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Milan Thies @milanthies.bsky.social · 14d

New 📝 out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social

1. Governments are taking a more active role in education and training

2. Linking technical issues to politically salient debates, such as climate change and digitalization, helps open the door to new public policies

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · Jul 11

Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... [5/5]

Re‐Embedding European Market Society? EU Labour Regulation and the ‘Double Countermovement’ to Market‐Making Integration

Scholars who have examined European integration from a neo-Polanyian perspective have long been sceptical about the opportunities for a ‘countermovement’ against the EU's market-making bias. However,...

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · Jul 11

The road to publication of this piece was bumpy, with several rejections and (over-)long review processes, including one reviewer going AWOL in the second round. Still, I'm glad it found a home in JCMS and hope my arguments can reinvigorate the (neo-)Polanyian debate on European integration. [4/5]

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · Jul 11

faced with cumulative challenges to the Union's legitimacy during successive cycles of contention – epitomized by the Euro crisis and Brexit – pro-EU elites have sought to recover support with policies seen (and framed) as responsive to societal demands and the needs of 'ordinary' citizens. [3/5]

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · Jul 11

Using Polanyi's conceptual apparatus, I argue that recent EU labour-law initiatives go a meaningful way towards 're-embedding' employment relations that have been liberalized for many years. This development, in turn, can be understood as a 'double countermovement': [2/5]

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · Jul 11

Just out in @jcms-eu.bsky.social:

What can Karl Polanyi's work on the contentious transformations of modern capitalism (still) tell us about European integration? This article examines this long-debated question by zooming in on the EU's recent efforts at labour market (re-)regulation. [1/5]

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · Jun 30

📝 Don't miss this recent BJPIR article

'Prudence from the left: Economic restraint and UK social democracy since 1945' by Colm Murphy (@colmpm.bsky.social) and Patrick Diamond

Find the article in #OpenAccess here: buff.ly/QV4liQE

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Prudence from the left: Economic restraint and UK social democracy since 1945

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Kim van Keken @kimvankeken.bsky.social · Jun 24

Dagen klagen over gejoel, maar dit soort omgangsvormen wel heel normaal vinden.

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · Jun 4

That's the point - context matters. Would the average reader risk associating, say, Geert Wilders with the 19th-century Radical tradition? How many are even aware of the latter's history?

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · Jun 4

Point being: a quick browse reveals that Economist writers use the term 'radical' in many different senses – yet it should be clear to most readers from the context what is meant by it.

Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · Jun 4

A recent Economist article talks of 'Israel's radical new course in Gaza' - does that have anything to do with Radicalism as a school of thought...?

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · May 26

Mooi! Laat het me weten als je geen toegang tot het artikel hebt - dan stuur ik je even een pdf'je.

Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · May 26

My own contribution, dealing with the evolution of EU social policy and governance, is now online – see below. The other publications will be published during the coming days/weeks.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Social Europe and its limits: hardening integration, softening constraints?

The theory of the structural asymmetry has profoundly influenced how scholars think about European integration. At a first glance, a widely-acclaimed ‘revival’ of EU social policy casts doubt on Sc...

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · May 26

The idea originated with a roundtable at the DVPW congress. After organizing a similar panel at CES, I set up this debate section. It has been a real pleasure to engage, critically but constructively, with such a diverse group of scholars. I can only hope this debate will be continued in the future!

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · May 26

After my brief introduction, Martin Höpner, Susanne Schmidt and Daniel Seikel kick off the discussion, followed by interventions by Martijn van den Brink, Mark Dawson and Jan Zglinski; myself; Waltraud Schelkle; Amandine Crespy; and a final response and reflection by Höpner, Schmidt and Seikel.

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · May 26

During the past months, I've been working on a debate section for JEPP. I invited a group of scholars with (very) different disciplinary backgrounds and substantive views to revisit Fritz Scharpf's asymmetry thesis, discussing its relevance in the twenty-first-century EU.

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Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · May 19

I wrote a new Substack! "The quiet collapse of surveys: fewer humans (and more AI agents) are answering survey questions" laurenleek.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

The quiet collapse of surveys: fewer humans (and more AI agents) are answering survey questions

I show data on two trends undermining surveys: the collapse of human response rates and the increase of AI agents. I'll also discuss downstream implications and propose some possible solutions.

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · Mar 12

Juist vanuit die brugfunctie zou je toch een (iets) constructievere houding verwachten? SE/DK hebben die rol nooit gespeeld, zaten evenzeer op UK-lijn, en hebben parlementen die nóg meer in de subsidiariteitsgroef zitten, maar zijn toch gedraaid – zelfs de Zwedendemocraten steunen het plan!

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · Mar 11

Ik ben bang dat men punt 1) niet begrijpt, 2) niet gelooft en 3) niet op waarde schat. Zie ook de opinie van Lex Hoogduin in NRC vandaag, met een warrig verhaal over de "afstemmingsproblemen" die gemeenschappelijke investeringen zouden creëren (alsof die problemen er anders niet zijn!)

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · Feb 26

There's also this great related paper by @manuel-alvarinho.bsky.social and @milanthies.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Conviction or Consent? Tracing the Influence of Coalition Partners on Family Policy under Centre-Right Ministers | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core

Conviction or Consent? Tracing the Influence of Coalition Partners on Family Policy under Centre-Right Ministers

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · Feb 24

I do wonder which 'Nordic road' Die Linke is going to walk now: the Danish Red-Green, anti-cap Marxist way, or the Finnish dem-soc coalitionable approach. Seems to me the party cadre and leadership are quite divided on that.

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Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · Feb 24

I think your description was fair; economically they've barely moved to the centre – whereas Wagenknecht was trying to appease the 'Mittelstand', the urbanite 'new' Linke is much more vocally anti-capitalist. And of course they have accentuated, rather than moderated, their social progressivism.

Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · Feb 24

The party is led by self-described Marxists who are fundamentally critical of "the system" – isn't that a clear manifestation of radicalism? (Not using it in the pejorative sense here.)

Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · Feb 23

True! And I tend to agree - but not sure CDU (or even SPD) see it this way...

Sven Schreurs @svenschreurs.bsky.social · Feb 23

I can see the (subtle) shift! But their 2025 manifesto still portrayed NATO as a "Cold War relic" that fosters "militarization", conflict and violence through the promotion of national (economic) interests...

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