Read @lorenzocrippa.bsky.social, Edmund Malesky, and Lucio Picci on the Trump administration’s weaponization of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: https://fam.ag/4aCQXQa
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Read @lorenzocrippa.bsky.social, Edmund Malesky, and Lucio Picci on the Trump administration’s weaponization of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: https://fam.ag/4aCQXQa
Reminder that at @strathpolir.bsky.social we offer a one year MSc in Political Economy; core courses: CPE, IPE, Quant1 & Quant2. Want to build your skills to research how politics shapes the economy and how economic events shape politics & live in Glasgow? Join Us!
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🧵 THREAD: Can a short online intervention help defend democracy against partisan polarization?
In our new study - just published in the @bjpols.bsky.social - my colleagues and I tested this question across 33 countries 🌍 with over 41,000 participants 🧑🤝🧑.
Here’s what we found 👇
Fantastic opportunity to do a fully funded PhD @uofgsocsci.bsky.social on an important topic working with the excellent @sergipardos.bsky.social. Apply by Apr 21! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Trade wars are accelerating the decline of international economic governance. But instead of collapsing, global trade institutions are lurching forward in a zombie-like state. What happens next? Julia Gray describes our coming era of half-dead internationalism
The most striking result from yesterday’s German election #btw2025 🇩🇪:
🔹 35 years after reunification: The GDR is redrawn on this map.
🔹 The AfD won 45 out of 48 electoral districts in the East.
🔹 In some parts of Saxony, they came close to 50%!
Why is this happening? Here’s my take 👇
Eastern Germany (former GDR) has 48 electoral districts.
Far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won 45 out of these 48 electoral districts in the 2025 German Election ( #btw25).
As eminent sociologist @steffenmau.bsky.social aptly puts it: „ungleich vereint“ (an unequally united country)
Title: What Costs More: Billionaire Tax Avoidance or Federal Workers? Subtitle: Musk’s tax avoidance could fund 677K federal jobs • Current Tax Rate: 3.27% • Top Federal Tax Rate: 37% Cost Comparison (Bar Chart): • Cost of Musk’s Tax Avoidance (smallest bar, purple) • Cost of Top 100 Billionaires’ Tax Avoidance (largest bar, red) • Total Federal Workforce Salaries (mid-sized bar, green) X-axis ranges from $0B to $380B, showing that billionaire tax avoidance covers a significant portion of federal workforce salaries. Impact on Federal Workforce: • Average Federal Salary: $106,000 • Jobs Musk’s Avoidance Could Fund: 677,782 (29.5% of all federal employees) Federal Workforce Breakdown (Pie Chart): • A segment representing 29.5% of the workforce highlights the share Musk’s avoided taxes could fund, labeled “Share Equal to Musk’s Avoided Taxes: 29.5%”. Sources: • Musk’s Tax Rate: ProPublica • Billionaire Gains: Bloomberg Billionaires Index (Dec. 31, 2024) • Federal Employee Data: USAFacts
How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes?
Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce.
Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.
I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to work with me in a project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe:
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Happy to answer any questions, and thanks in advance for circulating the call!
New afrobarometer report by Bob Mattes @strathpolir.bsky.social and it is not good news for the continent
www.afrobarometer.org?p=29448
Good article but the title is wrong. We are not observing a “disconnect”. This is a targeted, aware and aggressive assault on the climate as we know it.
The D.E.I. Retreat Has Some Notable Holdouts www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/b...
Application deadline: April 15, 2025
The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology.
📢Please share widely!
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Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich
📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years)
📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years)
Application deadline in early March.
Job ads & details:
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Calls for Rachel Reeves to quit as chancellor are overblown and unfair.
A shout out to @barmstrong.bsky.social @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social @dainachiba.bsky.social @dzobrien.bsky.social for their article on the appointments of women finance ministers globally
theconversation.com/calls-for-ra...
Very interesting article using a unique survey on legislators' education, profession and political careers across 17 African countries by Bob Mattes @strathpolir.bsky.social and co-authors www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A great project and paper to discuss! Looking forward to reading all the follow ups!
There are several opportunities to take a (funded) PhD @sotonpolitics.bsky.social, for specific projects AND your own 🧵
My unit (Department of Public Policy at CEU, Vienna) is hiring!We’re looking for candidates with excellent skills in quantitative methods (specifically text mining, natural language processing, machine learning). Link to full call: careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...
Happy to answer questions!
This matters for many reasons, not least because there is a bunch of evidence that the social class (of which education is a proxy) of politicians and the cabinet matters for actual outcomes 🧵
We have a forthcoming BJPS paper and a new dataset on the gender, education, and occupational backgrounds of lawmakers in the world's democracies!
Paper: www.noamlupu.com/GLDpaper.pdf
Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
Here's one application . . . (1/2)
working-class voters are more likely to prefer a candidate with a working-class occupation, not due to policy positions or class rhetoric but because they perceive them as more understanding of their problems.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#polisky #gendersky #HPE
Any one-liners of advice from your PHD advisors that you always pass on to students?
My favorite from Frances Rosenbluth was to “tape your argument onto your computer and remember not to stray”
The Department of Political Economy at King's College London is hiring in political behavior
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/083946-...
@ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social behavoursky polisky commsky
A box full of Anita’s book “Repression in the Digital Age”
I think influencers call this *unboxing* ✨✨✨
The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate the reviewer’s proficiency in identifying flaws; negative critiques are not obligated. Reviewers should identify strengths and provide constructive comments to help authors resolve weaknesses in the work. (4/n)
🚨🚨Two tenure-track positions in the European Institute @LSE:
1. European Politics and Policy jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
2. Political Economy
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
It's a really great place to work. Consider applying! I won't be in the search committee but happy to chat. 1/2 polisky
“Why is everyone so upset about the economy?”
The US has hundreds of problems, but the IRA is truly a mighty policy.
There are hundreds of reasons to hope Biden wins the election; the survival of the IRA is a top 5.
If you (still) don’t know what it entails economically or politically, watch this video by the FT: www.ft.com/video/9f0028...
We proudly introduce manifestoberta, a multilingual xlm-roberta-large model fine-tuned on ~1,6 m. annotated statements of the Manifesto Corpus (2023a). Find it here: manifesto-project.wzb.eu/information/... and also on huggingface.co/manifesto-pr.... A thread 🧵: