🎉🇨🇭 CfP: New Working Group on Political Psychology at SVPW/ASSP! Our first call: “Democratic Resilience” for the annual conference #SVPW2027 at Lucerne. SVPW is a great, open international conference in Switzerland — apply to our call or the general one by 31 Aug 2026 here: tinyurl.com/4rz4a55b

#POLITKOLUMNE: How much tolerance should a democracy show toward groups whose views many people strongly dislike?Compared with the Swiss public,MPs are more willing to grant fundamental rights even to groups they dislike (far-right, anti-vaxx & anti-abortion activists) www.derbund.ch/politische-t...

Join us on October 30 (12:00, IDHEAP Learning Lab) for the next IDHEAP–LAGAPE seminar! Anna Gwiazda (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) will present her work on Women’s Political Participation and Democratic Resilience in an Era of Democratic Decline. @unil.bsky.social @sspunil.bsky.social

🎉 April is knocking at the door—time to dive into our latest issue! 👇

Journal of European Public Policy

Volume 32, Issue 4 of Journal of European Public Policy

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Comme work with us at #University_of_Lausanne ! We are looking for a postdoc in the fields of #PublicAdministration and #AI The call for the job is here: tinyurl.com/346adhhz Please share widely. Happy to answer any questions.

❗DO YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW WANT TO DO A PHD? We have a PhD project on 'Democratic Resilience, Identities, and Geographical Imaginaries'. Fully funded ✅ Generous research support grant ✅ Supervised by me and a colleague in Geography. Details: generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/irs/wp-conte...

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Now in APSR: What do politicians think about their voters? Fielding face-to-face surveys to 982 sitting politicians in 11 countries, and accompanying surveys of 12,000 citizens, we find that politicians have remarkably consistent - and cynical - theories of voters: /1 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

✨Neu in der PVS: Ich durfte das neue Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation rezensieren, herausgegeben von Frédéric Varone, Steve Jacob und @pbundi.bsky.social. Das Handbuch ist ein echter #MustRead für Public Policy Scholars! U.a. mit C. Schlaufer, @evathomann.bsky.social, J. Tosun, E. Lieberherr.

🚨🚨 (Almost) New Publication Alert 🚨🚨 Citizens and Evaluation: A Review of Evaluation Models, with Valérie Pattyn. The paper discusses the evolving role of citizens in evaluation processes!

Polisky Next Friday 3/11, 3-4 pm CET: Online information session and Q&A on the PhD program at the European University Institute for interested candidates in Switzerland🇨🇭. PhD researcher Alissa Siara presents the program and I talk about my experience. 👉Register: www.eui.eu/events?id=56...

I am very pleased to announce the publication of the Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation, co-edited with Fred Varone and Steve Jacob. It explores policy evaluation's political role in democracies, aiming to reduce inequalities and enhance democratic policymaking: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...