Cui bono from stakeholder consultations? Do they lead to more ("fire alarm" function) or less oversight ("procedural politicking")? Rik Joosen, Benjamin Leidorf-Tidå & @mbusuioc.bsky.social examine the case of the European Supervisory Authorities 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Should you measure stakeholder influence by hand coding, text reuse or turn to AI? @annebind.bsky.social, Amy McKay & Jonas Alexander Whittlestone weigh the pros and cons 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Emanuele Sessa & Virginie Mamadouh view the accession negotiations between the EU and Albania as a case of "rhetorical action". They show that both sides mobilised tensions between liberal democratic and security-related arguments to gain concessions 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🖥️ Proliferation of AI use in government meets the principal-agent theory 🧾 @kunkakom.bsky.social, @ajungherr.bsky.social & @adrauc.bsky.social run a survey experiment to test citizens' perceived control 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🤔 How do government changes affect the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility? 🔎 @davidbokhorst.bsky.social and @andreacapati.bsky.social compare Italy, Slovakia and the Netherlands 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper with @adrauc.bsky.social and @ajungherr.bsky.social, published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: How does the use of AI in government affect citizens’ sense of democratic control? Experimental evidence: greater efficiency can come with hidden legitimacy costs.

@rikderuiter1978.bsky.social: How do national parliaments hold their governments accountable in EUCO negotiations? 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Special Issue: The ‘normalization’ of the European Council in EU decision-making Guest editors: Derek Beach, Uwe Puetter, Sandrino Smeets

📖 The European Council's playbooks for dealing with major challenges, outlined by Sandrino Smeets and Derek Beach 🥴 The challenges: unlike crisis politics, major challenges require sustained attention and keeping tabs on the other EU institutions, they argue.

🎆 The special issue on "European Integration in the Geopolitical Age" is out! Discover all articles 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3... Guest editors: @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social & @lucasschramm91.bsky.social

Looking forward to this! It also means I'm stepping down from @poqjournal.bsky.social and (in January) @jeppjournal.bsky.social . I learned a lot and I'll miss working with them. Thanks to @olliheath.bsky.social and @profrosiecamp.bsky.social for entrusting me with it!

Electoral Studies@electoralstudies.bsky.social · 2w ago

🎉 NEWS FROM ELECTORAL STUDIES 🎉 We're thrilled to welcome @danjdevine.bsky.social as incoming Co-Editor-in-Chief of Electoral Studies. Welcome, Dan! He succeeds Nick Vivyan, who is stepping down. Our thanks to Nick for his service to the journal, its authors and its reviewers.

The very policies that are supposed to enhance EU #digitalsovereignty vis-a-vis US and China might be tearing it apart by deepening intra-EU digital divides. Critical debate on digital inequality is needed. Read my article in @jeppjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New paper out in JEPP @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉 Women are underrepresented in local politics, and the problem isn't only their election but retention. In a survey experiment with 500+ English councillors, we find that family-friendly council policies increase women's static ambition. 🧵

Seeing this as an American:

JEPP Journal@jeppjournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🏙️ vs ⛰️: Who gets their policy preferences reflected? 💡@stefanhp.bsky.social shows that urban residents see their policy preferences reflected more often than rural counterparts - even when controlling for education and income 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New Issue! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3... Including the CES/JEPP Political Economy and Welfare Best Paper Award 2024 👇 Cecilia Ivardi: Shaping institutional change in skill formation: the role of background ideas in growth strategies 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article, written before I became a father and was thus unable to conceive of a future when this paper would be out in the world

JEPP Journal@jeppjournal.bsky.social · last mo.

👨‍👩‍👧 Does parenthood make politicians more future-oriented? 🏛️ @chanret.bsky.social and @profsarahchilds.bsky.social compare UK House of Commons MPs (1945–2023) language use: 👨‍👧 Fathers speak more about the future↗️ 👩‍👦 mothers less ↘️ 🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

👨‍👩‍👧 Does parenthood make politicians more future-oriented? 🏛️ @chanret.bsky.social and @profsarahchilds.bsky.social compare UK House of Commons MPs (1945–2023) language use: 👨‍👧 Fathers speak more about the future↗️ 👩‍👦 mothers less ↘️ 🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🦠 The partisan pandemic: Adrienne McManus and Tim Vlandas analyze partisan divisions over Covid-19 responses across 600+ studies in 44 countries 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🌱 Anna F. Gall and Jeroen J. L. Candel analyse the EU's Common Agricultural Policy between "agricultural exceptionalism" and "post-exceptionalism" 🔎👥 In the spotlight: environmental policy entrepreneurs 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Joseph Ganderson compares the effects of two "membership crises" in the EU: Brexit and rule of law backsliding 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🏙️ vs ⛰️: Who gets their policy preferences reflected? 💡@stefanhp.bsky.social shows that urban residents see their policy preferences reflected more often than rural counterparts - even when controlling for education and income 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@sergipardos.bsky.social and Carla Xena zoom in on tax structure to answer how immigration affects redistribution support 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: @dionyszink.bsky.social introduces *organizational corrosion* — the slow, self-reinforcing decay of public agencies under sustained overload. Illustrated with England's Environment Agency (deep into it) vs Ireland's EPA (largely spared). 📖 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Very happy to see the 7th, #openaccess contribution - by Marco Buti and Marcello Messori - to our @jeppjournal.bsky.social SI on "State and future of #EU fiscal integration", guest-edited by Tomasz P. Woźniakowski, @evathomann.bsky.social and me, published! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Puzzling, powering, profiting - and page numbers 🔢 Read the Special Issue "The politics of sustainable finance in Europe" edited by @danmertens.bsky.social and @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

Journal of European Public Policy

Puzzling, powering, profiting: The politics of sustainable finance in Europe. Guest editors: Daniel Mertens & Natascha van der Zwan. Volume 33, Issue 6 of Journal of European Public Policy

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Continuity or change? Continuity! Aleksandra Maatscha and Carlos Closa analyze support for EU fiscal integration in national parliaments, comparing the EU's responses to the Eurocrisis and COVID-19 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 CfP: "Politics of regulatory simplification in the EU" in @jeppjournal.bsky.social Guest editors: Steffen Hurka, Nir Kosti & Brigitte Pircher Abstracts by 22 July 2026 👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/politics-of-regulatory-simplification-in-the-eu/

📣New article out with @margueriteab.bsky.social in the @jeppjournal.bsky.social📣 "Supranationalisation without integration: how European Council normalisation empowers the Commission in EU migration policies" doi.org/10.1080/1350... @sceus.bsky.social @unisalzburg.bsky.social #EUsky #Eursky 🧵1/7

Supranationalisation without integration: how European Council normalisation empowers the Commission in EU migration policies

The polycrisis has reshuffled the European Union (EU)'s institutional balance of power, raising new questions about the normalisation of European Council-European Commission relations. Drawing on m...

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Good @politico.eu piece about releasing EU funds to Hungary with my quotes based on research co-published with Princeton's Prof Kim Scheppele at @verfassungsblog.de (verfassungsblog.de/unfreezing-e...) & @jeppjournal.bsky.social (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....). www.politico.eu/article/magy...

Magyar’s EU reset heads for Brussels reality check

The Hungarian leader has made the release of EU money central to his post-Orbán reset, but the Commission wants him to deliver on reforms first.

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🔥 With over 10,000 views, @vanghel.bsky.social's introduction to the Special Issue "Wartime Europe: EU Integration, Reform and Enlargement", "Why the EU is a geopolitical power", is JEPP's most-read article in 2025.

Together with @brigittepircher.bsky.social and Nir Kosti, I'll be editing a special issue on the politics of regulatory simplification in the EU at @jeppjournal.bsky.social. Please spread the word and send us your abstracts by 22 July! More info here 👇

JEPP Journal@jeppjournal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 CfP 🚨 for the Special Issue “The politics of regulatory simplification in the European Union: actors, processes and outcomes”, guest edited by Nir Kosti, @steffenhurka.bsky.social & @brigittepircher.bsky.social More information 👉 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...