I'm thrilled to share the latest @chesdata.bsky.social paper "A Global Scale of Economic Left–Right Party Positions: Cross-National and Cross-Expert Perceptions of Party Placements", out now at JOP, where we compare expert ratings from Europe, Latin America, Australia, Israel, Canada, & the US.

New pre-APSA "workshop": tennis social! 🎾 Wed Sep 2, 3–6pm at MIT, w/ @jguardado.bsky.social & @evlieb.bsky.social All levels welcome - even Djokovic fans 😜 Details + sign up (join list even if you can't make it this year): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Pre-APSA tennis social at MIT

When: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026, 3-6 pm. Where: MIT Outdoor Tennis Courts (Briggs, courts 7/8/9). 133 Amherst Alley, Cambridge, MA 02139 Organizers: Joan Ricart-Huguet (jricart-huguet@loyola.ed...

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🚨 The annual calls for assistant and associate professorships in political science at @aarhusbss.bsky.social are out! 🚨 international.au.dk/about/profil... international.au.dk/about/profil... The deadlines are *early* in the cycle: Aug. 17 and Sep. 3, respectively. Consider applying... (1/3)

Assistant Professor in Political Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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🚨 Annual Virtual Conference in HPE This Thursday 🚨 Link to the program: drive.google.com/file/d/107Ts...

🚨 Coming soon: “The Political Economy of Public Bureaucracy” 🚨 My book is forthcoming in 2026 with @universitypress.cambridge.org. A preview of the cover art is below. Thanks to D. Carpenter, @sean-gailmard.bsky.social, and J. Gingrich for their endorsements! 🙏 More detailed info in the future. 😊

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🚨 Deadline Soon (***February 5, 2026***): 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science 🚨 I am seeking applicants for a 3-year postdoc related to my @erc.europa.eu research project EQUILIBRIUM that focuses on state-citizen interactions. The application link and further information are in the post below. ⬇️

Now out in the February 2026 issue of the APSR.

American Political Science Review@apsrjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

Just published on APSR First View: "Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The 'Marxist Paradox'" by Laia Balcells @laiabalcells.bsky.social and Stathis Kalyvas. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 Deadline Soon (***February 5, 2026***): 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science 🚨 I am seeking applicants for a 3-year postdoc related to my @erc.europa.eu research project EQUILIBRIUM that focuses on state-citizen interactions. The application link and further information are in the post below. ⬇️

When are Junctures Critical? The Legacies and Non-Legacies of the Suppression of Local Self-Government https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2023-m7x2m-v6?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss #polisky

Very happy that my forthcoming @universitypress.cambridge.org Elements - "How Settlers Shaped Eastern Europe and Scandinavia: Economic Development, Regime Change, and State Formation, 800–1800." Can now be pre-ordered at www.cambridge.org/core/element...

How Settlers Shaped Eastern Europe and Scandinavia

Cambridge Core - Political Economy - How Settlers Shaped Eastern Europe and Scandinavia

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🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨 I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions. Link and more information in second post. Position Start: Fall 2026 Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️

This week, I had the privilege of presenting my forthcoming @universitypress.cambridge.org book “The Political Economy of Public Bureaucracy” at the University of Gothenburg’s @qoginstitute.bsky.social. Thanks to @lapuente.bsky.social & Frida Boräng for the kind invitation and the great discussion!

💡New Publication: Thrilled to share the first paper from my dissertation is now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. With @geraldschneider.bsky.social and @janvogler.bsky.social, I study how regional anti-immigrant sentiment and negative news shape decisions of bureaucrats. doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Illiberal Norms, Media Reporting, and Bureaucratic Discrimination: Evidence from State-Citizen Interactions in Germany - Stefanie Rueß, Gerald Schneider, Jan P. Vogler, 2025

Recent research on the rise of radical right-wing parties highlights the activation of deeply rooted illiberal norms in society, including hostility toward marg...

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Eine neue Studie unseres Clusters @uni-konstanz.de zeigt: Negative Medienberichte über bestimmte Migrant*innengruppen können bei der Vergabe von Bürgergeld zu Diskriminierung führen! Mehr Infos: t1p.de/lv33e @steffiru.bsky.social @geraldschneider.bsky.social @janvogler.bsky.social

🚨 New WP 🚨: All states monitor the political activity of their citizens. But who do they choose to surveil, and why? We study this question with the universe of Italian political surveillance files: 152,000 individuals born 1816–1932, across democracy and autocracy. 🧵 1/11

NBER@nber.org · 8mo ago

Studying the logic of state surveillance based on the universe of Italian files finds that states target educated and subaltern groups, with mobilization and radical change potential, from Gemma Dipoppa and Annalisa Pezone www.nber.org/papers/w34492

Today at the Virtual Workshop in HPE (6.30 PM CET, 12.30 PM ET): Gary Cox (Stanford) will present his paper (with Valentin Figueroa (MIT)) "Self-governing cities and capital accumulation in medieval Europe". Discussion by @wahlfabi.bsky.social. Sign-up link for our list in the post below!

Today at the Virtual Workshop in HPE (6.30 PM CET, 12.30 PM ET): Gary Cox (Stanford) will present his paper (with Valentin Figueroa (MIT)) "Self-governing cities and capital accumulation in medieval Europe". Discussion by @wahlfabi.bsky.social. Sign-up link for our list in the post below!

Please join Virtual HPE Workshop this Thursday, Nov 6 at 12:30 EST! @janvogler.bsky.social is presenting his paper "Exploring the Origins of Coercive Colonial Institutions" (with Jan Pierskalla and Daniel Smith). Discussed by @jackpaine.bsky.social.

⚠️ Virtual Workshop in HPE info ⚠️ @adajkanu.bsky.social is presenting a project on "Colonization and the Politics of Belonging in Nigeria" on Thursday! Martha Wilfahrt (UC Berkeley) will discuss. Let me know if you're not on our email list already and would like to be!

Please join Virtual HPE Workshop tomorrow, this Thursday, at 12:00 EST! Henry Thomson (Arizona State University) is presenting his paper "Careers in the Crossfire: The Effects of Internal Defections on Secret Police Officers’ Networks" (with @kkrakows.bsky.social), discussed by Martin Dimitrov.

Damn this will be a doozy!

Jan P. Vogler@janvogler.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨 The Virtual Workshop in Historical Political Economy is back! 🚨 For the new academic year, we have an amazing line up of papers for you! In our inaugural session 2 HPE superstars will join us: @annagbusse.bsky.social (Stanford) will present & @jvoth.bsky.social (Zurich) discuss! I can't wait. 😀

🚨 The Virtual Workshop in Historical Political Economy is back! 🚨 For the new academic year, we have an amazing line up of papers for you! In our inaugural session 2 HPE superstars will join us: @annagbusse.bsky.social (Stanford) will present & @jvoth.bsky.social (Zurich) discuss! I can't wait. 😀

🎉 I am so very happy that I was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for my project BORDERS: Border Change and Local Development in Europe and Beyond. My (future) team and I will investigate the mechanisms underlying the effects of border change on development in historical Europe and worldwide. #ERCStG 🎉

I’m absolutely thrilled to share that I was awarded a Starting Grant (#ERCStG) of €1.5 million by @erc.europa.eu! For the next 5 years, I’ll investigate how to end vicious cycles in state-citizen interactions. I’ll regularly post news about the project & advice about ERC applications here. (1/9)

This August marks the official start of my new @erc.europa.eu funded project on youth & their conceptions of political power #YOPOW 🫅🏻 & with that I can also announce the 1st postdoc joining the team: @lisaherbig.bsky.social 💫 Lisa's skill and creativity make her a true win for the project 🙌🏻

Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to @bjpols.bsky.social for publishing.

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 12mo ago

NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Yesterday, I did my second DHL relay race with an amazing team: @henrikseeberg.bsky.social, @lindekilde.bsky.social, C. Green-Pedersen, & @lucascoutoz.bsky.social. I had the goal of running the 5k below 21 minutes & came in at 20:34, my new personal record. Now looking forward to the 2026 race! 😊

🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy? 🚨 At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE)—organized jointly with @dkofanov.bsky.social & @tinepaulsen.bsky.social—we discuss state-of-the-art research on a regular basis. ‼️ We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️ Link & info in post #2.

Going to EPSA and have a free spot in your schedule Thursday morning? Then come see a fun collection of HPE papers! Projects by @melissazrogers.bsky.social, Federica Carugati (ft. @alicirone.bsky.social), @janvogler.bsky.social (ft. Matthias Scheu), @ashartnett.bsky.social, and me!