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/...

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/...

There's also this great related paper by @manuel-alvarinho.bsky.social and @milanthies.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Join us in Milano in August 2025 for the #ESPAnet conference to present your research on the the politics or policies of education.

Submit your abstract here: www.espanetmilano2025.it/en-US/submis...

On #FirstView -

"Conviction or Consent? Tracing the Influence of Coalition Partners on Family Policy under Centre-Right Ministers" - doi.org/10.1017/gov....

Manuel Alvariño and Milan Thies

Just joined Bluesky? Here is an aspirational starter pack on social policy! I hope it is a useful nudge to connect the network: go.bsky.app/AvJWyV4

In 'Conviction or Consent?', with @milanthies.bsky.social, we argue that the CDU 🇩🇪 and the PP 🇪🇸 adopted a progressive leave reform bending to coalition pressures and bureaucratic continuity from progressive parties. Key insights on reform attribution in coalition governments!
doi.org/10.1017/gov....

How fun can teaching be? Today was the last day of my Computational Text Analysis seminar @UniMarburg. Super proud of the progress the students made. Most had little to no prior R-knowledge. Today they presented impressive results having applied (un)supervised machine learning and more