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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

3️⃣ It reconstructs how institutional entrepreneurs used the article to push for a more ambitious industrial policy in the context of state aid modernization, eventually resulting in the creation of a standalone policy instrument.

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

2️⃣ It discusses how the article evolved over the ensuing decades, remaining mostly dormant despite some discussions in the 1980s to provide more explicit guidance.

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

1️⃣ It offers a detailed reconstruction of how the 'IPCEI article' (today 107(3)(b) TFEU) emerged during the negotiations leading up to the Treaty of Rome.

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The paper offers a deep dive into the history of the IPCEI article, from its origins in the 1950s to the 2014 IPCEI communication. Introducing the concept of institutional activation, the paper sheds light on three historical episodes.

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

It was only in 2014 that the Commission decided to 'activate' this sleeping legal resource by introducing IPCEIs as a standalone policy instrument.

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

As many have noted, the Treaty article on which IPCEIs are based goes all the way back to the Treaty of Rome but has remained largely dormant over the first decades of EU history.

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

IPCEIs have recently received a lot of attention in Europe's industrial policy discussions. For example, both the Draghi and Letta reports as well as the new Commission's political guidelines give it pride of place in Europe's emerging industrial policy edifice.

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

🚨 New paper in JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies: 'Waking a Dormant Legal Resource. Institutional Activation and the Origins of Important Projects of Common European Interest' (with Henrique Lopes Valença). 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵 👇

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Thomas Davidson @thomasdavidson.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

A screenshot of the Sociological Methods & Research website showing the special issue title

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such? My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020). A thread (1/n)

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Ben Crum @bencrum.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

It was a daunting task that Antoaneta Dimitrova and I took on. But we reached a compelling conclusion, I believe: “Moving on not to fall behind” was the best article in @jeppjournal.bsky.social in 2024 Much deserved congrats to @timoseidl.bsky.social and @luukschmitz.bsky.social

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Thanks so much Ben, means a lot coming from you!

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Super happy, deeply honored, and a little humbled to win this award! JEPP has always been one of my favourite journals, not just as an author, but also as a reader, reviewer, and even SI editor—so this one is especially dear to my heart! Many thanks to the jury, the editors, and my co-author Luuk!

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

„Die Hermann-Hesse-Bahn kostet insgesamt 180 Millionen Euro (…). Von den 180 Millionen Euro werden 80 Millionen Euro allein für den Artenschutz aufgewendet, weitere, zusätzliche 25 Millionen Euro kosten die Gutachten.“ —schon einfach Wahnsinn… #teamabundance

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

#jobs 🚨🚨🚨 4 postdocs in Münster: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/5... I‘m involved in one appointment. More details will follow soon!

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Postdoctoral Research Associate - EU Forscher*in - (salary level E 13 TV-L, 100 %)

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Andreas Dür @andduer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

We are inviting applications for a 4-year PhD position in International Relations at the @unisalzburg.bsky.social. Requirement: MA in Political Science or a closely related social science Application deadline: 2 June 2025 For more details, see tinyurl.com/5ew3auby #Polisky #poliscijobs

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Maybe try again, I’ve received applications today so the platform should be live. If it does not work, shoot me an email but it’s the only way to apply.

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🚨 New book alert! Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission is out with OUP @oxfordacademic.bsky.social It’s about the behind-the-scenes stage of EU policymaking that shapes everything—yet rarely gets the spotlight: how the Commission prepares its proposals. Link: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

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Manuela Moschella @manuelamoschella.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Very grateful for two days of collective thinking on the EU’s geoeconomic challenges Huge thanks to my fab co-organizers @ankehassel.bsky.social @katemcnamara.bsky.social @donatodc.bsky.social @trgn.bsky.social + to the brilliant scholars who shared their insights about the challenges ahead

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🚨 Want to join me at the Technical University of Munich? I’m hiring a PhD student (100%) in the area of the political economy of technological change! 📅 Apply by 18 May | Start Date: July (flexible) 🔗 More info & how to apply: hfp.heyrecruit.de?page=job&id=... ❓Reach out if you have any questions

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PhD position in the field of Political Economy of Technological Change bei Hochschule für Politik München

The Professorship Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Timo Seidl) invites applications for a PhD position in the field of Political Economy of Technological Change

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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due: 2 May 2025 Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

📢 New JEPP collection 📢 One of Europe's toughest 🥜 to crack? Balancing the green and digital transitions while staying competitive. Martin B. Carstensen and Berthold Rittberger bring together the latest JEPP collection on European competitiveness in the twin transition 👇

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The politics of European competitiveness in the twin transition

Explore the article collection: The politics of European competitiveness in the twin transition. Published in Journal of European Public Policy.

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 28/03/2025

Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

As the new semester is approaching (at least here in Munich), I thought it might be a good time to reshare my course guidelines on the use of A.I. Perhaps you find it useful or have some comments on what I'm missing here (this is work in progress of course). 🔗 www.timoseidl.com/blog/seidl-a...

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Tobias Widmann @twidmann.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

For everyone interested in working with computational tools, this is an amazing Postdoc position at the Political Science Department in Aarhus If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me.

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Anna-Verena Nosthoff @annanosthoff.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Ich habe eine Stelle als Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in (@criticaldatalab.bsky.social / Uni Oldenburg) zu vergeben und freue mich sehr über Bewerbungen. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 30.4., Fragen gern an mich: www.soziopolis.de/ausschreibun...

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

☺️ If you want to use any of it, feel free to, also happy to send you the underlying .qmd if needed!

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Philipp Jäger @ph-jaeg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Busy day for COM, with defence package (ec.europa.eu/commission/p...), Savings and Investment Union strategy (ec.europa.eu/commission/p...) and now the Steel and Metal Action Plan presented - one of multiple sector plans, which are the work horses for implementing the Clean Industrial Deal. So far,

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Commission unveils the White Paper for European Defence and the ReArm Europe Plan/Readiness 2030

Today, the Commission and the High Representative have presented a White Paper for European Defence – Readiness 2030.

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Instead of teaching political economy and R separately, I’ve once again combined them into a single integrated course—this time focusing on the (European) Political Economy of climate change & economic security. You can find both slides and syllabus here: www.timoseidl.com/teaching/r-a...

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 "Moral Economies of the Polycrisis. Conflict, Critique, and Legitimation in Critical Times" Workshop, June 16-17 University of Hamburg Deadline for abstracts: 07/04 Supported by the Economic Sociology section of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social linuswestheuser.com/cfp-moral-ec...

Moral Economies of the Polycrisis
Conflict, Critique and Legitimation in Critical Times

International Workshop. 16-17 June 2025. University of Hamburg. Organizers: Laura Lüth (University of Hamburg), Till Hilmar (University of Vienna), and Linus Westheuser (Humboldt University Berlin).

By disrupting what is taken for granted, moments of economic, political, and ecological crisis reveal the implicit modus operandi of a society. As routines get derailed and settled arrangements come under strain, institutions are forced to explicate the “implicit social contract” (Barrington Moore) underpinning power, domination, and inequality. Who deserves protection when times get rough? Whose suffering matters and whose claims are made to count? Who is blamed? And what even counts as a crisis and what is shrugged off and fades into a ‘new normal’?

These questions touch on a tacit structure of social expectations commonly discussed under the heading of moral economy. Drawing on thinkers like E.P. Thompson, James C. Scott, or Marion Fourcade, the moral economy perspective examines expectations of unequal reciprocity and distributive claims in economic relations; ideas of systemic legitimacy resting on mutual obligations between dominant and dominated groups; or political priorities tied to assumptions about the (un)deservingness and moral worth of social groups. Moral economy approaches focalize the ideational and institutional architecture of capitalist societies by parsing how legitimacy and hegemony are embedded in everyday moral reasoning. In addition these approaches also often look at social practices, struggles, and forms of critique centered around the violation of moral claims.

At our workshop, we want to discuss work in the moral economy paradigm that sheds light on the current “polycrisis” composed of geopolitical turmoil, economic shocks, ecological breakdown, as well as crises of care and political legitimacy.

What can the moral economy perspective teach us about the way capitalist societies navigate these crises?
To what extent do crises open up a space in which dominated groups can critique inequality and demand a renegotiation of the implicit social contract?
How do demands and political responses informed by existing moral economies deepen inequality and domination?
How do institutions like the welfare state or social and eco-social policies seek to mend rifts in the moral economy?
What are moral background assumptions that make some developments (such as migration) but not others (such as poverty and extreme wealth) appear as crises?
And what is the explanatory status of moral economy as a concept? For instance, are popular moral sentiments and subjective aspirations a driver of political and economic action, or are they merely a symptom of existing power relations? Is moral economy about agency or structure? And if both, how exactly?

These are some of the questions we want to discuss with a group of international scholars.

We invite papers taking a moral economy perspective to empirically research or theorize the current conjuncture. Papers can be at all stages of development, the event is meant to collaboratively discuss work in progress. We especially welcome submissions from doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. Limited funds are available to assist with travel and accommodation for those lacking institutional support.

Please send an abstract of max. 500 words to: laura.lueth@uni-hamburg.de, till.hilmar@univie.ac.at and linus.westheuser@hu-berlin.de

Deadline for abstract submissions: 7 April, 2025

The workshop is supported by the Economic Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS), the Research Unit Economic Sociology at the University of Hamburg, and the Research Unit Macrosociology at Humboldt University Berlin.

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Jens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

📚✨ New paper alert: How are we doing on turning nature into a source of calculable risk? We take a critical look at how 1990s risk models and environmental science enable riskification, and study very new regulatory strategies that go beyond it. #openaccess: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Technik, Macht und Herrschaft @digipolicy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

What are the political and legal implications of #blockchain technology? 📖 Book launch: “Blockchain Governance” 📅 28 March 2025, 5PM 📍 Am Kupfergraben 5, Berlin / online (DM for more info) With @wesselreijers.bsky.social, @katrinbecker.eu and @annanosthoff.bsky.social. See you there!

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Glückwunsch Stefan, freut mich sehr für dich!

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Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

New Publication 🚨 Why are contemporary societies increasingly looking to private companies to solve climate change? In my latest article, I analyze the rise of green tech firms and the cultural operations driving this shift. Out now in @jcultecon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Global warming as investment climate: green tech and the translation of needs

Climate change is not only altering temperatures but also the very composition of the economic field. So-called ‘green tech firms’ are successfully claiming new jurisdictional task areas related to...

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Thanks Jona! Hope all is well!

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Good question, first book that comes to mind is Wayne Sandholtz's High-Tech Europe, but I just ordered your new book, so who knows, maybe I'll have a new favorite soon;)

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I agree—Political Economy, in both its economics and its political science versions, should at least partly be »Geopolitical Economy«. This has probably always been true, but it has become really obvious in recent years.

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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Lots of great positions at @mpifg.bsky.social, pls share! - 2yr postdoc in wealth research - 2yr postdoc in technology & sovereignty - 3+3yr senior researcher in political economy - 3+3yr senior researcher in economic sociology - tenure/director-track group leader digitalization & society

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Some professional news: Last week I joined the Technical University of Munich as an Assistant Professor of Political Economy (with a focus on technological change). Can't wait to get to know my new students & colleagues at HfP, and big thanks to everyone who made this possible—you know who you are!

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Congrats Philipp, I was reading this recently and I learned a lot. It's one of these papers where you could really feel that a lot of thought went into it, really valuable work and well-deserved award!

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Haha, technically it was the day before, but it's a nice birthday present nonetheless! Thanks Bilyana, hope to see you soon somewhere!

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Kate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Terrific & much needed deep empirical analysis of new EU industrial policy state aid tool by @timoseidl.bsky.social & @luukschmitz.bsky.social. The key goldilocks punch line? Critical policy goals best achieved with ‘just the right’ amount of EU conditionality rules.

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