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🌡️ When the policymaking thermostat breaks

Marcello Carammiaa and Stefano M. Iacus show that Italy’s migration policy normally follows a thermostatic dynamic. But during the migration crisis, the system overheated, and feedback loops collapsed 👇

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November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🥊 Who contests the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and its Deforestation Regulation? And why? 🤔

👉 @alexboegner.bsky.social shows it’s not just affectedness — allies are far more forgiving 👇

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November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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📣 happy to see this new paper co-authored with Nadia El Ghali on the “inclusion trap” in multistakeholder institutions published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social. You can read it for free below⬇️
⚠️Caught in the inclusion trap: multistakeholder institutions and autocratic accommodation by @bendassler.bsky.social and Nadia El Ghali

They propose a three-step model and use a mixed-methods study of ICANN as their case 👇

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November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.32
🌍 Based on @jeppjournal.bsky.social research, L Bruszt & J Langbein argue that #EU market rules, when applied to weaker economies, can trigger damaging side effects. Unless managed, these risks threaten not just candidate countries but the EU itself.
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🧭 The negative consequences of rule transfer in EU enlargement
László Bruszt and Julia Langbein argue that EU market rules, when applied to weaker economies, can trigger damaging side effects. Unless anticipated and managed, these risks threaten not just candidat...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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🚨New piece forthcoming in @jeppjournal.bsky.social .

I tried to prove the ECB is politically responsive… and failed.
But the failure turned into the discovery. Read more:

Substack post: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Preprint: osf.io/gxrtc/files/...
The Worlds "Most Independent" Central Bank... or Just Pretending?
How null results didn’t kill my project - they rewrote it. They revealed a new, measurable form of responsiveness inside the most secretive central bank in the world.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
⚠️Caught in the inclusion trap: multistakeholder institutions and autocratic accommodation by @bendassler.bsky.social and Nadia El Ghali

They propose a three-step model and use a mixed-methods study of ICANN as their case 👇

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November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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📊 𝗘𝗨𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗫 dataset update!

💻 We updated complexity data to 𝟭,𝟬𝟯𝟮 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, including entirely new data on 𝟴𝟭𝟱 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀. The dataset now includes legislative procedures from 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟯 𝘁𝗼 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.

📎 The data are now available for download at www.euplex.org/data
Latest dataset - EUPLEX
EUPLEX is a DFG-funded research project at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Polittical Science at LMU Munich. The project, led by Dr. Steffen Hurka at LMU Munich, is dedicated to the questions of ...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Delighted to see this paper out in @carlsengames.bsky.social - working with @grattonecon.bsky.social was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats
November 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🏃🤝 In pursuit of a "better deal": how populist leaders claim success in renegotiation through smokescreen fights and by scaling back their demands.

The case of Boris Johnson, the EU–UK Withdrawal Agreement & the TCA, as analysed by Benjamin Martill 👇

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November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🔍 Through a federalism lens, balancing self-rule and shared rule, @egheidbreder.bsky.social examines how recent fiscal integration reshapes power distribution in the EU. 👇

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November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Monotonous or pluralistic public discourse? In this article,
@peooberg.bsky.social, Erik Baekkeskov and Oliver Rubin study reason-giving and dissent in Denmark's and Sweden's early 2020 #Covid-19 responses.
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Monotonous or pluralistic public discourse? Reason-giving and dissent in Denmark’s and Sweden’s early 2020 COVID-19 responses
COVID-19 outbreaks forced governments into epic policy choices conciliating democratic legitimacy and science-based policies. We examine how pervasive crises like this pandemic shape public discour...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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New publication alert!

Excited to share that my paper, co-authored with Mareike Kleine (LSE European Institute), is now online with JEPP

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Taming of the shrews? The (non-)enforcement of informal norms in the European Council
The European Council is arguably one of the European Union’s (EU) most dynamic decision-making bodies. Both scholars and practitioners attribute its effectiveness to an informal norm of diffuse rec...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
🗞️ New issue out, featuring 👉 'Discussion: The asymmetry of European integration – obstinate or obsolete?'

Discover the whole issue: 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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When do liberal orders become self-undermining?

@cknill.bsky.social, Andreas Kruck, Berthold Rittberger, Laura Seelkopf & Bernhard Zangl provide answers to this timely question!

Check out the introduction to their new Special Issue in @jeppjournal.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/1350...
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
📘 The intro to the special issue "Victims of their own success? How successful liberal orders can become self-undermining" highlights how liberalism destabilises itself through excess, exploitation and exhaustion 👇

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November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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🤔 You're interested in how exposure to AI affects people's risk perceptions and policy preferences, but don't have time to read a full paper?

💡 @unisg.ch has got you covered with a write-up about our recent paper in @jeppjournal.bsky.social.

www.unisg.ch/en/newsroom/...
Does AI change what people expect from government?
Exposure to new technology – specifically generative AI like ChatGPT – can influence what citizens expect from their elected officials. A recent study from Matthias Haslberger and an international tea...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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The right to health has spread worldwide, and so has neoliberalism. Colombian governments and civil society struggle with this tension; health workers and vulnerable patients carry the burden. More here, open access @jeppjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
Contesting neoliberalism with human rights? Liberal exhaustion and exploitation in Colombia’s health system
The neoliberal reorganisation of social policy has provoked counterreactions worldwide. One genuinely liberal contestation of neoliberal restructuring is based on human rights mobilisation, and, in...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🍵 Keep calm and avoid polity politicisation

🤝 Hanspeter Kriesi examines policy politicisation during COVID-19 and finds that, despite tensions, de-escalation and polity-maintenance mechanisms prevented a spillover into polity politicisation 👇

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The dynamics of EU policymaking in the COVID-19 crisis
In the compound EU polity, the escalation potential of policy politicisation into polity politicisation is high. However, this very challenge induces key actors to focus their attention on the de-e...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
📚 How to erode the UNHCR regime 101 👇

Sandra Lavenex and Karin Jakobson Vaagland trace how European and other states undermined the international refugee regime:
1️⃣ Shifting UNHCR’s focus to the Global South
2️⃣ Forum-shifting to alternative venues like the EU

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October 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

@manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.
October 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Another great @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper I'm happy to have edited is out here, on workers' descriptive representation, by @manuelwagner.bsky.social and @laurenzennser.bsky.social

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October 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Happy to see that our article, “Bringing Rokkan into the twenty-first century: the cleavage structure of Western Europe”, coauthored with @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social, has made it into the top 5 most read in @jeppjournal.bsky.social over the past year! Proof that cleavage theory is alive and well.
October 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
💊 Neoliberalism meets human rights liberalism:

In Colombia, @hanrieder.bsky.social shows how judicial mobilisation for the right to health failed to deliver and instead created a politics of exhaustion and exploitation 👇

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October 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM