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Dr. Alexandra “Ali” Cirone @alicirone.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Postdoc alert! Fellow in Public Policy at the LSE School of Public Policy. Up to 3 years, a great job in a tight market. Needs to be able to support teaching on our MPP program, but political scientists could definitely do this (make your case!) www.jobs.lse.ac.uk

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Back to one of my regular moans about democracy measurement - present bias. According to VDEM the UK's 'level of liberal democracy' is now lower than any time since 1945 - a period of time in which business owners and graduates had multiple votes and during which the Troubles occurred. WRONG.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The full @ipso.co.uk ruling on my complaint against the Daily Telegraph. The Telegraph (and the so-called "Centre for Migration Control, in fact just one random racist blogger) lied, and then doubled down on their lies. www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0100...

While the article had attributed the claim to “an analysis” of government figures, the Committee considered that the newspaper had not taken due care over the accuracy of the headline, which set out as fact that “More than one million foreign nationals are receiving benefits”. This did not make clear that the assertion was an estimate, and was presented without qualification. The print headline, as well as the online headline and its subheadline, did not accurately reflect warnings on reliability of the data, and presented the figures as fact, rather than an interpretation of the statistics by a third party. The Committee also considered that care had not been taken over the accuracy of the article, which did not make clear that it was not reporting on people’s nationality at the time they were claiming benefits, but their nationality at the time they first applied for a National Insurance number, which may have been significantly earlier. Absent this clarificatory information, the article was misleading to attribute the number of foreign nationals currently claiming benefits in the UK to this specific dataset.

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Santiago Sanchez-Pages @sanpages.eurosky.social · 04/03/2026

One of my favourite events in the conference season: young scholars sharing their superexciting research with us. Please, do apply and visit us at @kingsqpe.bsky.social

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Denmark has *far* worse outcomes - economic, social and integration - than the UK. Just a fantasyland for those who want an excuse for their own xenophobia and/or are incapable of doing the hard work of confronting the UK's real problems. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

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A Danish lesson for Labour on how to stop migrants and start winning

Like the home secretary, I visited recently to learn how the centre-left is riding high and reclaiming the asylum debate from the populist right

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

NEW - Adolescent Exposure to Economic Inequality and Belief in the ‘American Dream’ on Entering Adulthood - cup.org/4rmfyyE - @sldemora.bsky.social & Benjamin J. Newman #OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract text discussing economic inequality in the United States, focusing on its impact on the belief in the American dream among adolescents. It highlights findings from a study related to socioeconomic factors and belief systems.

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Yonatan Berman @yonatanberman.com · 18/11/2025

📢 We’re hiring! King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics. Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-... Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department. @kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social

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Lecturer in Economics | King's College London

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EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences @eui-sps.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

📢 Final week to apply for the Swiss Chair in Federalism and Democracy. A key position supported by the Swiss Government for scholars working on federalism and democratic processes. Deadline: 24 Nov 2025 Details: www.eui.eu/Documents/Se... Online Application form: apps.eui.eu/Vacancies/Ca...

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Niall Hughes @niallehughes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We're hiring a Full Prof in Economics (open-field) at the Econ dept in King's Business School. Come join us in central London - apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/12... #Econsky 1/2

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EJM - Econ Job Market

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Sergi Pardos-Prado @sergipardos.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Interested in why public anti-immigrant sentiment is so geographically concentrated? Here's some work with @denis-cohen.bsky.social testing a new theory on how regional labour market risks and inter-regional migration shape long-term spatial polarisation. Just out in @bjpols.bsky.social 👇

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Barcelona Network of Political Science (BANPS) @bcnpolisci.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

👋Welcome to the Barcelona Network of Political Science. ▶️We are here to promote research, strengthen ties between institutions, and support young researchers and students in developing their research careers.

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Marco Giani @mgiani.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Are university still a left-wing thing in Europe? Unsure: HE is a hierarchical institution with egalitarian employees I find that universities increasingly inculcate selfish career concerns for status while leaving universalist concerns for global justice unchanged

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Migrant Electoral Rights Dataset (1960-2020) 📊 Link to dataset: hdl.handle.net/1814/93661 📕 Link to codebook: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c... 💼 Link to 400 page documentation: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...

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MER Migrant Electoral Rights dataset

Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants—both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing dat...

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 04/08/2025

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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David Karpa @dkarpa.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Public Service Decline and Support for the Populist Right: "Our findings underscore the role of public service decline as a driver of support for populist parties, especially in areas undergoing demographic change"

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The rise of populist right parties is well-studied, but little attention has been
given to how public service performance influences voter support. Given that public services are often the primary means through which citizens interact with the
state, we argue that declining public services can create grievances that increase
the appeal of populist right parties. Focusing on England’s National Health Service
(NHS), we combine administrative data on local health facility closures with panel
data on public preferences and voting intentions. Using a staggered difference-indifferences design, we find that closures reduce satisfaction with public services and
increase support for populist right parties. These effects are moderated by migrant
registrations at local health practices, highlighting the interaction between public
service performance and immigration concerns in fueling populist right support.
Our findings underscore the role of public service decline as a driver of support for
populist parties, especially in areas undergoing demographic change.

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I've been working on something on this and here's a sneak peek of recent trends in Politics job adverts on jobs.ac.uk Here's a scatterplot and (GAM) trendline showing that the number of advertised politics jobs has pretty much halved since 2021.

A scatterplot and (GAM) trendline showing that the number of advertised politics jobs has more or less halved since 2021

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

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Daniele Girardi @dgirardi.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

My piece "The Neoclassical Theory of Aggregate Investment and its Criticisms" is now out Neoclassical investment theory implicitly or explicitly underlies much formal or informal economic reasoning. Here I offer a systematic perspective on its mechanisms & difficulties doi.org/10.1080/0953...

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Together with @paugrau.bsky.social, we have just posted our first Substack, which is our quick take on the outcome of the labour rights and citizenship referendums in Italy on 8-9 June 1/ open.substack.com/pub/simonhix...

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Divide and Lose

One Reason Why Italy’s Progressives Lost the June 2025 Referendums

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Rubén Ruiz-Rufino @rubenruizrufino.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

My book Democracy Under Strain is finally out, and I couldn’t be happier. 🥳 It’s been a long, challenging journey—but one that’s shaped me deeply as an academic. Here’s what it’s about 🧵 #DemocracyUnderStrain (1/11)

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

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Rod Dacombe @rod-dacombe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🚨🚨🚨Major job alert klaxon!!!🚨🚨🚨 In the Department of Political Economy @kcl-spe.bsky.social we are currently advertising for 3 permanent academic posts (2 Political Theory, 1 PPE)! Details below. Happy to have an informal discussion with anyone interested. Please share widely!! 1/

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Anne Rasmussen @annerasmussen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Delighted to share the fantastic lineup of upcoming speakers for our @kcl-spe.bsky.social Comparative Politics Speaker Series @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social! Thanks to Raluca Pahontu for co-organizing many of the speakers Feel free to reach out to @ninaobermeier.com or me if you'd like to attend

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