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JEPP is a flagship journal covering public policy, Europ. politics & the EU | Edited by B.Rittberger | https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjpp20 | https://www.linkedin.com/company/jepp/ | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573881511255
🗞️ New issue out, featuring 👉 'Discussion: The asymmetry of European integration – obstinate or obsolete?'

Discover the whole issue: 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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When do liberal orders become self-undermining?

@cknill.bsky.social, Andreas Kruck, Berthold Rittberger, Laura Seelkopf & Bernhard Zangl provide answers to this timely question!

Check out the introduction to their new Special Issue in @jeppjournal.bsky.social

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November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
📘 The intro to the special issue "Victims of their own success? How successful liberal orders can become self-undermining" highlights how liberalism destabilises itself through excess, exploitation and exhaustion 👇

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November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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🤔 You're interested in how exposure to AI affects people's risk perceptions and policy preferences, but don't have time to read a full paper?

💡 @unisg.ch has got you covered with a write-up about our recent paper in @jeppjournal.bsky.social.

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Does AI change what people expect from government?
Exposure to new technology – specifically generative AI like ChatGPT – can influence what citizens expect from their elected officials. A recent study from Matthias Haslberger and an international tea...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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The right to health has spread worldwide, and so has neoliberalism. Colombian governments and civil society struggle with this tension; health workers and vulnerable patients carry the burden. More here, open access @jeppjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
Contesting neoliberalism with human rights? Liberal exhaustion and exploitation in Colombia’s health system
The neoliberal reorganisation of social policy has provoked counterreactions worldwide. One genuinely liberal contestation of neoliberal restructuring is based on human rights mobilisation, and, in...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🍵 Keep calm and avoid polity politicisation

🤝 Hanspeter Kriesi examines policy politicisation during COVID-19 and finds that, despite tensions, de-escalation and polity-maintenance mechanisms prevented a spillover into polity politicisation 👇

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The dynamics of EU policymaking in the COVID-19 crisis
In the compound EU polity, the escalation potential of policy politicisation into polity politicisation is high. However, this very challenge induces key actors to focus their attention on the de-e...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
📚 How to erode the UNHCR regime 101 👇

Sandra Lavenex and Karin Jakobson Vaagland trace how European and other states undermined the international refugee regime:
1️⃣ Shifting UNHCR’s focus to the Global South
2️⃣ Forum-shifting to alternative venues like the EU

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October 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

@manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.
October 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Another great @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper I'm happy to have edited is out here, on workers' descriptive representation, by @manuelwagner.bsky.social and @laurenzennser.bsky.social

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October 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Happy to see that our article, “Bringing Rokkan into the twenty-first century: the cleavage structure of Western Europe”, coauthored with @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social, has made it into the top 5 most read in @jeppjournal.bsky.social over the past year! Proof that cleavage theory is alive and well.
October 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
💊 Neoliberalism meets human rights liberalism:

In Colombia, @hanrieder.bsky.social shows how judicial mobilisation for the right to health failed to deliver and instead created a politics of exhaustion and exploitation 👇

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October 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🌍 Brussels effect or 🪃 boomerang?

Francesca Minetto (@hertieschool.bsky.social) shows that over 20% of EU legislation draws directly on international models, revealing that the EU not only exports but also imports policies 👇

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October 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🧭 Natascha Zaun takes the long view on how EU migration policy evolved from integration to selective consolidation: from Amsterdam to today's ad hoc Schengen suspension 👇

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October 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
💶🛡️ Can the EU learn from 1915 Switzerland on financing defence?

⚔️ Tiziano Zgaga traces how Swiss cantons organised defence spending at the central level and what this experience can teach today’s EU about creating fiscal capacity👇

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a red and white flag with a white cross on it is flying in the wind
ALT: a red and white flag with a white cross on it is flying in the wind
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October 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Our introduction to to the special issue on the formation of public opinion in the welfare state is now out in the @jeppjournal.bsky.social!

📖 Freely available: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

A big thanks to Zhen Jie Im, Maria Grasso, and Franco Bonomi Bezzo for outstanding co-editorship.
October 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
📚 In their intro to the Special Issue “Public Opinion and the Welfare State: Sources, Processes, and Consequences”, @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social,
Zhen Jie Im, Maria Grasso, and Franco Bonomi Bezzo review how attitudes toward the welfare state form and evolve 👇

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Public opinion and the welfare state: sources, processes, and consequences
The legitimacy and resilience of the welfare state rest on sustained public support. This introduction reviews the literature on welfare attitudes and public opinion formation on the welfare state....
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October 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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🚨 New article out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social with @svenhegewald.bsky.social

“The changing geography of support for European integration in the shadow of the Ukraine war."

How did Russia’s invasion reshape public support for EU policies?

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October 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Super happy to see this out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉🎉
Citizens in 🥜-regions closer to Russia became more supportive of EU defence, enlargement & foreign policy after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine (exception: energy policy)

By @giorgiomalet.bsky.social and @svenhegewald.bsky.social

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October 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Citizens in 🥜-regions closer to Russia became more supportive of EU defence, enlargement & foreign policy after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine (exception: energy policy)

By @giorgiomalet.bsky.social and @svenhegewald.bsky.social

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Does lobbying access actually mean lobbying influence?

In our new @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper we try to answer this key question in interest group politics and lobbying by exploring models of access = influence translation.

Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... is #OA
October 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Anna Herranz Surralles argues that ‘geopolitical codes’ are 🔑 to understanding EU energy policy responses to geopolitical challenges.

She identifies three EU responses: reluctant integration, constrained integration, and non-integration 👇

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October 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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🇪🇺 Europeans say no to tariffs!

Check out the @uu.se press release on our new @jeppjournal.bsky.social study exploring what Europeans really think about trade barriers in an era of rising global tensions.

www.uu.se/en/press/pre...

Full paper: doi.org/10.1080/1350...
European voters say no to tariffs - Uppsala University
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October 16, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.30
🗣️ War in #Ukraine has transformed how often #EUleaders talk about enlargement, but not how they frame it.
🏅 Based on @jeppjournal.bsky.social research, Nicole Scicluna shows that enlargement remains cast as a conditional, merit-based process.
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🧭 Framing wartime enlargement: still a process, after all
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has transformed how often EU leaders talk about enlargement, but not how they frame it. Nicole Scicluna shows that despite geopolitical urgency and family rhetoric, enlarg...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Tariffs might be the word of 2025.

Given the state of *looks around* we asked: is there demand for tariffs in Europe?

@grahn.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @sophiemainz.bsky.social Maria Nordbrandt & I show the answer is a resolute no
@jeppjournal.bsky.social

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A game of tariffs: is there demand for tariffs in Europe?
In April 2025, the United States introduced sweeping tariffs on imports from the European Union and the United Kingdom, raising transatlantic tensions and prompting debate over Europe’s response. T...
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October 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Just out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social online first..Hurry up free copies expiring in 50..49..48..47 ..😁
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/25KK9...

Special thanks to @lucasschramm91.bsky.social and @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social guest editors of the Special Issue: European Integration in the Geopolitical Age
War as external cause: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the theorising of European integration and EU politics, and the EU’s arduous formation in foreign and security policy
Russia’s war in Ukraine from February 2022 has had massive effects on Europe’s Union and its member states, prompting changes in policy, new policies, discussions of options and potential future tr...
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October 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM