Christian Elliott

I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨

What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions

This is the key dilemma in integrating AI into university education. All the 'innovative' tactics - critiquing AI generated content, using AI to reproduce good writing - assume skills will develop in the interaction, but it's like expecting food photographers to cook tasty meals

🚨New piece in Politics & Society! w/ @maxkiefel.bsky.social @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social
Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles 🇨🇳 🇺🇸
doi.org/10.1177/0032...

And a very special happy holidays to those of you who actually completed your peer reviews on time #polisky

*Political scientists who rejected sociological institutionalism* did not anticipate the potential for democratic breakdown

Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?

Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7

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PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

Best practice in academia: prepare 2-3 jokes based on out of date cultural references

Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️

Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians?

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Hi! Added.

I interviewed Mathias Larsen on key takeaways of our Hopkins report @phenomenalworld.bsky.social

Why is this BRI 2.0 private-sector led? Does Beijing know the scale? What are motivations of firms going out? What are host countries agency & developmentalist plans
phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...

We can have the dig and the ezra klein show

I don't need him to be my superman, he can take an L from time to time

hey #polisci, if you're at #APSA2025, set the alarm, grab coffee & come hear about my new book Existential Politics w/ @profkharrison.bsky.social @thomasnhale.bsky.social ale.bsky.social @bentleyallan.bsky.social allan.bsky.social @agazmararian.bsky.social rarian.bsky.social & Michael Ross. Deets 👇

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

I do think you’ve gotta hand it to Ezra Klein for this one, which we need more of, much more, from his peers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Held together by glue

I wonder which departments will pause the tenure clock for anti-fascist mobilization

mandatory @verybadwizards.bsky.social

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Discipline versus subject matter I'm assuming?

Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/

Upping my OTM donation

Taco is Dead. Long Live Empanada EMPANDA — Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything? The last two weeks have seen a flurry of Trump tariff deals before the August 1st...

Robert Armstrong (who coined Trump Always Chickens Out thesis) says TACO is falsified. Its now WACO — World Always Chickens Out.

NEW: @thepolycrisis.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social take:
EMPANDA — Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything?
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

Senate panel raises hopes that NSF will restore killed grants Republicans promise to work with Democrats to salvage defeated amendment

🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!!

An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today.

🧵 Brief thread 1/4

STOP

The Politics of Rural Hospital Closures - Political Behavior Who do citizens hold responsible for outcomes and experiences? Hundreds of rural hospitals have closed or significantly reduced their capacity since just 2010, leaving much of the rural U.S. without a...

"Despite closures being over twice as likely to occur in the Republican-controlled states that did not expand Medicaid, closures were associated with reduced support for federal Democrats and the Affordable Care Act following local closures."

YIKES

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If a political movement never gains power, is that counting as a failure?

Get to spending, folks

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This is still so crazy to me: