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Dustin Voss @dustinvoss.bsky.social · Sep 5

🚨Job offer🚨

I‘m recruiting a student research assistant to support me in my research project at the @mpifg.bsky.social

➡️ Apply online: career.mpifg.de/jobposting/c...

➡️ Closing date: September 30, 2025

Please share widely! 🙏🏻

Student Assistant for the “Political Economy of Generational Politics and Ageing” research project

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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · Mar 14

We’re beyond thrilled to launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy

If you’re a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered comments— join us & share!

🗓️ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne
🚨 Apply by 25 Apr, 2025

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Dustin Voss @dustinvoss.bsky.social · Mar 14

*Call for Applications*

We’re excited to announce the Second Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy!

Link to the conference website: www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...

Please share widely!

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Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy

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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · Jan 27

📚 New on our bookshelf!

In “Understanding Political Economy,” Bob Hancké, @toonvano.bsky.social and @dustinvoss.bsky.social offer a concise overview of the evolution of political-economic thought, centered on the relation between capitalism and democracy.

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Dustin Voss @dustinvoss.bsky.social · Jan 21

Big thanks to my great friends and co-authors @toonvano.bsky.social and Bob Hancké, and to my intellectual home, the @mpifg.bsky.social.

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Toon Van Overbeke @toonvano.bsky.social · Jan 21

Thanks a lot to my brilliant friends and colleagues @dustinvoss.bsky.social and Bob Hancké. It has always been a lot of fun working together, and this time was no different!

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Toon Van Overbeke @toonvano.bsky.social · Jan 21

The new book is aimed at advanced undergraduates, masters, starting PhD students and those who teach them. We unpack the key questions, approaches and answers political economy has developed with the aim of giving a broad and historically grounded intro to the world of PE.

www.elgaronline.com

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Toon Van Overbeke @toonvano.bsky.social · Jan 21

Are you also still baffled by Trump's inauguration 🇺🇸, wondering what he will do next, how successful his policies will be and (frankly) why he is even there?

Our new book "Understanding Political Economy: Capitalism, Democracy and Inequality", released today, can help with that! (Link below)

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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · Mar 6

The last two terms I've really started to notice students using generative AI in their assignments—in ways both good and bad.

Since all of us who teach should be thinking about this, I thought I'd share my own guidelines, maybe you find them useful.

Feedback always welcome!

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · Mar 13

Apply before 4 April!

Toon Van Overbeke @toonvano.bsky.social · Mar 12

VACANCY ⚡: Three-year Postdoc on the political economy of fiscal policy and technological change!

Recent PhD graduate with some quantitative skills and interest in fiscal policy and/or tech? Come and work with me in @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social!

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Postdoc on political economy of fiscal policy and technological change

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Toon Van Overbeke @toonvano.bsky.social · Mar 12

VACANCY ⚡: Three-year Postdoc on the political economy of fiscal policy and technological change!

Recent PhD graduate with some quantitative skills and interest in fiscal policy and/or tech? Come and work with me in @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social!

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Postdoc on political economy of fiscal policy and technological change

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Toon Van Overbeke @toonvano.bsky.social · Feb 19

Interested in the PE of contested transitions? Join our workshop at the Politicologen Etmaal in beautiful Maastricht this June: politicologenetmaal.eu

Co-organised by @claraweinhardt.bsky.social @sebdiessner.bsky.social @fbulfone.bsky.social, Ferdi de Ville, Lukas Linsi and Aneta Spendzharova!

Politicologenetmaal 2024 in Maastricht

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Iskander De Bruycker @iskanderdebruycker.bsky.social · Feb 19

📢 Call for Papers for the Political Science Workshops of the Low Countries or "Politicologenetmaal" hosted by @FasosMaastricht is now OPEN! 🎉

Explore our lineup of 14 fascinating workshops! 👇

📝 Info & submit via shorturl.at/emnsT
⏰ Submission deadline: March 31st
🙌 Conference: June 13-14

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Toon Van Overbeke @toonvano.bsky.social · Jan 24

that there is scope for a scenario where we combine technology-driven productivity growth with a stable labour markets and thriving democracies. The silver bullet? Inclusive technological change anchored around institutionalised cooperation and trust between capital and labour. 6/6

Toon Van Overbeke @toonvano.bsky.social · Jan 24

This has important implications for how we think about structural changes in our labour markets. And put into dialogue with my prior work on the pace of automation across different economies (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...), it suggests (...) 5/6

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Toon Van Overbeke @toonvano.bsky.social · Jan 24

It seems workers equipped with strong resources to adapt to technological change, demonstrate much less antipathy with the status-quo, compared to their peers in similarly exposed occupations. 4/6

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Toon Van Overbeke @toonvano.bsky.social · Jan 24

I find that automation risk strongly predicts anti-incumbent positions across Europe. BUT, this effect is mediated by various labour market resources citizens have at their disposal such as a) permanent contracts, b) strong co-determination rights or c) have extensive education 3/6

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Toon Van Overbeke @toonvano.bsky.social · Jan 24

We already know a lot about how automation risks affect voting behaviour, but how do citizens facing similar occupational risks react when they hold very different resources to deal with such occupational changes?
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Toon Van Overbeke @toonvano.bsky.social · Jan 24

How do voters react to technological risks in the labour market? And does insulation from such occupational risk shift that behaviour? Excited to share the publication of my latest paper, now out in Research and Politics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/6

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Hylke Dijkstra @hdijkstra.bsky.social · Jan 24

"The European system is a strange kind of creature"

Interview with professors Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks at Studio Europa for their honorary doctorate @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social studioeuropamaastricht.nl/2024/01/23/t...

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Sebastian Diessner @sebdiessner.bsky.social · Jan 11

New article out and about @ RIPE 🍾

Really happy for this one to have found a lovely home 🙏

Open Access at https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2023.2295373

And a short 🧵 for you busy people!

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Dustin Voss @dustinvoss.bsky.social · Jan 10

What’s the power of international asset managers like BlackRock over national corporate governance systems ?

New paper out in the Socio-Economic Review!

Open access here: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · Jan 9

c'mon @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social - start posting here instead of the hellsite so that people can know about things like this 👇

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Associate Professor Globalisation and Transnationalism

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Hylke Dijkstra @hdijkstra.bsky.social · Nov 22

Five researchers @FasosMaastricht have been awarded three Horizon Europe grants for leading projects in the European security domain. A combined total of nearly €700,000 goes to Maastricht. The overall worth of each project amounts to €3 million www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/fasos-r...

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Toon Van Overbeke @toonvano.bsky.social · Oct 23

A fantastic volume! Was very happy to contribute a chapter on Macroeconomic regimes and labour market policy together with Bob Hancké.

Niccolo Durazzi @ndurazzi.bsky.social · Oct 20

A project that started one pandemic and two kids ago is now complete: delighted to have just received a copy of our new handbook of labour market policy in advanced democracies, with many thanks to the many friends and colleagues who contributed a chapter!

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Dustin Voss @dustinvoss.bsky.social · Oct 16

📢 MaxCPE is back for a new season with an exciting lineup!

Join us online for our first session on Weds 18 October, 3pm CEST. Tommaso Crescioli & @toonvano.bsky.social present "David versus Goliath: The Political Economy of the Superstar and the Small Firm“

👉 More info mpifg.de/1030945/curr...

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