🔔We are hiring!🔔 In Geneva, we are looking for a new colleague in comparative politics: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta... Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions!

Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

Better late than never…

It was a true honor to talk to legendary political scientist Adam Przeworski about how he understands the present crisis, what he learned from Chile and Poland, and how to move forward from here www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

Here we go again…

Breaking News: A Justice Dept. official is pushing prosecutors to investigate a group funded by George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor whom President Trump has demanded be thrown in jail.

Spezieller „Affekt“

Time to re-up this to avoid confusion on EPSS and EPSA The @epssnet.bsky.social (nonprofit!) call is here: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... bsky.app/profile/epss...

We believe there’s room for multiple poli sci conferences in Europe, just like in the US & other regions. 🔝 But if you’re looking to support a Europe-based not-for-profit member-led organization, submit your work to 1️⃣ EPSS conference: 📍 Belfast 📅 18–20 June 2026 📝 epssnet.org/belfast-2026/ 4/

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 🧵

Das hat ja wunderbar geklappt… Happy tariffs day, liebe Schweiz 🇨🇭

What a fight - what a game

It’s now 10 years that I’ve left the city that I called home for 5 years, things still look bleak in Hungary, but from time to time there is a glimmer of hope. I hope this glimmer will turn into a fire storm until next spring. Kudos to all who participated in today’s Pride!!

Did you know that @epssnet.bsky.social will honor your #EPSA membership? Sign up today! epssnet.org/sign-up/#join That said, your membership dues are staying with EPSA & EPSS is starting with zero financial funds. So if you can, consider paying for an EPSS membership to help us get off the ground.

For all of those - in and outside of political science - who want to learn more about EPSS, or are genuinely confused, here are some answers to the most pressing questions:

Join EPSS! The newly established member-led and NOT FOR PROFIT European community of political scientists.

Do profs respond to student evaluations? On average? Nope. Those who have a more positive view of their own teaching do. But all of these responses are driven by the female teachers. "Male teachers appear to be unresponsive to student feedback." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Harvard’s Battle Is Familiar to a University the Right Forced into Exile www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now economist.com/europe/2025/... from The Economist ❤️

If we could turn back time….

Join us at CEU Vienna on Wednesday, February 26 (at 17:30) for a Policy Talk by Judith Kohlenberger. events.ceu.edu/2025-02-26/p....

Son (12 yo) now listens to RATM… shall I feel a) old, b) concerned (as: did the evolution of progressive rock/ alt rock stopped some 30 years ago??) or c) happy to listen to some favourite tunes from a distant past?

In #Karlsruhe wird Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund so etwas als „Flyer“ in den Briefkasten geworfen. - Wer jetzt nicht begreift, dass die A*D den sozialen #Frieden & unsere Freiheit zerstört, macht sich mitschuldig (Grüße an #CDU #CSU)

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!

As long as social class is visible in the average body height, the "death of class"-thesis is quite overblow.

Schon lange wollte sich die Raiffeisenbank aus Russland zurückziehen. Doch stattdessen macht sie dort weiter satte Gewinne - und liefert sich unweigerlich der Willkür des Kriegsherrn Wladimir Putin aus Ab morgen DIE ZEIT 🇦🇹 @zeit.de

Good morning Vienna!

If you’re Vienna-based and have an interest in fundamental human rights, democracy, and the rule of law within the European Union, join us at CEU on November 27 (17:30) for a talk by Jonathan Tonkin from the EU Commission’s Legal Service. events.ceu.edu/2024-11-27/p...

Morning treat…. First day with actual sunlight this week…

Best office view… What a glorious winter morning!

The Netherlands wants a cap on international students. Bad idea. Denmark did the same a few years ago and paid a heavy price. Now, the Danes make a U-turn. thepienews.com/news/danish-...

Later today, I have the pleasure to discuss Tamara Popic’s book on Health Reforms in post-communist Eastern Europe. The event is part of the ViPET seminar series. Come Steine, if you’re around! politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/en/details/n...

Soviel zu den heutigen Wahlen in der Schweiz (© Katja Berlin, @katjaberlin.bsky.social)

Our paper on the effect of fiscal austerity on political polarization is now officially published in the current issue of @bjpols.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... With @evehubscher.bsky.social and @markuswagner.bsky.social

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

2/3 At the same time, voters are also concerned and critical about the loss of sovereignty such an intervention causes. Our causal mediation analysis shows that on average the belief in a more effective crisis resolution still dominates voter assessment. (doi.org/10.1177/0010...)

2/ conducted in four European crisis countries show that IMF interventions increase the public support for unpopular policies, such as fiscal adjustments. This finding is related to voter’s beliefs that the fiscal crisis will be resolved more efficiently with the help of the IMF than without….

Thread: How do voters judge IMF interventions? In a new paper (doi.org/10.1177/0010... forthcoming with CPS), together with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social and @markuswagner.bsky.social we find that voters often see IMF interventions more positively than generally assumed. Survey experiments… 1/4

Zum Glück plane ich keine Russlandreise… orf.at/stories/3335...

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