Reposted by Cecilia IGBrett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 05/06/2026"many experts continue to portray inadequate action as evidence of climate leadership" if only other climate experts were as willing to speak truth to power as @kevinclimate.bsky.social 23920
Reposted by Cecilia IGPolitical Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social · 21/05/2026The paper walks through three studies where text is used to quantify attitudes and actions. Ultimately, the paper argues that expression is sufficiently demanding that it should be understood as a form of action. Read the paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgText as Behavior | Political Analysis | Cambridge CoreText as Behavior 074
Reposted by Cecilia IGSander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Germany is the epicentre of the China Shock 2.0 reverberating in global markets In a new joint paper, CFR's Brad Setser and I show the shock is a key driver of Germany’s economic malaise. And it's accelerating Berlin needs to stop admiring the problem, and join efforts to fight back 1/many 9309130
Reposted by Cecilia IGEddie Yang @eddieyang.bsky.social · 13/05/2026New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers. 25879450
Reposted by Cecilia IGCédric Wermuth @cedricwermuth.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Volle Solidarität mit dem Protest der Mitarbeitenden und Studierenden gegen den Auftritt von Curtis Yarvin an der Uni St. Gallen. Faschisten eine Bühne zu geben ist Beihilfe zur Normalisierung ihrer Menschenverachtung. Faschismus ist keine Meinung, sondern ein Verbrechen. #niewiederistjetzt #antifa 49517
Reposted by Cecilia IGfloriankr.bsky.social @floriankr.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Es gibt an der Uni St. Gallen hier durchaus auch Opposition zu - anbei ein offener Brief, der aktuell unter Studierenden und Mittelbau rumgeht. docs.google.com/document/u/0...docs.google.comLetter in Opposition to the Yarvin Panel at the University of St. GallenLetter in Opposition to the Yarvin Panel at the University of St. Gallen SIGN THE OPEN LETTER >>> HERE <<< 27th April 2026 To the attention of the University of St. Gallen Academic Senate, Dear... 0164
Reposted by Cecilia IGPalma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭 1182351532847
Reposted by Cecilia IGJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden. The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite. The real risk is fossil fuel dependency. 11645309
Reposted by Cecilia IGCambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 16/01/2026#OpenAccess from @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social - The political economy of policy instruments: The Left and collectively governed markets in Germany - cup.org/4qjQnMB - @ndurazzi.bsky.social & Cecilia Ivardi (University of St.Gallen) #FirstView 023
Reposted by Cecilia IGJEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026🧠📈 Do policymakers link skills in the knowledge economy with social inclusion? 🧲 Treating the knowledge economy as a coalition magnet, Martin B. Carstensen, Patrick Emmenegger, and Cecilia Ivardi Ganapini show distinct patterns across countries 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 054
Reposted by Cecilia IGJournal of Public Policy @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026A new interesting article by @ndurazzi.bsky.social and Cecilia Ivardi is now available on our FirstView page. It is entitled "The political economy of policy instruments: The Left and collectively governed markets in Germany". Enjoy it here: is.gd/DbUU0m 073
Reposted by Cecilia IGBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 11/02/2026A big share of future historians will conclude that the difference btw US und EU in the 2020s was not in the scale or violence of their respective deportation enforcement regimes but in the scale and ferocity of public opposition to it. On average, Europeans cared far less. 212042
Reposted by Cecilia IGDaniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Slobodian calls this crack-up capitalism. 0239
Reposted by Cecilia IGKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/02/2026This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it. Spread this one far and wide.bostonreview.netHow Not to Defeat AuthoritarianismModeration used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated. 621394653
Reposted by Cecilia IGNicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I know it is pointless saying this but I will do it anyway. Just imagine the coverage there would be if a ferry or cruise ship had sunk in a storm in the Mediterranean with the loss of a thousand lives and compare it with the attention given to a thousand people in migrant boats drowning in a storm. 07132
Reposted by Cecilia IGJay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 15/12/2025This column by @stephenkb.bsky.social on the antisemitic mass murder in Australia, reflecting on the justifications for acting on ancient hatreds, is very good indeed. Depressingly comments have not been enabled. Because they couldn’t be. www.ft.com/content/4209...ft.comBondi attacks show old hatreds are flourishing againA permissive environment has been created in which Israel is conflated with all Jews, everywhere 410524
Reposted by Cecilia IGSASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics @sasemeeting.bsky.social · 21/11/2025📢 Career Opportunity. University of St. Gallen Three funded PhD positions in the GOVPET project, focused on skill formation and the political economy of technological and eco social transitions. 🗓 Deadline. 31 January 2026 🔗 sase.org/career-oppor... #PhDJobs #PoliticalEconomy #SkillFormationsase.orgThree Funded PhD Positions. University of St. Gallen (HSG) | Opportunities for SASE MembersApplication Deadline: 31 January 2026Start Date. July 2026 or upon agreementLocation: St. Gallen, Switzerland 053
Reposted by Cecilia IGMark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...yesigiveafig.comPart 1: My Life Is a LieHow a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America 1313454
Reposted by Cecilia IGJosh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2025new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research 38770390
Reposted by Cecilia IGCatherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 13/11/2025If McNamara could etch one lesson into marble, it would be this: “be okay with the struggle.” “Because it’s hard doesn’t mean you’re dumb. It’s supposed to be hard.” 5/ 101
Reposted by Cecilia IGCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Ironically, while language and methods are becoming more complex, the political reality that is being studied (or better: created for study) often ignores the many complexities of the real world. 2111
Reposted by Cecilia IGTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/10/2025“likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...gelliottmorris.comSecond "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participantsHere are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates 91479374
Reposted by Cecilia IGJathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 30/09/2025In the new TMK, @triofrancos.bsky.social joins us to discuss the about the many frontiers, tensions, and futures of green capitalism. We go deep into the political economy of lithium and the material infrastructures of extraction. Thea is so sharp and this is such a great conversation.soundcloud.com425. The Oxymorons of Green Capitalism (ft. Thea Riofrancos)We are joined by Thea Riofrancos — author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism — to chat about the many frontiers, tensions, and futures of green capitalism. How do we understand a system 33511
Reposted by Cecilia IGBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 08/10/2025Remember when dense networks of strategic cross-shareholdings among firms, native to coordinated market economies, went the way of the dodo? The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors? Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... 512436
Reposted by Cecilia IGFrederik Appel Olsen @frederikappelolsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2025I really feel this. The whole point of reading a book - or an op-ed, or a SoMe post, etc. - is that I know that there is *someone*, another human, who wants to say something to me. 022
Reposted by Cecilia IGVanessa Cheng-Matsuno @vchengm.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Are you a woman who has recently started a TT position in politics or a politics related field? Then @katharinalawall.bsky.social and me would like to warmly invite you to join a new network for early career women: WIPS: Women in Political Science. 11311
Reposted by Cecilia IGMilan Thies @milanthies.bsky.social · 24/09/2025New 📝 out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social 1. Governments are taking a more active role in education and training 2. Linking technical issues to politically salient debates, such as climate change and digitalization, helps open the door to new public policies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 43412
Reposted by Cecilia IGCatherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 11/09/2025📖 New Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Why AI Won’t Save Your Writing The Brown University political economist talks irritation, PowerPoint & why the page is still the only place where real thinking happens. Read → catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-... 🧵catherineeunicedevries.substack.comEtched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Writing, Thinking, and Why AI Can’t Save YouWriters on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures 23310
Reposted by Cecilia IGAnna Wilson @awilson1.bsky.social · 02/09/2025🚨New article alert in @jvetjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Together with Scherwin Bajka www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comTo exit or not to exit? Employers’ considerations in a collective skill formation systemPolitical economy scholars have long studied the (pre-)conditions conducive to the collective provision of private goods, such as in-firm training. Previous research has established the importance ... 132
Reposted by Cecilia IGFederica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Humanity in the midst of inhumanity. We are letting history repeats itself 0173
Reposted by Cecilia IGIsabel M. Perera @isabelmperera.bsky.social · 02/07/2025The @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy and Welfare Network was thrilled to inaugurate its Early Career Workshop at our meeting last week 🎉🙌 173
Reposted by Cecilia IGDaniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Yeah let's burn the planet with ChatGPT and cool ourselves with smart bottles cause you won't need to breathe in their fucking tech future 0204
Cecilia IG @ceciliaivardi.bsky.social · 25/06/2025We've written a blog post about our recently published article on transnational growth regimes - check it out here: ecpr.eu/news/news/de.... @ecpr.bsky.social @ideasoneurope.bsky.socialecpr.euGrowing through skills: The integration of transnational dimensions into growth regimes by Cecilia Ivardi and Linda WanklinEuropean Consortium for Political Research 041
Reposted by Cecilia IGNicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Today is the second anniversary of Silvio Berlusconi's death & right-wing media in Italy are singing his praises & holding out about how he'd magically resolve all the world's problems if he were still alive & in power. Time to remind everyone of the murky & violent background of his rise to power. 15117
Reposted by Cecilia IGFederica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12/06/2025They will flood the zone, they will spin things, they will spoil evidence, everything to minimize opponents and obfuscate the public. I came of age during the peak of Berlusconi - been there, done that. This is just an enhanced, more 1930s nostalgia version of all of that. 1277
Cecilia IG @ceciliaivardi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Our article “Growing through skills: The integration of transnational dimensions into growth regimes” with Linda Wanklin has been published in Socio-Economic Review! 🎉 📄 Read the full article here: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...academic.oup.comGrowing through skills: the integration of transnational dimensions into growth regimesAbstract. This article proposes a new conceptualisation of skill formation within growth regimes that integrates a transnational dimension. Drawing on insi 174
Reposted by Cecilia IGAndrew Elrod @andrewelrod.bsky.social · 29/05/2025This great piece from Benjamin Braun and Cedric Durand, on the factions competing over the White House through the mess of US decline, has given me some of the greatest clarity on what is going on right now. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...phenomenalworld.orgAmerica’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric DurandFactions of capital in the second Trump administration 14320
Reposted by Cecilia IGFederica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 28/05/2025It so happens that Italians *can* send a signal against the plight of minorities (at this round, immigrants and vulnerable workers) at a referendum in just about a week. The president of the Senate says people should stay home. Trade unions say go. You choose. 051
Reposted by Cecilia IGMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025“Reuters examined the data from the Gaza Health Ministry to look more closely at those who have died. It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”reuters.comThe lives lost in Gaza: A closer look at those killed in the conflict so farThe death toll from the war already dwarfs the numbers killed in previous bouts of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza over many decades. 481662923
Reposted by Cecilia IGali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 20/05/2025it seriously is an AI/tech-brain thing to think of reading as a sort of decontextualized, totally purposeless activity that can be abstracted from the audience (even abstracted from the author) to the point that the text can be repeatably summarized with no intention or purpose associated with it 14315
Reposted by Cecilia IGCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 14/05/2025This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right. It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵 23578244
Reposted by Cecilia IGPaul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street 9773960711260
Reposted by Cecilia IGKate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Hard agree. Markets are always & everywhere political. The change today is that it is now *visible*, whereas neoliberalism was sold as a fairy tale of everyone winning under the free hand of the market, no politics involved. As Polanyi famously said, "even laissez-faire was planned." 2518
Reposted by Cecilia IGBernhard Sturm @sultaninen.ch · 07/05/2025The embassy in Berne sent this letter to the local bakery as well. The response was swift: the bakery sent a letter with a form where the embassy had to declare, that they will not support - amongst other things - the deportation of humans, otherwise they can bake their croissants themselves. 117940
Reposted by Cecilia IGDaniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 08/05/2025good to see that @adamtooze.bsky.social shares the 'transformative tariffs' diagnostic of the Trump 2.0 trade policy, instead of the 'chaos, chaos' liberal chant adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...adamtooze.substack.comChartbook 380 Trump's futurism: Elon's rockets and fewer dolls for "baby girl" - Part I.One common theme on the left is the idea of the exhaustion of the future. 1105
Reposted by Cecilia IGAndré Walter @megapeng.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Our article on Swiss municipality-level vote results has just been published in the @spsr.bsky.social! We compiled results from 1866 to 1944 by visiting numerous archives and filled some gaps of the dataset for the period 1944-2025 from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office.lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 172
Reposted by Cecilia IGMonica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 01/05/2025But what really propels me to “Cassandra out” in public-facing fora, for whatever it’s worth, is this: I’ve lived how rapidly free societies can slip into competitive authoritarianism and even brutal dictatorship. Scores of my brilliant, peaceful pro-democracy friends languish in jails. 181
Reposted by Cecilia IGBritish Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 04/04/2025NEW - Who Counts? Non-Citizen Residents, Spatial Sorting, and Malapportionment - cup.org/42vfiTR - @megapeng.bsky.social & Patrick Emmenegger "we argue that regions with high shares of non-citizen residents benefit from population-based apportionment" #OpenAccess 084
Cecilia IG @ceciliaivardi.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I am incredibly honored that my paper "Shaping institutional change in skill formation", which is my first-ever PhD project, has received the @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy& Welfare Best Paper Prize and has been published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comShaping institutional change in skill formation: the role of background ideas in growth strategiesStates are taking on an increasingly prominent role in shaping policy across advanced capitalist democracies. This paper conducts a comparative study of state intervention in skill formation betwee... 24111