Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics
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We explore how contemporary transformations influence evolutions in politics, in policy and in the polity. Located in @sciencespo.bsky.social, Paris, and also affiliated with the @cnrs.fr https://www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etudes-europeennes/
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Looking forward to hopping on a train later today and heading to Paris to present our "how Brexit harmed the environment" paper (cc @acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social) tomorrow 🇫🇷

Thanks @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social for the invite!
Abstract of "Offshore Outlaws" paper by Calacino, Genovese and Pring:

Globalization has led to various forms of international integration whose effect on environmental behavior has been a long-standing source of debate. Yet, in recent years, there has been a growing backlash against international institutions, in part motivated by the will of taking back control of national borders. Focusing on the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union, this paper explores the effects of this type of backlash on firms' environmental standards. Despite being defined as a sovereignist project to enhance state power and national regulatory oversight, we argue that Brexit caused immediate suboptimal environmental outcomes. Specifically, Brexit created policy misalignment, pushing the UK regulators into a capacity vacuum. This led to a transition period of impunity for polluting firms, further catalyzed by accelerating market changes, which led firms with lower environmental compliance to sort into the market. We test our theory with evidence from the oil sector's offshore rigs in the North Sea between 2015 and 2023. A grid-cell analysis of satellite-detected oil spills compares firm behavior in the United Kingdom, European Union, and Norwegian jurisdictions. We first find that, after Brexit, UK waters experienced significantly less environmental protection compared to the EU and Norway. Additionally, we show that the environmental damages following Brexit are not associated to a decrease of UK public salience for environmental protection, but by a new ecosystem of firms that were allowed to reap short-term profits from Brexit.
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#VendrediLecture 📖
Introduction à la sociologie des partis politiques avec Florence Haegel

Ce manuel offre une analyse approfondie du phénomène partisan, plus actuel que jamais. Il en explore les origines, les multiples facettes et croise théorie et études de terrain 👇
Introduction à la sociologie des partis politiques
Le premier véritable manuel sur les partis politiques
www.deboecksuperieur.com
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Débat sur le budget : 2e niche fiscale par son montant, le crédit d'impôt pour services à la personne pourrait être réduit.

Quels sont les effets de ce dispositif ?

C'est l'objet du dernier ouvrage de Nathalie Morel (@scpo-research.bsky.social), qui compare la France et la Suède.

Entretien. ⤵️
La protection sociale par la dépense fiscale : “perçu comme neutre ou technique, le crédit d’impôt traduit en réalité des choix politiques profonds”
Entretien avec Nathalie Morel à propos de son dernier ouvrage,
www.sciencespo.fr
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#Danslesmédias 🎧

Après l'annonce d'un futur nouvel "acte de décentralisation" par Sébastien Lecornu,

Tommaso Germain, chercheur associé au CEE, revient au micro de @franceculture.fr sur le modèle de métropolisation mis en place sous Hollande (acte III de la décentralisation). ⤵
Avons-nous besoin d'un nouvel acte de décentralisation ?
Le premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu a annoncé la semaine dernière un futur grand “acte de décentralisation”. Mais une nouvelle réforme est-elle vraiment nécessaire, quel bilan peut-on tirer du modèl...
www.radiofrance.fr
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📚 Now available in print

Growth Strategies and Welfare Reforms: How Nations Cope with Economic Transitions
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
ed @ankehassel.bsky.social & @bpalier.bsky.social

A comparative volume, with a chapter on the UK by @cyrben.bsky.social and Colin Hay.

academic.oup.com/book/60872
Growth Strategies and Welfare Reforms: How Nations Cope with Economic Transitions
edited by  Anke Hassel and Bruno Palier
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Welfare states increasingly use tax benefits to cover social services such as eldercare, as is the case in France and Sweden.

In her latest book @policypress.bsky.social, Nathalie Morel examined the effects of this policy on labour markets and care provision.

➡️ www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
Nathalie Morel
Associate Professor,
Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics
Interview
Social protection through tax expenditure: "Perceived as neutral or technical, tax credits actually reflect profound political choices."
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As massive far right protests took place in London and The Hague,

Delve into over 10 years of data on far right activism in Europe:

➡️ farpo.eu, the far right protest observatory, whose team @caterinafr.bsky.social is part of

➡️ accompanying interview to the @cnrs.fr:
news.cnrs.fr/articles/scr...
Home - Farpo
Far-Right Protest Observatory A one-stop source to track, measure and compare ongoing trends in far-right protest mobilization in Europe The…
farpo.eu
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Tomorrow at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies (in Paris-Aubervilliers):

@tommasovitale.bsky.social will give a keynote lecture based on results of the @cncdh.fr annual barometer on racism. ⤵️

Programme of the conference: www.inalco.fr/en/events/co...
Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies, Paris 2025
24-25-26 September 2025
Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers)
Organisers: The Gypsy Lore Society, Inalco, Institut Convergences Migrations, FNASAT, Médiathèque Matéo Maximoff VITALE Tommaso
Living with Antigypsyism: Contentious Embeddedness and the Struggle for Recognition in France
This keynote explores how antigypsyism structures social life in France, not only as prejudice but as a condition of living marked by stigma, contentious embeddedness, and dissonant recognition.
Drawing on the CNCDH barometer, I show that hostility towards Roma and Traveller groups remains structurally higher than towards any other minority, sustaining a perception of radical otherness. Yet antigypsyism is more than a statistical pattern: it is reproduced and contested through public discourse, political agendas, media campaigns, and everyday encounters.
Ethnographic and network studies reveal that Roma lives are deeply interwoven with neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and associations, where solidarity, hostility, and indifference coexist in fragile balance. Mobilizations—whether civic, religious, or school-based—demonstrate both the limits of inclusion and the generative role of conflict in reshaping boundaries and claims to dignity. At the same time, the emerging struggle over the memory of the Roma genocide
illustrates how recognition unfolds in dissonant ways, simultaneously denied, affirmed, and politicized. Antigypsyism, I argue, is not a fixed legacy but a dynamic and contested process: it exposes the contradictions of plural democracy, while opening unexpected spaces for solidarity and new forms of recognition.
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#MobilityWeek

Drawing on the findings of this year’s @eurocities.eu Pulse Mayors Survey, Charlotte Halpern calls for stronger cooperation across levels of government (local, regional, national, EU) to empower cities to lead sustainable mobility transitions.

👉 monitor.eurocities.eu/public-trans...
Top mobility priorities for mayors
60%: expand public transport networks
48% ensure affordability and accessibility
48%: develop multimodal, integrated systems
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#VendrediLecture 📚
"Un verdict sans appel" de Sandrine Lefranc @cnrsshs.bsky.social et al.

Cet ouvrage, issue de 448 jours d'observation, propose une lecture inédite du procès des attentats de novembre 2015.

Plus d'informations ➡️ actes-sud.fr/un-verdict-s...

@scpo-research.bsky.social
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📅 Logement abordable et durable : une urgence européenne

On en parle mardi 23/09 à la Maison de l'Europe de Paris.
👉 www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Un sujet au cœur des priorités dans le discours sur l'état de l'Union d'Ursula von der Leyen la semaine dernière.

cc @giseurolab.bsky.social
23/09/2025
18h30-20h
Logement et transition écologique : quelles solutions pour une Europe durable et inclusive ?
Co-organisé par la Maison de l'Europe de Paris - Europe Direct Paris, et le Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po / CNRS)
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👏 We are delighted to welcome Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik as Assistant Professor at the CEE!

Her work examines immigration politics in Europe & the EU, with a focus on narratives and the dynamics shaping migration policy.

To learn more about her research ⤵️
Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik
Sciences Po’s Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (UMR 8239) is a multidisciplinary research unit specialising in comparative political analysis.
www.sciencespo.fr
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It is with immense joy that I restart my fellowship @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social after my accident earlier this year. Tremendously grateful that the Center made this possible. Do reach out if you are around and want to catch up
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Bienvenue à Tom Chevalier, nouveau chargé de recherche @cnrsshs.bsky.social au CEE 👏

Il étudie les politiques publiques en faveur des jeunes en Europe, leurs effets sur la pauvreté, l’éducation, l’emploi et le rapport au politique.
@scpo-research.bsky.social

Pour en savoir plus sur son parcours👇
Tom Chevalier
Le centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée a pour vocation de développer la recherche sur les questions européennes à Sciences Po, de faciliter son insertion dans l’espace européen de la ...
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#VendrediLecture 📚

How can computational social science help you detect and extract social groups from texts?

@ronjasczepanski.bsky.social, with @haukelicht.bsky.social, have an answer!

#OpenAcess in @bjpols.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1017/S000...

+ pre-trained models & replication data available
Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach
Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2025
Hauke Licht and Ronja Sczepanski
Abstract
Politicians appeal to social groups to court their electoral support. However, quantifying which groups politicians refer to, claim to represent, or address in their public communication presents researchers with challenges. We propose a supervised learning approach for extracting group mentions from political texts. We first collect human annotations to determine the passages of a text that refer to social groups. We then fine-tune a transformer language model for contextualized supervised classification at the word level. Applied to unlabeled texts, our approach enables researchers to automatically detect and extract word spans that contain group mentions. We illustrate our approach in two applications, generating new empirical insights into how British parties use social groups in their rhetoric. Our method allows for detecting and extracting mentions of social groups from various sources of texts, creating new possibilities for empirical research in political science.
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⬆️ An outcome of the project KNOWLEGPO - "Central banking in hard times: Knowledge, legitimacy, and politics" funded by @agencerecherche.bsky.social and @dfg.de.

More about the project: www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

cc @scpo-research.bsky.social (2/2)
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