How are digital care platforms reshaping how migrant care work is organised? New research from @elifcan.bsky.social, published in the Journal of Social Policy, explores how migrant care workers in Turkey are represented on care platforms.

'Narrative power in electoral autocracies: The policy narrative behind the success of a pension movement' by @elifcan.bsky.social  has been awarded as the @ecpr.bsky.social  2025 Best Paper on Public Policy: https://f.mtr.cool/plpaqgqdxm 🎉Congratulations @elifcan.bsky.social

2025 Best Paper on Public Policy winner announced

European Consortium for Political Research

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New book: 'Growth, Democracy or Climate Action?' co-authored by Prof Tim Vlandas ⬇️ The book explores tensions between economic growth, #democracy and tackling the #ClimateCrisis as the 'new trilemma of advanced capitalist democracy'. More: cup.columbia.edu/book/growth-...

Growth, Democracy or Climate Action? | Columbia University Press

Governments face a conflicting choice between economic growth, democracy and tackling the climate crisis. They cannot achieve all three objectives simultaneo... | CUP

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🤖 First publication alert 🤖 Germany Inc. is dead? Long live Industry 4.0 Inc.! Michael Schwan, Christine Trampusch and I uncover that overlapping M&A of German industry create a new coordination enabling structure: Industry 4.0 Inc. @compchange.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🏆 The 2025 ECPR Best Paper Prize from the Standing Group on Public Policy goes to @elifcan.bsky.social & @v-yilmaz.bsky.social for their work on narrative power in electoral autocracies — a fascinating study of the Turkish pension movement. Congratulations! 👏 ecpr.eu/News/News/De...

🎉 Our paper just won the 2025 Best Paper Prize at the ECPR General Conference (Public Policy Section)! Honoured to share this with @v-yilmaz.bsky.social The paper's core message: movements acting strategically under authoritarian pressure can still win social policy battles👇 doi.org/10.1111/psj....

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How did a pension movement construct its narrative around pension age, shaping its structure and content to influence policy change in an electoral autocracy? This article delves into the campaign of....

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Now begins the work of extricating Hungary’s public assets from the transnational far-right networks that the Orbán regime has built using them.

Hungarian Leader Orban Concedes Loss in Landslide Election

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban conceded defeat to Peter Magyar in Sunday’s parliamentary election.

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📢 Call: Tenure Track Position The MPIfG Political Economy Research Area led by Lucio Baccaro is seeking a Senior Researcher. Open to candidates with at least two years’ postdoc experience. Please share widely! 🗓️ Apply by April 20, 2026 s.gwdg.de/WPMPp1

I’ll be giving a talk in Dublin this Tuesday. Building on Dr Göçmen's early-2010s Türkiye research, we're tracking developments and extending the analysis to Hungary. The presentation will draw on a work in progress with @elifcan.bsky.social, Judit Keller, and Tünde Virag. Join us if interested.

229 million women live in the EU, and they all deserve safe, affordable abortion care. 1 million citizens have spoken, and so has the Parliament. It’s time for the Commission to act: make safe abortion access a reality across Europe NOW! ✊💜 action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-02...

Safe abortion care for all women

229 million women live in the EU, and they all deserve safe, affordable abortion care. 1 million citizens have spoken, and so has the Parliament. It’s time for the Commission to act: make safe abortio...

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If you know Irish, Italian and/or Swedish citizens, please encourage them to sign this initiative and to disseminate! There is a need of a push for these countries, so they can reach their respective minimum thresholds.

samuel@quilombo.eurosky.social · 7mo ago

🚨 European Citizens' Initiative : Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights. If you are an 🇪🇺 citizen you can now SIGN and disseminate! eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Connected_Politics Lab Seminars, Spring Trimester ⤵️ - 28 Jan: @jessicadicocco.bsky.social – 11 Feb: Akitaka Matsuo – 25 Feb: @malojan.bsky.social, @luissattelmayer.bsky.social, and Noémie Piolat – 4 Mar: @vivifabrien.bsky.social – 1 Apr: @elisaadamico.bsky.social – 15 Apr: @miriamsorace.bsky.social

Financial war in response to trade war and territorial threats? More and more people appear to be calling for it. So I updated my post on U.S. Treasuries holdings—now with the latest data. benjaminbraun.org/posts/treasu...

Book Launch of “How Ireland Voted 2024: The New Normal?” 21 January, 6pm, Dublin @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social Editors: @michaelgtcd.bsky.social, @theresareidy.bsky.social & Eoin O'Malley Launch by Pat Leahy, Political Editor, Irish Times All welcome! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Stefan Müller@stefanmueller.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Exactly one year to the day after the general election, “How Ireland Voted 2024: The New Normal?” is now available in bookshops. ➡️ link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

@ucdpolitics.bsky.social seminar series programme for Spring 2026 is ready! 📅 Wednesdays, 12:00 (Dublin time), in a hybrid format (webinar open to all!) 👉 You can register here: bit.ly/SPIReSeminar Please join us and feel free to share with anyone who might be interested.

A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Catastrophic Success by Alexander B. Downes | eBook | Cornell University Press

In Catastrophic Success, Alexander B. Downes compiles all instances of regime change around the world over the past two centuries. Drawing on this impressive data set, Downes shows that regime change....

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Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

The central argument in this excellent paper & thread is that the open-access turn has neglected profit; indeed, it turbo-charged publishers’ margins. As political economists who know a thing or two about profit and power we should speak up a lot more. As it says below: What we’re doing is crazy.

Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

I know people have a lot on their plates right now, but the opposition candidate who Erdogan most wants to avoid running against is being threatened with a jail sentence of over 2000 years. apnews.com/article/turk...

Prosecutor seeks 2,352-year jail term for Istanbul's jailed mayor over alleged corruption

Istanbul’s chief public prosecutor has filed a sweeping indictment against the city's jailed mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu.

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New publication in IJSSP 🎉 We analyse with @mkemmerling.bsky.social how digital care platforms (CPs) contribute to the marketisation of care across the European Union (EU) by examining their business models and national variations. Full article is here: doi.org/10.1108/IJSS...

Platformization of care in Europe: comparative analysis of marketization trends and business models

Purpose. We investigate how digital care platforms contribute to the marketization of care across the European Union (EU) by analyzing their business models and national variations.Design/methodology/...

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Applications are now open for the UCD Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship 2026. Closing Date: 30 January 2026 ✔️Covers full fees (EU and Non-EU) ✔️Provides a living stipend of €25,000 per year for up to four years ✔️Is open to EU and non-EU applicants 👇 www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...

New Sustainable Welfare post—a very short piece introducing some ideas from articles recently published in the area of post-growth. Growth is a fundamental part of capitalism, and transitioning to a post-growth economy requires learning how to transition to non-capitalist institutions.

Welfare without economic growth

In our daily lives we are constantly bombarded with news about advances in energy efficiency, the decarbonisation of the economy, and the possibility of growing without polluting. And yes, decarbon…

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“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Discover how Turkey’s pension movement used strategic policy narratives to expand its base and win change, revealing the power of stories in electoral autocracies. By @elifcan.bsky.social & @v-yilmaz.bsky.social Read here: psjblog.net/2025/09/24/t... #PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal

The Power of Policy Narratives in Electoral Autocracies: Lessons from a Pension Movement

by Elifcan Celebi & Volkan Yilmaz Social movements rely on narratives to frame their struggles and mobilise support. How they craft these narratives is especially intriguing in electoral autocr…

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✨ Excited to share that the SPIRe Research Seminar Series – Autumn 2025 programme is now live! ✨We are delighted to welcome an excellent line-up of speakers who will be joining us on Wednesdays at UCD SPIRe @ucdpolitics.bsky.social soon.

✍️Fueled by digital activism and pop culture, youth-led protests in Turkey converge with social policy innovations, marking a generational shift in how dissent and governance challenge authoritarianism, Ebru Işıklı and @elifcan.bsky.social argue in their op-ed.🇹🇷🇹🇷 🧑‍💻Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yxbaj98s

A regular reminder that the Political Studies Association of Ireland (@psaireland.bsky.social) publishes a weekly newsletter. Sign up to stay informed about job opportunities and events across the island: www.psai.ie/newsletter/ Maintained by PSAI Secretary @sarahwagner.bsky.social.

Happy to share that I’ve joined the Editorial Board of the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. Looking forward to contributing to @jicsp.bsky.social for critical, interdisciplinary & global scholarship on social policy. More about JICSP via  www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🗓️ Termin für #IchBinHanna & alle Interessierten: Am 14. Juli um 11 Uhr stellt der @wissenschaftsrat.de sein Positionspapier "Personalstrukturen im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem" vor. Wir sind gespannt! @drkeichhorn.bsky.social @kubon.bsky.social Mehr Infos hier. ⬇️