Stefan Hee

New York Times: For Mamdani, Winning Is One Thing. Governing Will Be Quite Another.

Mamdani Won. South Florida Expects a Real Estate Bump. Some brokers and developers in the region are waiting eagerly to see if the election of a democratic socialist will drive more wealthy New Yorkers south.

Right-Wing Media Warns of Socialism and Chaos After Mamdani Victory

Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think New York’s next mayor won’t save the Democrats. Nov. 5, 2025, 5:04 a.m. ET

New York Times having a totally normal one

YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty Reflections on the Brexit Revolution: 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture

I did a lecture on the impact of Brexit on British politics. Watch it here if you're really bored www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztqL...

“We All Ended Up in Islington”: The Hidden Multi-Dimensionality of UK Segregation This post introduces a new Composite Segregation Index combining ethnicity, class, and education to capture spatial sorting - and shows why UK's census architecture hides the social dynamic beneath.

"gentrification looks like integration in the data" New ways to look into segregation.

Last day to apply! 👇

This 👇 administration was still running on 39% approval ratings when I last checked.

Future generations will struggle to comprehend.

This is how destruction of freedom of speech & media independence looks like, it’s autocratization & unlevelling the playing field.

Yet again, it is not surprising what Trump does, but shocking how weak resistance by civil society & media is. Democratic society in the U.S. is not up to the task.

Excited to announce the publication of my article in Comparative Political Studies on how crises shape the ideological legitimation strategies of authoritarian regimes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🌊 Join us at a beautiful lakeside retreat with @apbtutzing.bsky.social! Exchange about current IR debates.
Connect with fellow #EarlyCareerResearchers and explore exciting new research.

📢 #CfP open — submit your abstracts now!
🗓 Deadline: 30.09.2025

#InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience

Regular reminder to 🇩🇪 parties who see such numbers:

That AfD got strong bc nobody represented right-wing populist positions does not mean that AfD will lose if you adopt such positions.

Often it may just make things worse: you acknowledge you were wrong, AfD was right & now you appear spineless.

Geopolitics meets business interests: the EU and European economic security In recent years, the European Union (EU) has introduced several measures intended to safeguard European economic security. We argue that variation in the distributional effects of these measures ex...

🤔 Who shape's the EU's economic security measures?

🥁 @andduer.bsky.social, Gemma Mateo González & @loranevisart.bsky.social suggest that part of the answer is business interests 💼👇

🚨New working paper 🚨

Excited to share my new working paper on rural discontent with climate policies in Europe.

As the climate backlash materialises, especially in rural places, I ask: why do people oppose the green transition in rural areas?

A quick 🧵

The paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Breaking the Intellectual Doom Loop: How to Write While the World Burns (and Your Brain Spirals) Featuring Anxiety, a Doom-Containment Protocol, and a Heroic Effort to Work Offline

My most personal post yet, a response to so many messages after launching Respect the Marble

“Breaking the Intellectual Doom Loop: How to Write While the World Burns”

ft. anxiety, a doom-containment protocol & heroic attempts to write offline

🧵

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

I can highly recommend applying for this position! Working with the amazing Salzburg colleagues in a great academic environment is an absolute pleasure. If you have questions about my past and present experiences as an IR PhD student in Salzburg, feel free to contact my anytime 🙂

We are inviting applications for a 4-year PhD position in International Relations at the @unisalzburg.bsky.social.

Requirement: MA in Political Science or a closely related social science

Application deadline: 2 June 2025

For more details, see tinyurl.com/5ew3auby

#Polisky #poliscijobs

ICYMI #openaccess in Geopolitics: When Trade Hits Home: Distributional Effects of Trade and Populist Voting Across Space by @stefanhee.bsky.social

Download and read for free:

🚨Publication alert 🚨
(it feels totally surreal to post this finally 😱)

A few months before my PhD defence, I can finally report that my first peer-reviewed article has been published. This is a major milestone for my career, so thank you to everyone involved 🙏
#EarlyCareer

It is free access, so:

Zeitenwende bei Migration? Zeit wär's! Die EU baut weiter an der "Festung Europa". Die Demografie zeigt, dass es andere, nämlich klar definierte, legale Wege in die Union braucht

Mein Kommentar zum heutigen Standard. Let the shitstorm begin 👇
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
@sceus.bsky.social
#EUsky #Eursky #Migcit

Politique européenne 2024/4 (No 86) Taking stock of the 2024 European elections in the 27 Member States

Ever wondered what happened in the last EU elections in each Member State? Can't wait for the upcoming edited books? Wait no more – the latest @politiqueue.bsky.social special issue brings together short research notes from EU specialists in every EU MS just for you:

shs.cairn.info/journal-poli...

Beyond Thriving Cities and Declining Rural Areas: Mapping Geographic Divides in Germany’s Employment Structure, 1993–2019 - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie This article assesses the popular thesis of growing regional inequality and urban–rural divides for Germany, focusing on the quality of employment opportunities. Drawing on a 2% sample of individuals ...

How does employment change differ across German regions & is it all about the urban-rural divide? 🏙️ 🏡

Happy to see the first paper of my PhD now out in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie and Sozialpsychologie!

Read the paper #OpenAccess here doi.org/10.1007/s115... and 🧵👇:

Reciprocal Tariff Calculations Executive Summary Reciprocal tariffs are calculated as the tariff rate necessary to balance bilateral trade deficits between the U.S. and each of our trading partners. This calculation assumes that pe...

This is what Trump's "economists" say about how they calculated the "reciprocal" tariffs. Don[t be fooled by the equation. They commit countless crimes against economics. ustr.gov/issue-areas/... +

I just did the numbers and this assumption looks to be completely right.

Let’s pause for a minute and consider how INSANE this is. 🧵

apnews.com/article/whit...
how dare you?
#magnolia
#beautiful
#salzburg

Happy Liberation Eve!

Linking public service deprivation to immigration rather than to cuts & administrative burdens is a POLITICAL CHOICE

My research shows that “immigrants cutting the cue" framing was key part of far right’s rise in Europe 👇🏽

🇬🇧: ap.lc/jwBBV

🇮🇹: ap.lc/WRePJ

Yet another form of far right normalization

3. I think the easiest way to help is aimed as helping science in general rather than US science or scientists. And that is to protect endangered datasets — house them outside of the U.S. and make them publicly available.

Very cool project!
Why is C not higher than A? This feels like a two-by-two with high/low economic utility and high/low spiritual utility.
I am looking forward to reading future versions of this 😊

I am extremely proud to announce that my first co-authored paper got published recently 😍
Thank you so much @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social for your guidance and support. It was an inspiring experience working with you!
Thanks also to @callegall.bsky.social for making this possible!

Danke @maithinkx.bsky.social für die Zsf! Wann immer mich jemand aus meiner Familie fragt, was ich an der Uni eigentlich mache für meinen Doktor, werde ich ab jetzt dieses Video zeigen. Ca. 1/2 Jahr vor der Verteidigung genau perfekt. Dicke Empfehlung für alle die einen PhD anfangen!

Super cool! This really connects well to the dissertation I am currently writing, so thanks a lot. I will have a look at the cool dataset. In my opinion it also connects well to the competitiveness measure I am using a lot: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very cool illustration of sectoral effects! This really shows the connection of economic and non-economic regional clusters. Would this also work with manufacturing sectors, like textiles or cars? 🤔 I would guess so