Patrick Bayer

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!

📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast

🗓️ June 18–20, 2026

📍 ICC Belfast

📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025

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Also more stuff in the works on backlash against different types of renewables with evidence from 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪, 🇫🇷, and 🇳🇴, so stay tuned...

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Good news for European political science! Thanks for everyone involved who made this happen.

Became an EPSS member today, and so can you!

Very competitive fees that will go a long way to fund next year's conference and not just a reception ticket (some may say).

Climate Policy Costs, Regional Politics and Backlashagainst International Cooperation by Patrick Bayer and Federica Genovese. This paper investigates the conditions under which subnational concerns shape public assessments of international climate governance. In line with existing literature, we maintain that costly policy adjustments fuel negative views of international cooperation in policy exposed regions. At the same time, we argue that the more resentful relations are with the national center of politics, the more sympathetic these regions areto international institutions and global governance. Based on geographically targeted survey data from theUnited Kingdom, we find that fossil fuel-intensive regions with strong, institutionalized regional politics have more positive assessments of international climate cooperation than structurally similar regions where regional political institutions are less pronounced. The findings show that regional politics characteristics are key for understanding climate policy beliefs among citizens that bear the brunt of adjustments to international climate agreements

🚨Global public action (climate!) is most effective when countries do it together yet we're in a period of IO backlash rooted in left-behind places

Does it mean all left-behind regions hate IOs the same?

@patrickbayer.bsky.social & I have a paper accepted @bjpols.bsky.social abt this🧵

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Getting a paper accepted is always nice, getting it accepted after almost two years in peer review feels super special! 🎉🎉🎉

Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Associate - Climate Politics (gn) full-time (40 hours/week)

🚨Climate politics job alert🚨

Interested in the opportunity to focus on your own climate politics research project for 1 year in a stimulating and supportive environment at a leading university in Berlin?

Open to postdocs & graduates.

hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

Looking forward to an exciting trip with colleagues to our long-standing partner, Nankai University, for a joint workshop on "New Trends of International Political Economy in Turbulent Times."

@uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social

Four big lessons for Scotland and UK from Australian Labor party's surprise landslide With Reform UK benefiting from low election turnouts, more needs to be done to make it easier for people to vote – like elections on Saturdays, a new voting system and sausage sizzles

"A new voting system and sausage sizzles" - excellent advice from @ariadnevromen.bsky.social in @scotsman.com on what the UK and Scotland can learn from Australia's recent election - and how to turn around the low voting turn outs that have benefitted Reform UK.

www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

I hate academic FOMO! Enough said...

May I present the social science "double helix" of country engagement across topics...

Not all plots are useful...🙃

Happy St Patrick's Day, I guess.

Scoop: U.S. delegation pulled from key U.N. climate science meeting The IPCC meeting in China is slated to determine the content in the group's next series of reports.

‼️The US-based @ipcc.bsky.social technical support unit (TSU) for Working Group 3 Co-Chairs has been terminated, and the US won’t be attending next week’s IPCC meeting where the AR7 chapter outlines will be approved.

More by @afreedma.bsky.social here:

Good conversation tonight with the President of the Bundesbank, Dr Nagel, about transition finance @uofgasbs.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Please nominate for awards for the Int'l Collaboration section of APSA! Best article, dissertation, book, and mentor awards!

Deadline is March 3, 2025. Submissions should be sent by email to daniela.donno@ou.edu. You can find the award criteria and info here: apsanet.org/membership/o...

Also, come and join our Section 48! 😀

It's a great community and THE section for anyone working on international collaboration, IOs, IPE, global governance!

Serving on this year's "Best Dissertation Award" committee for @apsa.bsky.social @intlcollaboration.bsky.social Section.

Send your students' best dissertation work to our section chair @danieladonno.bsky.social by 3 March! Self-nominations welcome!

Details here: apsanet.org/membership/o...

PS: I'm fully aware that I'm very privileged here in that my career does not depend on the immediate publication of this paper which we're very proud of.

Proud to have pulled a basically accepted paper (with full consent of co-authors) from peer review today in response to questionable editorial practice to "force" us to add citations to five substantively unrelated papers that the editor was a co-author of. 🤯

#researchintegrity

Rise in carbon dioxide off track for limiting global warming to 1.5°C The increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) is now incompatible with IPCC pathways which remain below 1.5°C, a Met Office study finds.

More evidence that everyone who believes we still have time is a fool.

www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Thanks Lisa, can I please be added. Much appreciated.

Second that. It's a great game! Just finished the second round this afternoon. Very good translation of the 'real world' into the mechanics of the game.

Thanks for reference here, Hannah. Very excited about CSSN work on obstruction. Looking forward to the initial meeting in January. Will share our newest paper once accepted. Shouldn't be too long...#famouslastwords

At the IPCC scoping meeting—to draft the outline for the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7), w/200 other scientists and social scientists from around the world.

To understand 30 years of inadequate climate action, & to do better, we need to understand intentional obstruction
@climatessn.bsky.social

My earlier post in pictures. So true! 👌

100%, I really just love the entire team. Peter's depth of understanding of geometry is just beyond me. Really just beautiful to listen in and be mesmerized.

Little website redesign.

Full page is here: pbyr.github.io/website_new/

December is procrastination month! #backtowork

The amazing @chess.com commentary during the current FIDE chess world championship gives you an appreciation of how beautiful and cruel chess is. The depth of understanding for the game is so delightful to learn about. I'm fascinated each day!

COP 29 Halfway Point Webinar Halfway through UN climate change talks in Azerbaijan, the Earth Negotiations Bulletin team reviews the latest developments, takes questions, and helps you prep for the final week of COP 29. Earth Ne

Where do talks stand at #COP29Azerbaijan?

What should you expect from week two in Baku?

The recording of our #COP29 Halfway Point Webinar, with ENB's @jenirisallan.bsky.social answering audience questions, is online now

Listen ➡️ soundcloud.com/user-1658009...

#climate #climatechange

To mitigate my daily #COPfomo, at least there is the great work by @enb.iisd.org (as usual).

Also: having done research on virtual negotiations (available #OA here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...), I can say that doing your day-to-day work at home while observing negotiations is impossible.