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Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I read the reviews, then put them aside, then work on those issues that resonate with me even after some time. Then, I reread reviews to see what else might need doing. Not sure about efficient, but this works for my peace of mind and ensures that I write my paper, not what the reviewers want.

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨 Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

⚖️ Poland has a new president, but democratic backsliding and rule of law concerns remain. ❗ For anyone wanting to learn more about democratic backsliding or planning their course syllabi on the topic, look no further! Discover our JEPP collection on how the EU responds to democratic backsliding 👇

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Reacting to democratic backsliding in the European Union

Explore the article collection: Reacting to democratic backsliding in the European Union. Published in Journal of European Public Policy.

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

😎 No. 5 in Google Scholar Metrics 🙏 A big thank you goes to our authors, reviewers, and readers! 🔗 scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🚨 We're hiring! Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment. Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊 www.gesis.org/en/institute...

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Just joined @epssnet.bsky.social! If you have doubts or are hesitating, read the EPSA reform working group's report 👇. It outlines the problems with the existing EPSA model - that many may not have been aware of. Thanks to the EPSS founders for creating this public good! epssnet.org/wp-content/u...

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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

📌The special issue "Illiberal Regimes and International Organizations" is now published as Vol. 20 Issue 2 in RIO! @the-peio.bsky.social link.springer.com/journal/1155... Summary thread with each piece-- 🧵

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The Review of International Organizations

The Review of International Organizations publishes original scientific contributions in the entire field of international political economy, with a focus on ...

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Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Looking forward to @eustudies.bsky.social conference this week. I will be presenting a paper on the arguments that backsliding governments use to defend democratic backsliding in European Parliament debates (See abstact below). Panel 7J on Friday for anyone who happens to be around!

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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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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

At @jeppjournal.bsky.social, we're collating collections on important topics. Here are 10 largely empirical papers published in JEPP on 'Public Legitimacy in and about the EU'. Please do recommend others we might have missed! Room for plenty more. www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjp...

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Public Legitimacy in and about the EU

Explore the article collection: Public Legitimacy in and about the EU. Published in Journal of European Public Policy.

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Lisa Dellmuth @lisadellmuth.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Here's my International Relations starter pack - just answer this post if you want to be included! go.bsky.app/GHjHQu3 #polisky #internationalrelations #econsky #internationalpolitics

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Markus Wagner @markuswagner.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

⚠️ Six-year position at our department - work in lovely Vienna with a friendly team, 2 classes a term, and follow/develop your own research agenda. Feel free to ask me questions you might have. Deadline 24/01/25 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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University Assistant (postdoc)

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Emilie van Haute @emilievh.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We’re hiring! Full time academic position in IR. Top department, great colleagues, good opportunities - my happy place😀 Maybe yours soon? Deadline: 01/02/2025 Job description: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul... #academicjob

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Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Only a few days left to apply. Let me know if you have questions.

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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

⭐I am looking for a Postdoc in Computational Social Science in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! More on the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due by 8 January 2025. Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #computationalsocialscience

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Tom Theuns @tomtheuns.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

resharing this starter pack for the 6 million or so of you who have joined bsky in the past week. There are still some spots till it fills up so feel free to (self)recommend

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I created a starter pack of academics working on EU 🇪🇺 politics and European integration 👇. Let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/Bg7sPSp

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Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Jobs: 1 PhD student, 1 Post-doc to work with me on the project "Parliamentary Accountability and EU Action Against Democratic Backsliding". Both positions are for 3 years, starting 1.4.2025. Happy to answer questions. See below or here: www.hhu.de/die-hhu/kont.... PSJMInfo

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Isabelle Guinaudeau @iguinaudeau.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Come and join us! @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social is hiring an assistant prof (tenure-track) with a specialization on political economy in/of Europe www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

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Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Unbefristete wiss. Mitarbeiter*innenstelle an der @hhu.bsky.social. (Ich bin an diesem Prozess nicht beteiligt, glaube aber, dass dies eine spannende Aufgabe ist.). GermanPoliticSky EUsky PSJMinfo www.hhu.de/fileadmin/re...

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Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Acknowledgments: I received many helpful comments, including by workshop participants at ECPR Joint Sessions, UCSD, APSA, and LMU as well as the RIO reviewers.

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Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

For example, in case 10, governments initially tried to avoid suspending funding, but the Commission (under EP pressure) insisted on its proposal, and governments (under national parliament pressure), sided with their parliaments rather than backsliding governments.

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Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

I then used news reports to identify the decisions that backsliding governments opposed the most over the last decade, and I analyzed in case studies why they succeeded or failed.

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Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Results: An analysis of position-taking in hundreds of EU negotiations – based on DEU data – suggests that, indeed, backsliders adopt more opposing/Eurosceptic positions in decisions that could threaten their backsliding projects, but not in other decisions. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

I expect this tactic to work, except when the conditions for the consensus norm are not met. Backsliders lose if they are isolated, decisions are urgent, and other governments risk accountability from their national parliaments for making concessions to backsliders.

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Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

I suggest several areas of EU decision-making in which decisions could threaten key domestic strategies of backsliding governments. I expect that backsliders will oppose EU decisions in these areas but not in others. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Arguments: I argue that backsliders strategically use the “consensus norm” among EU governments: They support most decisions to build political capital and in turn ask for accommodation in select decisions that threaten their backsliding projects.

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Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

I ask (1) what tactics backsliding governments employ to ensure that other governments remain reluctant to act against backsliding and (2) when/why the EU still takes action against backsliding.

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Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Background: The EU has been a hospitable environment for backsliding governments. The EU provides funding and other benefits. Moreover, the Commission and governments have been reluctant to act against backsliding – albeit, with recent exceptions.

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Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

New publication: How backsliding governments keep the European Union hospitable for autocracy: Evidence from intergovernmental negotiations. EUsky PoliSciSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Job opening: we have opened a new postdoc position in our Computational Social Science group at GESIS in Cologne: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge... The postdoc will work on data quality of digital behavioral data in an interdisciplinary team.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

"Is Peer Review a Good Idea" - Heesen & Bright. My favorite paper on pre-pub peer review. Maybe you don't end up agreeing, but thoughtful paper & important to consider if status quo is not a clear improvement over pre-WW2 norms (without outside reviews). 🧪 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/...

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Is Peer Review a Good Idea? | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Vol 72, No 3

Prepublication peer review should be abolished. We consider the effects that such a change will have on the social structure of science, paying particular attention to the changed incentive structure ...

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Robert A. Huber @robert-a-huber.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

We're hiring! 4-year PhD position in Methods focusing on comparative politics, University of Salzburg. Application deadline: 1.11. More details: dropbox.com/scl/fi/di8k2... Please share! polisky

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Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

I've also been using Zotero for a while now. Never had any trouble. The browser plugin for importing references is particularly useful too.

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Werner Krause @krausewe.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

We summarized our recent article on right-wing violence and far right party support for the #FutureOfPopulism series. In a nutshell: We show that far right support has not declined, even amid the rise in violence in Germany. Paper: tinyurl.com/5n9xf97m Blog Post: tinyurl.com/2saab7az

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Right-wing violence and the persistence of far-right popularity

Miku Matsunaga and Werner Krause reveal how voters who support radical-right parties are sticking by them, despite the current upsurge in right-wing violence. Their findings raise crucial concerns abo...

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Hylke Dijkstra @hdijkstra.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

📣 JOBS! We are hiring 2 Assistant Professors in (1) European security and (2) international institutions at Maastricht University. Application deadline: 15 Oct. Starting date: 1 January. Please RT, share and apply 🧵1/6

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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social · 24/09/2023

Still a few days to access open access the first article of my project ‘Caroline’, on the early women of European integration (1952-1969) www.cairn.info/revue-politi... how do we study the history of European integration? And are women ‘few’ ‘without a deciding role’? #EUsky #polisky

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

🚨Job alert 🚨 We have 2️⃣ postdoc positions in our new interdisciplinary research priority area AI & Politics. We define both AI and politics broadly. Think 'impact of AI on politics' or 'politicisation of AI'. Please share.And apply by 🗓️ October 18 polisky commsky vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-...

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