Timo Seidl

3️⃣ It reconstructs how institutional entrepreneurs used the article to push for a more ambitious industrial policy in the context of state aid modernization, eventually resulting in the creation of a standalone policy instrument.

2️⃣ It discusses how the article evolved over the ensuing decades, remaining mostly dormant despite some discussions in the 1980s to provide more explicit guidance.

1️⃣ It offers a detailed reconstruction of how the 'IPCEI article' (today 107(3)(b) TFEU) emerged during the negotiations leading up to the Treaty of Rome.

The paper offers a deep dive into the history of the IPCEI article, from its origins in the 1950s to the 2014 IPCEI communication. Introducing the concept of institutional activation, the paper sheds light on three historical episodes.

It was only in 2014 that the Commission decided to 'activate' this sleeping legal resource by introducing IPCEIs as a standalone policy instrument.

As many have noted, the Treaty article on which IPCEIs are based goes all the way back to the Treaty of Rome but has remained largely dormant over the first decades of EU history.

IPCEIs have recently received a lot of attention in Europe's industrial policy discussions. For example, both the Draghi and Letta reports as well as the new Commission's political guidelines give it pride of place in Europe's emerging industrial policy edifice.

🚨 New paper in JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies: 'Waking a Dormant Legal Resource. Institutional Activation and the Origins of Important Projects of Common European Interest' (with Henrique Lopes Valença).

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

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I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year.

Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage!
I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such?

My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020).

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Congratulations @luukschmitz.bsky.social and @timoseidl.bsky.social, winners of the JEPP Best Paper Prize 2024! 💐

Read the open access paper 'Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy' here: s.gwdg.de/LMomqf

It was a daunting task that Antoaneta Dimitrova and I took on.
But we reached a compelling conclusion, I believe: “Moving on not to fall behind” was the best article in @jeppjournal.bsky.social in 2024
Much deserved congrats to @timoseidl.bsky.social and @luukschmitz.bsky.social

Thanks so much Ben, means a lot coming from you!

Super happy, deeply honored, and a little humbled to win this award!

JEPP has always been one of my favourite journals, not just as an author, but also as a reader, reviewer, and even SI editor—so this one is especially dear to my heart!

Many thanks to the jury, the editors, and my co-author Luuk!

„Die Hermann-Hesse-Bahn kostet insgesamt 180 Millionen Euro (…). Von den 180 Millionen Euro werden 80 Millionen Euro allein für den Artenschutz aufgewendet, weitere, zusätzliche 25 Millionen Euro kosten die Gutachten.“ —schon einfach Wahnsinn…

#teamabundance

Postdoctoral Research Associate - EU Forscher*in - (salary level E 13 TV-L, 100 %)

#jobs 🚨🚨🚨
4 postdocs in Münster:

stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/5...

I‘m involved in one appointment. More details will follow soon!

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

Maybe try again, I’ve received applications today so the platform should be live. If it does not work, shoot me an email but it’s the only way to apply.

🚨 New book alert!

Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission is out with OUP @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

It’s about the behind-the-scenes stage of EU policymaking that shapes everything—yet rarely gets the spotlight: how the Commission prepares its proposals.

Link: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

Decarbonising national growth models: derisking, ‘hobbled states’, and the decarbonisation possibility frontier This article brings together Growth Model Theory and climate change under the assumption that economic growth will remain a policy priority during the green transition. The relevant research questi...

Mark Blyth and I sang a duet. It’s about how a country’s growth model shapes its state capacity to decarbonize - both the advantages and disadvantages. Enjoy! @ripejournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very grateful for two days of collective thinking on the EU’s geoeconomic challenges

Huge thanks to my fab co-organizers @ankehassel.bsky.social @katemcnamara.bsky.social @donatodc.bsky.social @trgn.bsky.social + to the brilliant scholars who shared their insights about the challenges ahead

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social!

German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf
English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf

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PhD position in the field of Political Economy of Technological Change bei Hochschule für Politik München The Professorship Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Timo Seidl) invites applications for a PhD position in the field of Political Economy of Technological Change

🚨 Want to join me at the Technical University of Munich? I’m hiring a PhD student (100%) in the area of the political economy of technological change!

📅 Apply by 18 May | Start Date: July (flexible)

🔗 More info & how to apply: hfp.heyrecruit.de?page=job&id=...

❓Reach out if you have any questions

⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg!

On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex...

Applications due: 2 May 2025

Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex...

#EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods

The politics of European competitiveness in the twin transition Explore the article collection: The politics of European competitiveness in the twin transition. Published in Journal of European Public Policy.

📢 New JEPP collection 📢

One of Europe's toughest 🥜 to crack? Balancing the green and digital transitions while staying competitive. Martin B. Carstensen and Berthold Rittberger bring together the latest JEPP collection on European competitiveness in the twin transition 👇

Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.

As the new semester is approaching (at least here in Munich), I thought it might be a good time to reshare my course guidelines on the use of A.I.

Perhaps you find it useful or have some comments on what I'm missing here (this is work in progress of course).

🔗 www.timoseidl.com/blog/seidl-a...

For everyone interested in working with computational tools, this is an amazing Postdoc position at the Political Science Department in Aarhus

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me.

Ich habe eine Stelle als Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in (@criticaldatalab.bsky.social / Uni Oldenburg) zu vergeben und freue mich sehr über Bewerbungen. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 30.4., Fragen gern an mich: www.soziopolis.de/ausschreibun...