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Francesc Amat

@cescamat.bsky.social

Ramon y Cajal & Deputy Director of IPERG http://www.ub.edu/iperg/. Advancing https://www.ub.edu/mipe/ at University of Barcelona https://sites.google.com/site/cescamat

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Noon panels! 🔔

After the coffee break 🥐☕ and the BaNPS presentation 🚀

👉🏻 Join us in room 24.S01 for a panel on Democracies & Rights, in room 24.019 for a panel on Territory & Europe and in room 24.021 for one on Political identities!

10.12.2025 11:02 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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L'aula plena per la presentació de la Barcelona Network of Political Science (BaNPS) per part de Jordi Muñoz @jordimunoz.bsky.social i Marc Guinjoan @mguinjoan.bsky.social

👉🏻 www.banps.cat

10.12.2025 10:33 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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Good morning and welcome to the JCPOP 2025! 🌞

We kick off in 15 minutes 🎉 Check out the programme 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/jcpop

Looking forward to seeing you at the different panels, the keynote @evaanduiza.bsky.social and the presentation of BaNPS! 👀

With @politiquesupf.bsky.social @ibei.org

10.12.2025 08:18 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Institucions i ciutadania - La UB Divulga - UB

📅 El 10 de desembre a les 18:30, a la Sala Assumpció Català de l'Edifici Històric de la @ub.edu, tindrà lloc la sessió: "Institucions i ciutadania: una relació en revisió".

📌Inscripció prèvia obligatòria, amb aforament limitat): https://web.ub.edu/ca/web/laubdivulga/institucions-i-ciutadania🧵🔚

09.12.2025 11:45 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Admissions are now open for the MSc in Institutions and Political Economy at the UB @ub.edu!

Check it out if you are interested in the intersection of political science, applied economics and economic history.

It's a two-year research-oriented and highly internationalized master.

09.12.2025 10:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Institucions i ciutadania - La UB Divulga - UB

Cada cop més joves mostren desafecció envers les institucions: és desencís polític o un fenomen que afecta també l’educació i la sanitat? ☕ Als #CafèsCientíficsUB debatrem com es pot reconstruir la confiança.

➡️ 10/12/2025 - 18:30 h / Sala Assumpció Català de l'Edifici Històric de la @ub.edu

04.12.2025 13:47 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Això serà demà dimecres 10 de desembre a les 18.30h. Parlarem d'institucions, ciutadans i confiança en les institucions. Veniu!

09.12.2025 10:04 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse. Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

06.12.2025 20:22 — 👍 916    🔁 405    💬 34    📌 90

🔊 Applications for the Fall 2026 intake of the MSc in Institutions and Political Economy are now open! The MSc in Institutions and Political Economy is a 2-year program with a strong emphasis on research and a multidisciplinary approach towards the Social Sciences.

04.12.2025 15:22 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

DEADLINE APPROACHING

The first position with the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods at the University of Oxford has a deadline this Friday at noon UK time. Come be the first member of the team who are going to revolutionise methods training at Oxford!

www.politics.ox.ac.uk/opportunity/...

03.12.2025 11:59 — 👍 8    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

Very happy to host Francisco Garfias (Duke University) today at IPERG.

Seminar at the usual time: 2.30pm.
Seminar Room 1038.
@ubeconomics.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social @econhistub.bsky.social @ub.edu

04.12.2025 12:11 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 📢 Call for Papers

IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop

Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social

🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford)

📍 University of Barcelona
🗓 June 29–30, 2026

Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026:
shorturl.at/oZTNy

#pleaseRT

02.12.2025 09:20 — 👍 36    🔁 31    💬 0    📌 2
EJM - Econ Job Market

I am hiring a 2-year post-doc, starting Sep 1 2026
econjobmarket.org/positions/12...
If you are interested in culture, gender and masculinity, please apply and join me in Sydney!

15.11.2025 20:11 — 👍 21    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 0
📖 Isidre Nonell (1872–1911). Editorial MNAC, Barcelona, i Fundación Cultural Mapfre, Madrid, 2000

📖 Isidre Nonell (1872–1911). Editorial MNAC, Barcelona, i Fundación Cultural Mapfre, Madrid, 2000

Paisatge de Sant Martí de Provençals, per Isidre Nonell

11.11.2025 16:15 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project

You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!

⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025

wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

1/4 🧵

10.11.2025 06:50 — 👍 76    🔁 80    💬 1    📌 11
Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - Volume 55

How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations?

In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer.

tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp

06.11.2025 08:28 — 👍 66    🔁 32    💬 1    📌 2

⚠️ Due to heavy rain warnings, @upf.edu has suspended all academic activity until 1:00 pm tomorrow.

👉 Morning #JCPOP sessions are cancelled until 1 pm. More information about afternoon activities, if they are possible, will be shared tomorrow morning. Thank you for your understanding!

05.11.2025 22:29 — 👍 2    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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BANPS.CAT The Barcelona Network of Political Science brings together researchers from several institutions across Catalonia, including Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Universita...

📩We also have a mailing list. Subscribe at www.banps.cat

👟We’re kicking off now. More updates coming soon!

05.11.2025 10:30 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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👋Welcome to the Barcelona Network of Political Science.

▶️We are here to promote research, strengthen ties between institutions, and support young researchers and students in developing their research careers.

05.11.2025 10:30 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 2

The official call is now out! seleccio.uab.cat/seleccio/con...

30.10.2025 09:39 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Joel Mokyr wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel recognizes Mokyr’s theory on sustained economic growth

Joel Mokyr’s genius lies in making us think about the world in an original and insightful way. His recognition is so well deserved. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

13.10.2025 18:50 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n

03.11.2025 12:08 — 👍 45    🔁 44    💬 1    📌 0
Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></...

🚨 New LSE job in political science 🚨

We're looking for a *Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy* to join the LSE School of Public Policy

Please share!

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

22.10.2025 16:08 — 👍 63    🔁 67    💬 1    📌 0

Here I am again to witness my academic funeral.As I did some years ago with my job at Oxford, here I come to advertise my EUI chair. It has been a great job and I am happy to answer Q's. Also, fyi, I am not (yet) leaving the EUI. I do need, however a new name for my chair:suggestions very welcome.

24.10.2025 08:54 — 👍 37    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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«L'extrema dreta global no té la batalla guanyada, ni tan sols als Estats Units» La professora de Ciències Polítiques de la Universitat de Xicago visita la UB i explica com es viu en carn pròpia la pressió de Donald Trump contra les ciutats nord-americanes: "La societat civil està...

«L'extrema dreta global no té la batalla guanyada, ni tan sols als Estats Units» | Nació naciodigital.cat/internaciona...

26.10.2025 20:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions.
www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

23.10.2025 14:03 — 👍 91    🔁 84    💬 0    📌 5
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«Han desaparegut els representants polítics pobres o d'orígens humils» La professora de la Universitat de Chicago ha estudiat les causes del retrocés democràtic global

Quan una eminència de la ciència política americana moderadíssima diu “El retrocés democràtic està molt lligat al trencament de la identificació entre l’esquerra i la classe treballadora” alguna cosa està canviant

Entrevisto Susan Stokes a @nuvolpuntcom.bsky.social

www.nuvol.com/llibres/assa...

23.10.2025 07:20 — 👍 21    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1

Today we are very happy to have @dominic-rohner.bsky.social (Geneva) giving an IPERG Seminar.

Usual time: 2.30pm. Room 1038

Everyone is welcomed!
@ubeconomics.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social @econhistub.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social @ub.edu

23.10.2025 08:48 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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«Han desaparegut els representants polítics pobres o d'orígens humils» La professora de la Universitat de Chicago ha estudiat les causes del retrocés democràtic global

Entrevista d'en @joanburdeus.bsky.social a la Susan Stokes, que la setmana passada ens va visitar a la UB per donar el tret de sortida a l'IPERC.

www.nuvol.com/llibres/assa...

22.10.2025 14:58 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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JCPOP25

🗓️ Save the date! The 8th Catalan Political Behaviour and Public Opinion Conference will take place on 6 November at @ibei.org & @politiquesupf.bsky.social @upf.edu

There will be a fantastic line up of papers, so if you are around, come join us sites.google.com/view/jcpop/

22.10.2025 07:20 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

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