Aid cuts in the UK signals a move from "grants to expertise"—meaning a shift to low-cost technical assistance.
Through his work with African governments, @leecrawfurd.bsky.social shares examples of both good and bad models of technical assistance:
https://go.cgdev.org/45atSBo
I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow (2 years) to work on all things political finance in Africa. There are no teaching obligations, and lots of opportunities for fieldwork. A PhD in Political Science is a requirement. Please spread the word! Happy to answer questions - send them to my LSE email.
the powers of Kohlberg Hall are undeniable
This was fun to write & we hope useful to scholars, policymakers & journalists. Alioune Ngom & I dig into #Senegal’s political history to correct two recurring media claims.👇Open access @africanaffairs.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/afra... @economist.com @liberation.fr @france24.com @en.france24.com
Jad Abumrad's new series on Fela Kuti is an absolute triumph of podcasting. Beautifully done. open.spotify.com/episode/416u...
I'd think that the most elite meal in Charlottesville is a dozen cookies from ABC?
Mai Hassan, associate professor of @mitpolisci.bsky.social and faculty director of the MIT-Africa Program, co-authored a guest essay in @nytimes.com discussing the consequences of the international community recognizing Sudan’s juntas.
Read here: nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...
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Congrats, Nick! Sounds very interesting.
You have to bring the teachers along when you implement educational reform! waynesandholtz.com/pdfs/PSL_PE_... by @wsandholtz.bsky.social
JOB ALERT: Come work as lab manager / research associate at the Global Diversity Lab at MIT -- a great opportunity for recent undergraduates considering a PhD in political science #development #climate #diversity Recent LM's went to Stanford, Yale, Berkeley
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Swarthmore is hiring for our Social Science Quantitative Lab Associate to support & do teaching quant methods to undergrads. Especially looking for people familiar with sociology and/or political science, and R. Apply by 4/18.
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Happy to answer questions.
Any senator is free to use the rules of the chamber to take up Booker’s filibuster after he collapses in exhaustion.
Who will step up?
If you're young and are interested in international development, it is hard to beat doing an ODI Fellowship
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It is a rare opportunity for foreigners to work as a civil servant in a low or lower-middle income country
Why is this a good idea? 👇
Welcome, @tanukumar.com! Really excited to have you onboard!
This tariff strategy makes sense if your only goal is to have everyone talking about you all the time.
I just can't get it out of my head why this isn't a much bigger story. I guess it's because people are generally so totally cynical about US politics already.
There are two views of US politics right now:
1. The fight is electoral. It implies, wait for thermostatic public opinion to kick in in 18 months
2. The fight is bureaucratic. It implies, stop the pillaging of the economy and the evisceration of the state right now
I’m Team 2 all the way
you're free to cover whatever topic you wish, as long as it's the topic I want. that topic? freedom
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
New, from me: I talked with producers from Last Week Tonight about politicization of government, so was looking forward to seeing this episode. Its a good one, worth sharing.
(Plus, what does the research say about politicization and government performance).
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Institutions are not self-executing. Enough people must be willing to do the right thing by the rules.
Just to repeat, the White House has provided *no evidence* to back up the President’s claim of widespread fraud in USAID. The evidence it has presented points in precisely the other direction.
www.cgdev.org/blog/white-h...
Re: a debate during Trump I, can we all agree that this is a “constitutional crisis”?
USAID was never pure altruism, not even close.
But to have an agency that exists to help people no matter where they live, because we think it's the right thing to do - that's the kind of country we should try to be, and the country many around the world think we are.
No longer
Trump has not just paused new foreign aid. Today Marco Rubio sent a cable to all US diplomatic missions calling for immediate “stop work” orders on *existing* projects.
This is sweeping and reckless. People are going to die.
Tagging folks who may know potential applicants: @nlnathan.bsky.social @sarahbrierley.bsky.social @dhdannychoi.bsky.social @dhidalgo.bsky.social @guillermotoral.com @hlarreguy.bsky.social @nicolewilson.bsky.social (3/3)
Remote work is fine, but the RA should have experience working with messy administrative data in R. Knowledge of public finance is strongly preferred. Please circulate and share with anyone interested. Let me know if you have any questions. (2/3)
As part of an ongoing World Bank project, I am hiring a RA to help clean + analyze administrative data from Ghana's public financial management systems. Please see details and apply via DIME's spring recruitment drive here: datanalytics.worldbank.org/dime-applica.... Deadline is January 31. (1/3)
Straight up looting: let the wealthiest corporations carve up the state’s functions and delegate them to themselves, for profit.
The word for this in comparative politics it “predatory state.” A low autonomy, low capacity, captured state.
