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Public Opinion Quarterly - POQ @poqjournal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The educational attainment of welfare recipients influences perceptions of deservingness. In POQ, Diessner et al. find that university-educated workers are seen as less in need of support in contemporary knowledge economies. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 27/04/2026

In 1999, the ECB realized that its toolkit did not fit the structure of the monetary union it found itself in charge of. So it chose to try and change that structure – by promoting structural reforms. With @donatodc.bsky.social & @sebdiessner.bsky.social, now in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social vol 24.

Structure, Agency, and Structural
Reform: The Case of the European Central
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Benjamin Braun, Donato Di Carlo, Sebastian Diessner and Maximilian Düsterhöft
Monetary and nancial integration has been shown to increase the pressure on states to liberalize social and labor market policies. If
structures do not come with instruction sheets, how do monetary regime pressures translate into policy? Through a case study of the
euro area, we show that central banks play an underappreciated role in this process. Using mixed methods to analyze a large amount
of data, including the complete corpus of speeches, we trace the evolution of the European Central Bank’s advocacy for structural
reforms between 1999 and 2019. To explain the ECB’s activism in a policy area beyond its mandate, we theorize the ECB as
navigating a dilemma between governability and legitimacy. Handed a monetary regime under which exible labor markets were
seen as a condition for governability, the ECB saw no alternative but to push governments toward structural reforms, despite the
reputational risks. The ECB ended its advocacy when increasing political backlash coincided with a structural regime shift from an
in ationary to a de ationary environment.

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Manuela Moschella @manuelamoschella.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

A much needed discussion on the accountability dimension of industrial policy. Thanks @christyapetit.bsky.social and @sebdiessner.bsky.social for their insightful contribution to our forthcoming @govjournal.bsky.social SI on the political foundations of market interventionism. Stay tuned for more ☺️

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Sebastian Diessner @sebdiessner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Honoured to be a Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI this academic year and looking forward to the wonderful intellectual environment of the Robert Schuman Centre!

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 01/07/2025

🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate. Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics. We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Screenshot of the title page of linked article:
"Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks"
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Steffen Murau @steffenmurau.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🚨 New open access article 🚨 Out now in Journal of Financial Regulation with Alex Goghie and Matteo Giordano 'Encumbered Security? Vertical and Horizontal Repos in the Euro Area and Their Inherent Ambiguity' academic.oup.com/jfr/advance-...

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Fabio Bulfone @fbulfone.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The PEPP group at Leiden University’s Institute of Public Administration is pleased to announce the next PE_PP Talk by Aneta Spendzharova (Maastricht University) on May 12! Details below Please PM if interested @sebdiessner.bsky.social @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social @alexandreafonso.bsky.social

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Sebastian Diessner @sebdiessner.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Had a great time in Scotland for our pilot within the Leiden-Edinburgh "Global Futures Hub" with @alexandreafonso.bsky.social @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social @eawolff.bsky.social @fbulfone.bsky.social Thanks for having us @philiprathgeb.bsky.social @lukaslehner.bsky.social Daniel Clegg Elke Heins!

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Niccolo Durazzi @ndurazzi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🗣️ we have a new paper and new dataset just out on the transition to the knowledge economy in advanced democracies - both OA, available here academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... and here www.knowledge-economy-index.com

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Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Excited to share my latest publication, written with colleagues from the New Economics Foundation (@sebmang.bsky.social and al) exploring why monetary and fiscal policies need to work together to improve inflation management. 🧵👇 #Inflation #MonetaryPolicy #CentralBanks

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Sebastian Diessner @sebdiessner.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

📢 We have an exciting event on *The Governance of Inflation* coming up in our Political Economy & Public Policy seminar on March 21st in The Hague @fggaleiden.bsky.social With @jvtk.bsky.social @donatodc.bsky.social @lucacigna.bsky.social Details 👇 www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...

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Manuela Moschella @manuelamoschella.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Huge thanks to @sebdiessner.bsky.social for his thoughtful review and insights! It’s an honor to have our books discussed so carefully alongside those of great colleagues. Looking forward to more conversations on teaching political economy ... esp in these turbulent times! #EuropeanPoliticalEconomy

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Sebastian Diessner @sebdiessner.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Interested in teaching EU governance, political economy and crises—but don't know where to start? Then this one’s for you doi.org/10.1080/0703... Thanks to 3 excellent recent volumes by @manuelamoschella.bsky.social+co-authors @amyverdun.bsky.social @achimhurrelmann.bsky.social A Bongardt/F Torres

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Natascha van der Zwan @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Join us for the next PE_PP talk organized by the Political Economy and Public Policy group at Leiden University's Institute of Public Administration! On March 21, @donatodc.bsky.social, @lucacigna.bsky.social and @jvtk.bsky.social will be presenting on the governance of inflation. Details 🔽

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Great resource if you are planning to teach about European Political Economy!

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Achim Hurrelmann @achimhurrelmann.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Thanks Sebastian for this review - and also to the shout-out to the EU Governance Videos (carleton.ca/eu-governanc...)! Your suggestions for topics to be covered in the next edition are very well taken.

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Sebastian Diessner @sebdiessner.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Much enjoyed the launch of @unileiden.bsky.social's Europe Hub in Brussels at @europarl.europa.eu today With great contributions from - and very many thanks to - Leiden colleagues & organizers at the EP's Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/en/even...

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Jens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Why does the largest trading bloc on the planet have a miniature-sized currency? With Trump, the EU will again much regret this. 🎈In a new working paper, @steffenmurau.bsky.social and I set out to theorise failure and develop a new IPE perspective that foregrounds offshore money. A thread 🧵

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Politics and Governance @cogitatiopag.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Is the European Central Bank losing its independence by getting too political? Our new open access highlights how the ECB’s increasing involvement in crises and political issues has led to debates about its legitimacy and the need for stronger accountability. Issue: shortt.link/pag386bsky

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Ditching the Maastricht Model? The Evolving Role of the European Central Bank in the Economic and Monetary Union

Thematic Issue, Vol 13 (2025)

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Jérôme Deyris @jdeyris.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

📊 Last week, we released our new central bank speeches database, which almost doubles the coverage of the @BIS_org database. We also released a tool to facilitate research on central bank communication: meet the #CBSpeeches explorer! Four tools for the price of one (=free!)

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Arianna Tassinari @aritassinari.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Had a really excellent time at @weareceu.bsky.social in Vienna this past Monday discussing @ankehassel.bsky.social's recent research works on the political economy of growth & welfare with some wonderful colleagues. Engaging and thought-provoking exchanges - thanks so much for hosting us!

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Sebastian Diessner @sebdiessner.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Back from @weareceu.bsky.social after a wonderful workshop on recent works by @ankehassel.bsky.social in the context of her Karl Polanyi Visiting Professorship, incl. •the much-anticipated 2nd volume of Growth & Welfare with @bpalier.bsky.social •joint work with @donatodc.bsky.social & Martin Höpner

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Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

New article on Fast Track by @sebdiessner.bsky.social @ndurazzi.bsky.social and David Hope, “Embedding Skill Bias: Technology, Institutions, and Inequality in Wages and Benefits,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

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Embedding Skill Bias: Technology,...Inequality in Wages and Benefits: Ingenta Connect Fast Track Article

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Toon Van Overbeke @toonvano.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Are you also still baffled by Trump's inauguration 🇺🇸, wondering what he will do next, how successful his policies will be and (frankly) why he is even there? Our new book "Understanding Political Economy: Capitalism, Democracy and Inequality", released today, can help with that! (Link below)

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Anke Hassel @ankehassel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Thank you so much, Sebastian, for your kind and thoughtful comments. It was a great workshop. Congratulations to the Karl Polanyi Society, the university of Vienna and CEU for hosting me! @sebdiessner.bsky.social

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Luca Cigna @lucacigna.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Just out 🍃 first research output of a new agenda on the political economy of, and capitalist varieties in, the green transition 🏭👩‍🏭 Born from a joint effort with @donatodc.bsky.social and @ndurazzi.bsky.social 🚀 leap.luiss.it/wp-content/u...

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Andrew Watt @andrewwatteu.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

How widely (or not) the benefits of new technologies like AI are distributed is a crucial political-economy question. This paper finds evidence that collective wage bargaining helps ensure that the gains are not captured primarily by capital owners and high-skill workers. @wzwysen.bsky.social

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Niccolo Durazzi @ndurazzi.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

with dear friends and brilliant co-authors @sebdiessner.bsky.social and David Hope, we have a new paper soon out in @comppol.bsky.social

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Anna Peychev @annapeychev.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Do you lose sleep over the future of the Economic and Monetary Union? Do you know what's wrong with it? Have you any idea how to fix it? Might you have a working paper on the matter? Then we want to hear from you! Submit proposals & come share your ideas for the EUI Schuman Centre EMU Lab!

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Sebastian Diessner @sebdiessner.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

🚨 New working paper with Christy Ann Petit for the LUHNIP WP series by @donatodc.bsky.social & colleagues ⚙️"Strengthening the Democratic Accountability of the EU’s New Industrial Policy through Parliamentary Oversight" 📖 Link: bit.ly/3Z6CJRK

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 12/11/2024

Not happy this became so timely, but here we are. It's a very sharp piece, underpinned by two (!) new working papers: One tests the 'cost shocks as coordinators' mechanism behind sellers' inflation; the other traces fossil fuel profits to shareholders. We just uploaded both, links below.

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Jérôme Deyris @jdeyris.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This summer, I read Manuela Moschella's new book "Unexpected Revolutionaries", and wrote a short review for Competition and Change. Spoiler alert: it's a *great* book that provides a refreshing account of central banking transformations in the past 15 years journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

As promised (threatened?), I made a starter pack of heterodox and political economists! You'll see a range of pluralist theories here, as well as some heterodox-friendly economists that may be more mainstream. go.bsky.app/J86RtKh

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Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Here is one for the EU central banking geeks around here 🤓💶 :-) bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Sebastian Diessner @sebdiessner.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Today the ECB's revised operational framework comes into force 💸 What's a central bank's operational framework for? Why is the ECB's revision far from ideal? How should it be improved? Check out our report with @jordischroeder.bsky.social & Uuree Batsaikhan www.datocms-assets.com/132494/17212...

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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Online first: "Police patrols, fire alarms, or ambulance chasers? Parliamentary oversight of European monetary policy and banking supervision" by @adinaakbik.bsky.social & @sebdiessner.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... #Polisky

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Institut Avant-garde @ecoavantgarde.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

3️⃣ Promouvoir la coopération entre politiques budgétaire et monétaire pour mettre en œuvre une politique monétaire plus verte et plus démocratique. Avec @sebdiessner.bsky.social www.institutavantgarde.fr/renforcer-la...

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Institut Avant-garde @ecoavantgarde.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

Notre dossier de propositions pour les européennes est disponible ! 1️⃣Nous devons investir 375 Md€ d'ici 2030 2️⃣82 % d'endettement public moyen 3️⃣Le rythme de réduction des émissions doit tripler Comment éviter d'avoir à choisir entre épuisement budgétaire et planétaire ? 👇

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 19/03/2024

🚨 New article 📯 In 1999, the ECB realized that its map did not fit the territory. What gives? For a long time, it tried to reshape the territory. With @donatodc.bsky.social & @sebdiessner.bsky.social we trace how & why it went so out of its way. #ipesky #polisky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Title: "Structure, Agency, and Structural Reform: The Case of the European Central Bank"

Authors: Benjamin Braun, Donato Di Carlo, Sebastian Diessner, Maximilian Düsterhöft

Journal: Perspectives on Politics

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Julian Limberg @julianlimberg.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

The ICT revolution has fundamentally transformed how we work. Has this had an effect on demand for redistribution? In our latest work in @jeppjournal.bsky.social, David Hope, Nina Weber, and I run interactive online experiments to answer this question. A short thread. 1/6

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Toon Van Overbeke @toonvano.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

Interested in the PE of contested transitions? Join our workshop at the Politicologen Etmaal in beautiful Maastricht this June: politicologenetmaal.eu Co-organised by @claraweinhardt.bsky.social @sebdiessner.bsky.social @fbulfone.bsky.social, Ferdi de Ville, Lukas Linsi and Aneta Spendzharova!

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Politicologenetmaal 2024 in Maastricht

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Sebastian Diessner @sebdiessner.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Come work with us! 📢 Fully-funded PhD position (4 years) at the Institute of Public Administration at Leiden University on political economy of the green and digital transition Deadline: March 31 🚨 Supervised by the amazing @fbulfone.bsky.social & myself www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

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PhD candidate

The Institute of Public Administration at Leiden University is looking for aPhD Candidate for the research project ‘Political Economy of the Green and Digital Transition between the Local, National an...

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Adina Akbik @adinaakbik.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Jobs 📣 Jobs 📣 Jobs 📣 3 fully-funded PhD positions in Political Science (4 years) @ Leiden University, working on cultural stereotypes in #EU governance 2 positions are attached to my ERC project #EUROTYPES, focused on EU agencies: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies... EUsky polisky

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PhD Candidate in Political Science, focus on EU agencies

The Institute of Political Science of Leiden University’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences invites applicants for two positions ofPhD Candidate in Political Science, focus on EU agencies (1....

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Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Just got the proofs, should be online very soon and out in @ajpseditor.bsky.social! Keynes and politics of time, or why we are not all dead in the long run.

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