Olga Löblová

"Professors' inboxes are like kids' lunchboxes - they require constant viligance and lots of things fester when they inevitably go unattended. In other words, when professors don't respond, it's rarely personal. They probably forgot or got too busy. Email again"

Honestly. How come there isn't a Túró Rudi in every supermarket all over Europe? How hard is it to brand this as a "healthy", naturally high protein snack? What a fail!

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It’s easy to see Trump’s health policies as a problem mostly for Americans, but there are some big direct and indirect effects Europe is going to need to face 1/4

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Which is why, in a couple of years, all of political science will collectively decide institutionalism is dead and it will all be leadership studies and the impact of big 5 personality traits on public policy.

May, free in Health Policy with @xrkulik.bsky.social and an amazing @obshealth.bsky.social team including @matthiaswismar.bsky.social: what Trump 2 means for European health systems and policies. A lot of challenges, a few opportunities, and a great moment for European leadership.

I’ve been writing about the politics and impact of Donald Trump on the US and world, with special attention to Europe and the University of Michigan, and most of it is free to read. This thread, in order, brings it all together. I hope it’s useful as a resource on the different issues.

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Hopes for other outcomes assume a degree of policy responsiveness autocrats don't need to have once checks and balances are weakened.

1. Protests and organising will continue, 2. People will vote against Rep but 2yrs until midterms is long, so no immediate satisfactory effects, 3. The admin will moderate policies a tiny bit in response but not enough to ensure return to RoL and improve economy -- apathy ensues?

Next week I'm starting to teach my "Policymaking in Imperfect Democracies" seminar. I'm looking to diversify the syllabus - I have academic papers that explicitly deal with theories of the policy process in non-democracies, but looking for movies, documentaries, books, news pieces... Pls share tips!

IF there are... Nice one.

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I don't have a subscription and can't read it. Maybe Ignatieff acknowledges his failures and draws lessons from them in the piece. But he certainly doesn't have a recipe for how to save an institution in the face of a hostile state (I'm not sure anyone does, barring collaboration).

CEU alumna here. Not sure I'd take lessons here. The international PR campaign was great but ultimately Orbán won 100%. The uni is out and struggling to survive as an institution in flux. And this was a school with massive own resources, not dependent on the govt for anythg but admin tolerance.

It makes sense that China and Russia dominate the literature - small countries have a smaller pool of people capable of abba willing to gather data in an opaque, possibly dangerous regime.

But not all authoritarian regimes are necessarily very secretive.

Last year, students in my course on "theories of policymaking in imperfect democracies" complained that too much of the existing academic literature is on China and Russia.
This is obviously about to change.

What's the "right" answer? 🤦‍♀️