The 25/26 SKAPE Seminar Series kicks off with:
Topic modelling UK science advisory committees during Covid-19
23 Oct, 1-2pm, VLR, Chrystal Macmillan Building / Online
More info and registration: edin.ac/46uJMGn
08.10.2025 10:24 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Honoured to receive the best paper award of @jicsp.bsky.social together with Sanni Välimäki, @jlammit.bsky.social and Johanna Närvi. Thank you🙏🏻
And thank you for an inspiring conference in York @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social !
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Congratulations to the winners of the @universitypress.cambridge.org best article price for @jicsp.bsky.social at the @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social Conference at #York2025:
Sanni Välimäki
@jlammit.bsky.social
@merita.bsky.social
Johanna Närvi
See the paper here: tinyurl.com/d3u5ny4t
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Are you presenting a paper at the @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social Conference?
Does your paper take a comparative perspective or have an international dimension to its argument?
Then why not consider submitting it to @jicsp.bsky.social
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03.07.2025 12:51 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Very much looking forward to the start of the @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social EASP-SPA conference later today. 1 hour to go! #York2025
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Title page "Shifting Paths? The Evolution of Southern European Growth Trajectories Between the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid Pandemic." Authors Fabio Bulfone, Mischa Stratenwerth, and Adrianna Tassinari
Abstract
Keywords: Comparative political economy, economic sectors, export growth, growth models, post-austerity, Southern Europe
This paper traces the growth trajectories of the Southern European economies (Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain) from the financial to the covid crisis. From a review of the comparative political economy literature focusing on Southern Europe, we derive three propositions regarding the growth profile, the development of high value-added services and manufacturing exports, and employment outcomes. To assess the accuracy of these propositions, we conduct
growth decompositions based on import-adjusted demand components as well as on sectoral output and employment indicators. The data show that Southern European economies are similar in that export-led growth has not been sufficient to boost aggregate growth, stimulate high value-added services or manufacturing, reverse pro-cyclical employment declines, or create high-wage employment opportunities. But the Southern European economies also differ, both in terms of their sectoral growth profiles and their aggregate performance. In the second half of the decade, Portugal and Spain managed to combine domestic demand and exports to achieve stronger growth than Italy and Greece. Sectoral developments in Portugal and Spain (and to a lesser extent in Italy) tentatively suggest a potential “Iberian growth path” that is compatible with euro area constraints but ultimately peripheral. The paper concludes by considering the empirical and theoretical implications of these findings for the study of the Southern European model of capitalism.
In a new MPIfG Discussion Paper, @fbulfone.bsky.social, @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social, and @aritassinari.bsky.social trace the growth trajectories of Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain from the financial crisis to the covid pandemic.
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26.06.2025 07:25 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
American moves to Europe, experiences labour policy (protection), cleans a dataset of thousands of reforms, can now explain where they come from: Parties campaigning on left-leaning economic policies are more likely to implement pro-worker policies, but only during non-crisis economic conditions.
30.06.2025 16:34 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Hello BlueSky! We're happy to be here! Please follow us for the latest research on international and comparative social policy, including new articles published in the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. Happy to be part of the #SocialPolicy conversation.
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Lecturer in public policy and management at the University of York. Specialist in education, public services, social policy history, and the voluntary sector. Currently mapping the VCSE workforce in North Yorkshire and the Humber. All views my own
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