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This is my first week at IE University as assistant professor but I can already tell you that @iepolisci.bsky.social provides a very warm welcome! We're hiring in 3 lines (in CP, IR/Security Studies, and IPE). Come join us in Madrid!

Come join us @iepolisci.bsky.social!

This dept has one of the healthiest environments I've found in academia.

Plus, everyone does brilliant work and you get to live in a great city with a salary that allows you to enjoy it.

We only work in English, so language is not an issue.

Apply!

📢 We're hiring! 3 lines in CP, IR, and IPE. Come join us in Madrid!

I'm not in the committee but more than happy to answer questions (via DM, email) and/or chat.

If you’d like to join us, here are the links to the calls:

Comparative Politics: apply.interfolio.com/173149

Security Studies: apply.interfolio.com/173160

International Political Economy: apply.interfolio.com/173150

Faculty - IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs Discover our internal and visiting professors from around the globe. Study at one of the best Politics, Economics & Global Affairs universities.

We are a small but fast growing department of political science and IR in Madrid.

Our faculty regularly publish in top journals, win awards, and secure competitive external funding.

Check them out here: www.ie.edu/school-polit...

🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨

We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track.

We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.

I am really happy that our @bjpols.bsky.social paper on party-system fragmentation and democratic quality has been awarded the Lawrence Longley Best Article Award from the Representation and Electoral Systems section of @apsa.bsky.social.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Huge congratulations to @iepolisci.bsky.social for hiring the iconic @catherinedevries.bsky.social! And huge congrats dear Catherine, so awesome 👏🏻

Congratulations to both Catherine and IE !!

I cannot overstate how exciting this is.

@catherinedevries.bsky.social is one of the most brilliant and influential scholars out there, as well as a kind and amazing mentor.

Can't wait to have her join our department soon!

Congrats @catherinedevries.bsky.social! And I second Vicente’s excitement, what a great move for the department.

@catherinedevries.bsky.social @ieuniversity.bsky.social

We are super excited that Catherine de Vries will join IE University as Full Professor of Political Science, Chair of our Department, and Vice Dean at IE's SPEGA in January.

We look forward to having her as a colleague and leader in our growing department!

www.catherinedevries.eu

Excited to begin a new chapter as Assistant Professor at IE University! Grateful to have found such a vibrant department - and an equally vibrant city. Let me know when you are in Madrid.

So happy to have Korhan and @swebera.bsky.social join us at @iepolisci.bsky.social! 🎉🎉

Sigrid Weber (PhD UCL 2023) joins us from Stanford. She studies how individuals and households make decisions to move, how governments and other actors respond to displacement, and the effects of human mobility in the global south.

Check out her work at www.sigridweber.com

Korhan Koçak (PhD Princeton 2020) joins us from NYUAD. He uses formal and empirical work to study how the political environment interacts with individual preferences and beliefs to shape public opinion and political behavior.

Check out his work at www.korhankocak.com

As the academic year resumes, we are very excited to announce the two new hires who have recently joined the IE University political science faculty: Korhan Koçak and Sigrid Weber (@swebera.bsky.social)

Welcome both to @ieuniversity.bsky.social! 👇

BJPolS abstract discussing the dynamics of mainstream and radical political rhetoric regarding anti-immigrant policies, highlighting differences in societal responses and enforcement norms based on the source of the rhetoric.

NEW -

How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD

"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"

- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

🎉 Congratulations to our colleague @valentimvicente.bsky.social for winning the Robert Dahl Award from @apsa.bsky.social for his book on "The Normalization of the Radical Right"!

Last day to apply to the MESS!!

MESS is an initiative that brings together empirical social scientists in Madrid. Our first event was last year and it was fantastic.

Join us!

🚨 Madrid social scientists and beyond! Today is the last day to apply to MESS 2025. Join us at IE in October for exciting paper presentations, poster session and lots of networking! 👇

This paper has been a long time coming, but happy to have a revised draft out.

We find that banning political ideologies can open space for new political entrepreneurs who mobilize against that ban.

Read Dan's thread for more details:

2 days left to submit abstracts for the next Madrid Empirical Social Sciences (MESS) conference 👇

Check out the latest publication by our professor of practice @ilketoygur.bsky.social at the Journal of European Public Policy, on backlash against climate policy and Euroscepticism

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

Check out Michael Becher and Irene Menéndez González's new article @iojournal.bsky.social on how international trade shaped the politics of the adoption of political representation.

doi.org/10.1017/S002...

We had a pretty productive last week, taking advantage of so many great political scientists visiting Madrid for @epsanet.bsky.social:

- We co-hosted 2 pre-conferences (one on culture and one on political connections)

- We presented 15 papers in EPSA panels

- We hosted 1 reception at the IE tower

Reception with the best view award

We’ve had a great day at the workshop on culture at @iepolisci.bsky.social, co-organized with @emmylindstam.bsky.social and @ricarthuguet.bsky.social

Thank you everyone for coming and for the very constructive and engaging discussions!