In our November special issue on anti-governance, @erik-jones.bsky.social explores the reasons for the revolt against institutions in advanced industrial democracies. online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...

🔴NEW ARTICLE🔴 a topic that is neglected: School food politics in Africa: Two Nigerian school feeding programs in comparative perspective" by Tim Dorlach, Ugbedeojo Sule and Nathaniel Umukoro. @journals.sagepub.com #socialpolicy #foodpolicy Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New UN report warns that welfare cuts can fuel far-right support. It features my work on public service deprivation with @paularettl.bsky.social @catherinedevries.bsky.social @marcocappelluti.bsky.social and on climate-related disasters and far-right incumbents with @pstanig.bsky.social

Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains. Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... ➔ Rakesh et al. (2025): www.nature.com/articles/s44...

📖 Leader-driven democratic decline 📉 Creating a 'toolkit' of over 400 actions used by would-be autocrats, @jmvanlit.bsky.social & Carolien van Ham make it easier to compare cares, spot patterns and understand when and why #autocratization succeeds 📖

My new article on structural oppression, its perpetuation, and why it constitutes an injustice - is out in Journal of Social Philosophy! Link: doi.org/10.1111/josp.... Open access thanks to @eui-eu.bsky.social and @euilibrary.bsky.social agreements.

📢 Nueva publicación 🥳 Our article with Alex Schmotz and Michael Zürn (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) on diverse global governance outcomes under regime complexity is out #openaccess at #EJIR. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🎉 Nice way to end the week. Just learned Floris Peters & I received an honorable mention for the Best Article Award 2025 from @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social for our APSR paper Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations. What a nice recognition!

And Excel file for 2023 to 2025 is here: osf.io/t7sw4/?fbcli...

Albania has become the first country in the world to have an AI minister — not a minister for AI, but a virtual minister made of pixels and code and powered by artificial intelligence.

Kosovo country note from the “21th International Review on Leave Policies and Related Research 2025” www.leavenetwork.org/fileadmin/us...

Great to see @globalcit.bsky.social’s Rainer Bauböck at the launch of the @internationalidea.bsky.social Global State of Democracy Report 2025. Emphasising the important implications of out-of-country voting in times of democratic recession both in migrant origin countries and destination countries.

Fantastic article by Gjiltinë Isufi on the spatial component of traumatic memories of political prisoners in Gjilan prison. She reads the carceral geography and architecture through rain, sunlight, clacking sound of key chains woven in the poems of political prisoners. tinyurl.com/78653yav

✨ Now published in the @scmrjems.bsky.social: our paper on the "Pathways of external citizenship: the global extension of dual citizenship and voting from abroad", with the great @sumpierrez.bsky.social! You can access 50 free online copies here: lnkd.in/dvaNmTWR See 🧵 for summary of our 📝

🆕 publication alert ✨ I’m delighted our paper on Waves of Securitisation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Citizenship Stripping Regulations in Europe, with Luuk vd Baaren & Maria Gerdes is out now in Statelessness & Citizenship Review! 🔗 statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/jo...

2.5%? 5%? More? 🧐 What does #Trump actually expects of Europe when it comes to #security & #defence? ➡️ Find out in our latest #Europechats episode on the past, present & future of transatlantic relations 🔗 youtu.be/MtGQ3WP1CEs?... @eui-schuman.bsky.social @erik-jones.bsky.social

So you want to be a systems leader? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My book "Girlhood at War: Interpreting War and Liberation in Kosovo" is now out with Bloomsbury! Order it online shorturl.at/bS1fb or request it through your local library. All proceeds go to the children’s section of the public library in my hometown, Gjilan (Kosovo). Book launches coming soon!

I love everything about @andrewroberts.bsky.social’s review of four recent books on the postcommunist transition. We know a LOT about the 90s that goes beyond facile references to “neoliberalism” or the “Washington Consensus.” Anyone tempted to work on the period would do well to start with this 👇.

That’s a Wrap 🎬 David Owen & Rainer Bauböck respond to 13 entries in the Citizenship as Reparations Debate 🤔 Does why a state offers reparative citizenship matter as much as to whom? 🎭 Can symbolic reparation mask selective immigration? ⚖️ When is it a moral duty, not just a choice? 🔗 t.ly/UPMSb

Concerned with conflicts over political liberties & the regime in federal states? Just out in @democratization.bsky.social - A new, regime-change driven „genotype of secession“. - How it mattered in the breakup of the Soviet Union & Yugoslavia. Is California next? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you want to better understand power and privilege in academia, ask yourself the following question: Who is allowed to write what?

Together with my brilliant colleagues Stacie E Goddard, Ronald R Krebs, and Berthold Rittberger, we published a piece in #ForeignAffairsMagazine: "Liberalism Doomed the Liberal International Order"! www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

⚙️ Matthew Bergman, Wolfgang C. Mueller and @hannaeback.bsky.social on how ideology and contextual factors shape labour market reform

Our special issue of the Journal of European Social Policy on bridging the continental divide in social policy research is out: journals.sagepub.com/toc/espa/35/3 We have an amazing line up of contributors and great papers that feature both European and North American cases. Must read :-)

What a great article and I couldn't stop once I started reading. We often blame private pension failure on too little regulation. This paper flips the causality: the real culprit is too much. Regulatory intrusiveness, not absence, is what causes the failure. qjae.mises.org/article/1248...

An insightful contribution by @jdzankic.bsky.social to another stimulating @globalcit.bsky.social exchange on difficult #citizenship questions. > Should the victims of historical injustice be offered citizenship as reparation? #MigCitSky

🎙️ Europe’s welfare states proved resilient through crisis after crisis. Why? @eui-sps.bsky.social Prof. Hemerijck explains how social investment became central to economic strength—even amid inflation, populism & rising defence costs 🔗 https://loom.ly/HlDb98M

The Recent Illiberal Turn and Social Policy in the Western Balkans cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...

📕📕📕NEW BOOK!! Supported by the EUI Widening Europe Programme and GGP - Southeastern Europe, the book is based on an exchange about democracy and geopolitics among scholars from the #WesternBalkans, Central and Eastern Europe, and EUI-based postdoctoral fellows. cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/...

Inequality & inequality reduction by income group of countries. PPT: Frances Stewart (Conference, Florence: 30.6.2025).

📢📯🛎️🔊Our book Social Sustainability in Ageing Welfare States is available open access. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #sustainability #welfarestate #ageing #socialsustainability #openaccess

One guy down the hall talking with another guy down the hall. Paul Krugman and Branko Milanovic discuss global inequality, elephants, life chances, Rawls, and more. @pkrugman.bsky.social @brankomilan.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/global-ine...

AJPS has for decades been recognized as one of the top two or three journals in all of political science. The central goal of the new editorial team is to maintain and, if possible, further strengthen this reputation. Read about the Editorial Principles at AJPS here: ajps.org/2025/06/05/e...

On 8–9 June, Italian citizens vote in referendum to reduce the residency requirement for non-EU nationals to apply for 🇮🇹 citizenship from 10 years to 5 With @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social & @yajnagovind.bsky.social in @larepubblica.bsky.social on why this matters firenze.repubblica.it/dossier/fire...

Only ~25% of leaders around the world used to be over 60. Today it is more than half of them.

My own contribution, dealing with the evolution of EU social policy and governance, is now online – see below. The other publications will be published during the coming days/weeks. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A fabulous insight in Adam Przeworski’s latest substack. Would love to see if this could be tested somehow.

Votes in about 95% of polling stations counted in Albania: Edi Rama's Socialist Party (PS) will create the third consecutive absolute parliament majority (since 2017) and the fourth consecutive victory (since 2013).

Results of the national election in Albania with about half of the votes counted… iemis.kqz.gov.al/results2025/...

I have written this article providing an overview of the electoral context in #Albania, the novelties and what’s to be expected on Sunday’s parliamentary elections.

Albania votes as PM Rama seeks fourth term @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Albania #Albaniaelection #EdiRama #SaliBerisha #AlbanianSocialistParty #AlbanianDemocraticParty sightmagazine.com.au/news/albania...

My article on how the European Union is adapting to security threats was just published online by Journal of European Public Policy. For all you EU nerds out there. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💷Shedding light on the use of tax expenditures for social spending💷 Blog by Flurim Aliu and Agustin Redonda, Council on Economic Policies, Zurich, Switzerland. Read on the SPA website here ⬇️⬇️ social-policy.org.uk/spa-blog/blo...

Journals should be owned by departments or societies, and should be published OA by not-for-profit university presses. Anything else is a travesty.

🌍 Migration, refugees & displacement aren’t just headlines — they’re deeply tied to global social policy, inequality & power. The latest GSP Digest (25.1) unpacks how these connections shape lives & politics worldwide. Dive in: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @journals.sagepub.com #migration

According "Lëvizja Bashkë" (electoral programme towards the May 11 national election), 42% of primary and lower-secondary schools in Albania have been closed down since 2000 due to massive emigration in particular; 22% of closures took place during the last decade. levizjabashke.al/zgjedhjet-20...