Fabio Angiolillo

A United States that is disintegrating and no longer a leader in Asia As Trump 2.0 hollows out US state capacity, the Asia Pacific must prepare for a world without US leadership

Want to read what I really think about the Trump administration and the Asia Pacific? Here you go. It’s a goddamn catastrophe for U.S. national interests and for the regional economic and diplomatic order.

Yu Hua: Fictional Cities | China Books Review The bestselling Chinese novelist foregrounds individual suffering in the chaos of modern Chinese history. In his latest novel in translation, gratuitous violence shows the limits of fiction.

@chinabooksreview.com just published my review of Yu Hua's 余华 *City of Fiction*《文城》(2021, tr. 2025).

"Along with other contemporary Chinese works with such graphic violence, Yu’s novel does political work by purging the traumas of China’s bloody 20th century."
chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/f...

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Send in your proposal to present your work next semester!!

Paths to Power (PtP) is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! It is a database with data on cabinet members' social profile globally from 1966-2021.

This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏

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Our latest @apsgworkshop.bsky.social call for papers is out 🥳

Apply and share with your PhD, postdoc, assistant professor colleagues that might be interested!

Here is the link to submit your abstract: forms.gle/NTxcY7Ye2JKe...

Deadline is 9 November

Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications The Art of Learning from Rejection

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.

CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.

But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.

👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

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-4 days to apply!! Come and join us in Oxford next year!

Join us next week!
Anna Lia Brunetti (@univie.ac.at ) & @beluabdala.bsky.social (@unisalzburg.bsky.social) will be presenting their work on the moderating role of citizen's meanings of voting.
Sarah Birch (KCL) and Carolien van Ham (@radboudpol.bsky.social) will discuss.

This is a great dataset and we will all use it a lot in the coming years!

📊 What does 2 years of global protests for #Palestine look like?

Nearly 48,000 demonstrations in 137 countries have been held since Oct 2023 —accounting for 15% of all protests worldwide. Explore our new infographic as the Gaza war enters its second year: acleddata.com/infographic/...

Tomorrow!

Just a few days left to apply!

Translate your work into a policy brief on authoritarianism.

How Do Restrictions on High-Skilled Immigration Affect Offshoring? Evidence from the H-1B Program Britta Glennon WORKING PAPER 27538 DOI 10.3386/w27538 ISSUE DATE July 2020 REVISION DATE February 2023 Highly-skilled workers are not only a crucial and relatively scarce inputs into firms' productive and innovative processes, but are also a critical resource determining competitive advantage. An increasingly high proportion of these workers in the US were born abroad and permitted to work on skilled worker visas. How do multinational firms respond when artificial constraints, namely policies restricting skilled immigration, are placed on their ability to hire scarce human capital? This paper combines visa microdata and comprehensive data on US multinational firm activity to demonstrate that firms respond to restrictions on H-1B immigration by increasing foreign affiliate employment at the intensive and extensive margins, particularly in China, India, and Canada. The most impacted jobs were R&D-intensive ones, but there is some evidence that non-R&D employment was also affected. The paper highlights a means by which firms can circumvent constraining policies and mitigate country-level risk, but it also suggests that, for the average MNC, this means is imperfect; for every visa rejection, they hire 0.4 employees abroad. The most globalized MNCs are the most likely to respond to these restrictions by offshoring, highlighting that firm capabilities—in the form of prior internationalization-shape the decision and ability to offshore in response to skilled immigration restrictions; indeed, these firms hire 0.9 employees abroad for every visa rejection. More broadly, the paper provides evidence of a push factor for internationalizing knowledge activity: artificial constraints on resources result in firms circumventing restrictive policies in ways that may not be anticipated by policy makers.

Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada.

via @florianederer.bsky.social

@jbeisermcgrath.bsky.social and I wrote the ‘last word’ for the latest Political Insight issue @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social.

We discuss the global rise of authoritarianism, its implications for domestic and international politics, and the future of democracy.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Next Tuesday!

In just 1h we will kick off the new season - join us!

Here we go with a new series of workshops by @apsgworkshop.bsky.social 🥳

Come and join us on Tuesdays to learn more from fantastic ongoing research!

Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"

Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

🥳🎉 congrats!!

Jacob Nyrup awarded EU funds to research political elites - Department of Political Science Jacob Nyrup from the Department of Political Science has been granted a substantial 18 million Norwegian kroner by the EU's research council to examine political elites in countries before and after d...

I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV).

It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more.

#ERCStG

Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs

We show:

1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.

😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.

👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.

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🧵 When the government announces that it will fire people for producing numbers that the government doesn't like, here is how our institutions should respond. (Whether they do is another story.)

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The 2025 Best PhD Paper Award for the best article/chapter written by a current PhD candidate goes to...

@linettelim.bsky.social PhD candidate at @ucddublin.bsky.social for her chapter "Foreign Bogeymen: The Use of Anti-Foreign Media Propaganda in China"

Congratulations!! 🥳

Here two of my articles on the topic:
1. @jeas-journal.bsky.social with Authoritarian Ruling Parties' Recruitment Dilemma www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

2. Why Do Citizens Refuse to Join the Authoritarian Ruling Party? tinyurl.com/yc82b3h9 based on extensive fieldwork in China

Yet, the CCP really wants/needs middle-class groups within its ranks for legitimacy purposes. This creates a dilemma where those who apply en masse are not those the party wants!

Different from before, during Xi's tenure the CCP has actively applying some force to get who they want.

A key takeaway is:
The fast-paced economic growth in the last 25+ years has made the rising middle class less politically dependent from the CCP, decreasing the practical benefits.

However, less privileged groups have growingly seen the CCP membership as a way to increase their practical benefits.

Why do young Chinese join the Communist Party? For many, it’s practical. Membership in the Chinese Communist Party has become a sticking point for the Trump administration. But many join for professional over political reasons.

I was interviewed by the @washingtonpost.com on who applies vs. gets selected to become member of the Chinese Communist Party, and on the reasons for young social elites not to join the party.

Palestine Action to be banned after judge denies temporary block A High Court judge refused its request to temporarily block the government from proscribing it as a terror group.

At midnight, Palestine Action will become a proscribed terrorist organisation.

As a quoted lawyer notes, it’s the first time the UK has banned a group “which does not advocate for violence”

www.bbc.com/news/article...