A hat trick of @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social prizes last night! @elizabethjevans.bsky.social for the Mackenzie Book Prize, @dbonansinga.bsky.social for Specialist Group of the Year @psa-italian.bsky.social & @williamlallen.bsky.social for the Joni Lovenduski early-career achievement award. #psa26

"Israel’s Parliament passed a law on Monday that would allow the hanging of Palestinians convicted of deadly militant attacks, but experts say it almost certainly cannot be applied to Jewish extremists convicted of similar crimes." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS In collaboration with @psa-italian.bsky.social, the European Institute is hosting a workshop on 🇮🇹 'Italy under Giorgia Meloni: a ‘vanguard’ in the management of migration?' on 15 May 2026. ⏰️ 📩 Please submit a 250-word abstract by 15 March 2026: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

With a center-right like this, who needs a far-right. German edition www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Excited for the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in one week! Colleagues are presenting work on topics including populist visuals, Labour and AI, irregular migration, and party politics. They're also on roundtables about Brexit, the UK academic job market, and a book launch. Say hi! #psa26

Jürgen Habermas ist heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg verstorben.

What are our teams witnessing in #Lebanon How is Doctors Without Borders responding? Jeremy Ristord, Country Director, updates on the situation and our activities:

📢 Four postdoc positions in Political Theory at @normativeorders.bsky.social in Frankfurt, deadline 15 March: Political theory/philosophy | global health justice | future of democracy | global order in transition. 10 months from Oct 2026, €2,400/month tax-free. See the calls below for details

💼 We're #HIRING! We are seeking an Assistant Professor in International Migration specialised in forced #migration and #policy responses to the #international #displacement of people and/or #immigration, #race and #citizenship (from a #comparative perspective). 🌍️ 👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Two books by our colleagues are shortlisted for this year's @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Mackenzie Book Prize! @elizabethjevans.bsky.social for 'Disability and Political Representation', and @drjennings.bsky.social for 'The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales'. www.psa.ac.uk/news/mackenz...

📣 Call for Papers: 🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

I’m thrilled to see this JEPP Special Issue on the 2024 🇪🇺European Parliament elections in print Great articles on far-right voting, realignment, attitudes to EU climate action etc. Thanks to everyone who contributed and those who made EES 2024 @eesresearch.bsky.social possible! Read more here 👇

A positive end to the first week back is that the book is now fully available. It's not on their website yet, but it is on mine. I'm really happy with how it turned out and grateful to all the authors. Hope it's useful. 🙌 djdevineorg.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Krass: Die US-Regierung hat Sanktionen gegen Anna-Lena von Hodenberg und Josephine Ballon von @hateaid.org erlassen, dazu trifft es auch den früheren EU-Kommissar Thierry Breton, weil "These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states". Einreiseverbot

But it was Trump's plan! Who could possibly have foreseen this happening?

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...

In line with the 'credibility revolution', we are thinking about research designs that allow us to get closer to causal effects. Those who use surveys have often turned to survey experiments. At the same time, survey response rates have dropped considerably. Below are the figures for the ESS.

The 2025 National Security Strategy document makes it official: the Trump administration believes that European liberal democracy is a threat to U.S. national interest.

🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨 Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🌍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....

🗣️ JOB! Professor of Political Theory and the History of Political Thought at Friedrich Schiller University Jena 📅 Deadline - 11 December 2025 berufungsportal.uni-jena.de?showProcedur...

Forthcoming May 1st 2026 (with @lwestheuser.bsky.social and @thomaslux.bsky.social)

Not a drill - there's a Britain-focused lectureship (FT, permanent) available. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ588/l...

In this new paper, we use open-ended survey questions to study how people perceive (changes in) social hierarchies.  We show how and among whom status gains of women, ethnic minorities, or LGBTQ+ people are saliently perceived–namely among progressives, not just conservatives!

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

Deadline tomorrow! If you have a paper on European and EU politics, @chriswratil.bsky.social and I would love to consider it for our section. Hope to see you in Belfast!

We are hiring an Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science. The post will be part of our new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM) and is a joint hire with the Oxford Internet Institute. All details in the job ad below. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 A full-time postdoctoral position (100%) is available at my chair starting February 1, 2026. We are looking for a candidate with knowledge of quantitative methods and expertise in relevant subject areas.

📣 Applications to our MSc and PhD programmes are now open for 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆! Join us in 3 weeks for our 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 to discover postgraduate study in the European Institute. 👉 Register: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

Die Frageformulierung ist so natürlich schon komplett bodenlos. Aber es dann so verkürzt darzustellen ist schlicht Irreführung. Vollkommen inakzeptabel.

🚨 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/...

Passionate about teaching politics in internationally-oriented political science programs? werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Great opportunity for public policy academics! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social! Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan: 🧵⬇️

Great opportunity if you’re interested in pursuing a PhD in political science at @lsegovernment.bsky.social - with a particular interest in elections and campaigning ⬇️

Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

We are now accepting applications for a new editorial team for #JEPOP, the official EPOP journal (www.tandfonline.com/journals/fbe...). ❗Closing date for applications: 21 Nov at 17:00 GMT❗ For further information/to get in touch with any informal enquiries, please see details in the call below.

Happy to see this out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! ➜ doi.org/10.1080/1350... The paper asks why the European Commission @ec.europa.eu increasingly sponsors participatory innovations – such as the European Citizens' Panels – although their strategic and functional value remains elusive 🧵 1/6

The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Future is Europe? #PoWi |s aller (drei) Länder kommt und diskutiert mit uns am 17.-19.9.26 in #Friedrichshafen! #CfP 14.11. 👉 www.dvpw.de/dreilaendert... #Dreiländertagung #3LT2026 #Politikwissenschaft #DACH #Europa #Zukunft #SpreadTheWord @oegpw.bsky.social #SVPW #ASSP

I am proud to be part of this project - led by the brilliant @turnbulldugarte.com - which has an important take-away for mainstream left parties We show that when Labour adopts exclusionary rhetoric on immigration, it can backfire: core supporters feel alienated and Reform UK gains legitimacy

After many successful years in the US, the musical “Only the left and liberals have agency” gets performed in Germany …

For the first time, catastrophic levels of hunger have been confirmed in the strip

Wow -- a lesser spotted Job out in the wild. Not one, but three. Jobs are like buses, etc... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK772/l...

Over a year ago, the editorial board of the Journal of Political Philosophy (Wiley) resigned in protest. They launched Political Philosophy, a non-profit, #diamondOA journal now published by OLH. The Wiley journal is now ending. Another reason to ask your institution to support OLH

‘Insofar as climate policy remains a contentious partisan issue, then, climate assemblies are likely to have a difficult time building consensus among the broader population‘ – timely paper on the predictable politicisation of democratic innovations

Terrifying quote from the FT on that: "A student ... recently told me of a fellow student who sat in front of her during lectures. When the professor asked a question, he would type it surreptitiously into ChatGPT, then read out the answer as though it was his own." www.ft.com/content/2d64...

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS *PSA26 Annual Conference* We invite paper proposals for our next International Annual Conference in Oxford, 30 March - 1 April, 2026. ➡️ key dates and deadlines online.