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Stefan Sell @stefan-sell.bsky.social · 5d

Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains. Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
➔ Rakesh et al. (2025): www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains

Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’

www.theguardian.com

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European Political Science Review @epsrjournal.bsky.social · 5d

📖 Leader-driven democratic decline 📉

Creating a 'toolkit' of over 400 actions used by would-be autocrats, @jmvanlit.bsky.social & Carolien van Ham make it easier to compare cares, spot patterns and understand when and why #autocratization succeeds

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The would-be autocrats’ toolkit: what do incumbents do when they undermine democracy? | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

The would-be autocrats’ toolkit: what do incumbents do when they undermine democracy?

www.cambridge.org

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Aziz Bagadirov @azizbagadirov.bsky.social · 15d

My new article on structural oppression, its perpetuation, and why it constitutes an injustice - is out in Journal of Social Philosophy! Link: doi.org/10.1111/josp....

Open access thanks to @eui-eu.bsky.social and @euilibrary.bsky.social agreements.

Structural Injustice and Self‐Development

Click on the article title to read more.

doi.org

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Christian Kreuder-Sonnen @ckreudersonnen.bsky.social · 19d

📢 Nueva publicación 🥳 Our article with Alex Schmotz and Michael Zürn (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) on diverse global governance outcomes under regime complexity is out #openaccess at #EJIR.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 19d

🎉 Nice way to end the week. Just learned Floris Peters & I received an honorable mention for the Best Article Award 2025 from @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social for our APSR paper Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations.

What a nice recognition!

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Ivana Dobrotic @ivanadobrotic.bsky.social · 23d

And Excel file for 2023 to 2025 is here: osf.io/t7sw4/?fbcli...

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 27d

Albania has become the first country in the world to have an AI minister — not a minister for AI, but a virtual minister made of pixels and code and powered by artificial intelligence.

Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister

Diella, who is powered by artificial intelligence, will handle public procurement.

ow.ly

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Artan Mustafa @artanmustafa.bsky.social · 26d

Kosovo country note from the “21th International Review on Leave Policies and Related Research 2025”

www.leavenetwork.org/fileadmin/us...

www.leavenetwork.org

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 27d

Great to see @globalcit.bsky.social’s Rainer Bauböck at the launch of the @internationalidea.bsky.social Global State of Democracy Report 2025. Emphasising the important implications of out-of-country voting in times of democratic recession both in migrant origin countries and destination countries.

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · 28d

Fantastic article by Gjiltinë Isufi on the spatial component of traumatic memories of political prisoners in Gjilan prison.

She reads the carceral geography and architecture through rain, sunlight, clacking sound of key chains woven in the poems of political prisoners. tinyurl.com/78653yav

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · Sep 8

✨ Now published in the @scmrjems.bsky.social: our paper on the "Pathways of external citizenship: the global extension of dual citizenship and voting from abroad", with the great @sumpierrez.bsky.social!

You can access 50 free online copies here: lnkd.in/dvaNmTWR

See 🧵 for summary of our 📝

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · Aug 29

🆕 publication alert ✨

I’m delighted our paper on Waves of Securitisation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Citizenship Stripping Regulations in Europe, with Luuk vd Baaren & Maria Gerdes is out now in Statelessness & Citizenship Review!

🔗 statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/jo...

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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) @tepsa.bsky.social · Aug 21

2.5%? 5%? More? 🧐 What does #Trump actually expects of Europe when it comes to #security & #defence?

➡️ Find out in our latest #Europechats episode on the past, present & future of transatlantic relations

🔗 youtu.be/MtGQ3WP1CEs?...

@eui-schuman.bsky.social @erik-jones.bsky.social

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Paul Cairney @paulcairney.bsky.social · Aug 11

So you want to be a systems leader?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So you want to be a systems leader?

Systems leaders are trusted actors who help many people to collaborate to address wicked policy problems. These policy problems resist simple solutions by a few powerful actors in one center of gov...

www.tandfonline.com

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · Aug 5

My book "Girlhood at War: Interpreting War and Liberation in Kosovo" is now out with Bloomsbury!

Order it online shorturl.at/bS1fb or request it through your local library. All proceeds go to the children’s section of the public library in my hometown, Gjilan (Kosovo).

Book launches coming soon!

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Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · Jul 15

I love everything about @andrewroberts.bsky.social’s review of four recent books on the postcommunist transition. We know a LOT about the 90s that goes beyond facile references to “neoliberalism” or the “Washington Consensus.” Anyone tempted to work on the period would do well to start with this 👇.

Evaluating the transition: once more with feeling

The reviewed books attempt systematic evaluations of the transition from communism but come to very different conclusions, ranging from catastrophe to success. They tend to lay blame for the proble...

www.tandfonline.com

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Aug 1

That’s a Wrap 🎬

David Owen & Rainer Bauböck respond to 13 entries in the Citizenship as Reparations Debate

🤔 Does why a state offers reparative citizenship matter as much as to whom?
🎭 Can symbolic reparation mask selective immigration?
⚖️ When is it a moral duty, not just a choice?

🔗 t.ly/UPMSb

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Daniel Bochsler @dbchslr.bsky.social · Jul 18

Concerned with conflicts over political liberties & the regime in federal states?
Just out in @democratization.bsky.social
- A new, regime-change driven „genotype of secession“.
- How it mattered in the breakup of the Soviet Union & Yugoslavia.
Is California next? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.tandfonline.com

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Jul 30

If you want to better understand power and privilege in academia, ask yourself the following question:

Who is allowed to write what?

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Christian Kreuder-Sonnen @ckreudersonnen.bsky.social · Jul 28

Together with my brilliant colleagues Stacie E Goddard, Ronald R Krebs, and Berthold Rittberger, we published a piece in #ForeignAffairsMagazine: "Liberalism Doomed the Liberal International Order"!

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Liberalism Doomed the Liberal International Order

A less legalistic system would help protect democracies.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · Jun 30

⚙️ Matthew Bergman, Wolfgang C. Mueller and @hannaeback.bsky.social on how ideology and contextual factors shape labour market reform

Government ideology and labour policy reform in good times and bad

Which governments implement interventionist or liberalising labour policy reforms, and does the economic context matter? Drawing on the previous literature on government ideology and public policy,...

www.tandfonline.com

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Daniel Béland @danielbeland.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our special issue of the Journal of European Social Policy on bridging the continental divide in social policy research is out: journals.sagepub.com/toc/espa/35/3 We have an amazing line up of contributors and great papers that feature both European and North American cases. Must read :-)

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · Jul 21

What a great article and I couldn't stop once I started reading.

We often blame private pension failure on too little regulation.

This paper flips the causality: the real culprit is too much. Regulatory intrusiveness, not absence, is what causes the failure.

qjae.mises.org/article/1248...

Failure in Fully Funded Pensions: Voluntary Exchange and Coercion | Published in Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics

By Mark Hyde, Jonathan Moizer & 2 more. By stifling competition, regulation diminishes the capacity of pension markets to serve pension plan participants. The prevalence of private pension failure sug...

qjae.mises.org

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · Jul 10

An insightful contribution by @jdzankic.bsky.social to another stimulating @globalcit.bsky.social exchange on difficult #citizenship questions.

> Should the victims of historical injustice be offered citizenship as reparation?

#MigCitSky

GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Jul 10

New Entry ✨

@jdzankic.bsky.social warns that reparative citizenship 🛂 isn’t always about justice ⚖️ It’s selective (who counts), transactional (status-for-benefit), and strategic (state interest first) 🇪🇸🇲🇽🇱🇷

A passport 🛂 isn’t always reparations, sometimes it’s geopolitics 🌍

🔗 tinyurl.com/2v2n5v4k

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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · Jun 24

🎙️ Europe’s welfare states proved resilient through crisis after crisis. Why?

@eui-sps.bsky.social Prof. Hemerijck explains how social investment became central to economic strength—even amid inflation, populism & rising defence costs 🔗 https://loom.ly/HlDb98M

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