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This is my first week at IE University as assistant professor but I can already tell you that @iepolisci.bsky.social provides a very warm welcome! We're hiring in 3 lines (in CP, IR/Security Studies, and IPE). Come join us in Madrid!

Come join us @iepolisci.bsky.social! This dept has one of the healthiest environments I've found in academia. Plus, everyone does brilliant work and you get to live in a great city with a salary that allows you to enjoy it. We only work in English, so language is not an issue. Apply!

📢 We're hiring! 3 lines in CP, IR, and IPE. Come join us in Madrid! I'm not in the committee but more than happy to answer questions (via DM, email) and/or chat.

🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨 We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track. We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.

I am really happy that our @bjpols.bsky.social paper on party-system fragmentation and democratic quality has been awarded the Lawrence Longley Best Article Award from the Representation and Electoral Systems section of @apsa.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Huge congratulations to @iepolisci.bsky.social for hiring the iconic @catherinedevries.bsky.social! And huge congrats dear Catherine, so awesome 👏🏻

Congratulations to both Catherine and IE !!

I cannot overstate how exciting this is. @catherinedevries.bsky.social is one of the most brilliant and influential scholars out there, as well as a kind and amazing mentor. Can't wait to have her join our department soon!

Congrats @catherinedevries.bsky.social! And I second Vicente’s excitement, what a great move for the department.

We are super excited that Catherine de Vries will join IE University as Full Professor of Political Science, Chair of our Department, and Vice Dean at IE's SPEGA in January. We look forward to having her as a colleague and leader in our growing department! www.catherinedevries.eu

Excited to begin a new chapter as Assistant Professor at IE University! Grateful to have found such a vibrant department - and an equally vibrant city. Let me know when you are in Madrid.

So happy to have Korhan and @swebera.bsky.social join us at @iepolisci.bsky.social! 🎉🎉

As the academic year resumes, we are very excited to announce the two new hires who have recently joined the IE University political science faculty: Korhan Koçak and Sigrid Weber (@swebera.bsky.social) Welcome both to @ieuniversity.bsky.social! 👇

NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🎉 Congratulations to our colleague @valentimvicente.bsky.social for winning the Robert Dahl Award from @apsa.bsky.social for his book on "The Normalization of the Radical Right"!

Last day to apply to the MESS!! MESS is an initiative that brings together empirical social scientists in Madrid. Our first event was last year and it was fantastic. Join us!

🚨 Madrid social scientists and beyond! Today is the last day to apply to MESS 2025. Join us at IE in October for exciting paper presentations, poster session and lots of networking! 👇

This paper has been a long time coming, but happy to have a revised draft out. We find that banning political ideologies can open space for new political entrepreneurs who mobilize against that ban. Read Dan's thread for more details:

2 days left to submit abstracts for the next Madrid Empirical Social Sciences (MESS) conference 👇

Check out the latest publication by our professor of practice @ilketoygur.bsky.social at the Journal of European Public Policy, on backlash against climate policy and Euroscepticism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Check out Michael Becher and Irene Menéndez González's new article @iojournal.bsky.social on how international trade shaped the politics of the adoption of political representation. doi.org/10.1017/S002...

We had a pretty productive last week, taking advantage of so many great political scientists visiting Madrid for @epsanet.bsky.social: - We co-hosted 2 pre-conferences (one on culture and one on political connections) - We presented 15 papers in EPSA panels - We hosted 1 reception at the IE tower

Reception with the best view award

We’ve had a great day at the workshop on culture at @iepolisci.bsky.social, co-organized with @emmylindstam.bsky.social and @ricarthuguet.bsky.social Thank you everyone for coming and for the very constructive and engaging discussions!

Consider joining our reception if you are in Madrid the day before EPSA and have no plans that evening:

Very excited about the upcoming 2nd Madrid Empirical Social Sciences Conference. Applications are open until July 11. Looking forward!

Applications for the 2nd annual conference of the MESS are now open. Hope to see many of you there!

Consider applying for the 2nd annual conference of the MESS. This year at the IE tower. Hope to see many of you there!

🚨 We will be hosting the next edition of the Madrid Empirical Social Sciences conference on October 24-25. See the call for papers below, and submit your abstract by July 11 here: forms.gle/usBWvFrXeVbK... (open to folks from outside Madrid too!)

Very happy to be back in Nuffield for a couple of days to attend the workshop on Social and Moral Norms, Political Violence, and Threats to Democracy, organized by Sirianne Dahlum, Tore Wig, and Daniel Goldstein. If you’re around, consider joining us!

This Friday (20th, at 13h), we are very excited to welcome Erica Owen (University of Pittsburgh) for the last seminar series session of the academic year. She will present a paper entitled "The Political Economy of Automation and Global Production: Evidence from Mexico".

I am extremely humbled to receive the @ces-europe.bsky.social Carolina de Moyer Young Scholar Award alongside Elana Resnick. I am very grateful to the committee and to the mentors and colleagues who have been kind and helped me with this work. I promise to pay forward as much as I can. Thank you ☀️

We're getting started with our two-day Workshop on Public Opinion, Representation, and Democracy. Organized by DJ Flynn and Nina Wiesehomeier, and held in our Segovia campus. @ieuniversity.bsky.social Great line-up, live updates below! 🧵

We're very excited for the IE SPEGA Workshop on Public Opinion, Representation and Democracy -- tomorrow and Wednesday in Segovia, with a great line-up of speakers.

Today in our seminar series our colleagues DJ Flynn and (online from California) Carlos Lastra presented exciting early results from their project on "Digital Literacy among Teens", funded by La Caixa Foundation.

This Friday (30th, at 13h), we are very excited to have our colleagues DJ Flynn and Carlos Lastra present at our seminar series. They will present a paper entitled "Skills or Motivations? Pathways to Digital Literacy among Teens".

For today’s edition of @volkskrant.nl, I talked to @loesreijmer.bsky.social about my work on the normalization of far-right views and what that means for European democracies. If you’re interested, you can find the text here: www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/h...

Happening now: our colleague Zoe Xincheng Ze presents her paper “Can International Organizations Shape Technology Shape Development?” at our seminar series.

On June 10th and 11th, IE will be hosting a Workshop on Public Opinion, Representation, and Democracy in our Segovia campus. Entrance is free to anyone who may be interested. The program is attached. Thanks to our faculty members DJ Flynn and Nina Wiesehomeier for organizing this great event!

Last weekend our faculty members Dan Kselman, @emmylindstam.bsky.social & @valentimvicente.bsky.social took part in the 3rd IE-Rochester conference in San Sebastián. It was an inspiring mix of exciting papers, constructive feedback, and network events. Thank you Dan and Scott Tyson for organizing!

This Friday (23rd, at 13h), we are very excited to have our colleague Zoe Xincheng Ge present at our seminar series. Zoe will present a paper entitled "Can International Organizations Shape Technology Development?".

Happening now: John Ahlquist presenting “Welfare capitalism on the cheap” at our seminar series.

Next Friday, May 16th (11h-12h), we are very excited to welcome John Ahlquist (UCSD) to our seminar series, who will present "Welfare Capitalism on the Cheap? Employee hardship funds, corporate culture, and workplace solidarity".

@valentimvicente.bsky.social on the role of social #norms in shaping voter behavior and the impact of their erosion in the context of the rise of radical right parties @ieres-gwu.bsky.social

Global competition, local unions, and political representation: Disentangling mechanisms by Michael Becher and Daniel Stegmueller is now available in Early View. @iepolisci.bsky.social ajps.org/2025/05/05/g...

Check out the program of our EPSA Pre-Conference on Political Connections, to be held at @UC3M on June 25. If you want to join, please fill in this short form: forms.gle/Ei5T4hHtWFFS...

In our seminar series yesterday we had the pleasure of hosting Vicky Fouka (Stanford), who presented exciting research about economic and cultural change around the abolitionist movement in the UK.

Congrats to our colleague Michael Becher whose latest article (coauthored with D Stegmueller) has just come out in @ajpseditor.bsky.social! Their article explores how import competition from China affected US democratic politics by weakening labor unions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This Thursday (April 24th, 13h-14h), we are very excited to welcome Vicky Fouka (Stanford) to our seminar series, who will present "Structural Transformation and Value Change: The British Abolitionist Movement".