This is a brief reminder that the Call for Streams for the 24th ESPAnet Annual Conference is now open. The deadline for submissions is the 16th of January 2026. More information at: www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/event/24th-e...

The Free Municipality Experiments in Denmark exempted selected municipalities from 60–70% of national legislation in key areas, including primary education, daycare, eldercare. This led to substantial innovations resulting in proposals for broader reforms www.scup.com/doi/10.18261...

Nothing says Nobel Peace Prize like a coup d’etat.

This is a brief reminder that the Call for Streams for the 24th ESPAnet Annual Conference is now open. The deadline for submissions is the 9th of January. More informations at: www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/event/24th-e...

New on the Social Policy Blog: "Female Mayors Do Not Lead to Greater Childcare Provision: Evidence from Polish Municipalities" by Adam Gendźwiłł, Jan Kroszka, Julita Łukomska, and Michał Pierzgalski. socialpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/12/04/f...

As potenciais consequências constitucionais da próxima eleição presidencial são demasiado importantes para apenas ficar de lado a assistir. AJS é o candidato que assegura algum equilíbrio no atual balanço de poderes. E é por isso que o apoio.

Vice-Presidente do Chega estacionou em local proibido e impediu a passagem de um elétrico para ir visitar o Martim Moniz cheganos.com/vice-preside...

**1/13** Over the past two years, @danielbeland.bsky.social and I have published four pieces exploring how ideas shape social policy — from conceptual foundations to reform and pedagogy. This thread walks through them:

I *highly* recommend @brankomilan.bsky.social and @laywilliams.bsky.social superb books on the history of thought on economic inequality. And if you want to see them discussing these topics, with @undercoverhist.bsky.social @johncassidysays.bsky.social and myself, video below.

Isto 👇👇👇👇

Emerson drops an ass-covering natl poll showing Trump going from -3 job approval to -8. If these same red wave pollsters who showed Ciattarelli close start correcting their natl sample the false impression they've created of Trump being "OK" will evaporate. emersoncollegepolling.com/november-202...

After the 2024 EU election, many in Brussels insisted the political center had held. That wishful thinking is fading fast, with two working majorities now openly acknowledged in the European Parliament’s corridors. Brussels Playbook has more 👇

NEW REPORT: Modelling and reforming school choice By Ellen Greaves, @estellecantillon.bsky.social, @mariagraziacavallo.bsky.social and me. Blog economics.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/11/06/a... Policy briefing www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar... #EconSky #EduSky 1/9

Quem diria que o Isaltino ia ser este combatente anti-fachos?

Un escándalo ha sacudido a la UE: la Comisión Europea investiga si el servicio de espionaje húngaro trabajó para reclutar a una red de espías entre los funcionarios europeos

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Does the rise of populism have economic roots, and more protectionist and anti-immigration policies help? Quick thread on my latest piece here buff.ly/O2SoUok

Há 5 anos um grupo de figuras do que era então o centro-direita moderado publicava um abaixo-assinado contra a deriva nacionalista e identitária. Alguns deles são hoje ministros da República. Como podem conviver, em silêncio, com estas declarações… eu não percebo.

It’s disheartening to see so many academics embracing - and doing research that feeds into - contemporary pronatalism. We don’t need to repeat the mistakes of the past.

#linhasvermelhas 💪

Farllage… 🙄 #cagaozito

Lá como cá, a utilização de meios de comunicação, que imitam jornais online, para difundir notícias falsas.

#A_NewHope ✊

Just want to give a shout out to my 83 year old dad- normally conservative, a former SCOTUS law clerk for Rehnquist- who protested out in the rain this morning in St Louis. #NoKings

No Dia Internacional para a Erradicação da Pobreza, onde estão as vozes das pessoas que vivem na pobreza? www.publico.pt/2025/10/17/o...

Sabes que estás a ficar velho quando te lembras que Gonçalo Capitão foi uma estrela emergente da JSD… muito bom!

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Are we earning enough? The new squeeze on the middle classes on.ft.com/42NmWsx

Should statistical software that estimates causal effects also tell you the causal assumptions under which that estimate can be interpreted as causal? I don't know but my PhD student Maurice Korf has some thoughts (and software) to get the conversation going: academic.oup.com/ije/article/...

Europe needs to prepare to defend itself with less America. One challenge, is how to replace the potential loss of US ground forces. Poland, Germany, etc are doing their bit. But Europe needs a bolder approach. We call for Italy-Spain to lead a new European ground force www.csis.org/analysis/how...

Statement released by the Pentagon Press Association.

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025. epssnet.org/belfast-2026/ @rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!

See, this right here gives the game away: "But the military of the 2020s has been as overburdened by the imperatives of progressivism as schools were by the duties of racial integration in the 1970s." First of all... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

My Sunday Times piece: The chancellor has hinted at cutting official forecasts to one a year, which would be a mistake. Just treat one of the OBR’s two forecasts as advisory, not a call for immediate action: Don’t shoot the messenger by burying OBR forecasts www.thetimes.com/article/6040...

Cancelling food security data does not cancel hunger missouriindependent.com/2025/10/01/c...

TACO

New WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. www.iza.org/publications...

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

The chaotic rollout of new rules on visas for highly skilled workers and moves against his political opponents have prompted some companies to consider relocating staff or diverting activity away from the US on.ft.com/3VG3CcL

A (partial) return to Labour's successful New Deal for Young People. A good start, but not nearly ambitious enough: 18 months is too long to leave young people NEET, and crucially many (perhaps most) are not on Universal Credit at all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

♨️Early view How do citizens participate politically across policy fields❓ What are the formats & different modes of #PublicInvolvement❓ @ekrick.bsky.social shows impact fostering institutional arrangements & #CitizenEngagement practices👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s... Not even the Ryder cup is shielded from the MAGA wave… :(

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

There is no better sign of the fucked up situation the US, than Ted Cruz emergeing as a beackon of courage and decency in the fight for democracy.

I know you're all going to be really shocked by this one, but 110 unpaid caregivers were provided $450/mo for a year in Ithaca NY, and here's what happened: ✅️Significantly higher rates of employment (the income helped them afford jobs) ✅️Better health outcomes ✅️Savings increased by 13% ✅️Hope grew