Come and join Anke, Tanja, and me at @uni-konstanz.de. The deadline for applications to the LiVV project within @excinequality.bsky.social‬ is September 24.

Anke Hoeffler, Tanja Kupisch, and I are happy to announce three doctoral positions in the project "Lifting the Veil of Violence: Inequality and Representation after War” (LiVV) at ‪the Cluster of Excellence @excinequality.bsky.social‬ at @uni-konstanz.de‬.
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Street-level bureaucrats keep discretionary power elsewhere in this domain. The differences within the same state are especially troublesome. Not all Länder collect data on their citizenship decisions. Germany remains a "data desert". Replication data are here: search.gesis.org/research_dat...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... A local conservative mood lowered the chance of Turkish citizens keeping their passports when applying for German citizenship. The 2024 reform eliminated local and regional discretion for decisions on dual citizenship requests.

10.1080/1369183x.2025.2550130 New article on administrative inequality in the handling of dual citizenship requests, co-authored with the incredible Christina Zuber as part of our @excinequality.bsky.social projects. We show that local preferences influence caseworkers' decisions.

Anke Hoeffler, Tanja Kupisch, and I are happy to announce three doctoral positions in the project "Lifting the Veil of Violence: Inequality and Representation after War” (LiVV) at ‪the Cluster of Excellence @excinequality.bsky.social‬ at @uni-konstanz.de‬.
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/4...

This is a superb article. Congrats!

Interview translated into Persian with some colleagues and me on trade, sanctions, and the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the USA. An issue that is tragically neglected, probably due to the constant distractions from the White House. eghtesaad24.ir/fa/news/3057....

Nein, das kenne ich nicht. Ich bin aber überaus dankbar für den Hinweis. G.S.

Informatives Interview bei @ntvde.bsky.social zu Ergebnissen aus verschiedenen Projekten @excinequality.bsky.social @fgz-risc.bsky.social mit Maren Lüdecke & Stefanie Rueß www.n-tv.de/panorama/Dam...

Now assigned to the March issue of Migration Studies.

What explains asylum recognition rates? Utilizing a German refugee survey and a quasi-natural experiment in Germany, L. Gundacker, Y. Kosyakova, and G. Schneider show how regional political biases can influence an asylum seeker’s chance of obtaining protection.

#OpenAccess

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but that there are also surprising parallels between the two most prolific senders. Early support by @dfg.de‬ is gratefully acknowledged.

New article on economic coercion journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... with Patrick Weber and Alessia Invernizzi, two former @uni-konstanz.de‬ doctoral students We show that the sanction regimes of both the EU and the USA are biased,