Artan Mustafa
@artanmustafa.bsky.social
Social Policy/Welfare State Politics, Social Basis of Politics, Social Sustainability, Western Balkans, Kosovo.
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The Recent Illiberal Turn and Social Policy in the Western Balkans
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In our November special issue on anti-governance, @erik-jones.bsky.social explores the reasons for the revolt against institutions in advanced industrial democracies.
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Abandoning Institutionalism
The populist revolt against liberal democratic institutions in the United States and elsewhere is not necessarily an irrational backlash, but reflects many voters’ calculations of self-interest. Resis...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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...
online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
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🔴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....
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October 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🔴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....
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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
My message at the United Nations General Assembly #UNGA80: "Welfare cuts are fuelling far right rise"
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Press release ➡️: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Welfare cuts are fuelling far right rise, warns UN expert
NEW YORK – The rolling back of protections for people living in poverty has created fertile ground for far-right movements across the world, warned the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human ...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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
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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...
➔ Rakesh et al. (2025): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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’
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October 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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...
➔ Rakesh et al. (2025): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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📖 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
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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
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The would-be autocrats’ toolkit: what do incumbents do when they undermine democracy? | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
The would-be autocrats’ toolkit: what do incumbents do when they undermine democracy?
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October 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
📖 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
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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
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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.
Open access thanks to @eui-eu.bsky.social and @euilibrary.bsky.social agreements.
Structural Injustice and Self‐Development
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September 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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.
Open access thanks to @eui-eu.bsky.social and @euilibrary.bsky.social agreements.
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📢 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.
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September 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
📢 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.
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🎉 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!
What a nice recognition!
September 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🎉 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!
What a nice recognition!
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And Excel file for 2023 to 2025 is here: osf.io/t7sw4/?fbcli...
September 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
And Excel file for 2023 to 2025 is here: osf.io/t7sw4/?fbcli...
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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.
Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister
Diella, who is powered by artificial intelligence, will handle public procurement.
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September 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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”
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September 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Kosovo country note from the “21th International Review on Leave Policies and Related Research 2025”
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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.
September 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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.
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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
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
September 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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
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
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✨ 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 📝
You can access 50 free online copies here: lnkd.in/dvaNmTWR
See 🧵 for summary of our 📝
September 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
✨ 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 📝
You can access 50 free online copies here: lnkd.in/dvaNmTWR
See 🧵 for summary of our 📝
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🆕 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!
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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!
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August 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🆕 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...
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...
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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
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@eui-schuman.bsky.social @erik-jones.bsky.social
➡️ Find out in our latest #Europechats episode on the past, present & future of transatlantic relations
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August 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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
➡️ 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
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So you want to be a systems leader?
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So you want to be a systems leader?
Systems leaders are trusted actors who help many people to collaborate to address wicked policy problems. These policy problems resist simple solutions by a few powerful actors in one center of gov...
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August 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
So you want to be a systems leader?
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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!
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!
August 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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!
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!
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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 👇.
Evaluating the transition: once more with feeling
The reviewed books attempt systematic evaluations of the transition from communism but come to very different conclusions, ranging from catastrophe to success. They tend to lay blame for the proble...
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July 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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 👇.
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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
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
August 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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
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
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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....
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....
www.tandfonline.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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....
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....
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If you want to better understand power and privilege in academia, ask yourself the following question:
Who is allowed to write what?
Who is allowed to write what?
July 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
If you want to better understand power and privilege in academia, ask yourself the following question:
Who is allowed to write what?
Who is allowed to write what?
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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"!
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Liberalism Doomed the Liberal International Order
A less legalistic system would help protect democracies.
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July 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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⚙️ Matthew Bergman, Wolfgang C. Mueller and @hannaeback.bsky.social on how ideology and contextual factors shape labour market reform
Government ideology and labour policy reform in good times and bad
Which governments implement interventionist or liberalising labour policy reforms, and does the economic context matter? Drawing on the previous literature on government ideology and public policy,...
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June 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
⚙️ Matthew Bergman, Wolfgang C. Mueller and @hannaeback.bsky.social on how ideology and contextual factors shape labour market reform