@mbondeli.bsky.social
PostDoc @ Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Ph.D. in Political Science, Yale University Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar, 2024-25 mbondeli.github.io Berlin, Germany | from Bern, Switzerland
On Thursday, I was at @hertieschool.bsky.social to discuss how legacies of autocratic state-building derailed Weimar democracy.
Thank you to @ariannaornaghi.bsky.social, @markkayser.bsky.social and the entire PE community for your engagement, feedback, and probing questions!
With autocrats and other losers attacking Wikipedia, I have now set up a monthly donation to the Wikimedia foundation, for the price of a latte macchiato in Berlin-Mitte.
Wikipedia has flaws, but it remains an exceptional resource worth supporting in our era of rampant bullshittification.
The decimation of American academia continues unabated.
Again, Europe, if anyone is paying attention: This is a generational opportunity.
Seeing my friends' countless IG stories from NoKings protests make me miss the US 😢
19.10.2025 08:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Do I have someone in my network who works with/knows someone at Emily's List, ideally in the United States, and would be willing to put me in touch for a research project?
15.10.2025 09:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations, Reto!
15.10.2025 08:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I worry this is too small a reform to pay electoral dividends, yet important enough to negatively affect the lives of (potential) immigrants. Lose-lose, in other words.
But I am glad you are more optimistic!
Terrible decision. The prospect of rapid naturalization made moving to Germany very attractive.
A huge missed opportunity, especially as the US is desperate to kick out skilled people from abroad.
www.dw.com/de/deutschla...
"The great excesses that are now projected as a result of the new budget will likely cause a debt-induced heart attack in the relatively near future [...] I'd say three years, give or take a year or two."
Just a heads-up to my pension fund managers, if you are paying attention
on.ft.com/4mChOzi
Does not surprise me at all that New York City is the place where a new anti-fascist politics that brings people together in real, off-line ways is born.
In the best tradition of Fiorello LaGuardia.
Sipping on a glass of Chasselas while reading this fascinating paper:
academic.oup.com/ereh/article...
Wild to check in on Bluesky once a day to see the Trump admin set American academia on fire, step by step by step
08.08.2025 12:04 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to host the 4th iteration of the Transformations of Democracy Junior Scholars Workshop at WZB Berlin together with Hanno Hilbig!
Amazing talks & exchanges with colleagues from Princeton, Harvard, UC Davis, Toulouse School of Economics, Copenhagen, Humboldt, Chemnitz, EUI, and beyond..
Want to do cutting-edge research in an ambitious and supportive environment *and* live in a diverse, exciting city with outstanding quality of life?
Come join us at HU Berlin!
If you have questions about the position or the city, do not hesitate to reach out.
There is also "On the reliability of published findings using the regression discontinuity design in political science" by Stommes, Aronow and Sävje on RD: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
23.07.2025 08:01 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0They are my favorite thing about surveys! Excellent for quality control and really insightful
06.07.2025 12:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Unsure which panel to finish your day with? Come join us in 0.A.02 for an exciting set of historical papers on violence, conflict and democracy. @dnsltr.bsky.social @franvillamil.bsky.social @golafs.bsky.social
26.06.2025 14:15 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Very happy to share the program for the 3rd edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop.
Taking place at the University of Barcelona on June 30th and July 1st.
Really looking forward to it!
Cc: @didacqueralt.bsky.social
Which strikes me as important. The issue is not that the court was on board with the power grab. It is that courts are slow to check abuses of emergency powers.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preu%C3...
The federal government did not win Preussen contra Reich -- important parts of the emergency decree and emergency actions (like the purge of the Prussian bureaucracy) were found unconstitutional.
The key point is that the court only ruled when the facts on the ground were irreversible.
Very excited to be a part of this workshop with a fascinating set of papers. I will be sharing my research on policing, political violence and extremist voting in Weimar Germany.
Thank you to @tinepaulsen.bsky.social, @pauvallprat.bsky.social & @franvillamil.bsky.social for bringing us together!
Thank you very much! I am incredibly excited to get started.
If you are in Berlin and work on extremism, political violence, democratic backsliding, causal inference, or any related issues, please reach out. I would love to meet for coffee!
Congratulations, Amanda! Fantastic news! 🎉
11.03.2025 19:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Unexpectedly? I cannot imagine to whom this might be unexpected.
www.ft.com/content/311a...
Don't think people will want to become pawns in every garden-variety international dispute
www.ft.com/content/4461...
Is Europe serious about wanting to close its tech/AI gap with the US?
The Trump admin is reviving its policies of harassing, insulting, and making life difficult for workers from abroad contributing to the US economy.
This would be a golden opportunity to poach that talent.
PS: I guess the upshot is that in the debate between those who say left policy is not ambitious enough vs those who say left communication is poor, I am closer to the latter position
03.01.2025 20:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(3) Immigration Reform: Generally lower barriers to German citizenship, allowing dual citizenship after naturalization
(4) Legalization of cannabis
(5) Increase of minimum wage by 15% to 12 Euro/h
That's not a poor record in my mind!
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(1) Deutschlandticket: Lowering the cost of local public transit with an affordable subscription ticket. Game changer if you care about reducing car usage.
(2) After the invasion of Ukraine, there were serious concerns about blackouts due to severe energy shortages. That didn't happen!
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My sizzling hot take is that the Scholz chancellorship was not all that bad. Important achievements are clouded by a general sense of malaise that is disconnected from fundamentals.
There are several really significant achievements to show for! Off the top of my head:
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