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I really feel this. The whole point of reading a book - or an op-ed, or a SoMe post, etc. - is that I know that there is *someone*, another human, who wants to say something to me.

Are you a woman who has recently started a TT position in politics or a politics related field? Then @katharinalawall.bsky.social and me would like to warmly invite you to join a new network for early career women: WIPS: Women in Political Science.

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

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congratulations for this fantastic publication Milan 🎉

Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Writing, Thinking, and Why AI Can’t Save You Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures

📖 New Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Why AI Won’t Save Your Writing

The Brown University political economist talks irritation, PowerPoint & why the page is still the only place where real thinking happens.

Read → catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

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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....

Humanity in the midst of inhumanity. We are letting history repeats itself

The @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy and Welfare Network was thrilled to inaugurate its Early Career Workshop at our meeting last week 🎉🙌

Yeah let's burn the planet with ChatGPT and cool ourselves with smart bottles cause you won't need to breathe in their fucking tech future

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

Today is the second anniversary of Silvio Berlusconi's death & right-wing media in Italy are singing his praises & holding out about how he'd magically resolve all the world's problems if he were still alive & in power.
Time to remind everyone of the murky & violent background of his rise to power.

They will flood the zone, they will spin things, they will spoil evidence, everything to minimize opponents and obfuscate the public. I came of age during the peak of Berlusconi - been there, done that. This is just an enhanced, more 1930s nostalgia version of all of that.

👉 We call on scholars of political economy and growth to pay greater attention to the cross-border dynamics of skill formation in promoting growth.

These efforts are driven by a “dominant growth coalition” of state actors and employers with a shared interest in sustaining the competitiveness of the economy.

Using Germany as a case, we demonstrate how national skill formation systems adapt by:
1️⃣ Exporting vocational education and training (VET) abroad
2️⃣ Managing labor migration strategically

Skill needs are increasingly shaped by international pressures.
🔹 Companies need a skilled workforce in the abroad locations where production increasingly takes place
🔹 At home, countries face skill shortages and try and attract the workers that they need from abroad

Our key argument: Skill formation is no longer a purely national endeavor but is increasingly transnational.

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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America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

This great piece from Benjamin Braun and Cedric Durand, on the factions competing over the White House through the mess of US decline, has given me some of the greatest clarity on what is going on right now. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...

It so happens that Italians *can* send a signal against the plight of minorities (at this round, immigrants and vulnerable workers) at a referendum in just about a week.

The president of the Senate says people should stay home. Trade unions say go. You choose.

The lives lost in Gaza: A closer look at those killed in the conflict so far The death toll from the war already dwarfs the numbers killed in previous bouts of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza over many decades.

“Reuters examined the data from the Gaza Health Ministry to look more closely at those who have died.

It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”

it seriously is an AI/tech-brain thing to think of reading as a sort of decontextualized, totally purposeless activity that can be abstracted from the audience (even abstracted from the author) to the point that the text can be repeatably summarized with no intention or purpose associated with it

This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right.

It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

Hard agree. Markets are always & everywhere political. The change today is that it is now *visible*, whereas neoliberalism was sold as a fairy tale of everyone winning under the free hand of the market, no politics involved. As Polanyi famously said, "even laissez-faire was planned."

The embassy in Berne sent this letter to the local bakery as well. The response was swift: the bakery sent a letter with a form where the embassy had to declare, that they will not support - amongst other things - the deportation of humans, otherwise they can bake their croissants themselves.

good to see that @adamtooze.bsky.social shares the 'transformative tariffs' diagnostic of the Trump 2.0 trade policy, instead of the 'chaos, chaos' liberal chant

adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Our article on Swiss municipality-level vote results has just been published in the @spsr.bsky.social!

We compiled results from 1866 to 1944 by visiting numerous archives and filled some gaps of the dataset for the period 1944-2025 from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office.

But what really propels me to “Cassandra out” in public-facing fora, for whatever it’s worth, is this:

I’ve lived how rapidly free societies can slip into competitive authoritarianism and even brutal dictatorship.

Scores of my brilliant, peaceful pro-democracy friends languish in jails.

BJPolS abstract discussing regional biases in electoral systems due to population distribution and its impact on democracy, presented in a green bordered box with a white background.

NEW -

Who Counts? Non-Citizen Residents, Spatial Sorting, and Malapportionment - cup.org/42vfiTR

- @megapeng.bsky.social & Patrick Emmenegger

"we argue that regions with high shares of non-citizen residents benefit from population-based apportionment"

#OpenAccess