Reminder that at @strathpolir.bsky.social we offer a one year MSc in Political Economy; core courses: CPE, IPE, Quant1 & Quant2. Want to build your skills to research how politics shapes the economy and how economic events shape politics & live in Glasgow? Join Us! www.strath.ac.uk/courses/post...

🧵 THREAD: Can a short online intervention help defend democracy against partisan polarization? In our new study - just published in the @bjpols.bsky.social - my colleagues and I tested this question across 33 countries 🌍 with over 41,000 participants 🧑‍🤝‍🧑. Here’s what we found 👇

Fantastic opportunity to do a fully funded PhD @uofgsocsci.bsky.social on an important topic working with the excellent @sergipardos.bsky.social. Apply by Apr 21! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Trade wars are accelerating the decline of international economic governance. But instead of collapsing, global trade institutions are lurching forward in a zombie-like state. What happens next? Julia Gray describes our coming era of half-dead internationalism

The most striking result from yesterday’s German election #btw2025 🇩🇪: 🔹 35 years after reunification: The GDR is redrawn on this map. 🔹 The AfD won 45 out of 48 electoral districts in the East. 🔹 In some parts of Saxony, they came close to 50%! Why is this happening? Here’s my take 👇

Eastern Germany (former GDR) has 48 electoral districts. Far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won 45 out of these 48 electoral districts in the 2025 German Election ( #btw25). As eminent sociologist @steffenmau.bsky.social aptly puts it: „ungleich vereint“ (an unequally united country)

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to work with me in a project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Happy to answer any questions, and thanks in advance for circulating the call!

New afrobarometer report by Bob Mattes @strathpolir.bsky.social and it is not good news for the continent www.afrobarometer.org?p=29448

Good article but the title is wrong. We are not observing a “disconnect”. This is a targeted, aware and aggressive assault on the climate as we know it.

The D.E.I. Retreat Has Some Notable Holdouts www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/b...

The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology. 📢Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/SULoAf

‼️ Hiring ‼️ Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich 📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years) 📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years) Application deadline in early March. Job ads & details: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions

Calls for Rachel Reeves to quit as chancellor are overblown and unfair. A shout out to @barmstrong.bsky.social @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social @dainachiba.bsky.social @dzobrien.bsky.social for their article on the appointments of women finance ministers globally theconversation.com/calls-for-ra...

Very interesting article using a unique survey on legislators' education, profession and political careers across 17 African countries by Bob Mattes @strathpolir.bsky.social and co-authors www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There are several opportunities to take a (funded) PhD @sotonpolitics.bsky.social, for specific projects AND your own 🧵

My unit (Department of Public Policy at CEU, Vienna) is hiring!We’re looking for candidates with excellent skills in quantitative methods (specifically text mining, natural language processing, machine learning). Link to full call: careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A... Happy to answer questions!

This matters for many reasons, not least because there is a bunch of evidence that the social class (of which education is a proxy) of politicians and the cabinet matters for actual outcomes 🧵

We have a forthcoming BJPS paper and a new dataset on the gender, education, and occupational backgrounds of lawmakers in the world's democracies! Paper: www.noamlupu.com/GLDpaper.pdf Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm... Here's one application . . . (1/2)

working-class voters are more likely to prefer a candidate with a working-class occupation, not due to policy positions or class rhetoric but because they perceive them as more understanding of their problems. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#polisky #gendersky #HPE Any one-liners of advice from your PHD advisors that you always pass on to students? My favorite from Frances Rosenbluth was to “tape your argument onto your computer and remember not to stray”

The Department of Political Economy at King's College London is hiring in political behavior www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/083946-... @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social behavoursky polisky commsky

I think influencers call this *unboxing* ✨✨✨

The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate the reviewer’s proficiency in identifying flaws; negative critiques are not obligated. Reviewers should identify strengths and provide constructive comments to help authors resolve weaknesses in the work. (4/n)

🚨🚨Two tenure-track positions in the European Institute @LSE: 1. European Politics and Policy jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... 2. Political Economy jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... It's a really great place to work. Consider applying! I won't be in the search committee but happy to chat. 1/2 polisky

“Why is everyone so upset about the economy?”

The US has hundreds of problems, but the IRA is truly a mighty policy. There are hundreds of reasons to hope Biden wins the election; the survival of the IRA is a top 5. If you (still) don’t know what it entails economically or politically, watch this video by the FT: www.ft.com/video/9f0028...

We proudly introduce manifestoberta, a multilingual xlm-roberta-large model fine-tuned on ~1,6 m. annotated statements of the Manifesto Corpus (2023a). Find it here: manifesto-project.wzb.eu/information/... and also on huggingface.co/manifesto-pr.... A thread 🧵:

Tune in to BBC Radio 4 tomorrow (Wed 5th) at 9am GMT - to hear @benansell.bsky.social's second #ReithLecture: 'The Future of Security'. Find out more about the series 👇 www.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/dpirs-p...

Sarah King, PhD Researcher and member of text-and-policy.com, will be teaching a free online workshop on webscraping using R. The event is open to all scholars regardless of university affiliation. Register here: forms.gle/Q3pixYrbrEY6... More info: www.ucd.ie/connected_po...

So Control. Much Taking. Very Back 🇬🇧

My friend and former colleague Kevin Morrison passed away about five years ago. At his memorial service, his family shared some of his thoughts about what he hoped his legacy would be. I taped it on my office wall. I think about it every day, and especially these days

A reminder that the deadline for a four-year, research only postdoc with me @StrathPolIR on politicians and the reproduction of wealth, funded by VW Stiftung is DUE THIS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17! polisky

I’ll be teaching a short workshop on reproducible research and version control using Git & GitHub! Wednesday, 15 November, 14:00–15:30 (Irish time) You can attend in-person or remotely via Zoom! Sign up here: t.co/Oovi7sEATb More details: www.ucd.ie/connected_po... polisky

PostDoc in behavioral political science? I am looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (full-time, Salary Scale 13 TV-L, for an initial period of 3 years) at the SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy in Bremen. Please don‘t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions!

The Call for Papers for my favourite political science conference #EPSA2024 is now open! EPSA, July 4-6 2024, Cologne epsanet.org/epsa2024-gen...

A MAN'S WORLD? A fascinating polisky analysis of more than 4,000 policies in 43 countries revealing clear and robust evidence that women’s policy preferences are underrepresented compared to those of men. Gender inequality extends to policy representation www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

2 days left to apply for our Job in Political Economy (assistant or associate level, CPE/ IPE/ Formal).

Do you work with large data & are interested in political elites & revolving door politics? Work with me @ Strathclyde, Glasgow, in a 4 year-research-only postdoc, fully funded by WV Foundation. Polisky Post-Doctoral Researcher (570123) strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Redirect.asp...

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

8 days until applications are due polisky PSJMinfo

In the 2019 Swiss federal elections, women's representation increased more than at any time before, reaching an all-time high at 42%. Following yesterday's election results, there is a 3.5%-points decrease in female MPs in the Swiss lower house, primarily due to the SVP's seat gains polisky

Very happy that our workshop for the ECPR joint sessions was accepted: on democracy, trust, and trustworthiness. 🌐 Details below and here ecpr.eu/Events/Event... You can propose papers from tomorrow until 23rd November - a month today!

Post-election poll for Swiss election shows: 1) Far-Right SVP strongest party in all age groups 2) Socialists and Greens strong among under-30s, Greens weak among over-65s 3) Center Party and liberal FDP strongest among pensioners 4) FDP only fifth strongest party among voters under 45 Polisky

What the Polish elections might mean for Poland (and Europe), by yours truly: goodauthority.org/news/how-his...

My book has finally been published in paperback so I can now (in good conscience) beg and plead for you to assign it to your grad and advanced undergrad classes on comparative, legislative, and European politics. (most universities should have free access to the eBook) polisky cup.org/3trQJIu

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

On 30 October, @mrooduijn.bsky.social @macarenaares.bsky.social @stefaniereher.bsky.social and I will be discussing the transformation of European elections with a special focus on the upcoming Dutch election at Spui25 in Amsterdam. Join us. More information here: www.spui25.nl/programma/wh...

🚨Call for Papers🚨 Psyched to announce the CBS-Princeton Money in Politics conference to be held in Copenhagen, June 2024. Third iteration of the conference, always a fantastic experience. Send us your papers before Jan 5, '24! Link: shorturl.at/ampPV 1/2