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Public Administration @journalpa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Strategies for Public Administration Research: Insights From the Scholarship of Christopher Hood" by @ruth-dixon.bsky.social, Rozana Himaz, @maiaking.bsky.social, & @bpiotrowska.bsky.social explores the enduring intellectual legacy of Christopher Hood (1947-2025). doi.org/10.1111%2Fpa...

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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

*PSA Prize Winners* 🎉Congratulations to Dr Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social, this year’s academic prize winner of Sir Bernard Crick Prize for outstanding contributions to teaching & learning by an early career scholar ➡️ buff.ly/dvOF0Sa

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Barbara Piotrowska - King's College London | LinkedIn

Experience: King's College London · Location: London · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Barbara Piotrowska’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🚨New genAI teaching material: an Electoral System Explorer built with Claude. It lets students see how votes translate to seats under different electoral systems. Try it here: claude.ai/public/artif.... Feedback, as always, is very much appreciated! #poliski

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Electoral System Explorer - Interactive Voting & Gerrymandering Tool

Explore how electoral systems work with this interactive tool. Draw districts, adjust party support, and compare majoritarian vs proportional results.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

You can read more about the context and other information collected by the secret police, as well as get a flavour for their operation here: www.propublica.org/article/how-...

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You Know Who Else Collected Metadata? The Stasi.

Files obtained from the archives of the East German secret police show how the Stasi mapped social networks.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

When talking to @howardhliu.bsky.social about his new project, I remembered this great graphic made by the Stasi showing the social connections of a poet they were spying on projects.propublica.org/graphics/sta...

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I will be presenting my first paper using data collected while incorporating genAI into my module on 15/10. If you can join us, I’d love to hear your thoughts 💭

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

This shows how populist reforms can be formally legal, yet designed to entrench ideology and institutionalise patronage. Higher education policy, often overlooked, is a crucial site of populist governance: shaping elites, promoting ideology, and redistributing resources.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

But most of all, 3️⃣Catholic-affiliated journals gained disproportionately, embedding a conservative-nationalist agenda and rewarding pro-government institutions.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

1️⃣Humanities and 2️⃣Polish-published journals were given a boost – framed as responsiveness to scholars worried about internationalisation.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The reform of Poland’s academic evaluation system looked like a technical adjustment. In practice, it reshaped how prestige and funding were distributed across universities and disciplines.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Together with Izabela Szkurłat and Magdalena Szydłowska, we argue that populist policymaking is multi-purpose governance. A single reform can: ➡️appear responsive to “the people” ➡️embed ideological content ➡️channel resources to loyal actors

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Populist policymaking is not only about courts and media crackdowns. It can also hide in technical reforms. In Poland under PiS, changes to academic journal rankings were used to reward allies, promote ideology, and claim responsiveness. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Multi-purpose populist policymaking in practice: the Polish academic evaluation reform

This paper theorizes populist policymaking as multi-purpose governance that can simultaneously deliver responsiveness, ideological consolidation, and institutionalized patronage. We apply this fram...

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory @jpart1991.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Next...🧵 Have you ever wondered why it’s so hard to compare public administrations across countries? This article tackles the confusion around Administrative Traditions

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

3️⃣AI detection - LLM group displayed significantly lower ability to quote one own's essay - AI use detection could leverage this by randomly sampling students for oral exams discussing the essay. Alternatively, only suspect cases could be subject to such an exam.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

In my module, I do that by asking the students to complete independent research first and only then engage with the genAI task.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

2️⃣ When integrating LLMs into teaching activities, start with cognitive effort, followed by the use of genAI - "Brain-to-LLM participants could leverage tools more strategically, resulting in stronger performance and more cohesive neural signatures".

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

1️⃣ Blank page syndrome - LLMs are often seen as an antidote to it. But the paper finds that "the LLM group produced statistically homogeneous essays within each topic". Hence, if you want your piece to stand out, using LLMs to fight the syndrome might not be the best idea.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

We've felt it and now we have the evidence: using genAI to write essays yields shallow encoding. Here, the subjects write essays using one of 3 tools (LLM, Search Engine, brain🧠 only) for 3 sessions. In the 4th session, LLM group needs to rely on 🧠 , and 🧠 group gets LLM. Key consequences for me:

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Jonathan Leader Maynard @jleadermaynard.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

We’re hiring 3 permanent (tenured) lecturers in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. These are ‘education pathway’ posts (in Economics, Research Methods, & Comparative Politics) 1/4 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-...

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AEP Lecturer in Politics and Research Methods

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The Anthropic Education Report (www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...) offers a great insight into how students use Claude. The (relatively) good: half of the conversations are collaborative (dialogue with AI to achieve goals). The bad: students mostly outsource higher-order cognitive functions (see ⬇️)

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I’m not 100% sure that this won’t actually improve his chances among voters of other far right candidates.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Day 2 is over, but there are three more to go: www.kcl.ac.uk/ai/assets/pd...

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

3️⃣ However, if you lack the motivation to learn, no amount of technology will help - and replacing cognitive effort will lead to skill atrophy.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

1️⃣ Learning requires thinking deeply (exerting effort), over extended periods, and at regular intervals. 2️⃣ GenAI can support this by boosting motivation to exert effort (e.g., through gamification) or by adjusting difficulty to an appropriate level (e.g., customised explanations).

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Yesterday's session during the @aiatkings.bsky.social conference attracted a wonderfully engaged audience. In the slides, you’ll find the GPTs and exercises demonstrating applications of point 2 (below). Key points ⬇️

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The state of research on AI and education from controlled studies: Growing evidence that, when used as a tutor with instructor guidance, AI seems to have quite significant positive effects. When used alone to get help with homework, it can act as shortcut that hurts learning. Still early days.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

6/6 I hope that you find it helpful. Please share any feedback on how your interaction could be improved.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

5/6 Each deepened scenario is narrated immersively, and then reflection prompts are presented one at a time, for example: • What values guide you? • What steps could you take? • Who could you lean on? After each: type Done to move on, Develop to dive deeper, or Another scenario to switch paths.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

4/6 You can share personal context (e.g., age, occupation, region, dependents) for tailored scenarios, or go anonymous and get a generalised one. I find that adding at least your broad job info makes it feel much more realistic.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

3/6 I originally built the GPT as a novelty after my students enjoyed the text‑based games in my Policymaking in Non‑Democracies module. After hearing the latest Ezra Klein podcast (www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...), I realised it could be useful more broadly.

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Opinion | The Emergency Is Here

Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send “homegrown” Americans there next.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

2/6 Growing up Polish, my family often discussed contingencies if war came - our own premeditatio malorum, imagining the worst so it feels less alien. It might sound grim, but it was oddly reassuring.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

1/6 This is to share with you Misfortune Telling GPT (chatgpt.com/share/680102...) : a guided reflection tool modelled on the Stoic practice of praemeditatio malorum, to help you imagine and/or prepare for real democratic backsliding.

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ChatGPT - Scenario Reflection Guidance

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Last week, I joined Rozana Himaz, Ruth Dixon, @drjennings.bsky.social, and Colin Scott to pay tribute to Christopher Hood and his work: youtu.be/NA3vH8w1RUY. It was a real pleasure to hear memories and reflections from so many of his students, friends, and collaborators.

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A Tribute to Christopher Hood:

YouTube video by Theories of Regulation & Governance

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Rod Dacombe @rod-dacombe.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It's wonderful to see the news that my fantastic Department of Political Economy colleagues @maiaking.bsky.social and @bpiotrowska.bsky.social have been nominated for this esteemed prize. Huge congratulations guys!!!

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V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v15 and the V-dem Institute Democracy Report 2025 The Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... DR25: "25 Years of Autocratization - Democracy Trumped?": v-dem.net/publications... #DR25 #DemocracyReport2025 #VDemDatasetV15 #polisky #PoliticalScienceData #PoliSciSky 🧵1(3)

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

What a nice recognition of all the hard work that went into this book. Especially thinking of Christopher, whose dedication and brilliance made this project happen—this is a lovely testament to his vision.

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Bouke Klein Teeselink @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 5th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 19-21 May 2025 at King’s College London! Keynotes: Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick) and Peter van der Windt (NYU-Abu Dhabi). No fee, travel grants available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpeearly

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

What worries me is not government use of AI per se but the slightly credulous way that the government talk about it, which makes me suspect they will be taken for rubes by the tech companies selling their services. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI

Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Just learned that the great Christopher Hood, a professor of public management at the University of Oxford, has passed. Hard to overstate his influence on the field. At a personal level, both a gentleman and a gentle man. Here is a link to his most-cited work. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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A PUBLIC MANAGEMENT FOR ALL SEASONS?

This article discusses: the doctrinal content of the group of ideas known as ‘new public management’(NPM); the intellectual provenance of those ideas; explanations for their apparent persuasiveness i...

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 06/01/2025

tired: fearing that robots will become so smart they take your job wired: fearing that robots will still be dumb but take your job anyway

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Yup. My grandparents had it and I always observed it with a mixture of fascination and horror.

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I (or my family) have definitely done it all 🐟

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Not to be a pain, but I have seen you feeding several of them ;)

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

As a result of this event, I found out about Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, which runs, among others,Public attitudes to data and AI tracker survey. Sharing in case useful www.gov.uk/government/o...

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Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation

The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) is now called the Responsible Technology Adoption Unit (RTA), part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). Content from RTA ca...

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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

“You saw how the [Assad] regime raised them: they call us Sidi [‘my master,’]” he said. “You feel they are broken. [We just want them] to get out of that mindset. You’re a person with self-dignity, I’m not your master or anything. I am an employee, like you.” on.ft.com/4iyR4hJ

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Rebel technocrats start to disentangle Syria’s corrupt state

Transitional authorities grapple with bureaucracy filled with phantom jobs, pervasive graft and culture of obedience

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