Anna Wilson

Staten, det är jag - Respons Är den tidigmoderna patrimonialismen på väg tillbaka? Max Weber skulle nog blivit förvånad om han kunnat se vad som hänt med världens stater och demokratier under 2000-talets första decennier.

Läsvärt om några stora drag i politikens avcivilisering i dag: patrimonialismens återkomst, nyliberalismens vändning till identitetspolitisk auktoritarism och den växande efterfrågan på erkännande och beskydd från andra aktörer än staten.

Each Tuesday, we will signpost you to new texts available in the JVET journal.

This week we share ‘To exit or not to exit? Employers’ considerations in a collective skill formation system' by Anna Wilson & Scherwin M. Bajka (2025).

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#NewTextTuesdays #JVET

Man ska jobba när man är sjuk, svära trohet till nationen, vara villig att dö för Sverige, bli utförsäkrad och förbjudas att yttra sitt missnöje. I utbyte mot allt detta får man äran att bli ignorerad av Sverige om man kidnappas och torteras av en folkmordsregim.

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This week’s Sunday spotlight shines on the theme introduced during this week’s New Text Tuesday.

This week we ask how do recruiter biases and firm-level priorities shape access to apprenticeship opportunities for underrepresented groups?

#SpotlightSundays #JVET

Välfärdsstat ut, gigjobb in Gigjobb och nedmonterad välfärd går hand i hand

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It was great to talk to @flamman.se about the link between weak welfare state protection and the expansion of online platform work in Europe. @pettertornberg.com

New 📝 out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social

1. Governments are taking a more active role in education and training

2. Linking technical issues to politically salient debates, such as climate change and digitalization, helps open the door to new public policies

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Skill‐Biased Policy Change: Governing the Transition to the Knowledge Economy in Germany, Sweden and Britain How have advanced capitalist democracies transitioned from a Fordist to a post-Fordist, knowledge-based economy? And why have they followed seemingly similar policy trajectories despite different eco...

💥 New article out @reggovjournal.bsky.social

Skill-Biased Policy Change: Governing the Transition to the Knowledge Economy in Germany, Sweden & Britain

@ndurazzi.bsky.social @federicofiletti.bsky.social @simonetonelli.bsky.social David Hope, Hanna Kleider

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Dear children of the world Its Not supposed to be like this och ett krossat hjärta

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Now open access 🥳

To exit or not to exit? Employers’ considerations in a collective skill formation system Political economy scholars have long studied the (pre-)conditions conducive to the collective provision of private goods, such as in-firm training. Previous research has established the importance ...

Free access here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KGACP...

Whereas hiring difficulties predict exit considerations, firms that are less selective in their hiring requirements are more likely to consider remaining. However, being active member of professional associations, using resources targeted to support apprentice training, had no sig. effect.

Drawing on novel firm survey data from Switzerland 🇨🇭, a poster-child of dual VET and a crucial case of a collective skill formation system, we test some underlying assumptions in the literature to understand what firm-level factors are linked with exit or non-exit considerations.

Since employer involvement is crucial to sustain a viable dual VET system—commonly associated with low youth unemployment, high social inclusion and skills match on the labor market—underscoring the conditions under which training firms might consider exit adds an important piece to the puzzle.

While political economy and economic literature has established the conditions under which firms choose to provide in-house vocational training, we know less about which training firms consider exiting the vocational education and training (VET) system.

To exit or not to exit? Employers’ considerations in a collective skill formation system Political economy scholars have long studied the (pre-)conditions conducive to the collective provision of private goods, such as in-firm training. Previous research has established the importance ...

🚨New article alert in @jvetjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Together with Scherwin Bajka
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Gig labor is often understood as the expression of digital disruption.

But our new study suggests a deeper story:

👉 The rise of platform labor is inseparable from the retreat of the welfare state.
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w/ @pettertornberg.com

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Över 100 barn har dött av svält i Gaza Över 100 barn har nu dött av svält i Gaza. Det uppger den Hamasstyrda hälsovårdsmyndigheten på söndagen. – Om det är 80, 90 eller 110 barn…

”När bristen på mat är så stor som den varit så länge i Gaza, då går det fort.”

www.dn.se/varlden/over...

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

Growing through skills: The integration of transnational dimensions into growth regimes by Cecilia Ivardi and Linda Wanklin European Consortium for Political Research

We've written a blog post about our recently published article on transnational growth regimes - check it out here: ecpr.eu/news/news/de.... @ecpr.bsky.social @ideasoneurope.bsky.social

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Growing through skills: the integration of transnational dimensions into growth regimes Abstract. This article proposes a new conceptualisation of skill formation within growth regimes that integrates a transnational dimension. Drawing on insi

Our article “Growing through skills: The integration of transnational dimensions into growth regimes” with Linda Wanklin has been published in Socio-Economic Review! 🎉

📄 Read the full article here:
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UN says thousands of babies in Gaza could die without aid as UK, France and Canada warn Israel over offensive Tom Fletcher tells the BBC five aid trucks allowed into Gaza yesterday have not yet reached people on the ground.

Can't believe it has to be said, but babies die if they don't get food and water www.bbc.com/news/live/cq... Every civilized nation should protest engineered famines, no matter where they occur.

Over 650 political scientists who have dedicated our lives to the study of democracy & government, have signed this letter enumerating our deep concerns about this administration’s actions that undermine the Constitution and the rule of law. Please share.
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"The task of criticism is always to ask why something riddled with errors becomes so widespread." Tosaka Jun, The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism