, with @chesdata.bsky.social, looking at salience, clarity, and unity of party positions towards the EU 🧵:

🌍The latest cleavage: the universalist divide @mrsteenbergen.bsky.social , @dpzollinger.bsky.social , @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @simonbornschier.bsky.social, and @lhaffert.bsky.social provide evidence from the 2024 European Election Study 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

10 days left to apply for our section on judicial politics, legal mobilisation and empirical legal studies at ECPR SGEU in Catania, Sicily on July 1-3, 2026. @tommasopavone.bsky.social and I look forward to your paper/panel submission!

New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝 We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

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...

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

🚨 New(ish) Publication Alert! Delighted to see my article Credit Claiming in the EU @thejop.bsky.social I explore a classic question for accountability in Europe: when and why do govs claim credit for the work of the EU and shift blame onto Brussels to avoid responsibility? doi.org/10.1086/732970

Just out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social online first..Hurry up free copies expiring in 50..49..48..47 ..😁 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/25KK9... Special thanks to @lucasschramm91.bsky.social and @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social guest editors of the Special Issue: European Integration in the Geopolitical Age

The Hertie School mourns the passing of Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology, an extraordinary scholar, teacher and colleague. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.

Last Friday (Sept. 19), @andduer.bsky.social, @mcortinaescudero.bsky.social, @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social and I had the great pleasure of hosting an excellent workshop at @unisalzburg.bsky.social on how to use Large Language Models #LLMs to boost International Relations research. A short 🧵1/4

You have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU? Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇 @bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.

📘64.4 Varieties of pro-Europeanism? 🇪🇺🤷‍♀️ @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social & M. Weinrich look at what impact party support for the #RedistributivePolity & #RegulatoryPolity across four European Parliament elections between 2009-2024 and finds cultural and economic influences Read more:

The EU is a market with 450 million people. There is vast public support for regulation of big tech and for companies to meet their responsibilities. Giving in after a decade of efforts in this space is undesirable and unnecessary. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...

Buket Buse Demirci, @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social, and Frank Schimmelfennig examine how the EU reacts to geopolitical pressures 👇 🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Last month, I had the honor of giving the @jcms-eu.bsky.social Annual Lecture at @ces-europe.bsky.social in Philadelphia. I spoke about the geopolitical uncertainty 🇪🇺 faces from 🇺🇸, 🇷🇺, & 🇨🇳, & how this poses 3 crises 🇪🇺 must respond to with more leadership & deeper integration. Summary/video/slides:

Together with my brilliant colleagues Stacie E Goddard, Ronald R Krebs, and Berthold Rittberger, we published a piece in #ForeignAffairsMagazine: "Liberalism Doomed the Liberal International Order"! www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

📫 Latest special issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape, edited by ‪@sophiahunger.bsky.social and Swen Hutter. In their introductory article, they sketch Europe's ‘new contentious politics’ landscape and preview the issue's articles 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I am so honored, happy, and still a bit in disbelief that my book "The Normalization of the Radical Right" has won APSA's Dahl Award and the best book prize for the Democracy and Autocracy Section. I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.

Very happy to see our work published on @wepsocial.bsky.social! Together with @uwepuetter.bsky.social, we propose the concept of the EU core executive to explain how the Union responds to major cross-sectoral policy challenges like the Green Deal. doi.org/10.1080/0140... Here is what we find ⬇️

It seems that the Commission will indeed propose one big fund to cover all existing structural funds and the CAP and to organise the payout from this fund via a single national plan That would mean a huge departure from how the EU budget and the MFF negotiations have worked so far. Here is why:

Took months of work, but @aagilli.bsky.social and I are proud to bring you a paper that deals with the true elephant in the room: Should the EU equip itself with a nuclear deterrent, and if so, how? www.bruegel.org/working-pape...

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

Thrilled to share my new publication @epsrjournal.bsky.social! When we think of lobbying, we often picture big businesses or NGOs. But regional governments lobby, too! But what makes govts-as-lobbyists successful? I study intergovt lobbying success based on a multi-year data collection effort

#jobs 🚨🚨🚨 4 postdocs in Münster: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/5... I‘m involved in one appointment. More details will follow soon!

📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5

Very much looking forward to this stellar event!

Wie reagiert die EU auf Trumps #Zölle? Sehr gute Zusammenfassung des gestrigen Gipfels von @fbermingham.bsky.social, ein paar Gedanken im 🧵:

🚨 Want to join me at the Technical University of Munich? I’m hiring a PhD student (100%) in the area of the political economy of technological change! 📅 Apply by 18 May | Start Date: July (flexible) 🔗 More info & how to apply: hfp.heyrecruit.de?page=job&id=... ❓Reach out if you have any questions

⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due: 2 May 2025 Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods

I have been fortunate enough to spend the last two days at @delorsberlin.bsky.social discussing EU competences and national control as a part of the “Reconfiguring Europe” program. Excited to see what colleagues like @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social and @anabobic.bsky.social are working on.

I don't know about you, but I am getting impatient waiting for the capitalists to save us. What happened to the whole "state as the managing committee of the bourgeoisie" thing? A political economy 🧵 1/

New article! Legitimizing climate action: citizens, experts, and the limits of representative democracy, by Lukas Paul Fesenfeld, @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social Lennart Kuntze, and @kariningold.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

🚨 As President Trump prepares to announce new tariffs today, @tobiasgehrke.bsky.social 's recent publication, "Brussels hold’em: European cards against Trumpian coercion," offers timely insights into how Europe can respond to such economic pressures.

Support for EU membership is rising in Norway and Iceland, because “non-integrated, neutral states do not function as buffer zones between spheres of influence. To aggressive great powers with imperial mindsets, they appear as easy prey, inviting predatory behaviour.” euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

Every once in a while, we write articles we truly care about. This is one of them, and I am so happy and proud to see it published at ISQ:

Coalitions of the willing are back in vogue, with Macron hosting another summit tomorrow in Paris. Here’s a chart I made on forms of differentiated integration and political cooperation in Europe:

Some of my reflections @theguardian.com today on what the US embrace of Russia means for the EU & how Germany can play a leading role. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What does Trump's capitulation to Putin on Ukraine & his hostility to the EU mean for Europe's potential to develop as a security power? My 2021 article w/@rdanielkelemen.bsky.social on war, state building & the EU provides some potential answers.1/ bit.ly/3pq7gYr

▶️ @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social examines the EU’s evolution into a ‘reinsurance polity’ 👇 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2024.2314742