A well-deserved honor for @bjoernbremer.bsky.social! Absolutely top in the field. Thank you to the @ces-europe.bsky.social for supporting our scholarship — and let’s go, Political Economy and Welfare RN members 🙌 (Here we are with our own Sara Watson as incoming Chair, to boot.)

The Welfare Workforce has received the Charles H. Levine Prize! I couldn’t be more grateful for this recognition from @sog-rc27.bsky.social & Governance, which have informed so much of my work. Special thanks to @kbersch.bsky.social, Eduardo Dargent, & @danhonig.bsky.social, this year’s committee.

Many thanks to @jhppl.bsky.social and Victor Rodwin for this review!

For anyone who’s ever wished for better train service (or just wondered about the variable privatization of state-owned enterprises):

Great new tool from @maffie.bsky.social ! Let’s make academic publishing more transparent 🙌

For #WorldMentalHealthDay, check out @namicommunicate.bsky.social and its resources. We won’t get better mental care unless we advocate for it:

Can we have 8 min of your time please? @siljahausermann.bsky.social @bpalier.bsky.social & I wrote a very brief reflection on why social investment might be a misleading paradigm. Way forward: please distinguish different types of social investments! More here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Trevor Brown @jhuartssciences.bsky.social for winning the 2025 @apsa.bsky.social Labor Politics A Philip Randolph Award! Here presented by the great @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social 🥳

We're thrilled to welcome @isabelmperera.bsky.social of Cornell University to the network! Perera's research focuses on how politics shape the social policies, labor markets, and overall economies of affluent democracies. 🔗 Learn more: scholars.org/scholar/isab...

📢 Call for Proposals CES is pleased to invite submissions for its 32nd International Conference of Europeanists, to be held in Dublin, June 16–18, 2025. For more information about the Conference Theme and how to apply visit: councilforeuropeanstudies.org/conferences/...

Likely to backfire and make things worse. #HousingFirst programs work to get most people out of homelessness status. Defunding them is a bad with more costs for emergency housing and emergency room visits.

Homelessness and Mental Illness: How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Backfire thefulcrum.us/governance-l... With homelessness expert @charleywillison.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org !

The @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy and Welfare Network was thrilled to inaugurate its Early Career Workshop at our meeting last week 🎉🙌

For those interested in EUropean politics June 2026 is going to be fab. Please consider going to Council for European Studies conference in Dublin 16-18 June 2026, & then on to @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast 18-20 June. @karendublin.bsky.social & I will be joining you!

Scenes from the Council for European Studies conference in Philly, at #Temple University. Fantastic presentations and lots of fun making new contacts and hanging out with old friends. @ofioretos.bsky.social @ces-europe.bsky.social @dalriada77.bsky.social ‪@maxinedavid.bsky.social‬

How do you teach health care policy in 2025 and end your class on a positive note (or at least some sense of optimism)? I might actually go with growth and apparent sustainability of Medicaid.

The White Paper projects are back! This year’s winner? Prisha Agarwal, Sepehra Azami, & Anna Cecilia Fierro’s powerful campaign to improve the #H2AVisa program for farm workers — a timely & important project that highlights the original @cornelluniversity.bsky.social values.

Huge thanks to the Hangs for performing in CPP today! Get your tickets for their May 6 concert at www.hangovers.com

It was huge honor to visit @unevadareno.bsky.social. This place is really special. My thanks to @ianmhartshorn.com and colleagues for nurturing a superior intellectual environment—and then inviting me to participate in it!

Heading to you now, @ianmhartshorn.com ! Thanks so much for having me. This Ithacan won’t be fazed by the snow :)

Thank you, @bpetrova.bsky.social and @ttu.edu for inviting me to share the project with you. What a great community and thoughtful discussion!

Have a listen to the audio Abstract of "Why States Do and Do Not Privatize," by Isabel Perera and Trevor Brown. #privatization #government #coalitions #laborunions @isabelmperera.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/mt5bYXrFUpWD...

Thanks, Storied Teller, for profiling our work! For an interview on our @worldpolitics.bsky.social article:

Worried about the privatization of public services ? 👀 Wondering what might PREVENT it ?? Check out our article in @worldpolitics.bsky.social for a theory on the role of public employees. (Also great for train buffs 🙌🚊)

Thank you, @ces-europe.bsky.social !!

As promised, here is a bit more on my new book, The Welfare Workforce, now available fully open-access from @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social 🧵 1/11

New 2024 data: Over 50% of GOP fundraising now comes from just 100 mega-donors. Trump’s embrace of the billionaire class—and their embrace of him—will only supercharge this trend.

Checkout @isabelmperera.bsky.social & Trevor Brown's excellent new article in World Politics: Why States Do or Do Not Privatize! (There's a super handy companion methods piece in QMMR, too: zenodo.org/records/14062872) www.americanpoliticaleconomy.org/post/why-sta...

The January @worldpolitics.bsky.social is live! It includes articles by @brentonkenkel.bsky.social, @emielawad.bsky.social & Scott F Abramson; @isabelmperera.bsky.social & Trevor Brown; Florian Grotz & Till Weber; @rickyclark.bsky.social & Anna Meyerrose; & Michael L. Ross. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54152

Thank you, @ankehassel.bsky.social !!

Thank you, @bpetrova.bsky.social !!!

Gracias, @anriasantiago.bsky.social !!

I’m so happy to announce that my book is now published and available open-access! (🧵coming soon, too :)

Application review starts tomorrow !!! This is a great opportunity to join our wonderful department :)

Cornell is hiring in ⭐️Latino Politics⭐️ Please spread the word and apply! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28070

King's College London is hiring a permanent lecturer (aka assist. prof) in International Political Economy. polisky ipesky PSJMInfo

Happy to see our review essay on the political economy of AI published today! Musckaan Chauhan & I argue for greater attention to macro factors, as well as for how AI's distributional impact may differ from other forms of automation: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Do you work on artificial intelligence and labor?? Check out this conference and publication opportunity! journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm... Polisky cpesky

🚨🚨🚨 The History and Political Economy Project (directed by me & @zeithistoriker.bsky.social) invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, beginning July 1, 2024, to support our public engagement and scholarly programs. Apply here by 2/1: apply.interfolio.com/137868

2 weeks left to apply 👇

polisky cpesky I have 2 open positions in my team Goethe Uni #Frankfurt: I am looking for - a PhD student - a student assistant. You should be interested in comparative politics, ideally with a focus in public policy, comparative political economy, welfare research, or education/social policy.

Please share and apply to the APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, an annual, intensive 5-wk program designed to introduce the world of doctoral study in political science to undergrad students from under-represented racial and ethnic groups. Deadline: Jan. 22 politicalsciencenow.com/call-for-app...

CfP: Supporting Women in International Political Economy Conference When: April 12 Where: UPenn What: Mentorship, feedback, solidarity! Who: Junior women & non-binary scholars (post-PhD) Submit full drafts by December 15: forms.gle/Waj2dejPtf3d... Register to attend: forms.gle/oLddU2Jgdxnc...

Excited to be co-organizing the 2024 Comparative Labor Workshop with Bluesky-less Danny Daneri! We aim to bring scholars working on labor issues across subfields and methods orientations into conversation Please apply with an abstract by Dec. 8 for March 8-9, 2024: forms.gle/8LDewfTw4a1N...

fascinating new paper by my colleague Mirna Safi. She and her coauthors show that foreign-born naturalised immigrants often switch to "French by birth" over time in successive census rounds. now out in ASR: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Polisky! I'm looking for volunters for chair/discussant for a panel on fieldwork and qualitative methods for the next MPSA conference. Ping or email me if interested👀

📢 Are you a political scientist working on the French health care system? Elisa Chelle and I are convening an @apsa.bsky.social panel at the next AFSP conference in Grenoble, for a special issue of French Politics. More info below. Join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/echell...

To the phd students out there who have not applied yet: there is one week left to submit your abstract to join for the Third Doctoral Conference @MPIfG_Cologne, discuss your work and mingle with peers over two days in Cologne, so follow the shared link and submit now 🚀 polsky cpesky ipesky

Call for Visiting Fellows at Harvard's Center for European Studies. Applications due December 2023. See below for more information: ces.fas.harvard.edu/opportunitie...

okay the panel theme has broadened to 'contemporary politics from a party organizational perspective', and we still have space for more papers so please get in touch if interested!!