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Despina Alexiadou

@dalexiadou.bsky.social
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Political Economy Researcher, Reader at GPP, University of Strathclyde, Author of "Ideologues, Partisans and Loyalists", Swimmer, Mother of 3.

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🌀 🔍 Ministers’ backgrounds shape welfare policy 👥 @dalexiadou.bsky.social shows that who’s in charge matters for how governments design welfare — not just the party in power. ⚖️📈
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To understand your government’s welfare policies, look at its ministers' backgrounds
Using a test case of social welfare policy, Despina Alexiadou argues that if we want to understand the policy choices of different governments, we should start by analysing the social class…
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Thomas Sattler @sattlersthomas.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Challenges of first-gens identified at a roundtable at the EPSA conference 2024 (with @dalexiadou.bsky.social, @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social, @denis-cohen.bsky.social, @argohdes.bsky.social) - besides money:
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 26/02/2026
Read @lorenzocrippa.bsky.social, Edmund Malesky, and Lucio Picci on the Trump administration’s weaponization of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: fam.ag/4aCQXQa
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Despina Alexiadou @dalexiadou.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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! www.strath.ac.uk/courses/post...
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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🧵 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 👇
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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Raymond Hicks @arpie71.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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
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Zombie institutions could have "afterlives," but little power.
Zombie internationalism sees a slow, stumbling transformation, and decreased trust in international agreements and global institutions.
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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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 👇
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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)
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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.
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
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Jonathan Polk @jonathanpolk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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!
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Postdoctoral fellow in political science: party competition in Europe
Are you our next postdoc with a focus on using expert surveys to examine political party competition around cleavage politics? The Department of Political Science invites applications for a 2-year pos
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Despina Alexiadou @dalexiadou.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
New afrobarometer report by Bob Mattes @strathpolir.bsky.social and it is not good news for the continent www.afrobarometer.org?p=29448
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AD943: Decade of destitution? Severe lived poverty is surging in many African countries
The share of humanity who live in conditions of poverty has been falling since at least 1980.  Measured as the proportion of people who live on less than $2.15 a day, the figure has  declined...
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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.
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Luis Cornago Bonal @luiscornagob.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The D.E.I. Retreat Has Some Notable Holdouts www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/b...
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As D.E.I. Programs Come Under Attack, Companies Like Costco and Microsoft Forge Ahead
As racial and gender equity programs come under attack, many companies have scaled back. But Costco, Microsoft and others have forged ahead.
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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! s.gwdg.de/SULoAf
Application deadline: April 15, 2025
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Silja Häusermann @siljahausermann.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
‼️ Hiring ‼️ 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: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions
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Despina Alexiadou @dalexiadou.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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...
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Calls for Rachel Reeves to quit as chancellor are overblown – but they highlight what her real problems are
The chancellor is weathering choppy economic waters – but the roots of these date back much further than Reeves’ time in the job.
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Despina Alexiadou @dalexiadou.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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....
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African Legislators: Unrepresentative Power Elites?
African legislators both resemble and differ from the societies they claim to represent in important ways. Based on a unique survey of representative samples of parliamentarians in 17 countries, we...
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
There are several opportunities to take a (funded) PhD @sotonpolitics.bsky.social, for specific projects AND your own 🧵
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Evelyne Hübscher @evehubscher.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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!
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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 🧵
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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
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)
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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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...
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Do working-class candidates activate class-based voting?
After steadily leaving the Democratic Party, working-class voters are increasingly seen as pivotal in US elections. What type of candidates should par…
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Dawn Teele @teele.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#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”
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Anne Rasmussen @annerasmussen.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
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
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Lecturer in Political Behaviour
Job id: 083946. Salary: Grade 6/7: £43,205 to £61,021 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance..
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
I think influencers call this *unboxing* ✨✨✨
A box full of Anita’s book “Repression in the Digital Age”
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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
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)
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Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
🚨🚨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
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Assistant Professor in European Politics and Policy
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
“Why is everyone so upset about the economy?”
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
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...
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How Biden's Inflation Reduction Act changed the world | FT Film
The US was for decades the exemplar of free market globalisation. That changed with Donald Trump’s 'America first' agenda. President Joe Biden’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act continues the push...
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Manifesto Project @manifestoproj.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
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 🧵:
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Manifesto Project Database
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Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Tune in to BBC Radio 4 tomorrow (Wed 5th) at 9am GMT - to hear @benansell.bsky.social's second #ReithLecture: 'The Future of Security'. Find out more about the series 👇 www.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/dpirs-p...
Man in dark blue suit looking directly at the camera
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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Sarah King, PhD Researcher and member of text-and-policy.com, will be teaching a free online workshop on webscraping using R. The event is open to all scholars regardless of university affiliation. Register here: forms.gle/Q3pixYrbrEY6... More info: www.ucd.ie/connected_po...
Free online workshop: Webscraping using R, Thursday, 30 November, 15:00–16:30 (Irish time)
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
So Control. Much Taking. Very Back 🇬🇧
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 14/11/2023
My friend and former colleague Kevin Morrison passed away about five years ago. At his memorial service, his family shared some of his thoughts about what he hoped his legacy would be. I taped it on my office wall. I think about it every day, and especially these days
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Despina Alexiadou @dalexiadou.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
A reminder that the deadline for a four-year, research only postdoc with me @StrathPolIR on politicians and the reproduction of wealth, funded by VW Stiftung is DUE THIS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17! polisky
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Post-Doctoral Researcher (570123)
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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
I’ll be teaching a short workshop on reproducible research and version control using Git & GitHub! Wednesday, 15 November, 14:00–15:30 (Irish time) You can attend in-person or remotely via Zoom! Sign up here: t.co/Oovi7sEATb More details: www.ucd.ie/connected_po... polisky
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Markus Tepe @markustepe.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
PostDoc in behavioral political science? I am looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (full-time, Salary Scale 13 TV-L, for an initial period of 3 years) at the SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy in Bremen. Please don‘t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions!
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Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen
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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
The Call for Papers for my favourite political science conference #EPSA2024 is now open! EPSA, July 4-6 2024, Cologne epsanet.org/epsa2024-gen...
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
A MAN'S WORLD? A fascinating polisky analysis of more than 4,000 policies in 43 countries revealing clear and robust evidence that women’s policy preferences are underrepresented compared to those of men. Gender inequality extends to policy representation www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Despina Alexiadou @dalexiadou.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
2 days left to apply for our Job in Political Economy (assistant or associate level, CPE/ IPE/ Formal).
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Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Political Economy (560100)
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Despina Alexiadou @dalexiadou.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Do you work with large data & are interested in political elites & revolving door politics? Work with me @ Strathclyde, Glasgow, in a 4 year-research-only postdoc, fully funded by WV Foundation. Polisky Post-Doctoral Researcher (570123) strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Redirect.asp...
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Post-Doctoral Researcher (570123)
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Thomas Sattler @sattlersthomas.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Here it is one more time, then I'll stop, I promise :). @evehubscher.bsky.social, @markuswagner.bsky.social
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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · 23/10/2023
8 days until applications are due polisky PSJMinfo
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
In the 2019 Swiss federal elections, women's representation increased more than at any time before, reaching an all-time high at 42%. Following yesterday's election results, there is a 3.5%-points decrease in female MPs in the Swiss lower house, primarily due to the SVP's seat gains polisky
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Very happy that our workshop for the ECPR joint sessions was accepted: on democracy, trust, and trustworthiness. 🌐 Details below and here ecpr.eu/Events/Event... You can propose papers from tomorrow until 23rd November - a month today!
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Post-election poll for Swiss election shows: 1) Far-Right SVP strongest party in all age groups 2) Socialists and Greens strong among under-30s, Greens weak among over-65s 3) Center Party and liberal FDP strongest among pensioners 4) FDP only fifth strongest party among voters under 45 Polisky
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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
What the Polish elections might mean for Poland (and Europe), by yours truly: goodauthority.org/news/how-his...
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How historic voter turnout upended illiberal rule in Poland
Polish voters turned out in record numbers this Sunday to renounce the illiberal government of the Law and Justice Party (PiS). After eight years of
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David Fortunato @fortunato.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
My book has finally been published in paperback so I can now (in good conscience) beg and plead for you to assign it to your grad and advanced undergrad classes on comparative, legislative, and European politics. (most universities should have free access to the eBook) polisky cup.org/3trQJIu
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