Cecilia IG
@ceciliaivardi.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Political Economy, University of St.Gallen
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Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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If McNamara could etch one lesson into marble, it would be this: “be okay with the struggle.”
“Because it’s hard doesn’t mean you’re dumb. It’s supposed to be hard.”
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“Because it’s hard doesn’t mean you’re dumb. It’s supposed to be hard.”
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November 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
If McNamara could etch one lesson into marble, it would be this: “be okay with the struggle.”
“Because it’s hard doesn’t mean you’re dumb. It’s supposed to be hard.”
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“Because it’s hard doesn’t mean you’re dumb. It’s supposed to be hard.”
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Ironically, while language and methods are becoming more complex, the political reality that is being studied (or better: created for study) often ignores the many complexities of the real world.
October 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Ironically, while language and methods are becoming more complex, the political reality that is being studied (or better: created for study) often ignores the many complexities of the real world.
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“likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
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October 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM
“likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
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In the new TMK, @triofrancos.bsky.social joins us to discuss the about the many frontiers, tensions, and futures of green capitalism. We go deep into the political economy of lithium and the material infrastructures of extraction. Thea is so sharp and this is such a great conversation.
425. The Oxymorons of Green Capitalism (ft. Thea Riofrancos)
We are joined by Thea Riofrancos — author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism — to chat about the many frontiers, tensions, and futures of green capitalism. How do we understand a system
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September 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
In the new TMK, @triofrancos.bsky.social joins us to discuss the about the many frontiers, tensions, and futures of green capitalism. We go deep into the political economy of lithium and the material infrastructures of extraction. Thea is so sharp and this is such a great conversation.
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Remember when dense networks of strategic cross-shareholdings among firms, native to coordinated market economies, went the way of the dodo?
The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?
Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?
Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
October 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Remember when dense networks of strategic cross-shareholdings among firms, native to coordinated market economies, went the way of the dodo?
The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?
Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?
Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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I really feel this. The whole point of reading a book - or an op-ed, or a SoMe post, etc. - is that I know that there is *someone*, another human, who wants to say something to me.
September 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I really feel this. The whole point of reading a book - or an op-ed, or a SoMe post, etc. - is that I know that there is *someone*, another human, who wants to say something to me.
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Are you a woman who has recently started a TT position in politics or a politics related field? Then @katharinalawall.bsky.social and me would like to warmly invite you to join a new network for early career women: WIPS: Women in Political Science.
September 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Are you a woman who has recently started a TT position in politics or a politics related field? Then @katharinalawall.bsky.social and me would like to warmly invite you to join a new network for early career women: WIPS: Women in Political Science.
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New 📝 out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social
1. Governments are taking a more active role in education and training
2. Linking technical issues to politically salient debates, such as climate change and digitalization, helps open the door to new public policies
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1. Governments are taking a more active role in education and training
2. Linking technical issues to politically salient debates, such as climate change and digitalization, helps open the door to new public policies
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
New 📝 out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social
1. Governments are taking a more active role in education and training
2. Linking technical issues to politically salient debates, such as climate change and digitalization, helps open the door to new public policies
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1. Governments are taking a more active role in education and training
2. Linking technical issues to politically salient debates, such as climate change and digitalization, helps open the door to new public policies
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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📖 New Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Why AI Won’t Save Your Writing
The Brown University political economist talks irritation, PowerPoint & why the page is still the only place where real thinking happens.
Read → catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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The Brown University political economist talks irritation, PowerPoint & why the page is still the only place where real thinking happens.
Read → catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Writing, Thinking, and Why AI Can’t Save You
Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
📖 New Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Why AI Won’t Save Your Writing
The Brown University political economist talks irritation, PowerPoint & why the page is still the only place where real thinking happens.
Read → catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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The Brown University political economist talks irritation, PowerPoint & why the page is still the only place where real thinking happens.
Read → catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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🚨New article alert in @jvetjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Together with Scherwin Bajka
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
To exit or not to exit? Employers’ considerations in a collective skill formation system
Political economy scholars have long studied the (pre-)conditions conducive to the collective provision of private goods, such as in-firm training. Previous research has established the importance ...
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September 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
🚨New article alert in @jvetjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Together with Scherwin Bajka
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Humanity in the midst of inhumanity. We are letting history repeats itself
July 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Humanity in the midst of inhumanity. We are letting history repeats itself
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The @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy and Welfare Network was thrilled to inaugurate its Early Career Workshop at our meeting last week 🎉🙌
July 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy and Welfare Network was thrilled to inaugurate its Early Career Workshop at our meeting last week 🎉🙌
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Yeah let's burn the planet with ChatGPT and cool ourselves with smart bottles cause you won't need to breathe in their fucking tech future
Jackets laced with water pipes and smart bottles - the tech solutions to the heatwave
Jackets laced with water pipes and smart bottles - the tech solutions to the heatwave
Heatwaves and hot days may often be described as "good weather", but heat can have a dangerous effect on the human body.
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June 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Yeah let's burn the planet with ChatGPT and cool ourselves with smart bottles cause you won't need to breathe in their fucking tech future
We've written a blog post about our recently published article on transnational growth regimes - check it out here: ecpr.eu/news/news/de.... @ecpr.bsky.social @ideasoneurope.bsky.social
Growing through skills: The integration of transnational dimensions into growth regimes by Cecilia Ivardi and Linda Wanklin
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
June 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
We've written a blog post about our recently published article on transnational growth regimes - check it out here: ecpr.eu/news/news/de.... @ecpr.bsky.social @ideasoneurope.bsky.social
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Today is the second anniversary of Silvio Berlusconi's death & right-wing media in Italy are singing his praises & holding out about how he'd magically resolve all the world's problems if he were still alive & in power.
Time to remind everyone of the murky & violent background of his rise to power.
Time to remind everyone of the murky & violent background of his rise to power.
18 January 1994, Democrazia Cristiana, the governing party in Italy for 50 years, is dissolved, Berlusconi founds his party Forza Italia & 'ndrangheta murders two Carabinieri on the A3 motorway, near Scilla in Calabria. Here we look at how these 3 events may be closely linked [Thread] >> 1
June 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Today is the second anniversary of Silvio Berlusconi's death & right-wing media in Italy are singing his praises & holding out about how he'd magically resolve all the world's problems if he were still alive & in power.
Time to remind everyone of the murky & violent background of his rise to power.
Time to remind everyone of the murky & violent background of his rise to power.
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They will flood the zone, they will spin things, they will spoil evidence, everything to minimize opponents and obfuscate the public. I came of age during the peak of Berlusconi - been there, done that. This is just an enhanced, more 1930s nostalgia version of all of that.
Every day the US political news gets darker. Do not normalize it though. That’s what the MAGA and its international equivalents want, but a fascist is a fascist is a fascist.
June 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
They will flood the zone, they will spin things, they will spoil evidence, everything to minimize opponents and obfuscate the public. I came of age during the peak of Berlusconi - been there, done that. This is just an enhanced, more 1930s nostalgia version of all of that.
Our article “Growing through skills: The integration of transnational dimensions into growth regimes” with Linda Wanklin has been published in Socio-Economic Review! 🎉
📄 Read the full article here:
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📄 Read the full article here:
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
Growing through skills: the integration of transnational dimensions into growth regimes
Abstract. This article proposes a new conceptualisation of skill formation within growth regimes that integrates a transnational dimension. Drawing on insi
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June 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Our article “Growing through skills: The integration of transnational dimensions into growth regimes” with Linda Wanklin has been published in Socio-Economic Review! 🎉
📄 Read the full article here:
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
📄 Read the full article here:
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
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This great piece from Benjamin Braun and Cedric Durand, on the factions competing over the White House through the mess of US decline, has given me some of the greatest clarity on what is going on right now. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand
Factions of capital in the second Trump administration
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May 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This great piece from Benjamin Braun and Cedric Durand, on the factions competing over the White House through the mess of US decline, has given me some of the greatest clarity on what is going on right now. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
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It so happens that Italians *can* send a signal against the plight of minorities (at this round, immigrants and vulnerable workers) at a referendum in just about a week.
The president of the Senate says people should stay home. Trade unions say go. You choose.
The president of the Senate says people should stay home. Trade unions say go. You choose.
May 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It so happens that Italians *can* send a signal against the plight of minorities (at this round, immigrants and vulnerable workers) at a referendum in just about a week.
The president of the Senate says people should stay home. Trade unions say go. You choose.
The president of the Senate says people should stay home. Trade unions say go. You choose.
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“Reuters examined the data from the Gaza Health Ministry to look more closely at those who have died.
It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”
It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”
The lives lost in Gaza: A closer look at those killed in the conflict so far
The death toll from the war already dwarfs the numbers killed in previous bouts of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza over many decades.
www.reuters.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“Reuters examined the data from the Gaza Health Ministry to look more closely at those who have died.
It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”
It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”
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it seriously is an AI/tech-brain thing to think of reading as a sort of decontextualized, totally purposeless activity that can be abstracted from the audience (even abstracted from the author) to the point that the text can be repeatably summarized with no intention or purpose associated with it
May 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
it seriously is an AI/tech-brain thing to think of reading as a sort of decontextualized, totally purposeless activity that can be abstracted from the audience (even abstracted from the author) to the point that the text can be repeatably summarized with no intention or purpose associated with it
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This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right.
It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵
It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵
May 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right.
It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵
It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵
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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
May 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street