Interested in why public anti-immigrant sentiment is so geographically concentrated? Here's some work with @denis-cohen.bsky.social testing a new theory on how regional labour market risks and inter-regional migration shape long-term spatial polarisation. Just out in @bjpols.bsky.social 👇

👋Welcome to the Barcelona Network of Political Science.

▶️We are here to promote research, strengthen ties between institutions, and support young researchers and students in developing their research careers.

Are university still a left-wing thing in Europe?

Unsure: HE is a hierarchical institution with egalitarian employees

I find that universities increasingly inculcate selfish career concerns for status while leaving universalist concerns for global justice unchanged

Migrant Electoral Rights Dataset (1960-2020)

📊 Link to dataset: hdl.handle.net/1814/93661

📕 Link to codebook: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...

💼 Link to 400 page documentation: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Public Service Decline and Support for the Populist Right:

"Our findings underscore the role of public service decline as a driver of support for populist parties, especially in areas undergoing demographic change"

I've been working on something on this and here's a sneak peek of recent trends in Politics job adverts on jobs.ac.uk

Here's a scatterplot and (GAM) trendline showing that the number of advertised politics jobs has pretty much halved since 2021.

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

🧵

My piece "The Neoclassical Theory of Aggregate Investment and its Criticisms" is now out

Neoclassical investment theory implicitly or explicitly underlies much formal or informal economic reasoning.

Here I offer a systematic perspective on its mechanisms & difficulties

doi.org/10.1080/0953...

Can't wait to see what people think when they delve into this one.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Together with @paugrau.bsky.social, we have just posted our first Substack, which is our quick take on the outcome of the labour rights and citizenship referendums in Italy on 8-9 June
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My book Democracy Under Strain is finally out, and I couldn’t be happier. 🥳 It’s been a long, challenging journey—but one that’s shaped me deeply as an academic. Here’s what it’s about 🧵 #DemocracyUnderStrain (1/11)

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

🚨🚨🚨Major job alert klaxon!!!🚨🚨🚨

In the Department of Political Economy @kcl-spe.bsky.social we are currently advertising for 3 permanent academic posts (2 Political Theory, 1 PPE)!

Details below. Happy to have an informal discussion with anyone interested.

Please share widely!!
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Delighted to share the fantastic lineup of upcoming speakers for our @kcl-spe.bsky.social Comparative Politics Speaker Series @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social!

Thanks to Raluca Pahontu for co-organizing many of the speakers

Feel free to reach out to @ninaobermeier.com or me if you'd like to attend