New call for 3-year postdoc positions at YUFE universities - including Maastricht University. Projects should address European identity or citizen well-being in an urban context. Please note that YUFE postdocs have a mobility requirement.
Get in touch if you'd like to explore the possibility of applying for a YUFE postdoc with me, and share the call with recent PhDs who might be interested.
Day 2 of #ECPR2023. #PublicPolicy with a view. Paper presentation on Transformational Governance and Crisis Management. After three active roles, I enjoy the free and open participation on all the great events
Real-world developments such as migration rates, crime, and terrorism predict immigration news in right-wing media. Moreover, these developments also shape the content within immigration news.
In a study recently published in Mass Communication and Society, I analyze more than two decades of news coverage within Germany's largest right-wing newspaper to show this.
Interesting think piece by Yakov Feygin on Prigozhin's Concord that illustrates the usefulness of a political economy perspective on Russia - even if only to expose and question prevalent assumptions
Looking at internet censorship in Russia, I've noticed how often it still gets ignored that there even is an economic side to it. This is both silly (these are large businesses after all) and analytically problematic as it disregards the importance of neoliberalism.
This is not to say that the typical drivers and logics of authoritarian states do not apply. But they co-exist and need to grapple with the realities of contemporary globalised business and finance and the fact that often, you actually do need a business case for it to work
@politicalscience In quantitative research, there also disagreements (potential outcomes vs DAGs, for example). Overall, however, there is a more coherent framework and standards for assessing the quality of RDs, DiD etc.
A second issue could be that the standards of good qualitative research have been rising over the past 10 years (regardless of what standard you pick). Empirical research needs some time to catch up with rising standards.
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@politicalscience Editors have a lot of discretion when deciding about submissions. A large part of how the discretion is used remains invisible from the outside. I really like the idea of doing an internal audit of editorial decisions, desk rejections in particular. It would be interesting to do an audit for 2022 (I think the last one was some time ago) and to take other journals on board that report similar numbers for qualitative submissions 7/
Publishing academic research in Open Access makes such a difference in who is able to engage with and benefit from it. Our Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies just hit 250k accesses - needless to say we would never have sold that many (expensive) copies...
'We overestimate the internal cohesion and consistency of Russian government agencies; in reality, its institutions are wracked with forces that pull them at cross-purposes.'
Do read this piece by Jeremy Morris, where he pushes back against many prevalent simplifications about Russian politics and society.
I'm going to stay at #ecprgc23 in Prague for the whole next week. I will also present a paper on differentiating forms of Autocratization in the panel on "Autocracy and authoritarianism". If anyone would like to exchange ideas over a coffee or beer, just get in touch! 😉 @ecpr @politicalscience
Although I already joined last year, tooting still feels very novel to me—so I honestly don‘t know whether this will be read at all, but it‘s PUBLICATION DAY🚨:
Thrilled to share my article in REGIONAL & FEDERAL STUDIES:
I make a provocative, but as I believe necessary point:
To advance the study of comparative federalism, we need to study federalism through the lenses of interest group & lobbying
@brueckmann@politicalscience ❤️ thanks a million, Gracia, for being so responsive and supportive and PLEASE let me echo this: I‘ll try to boost you as much as I can 🐘! Enjoy the retreat and heartfelt thanks again
Mattias Agerberg and I address this question in our article, published open access in the newest issue of the Journal of #Peace#Research
In survey experiments in U.S., Sweden and UK we find that respondents are more likely to support intervention in armed #conflict if there is widespread #SexualViolence, compared to widespread ethnic violence, #violence generally or torture
#FAKTENFÜRDEBATTEN: Vor der #wahlCH23 wird allerhand geredet – doch nicht alles hält den Fakten stand. In unserer generationenübergreifenden Wahlkolumne überprüfen Prof. Adrian Vatter und ich (@unibern) gängige Annahmen im Lichte der politikwissenschaftlichen Forschung. Wir erhoffen uns, so die öffentliche Debatte zu bereichern und zur faktengestützte Meinungsbildung beizutragen. Mitdiskutieren erwünscht!
Unsere Wahlkolumne jeweils montags in den Tamedia-Zeitungen @politicalscience