Join our panel on 6/10! Universities Under Pressure: Academic Freedom in an Age of Authoritarianism and Human Rights Frameworks Discussants: @cqschneider.bsky.social, Kirsten R. Leyer @cengizgunay.bsky.social In cooperation with @weareceu.bsky.social Register 👇 www.oiip.ac.at/events/unive...

Today, I begin my journey as Interim President and Rector of @Central European University, a role that inspires both gratitude and responsibility.

As we said in 2017: if academic freedom is under attack in Hungary and we don’t fight back, it will be under attack sooner than later in other countries, too. #CEU #Harvard www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

Interested in how illiberal public rhetoric of right-wing leaders related to socio-economic inequality? Read our latest article to find out more.

Meine 5 Cents zur Frage, was Unis tun sollten in der momentanen Lage www.diepresse.com/19665391/die...

Some (not only) personal news

Quite amazing for the American VP to be giving lessons on liberty to Europeans while his boss bans the Associated Press from news briefings because it calls the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name.

我很高兴地宣布：My book, co-authored with Claudius Wagemann, “Set-Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences” (2012) is now available in Chinese. I learn that the middle initial Q. translates as Q. in Chinese.

Special thanks to @ingorohlfing.bsky.social, with whom I kicked off the SMMR project; and @nenaoana.bsky.social, who crucially helped with refining the conceptual ideas and with implementing them into the smmr() function in R. www.cambridge.org/9781009307192. 20% discount with code STMMR23.

Are you interested in enhancing your descriptive and causal inference by combining QCA with case studies? Happy to see my book out now. Descriptive and causal inference is enhanced by returning to cases after QCA. SMMR spells out the principles and practices of selecting the best cases in the data.