Joshua Cova

@joshcova.bsky.social

Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne. Interested in European comparative political economy, with a focus on the politics of wage-setting and inflation. https://joshcova.github.io/

Applications for our visiting researchers program are now open! It’s a great opportunity, especially also for ECRs, to spend some time working on your research projects in-depth, with great and welcoming atmosphere and tiny Kölsch beers. Lmk if you have questions & pls share widely!

Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)@mpifg.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📣 We're welcoming applications for our Visiting Researchers Program (summer semester 2026). If your work focuses on political economy or economic sociology, apply for a research stay (2-12 months). Open to researchers at all career levels! Apply by October 31, 2025: career.mpifg.de/jobposting/1...

Happy to introduce ItaParlCorpus: a large, annotated, machine-readable dataset of Italian parliamentary speeches 🇮🇹📊. Covering 1948-2022, it includes 2.4M speeches, 470M words from 5830 speakers across 77 parties. Ideal for studying political discourse, party rhetoric and parliamentary behavior! 🔍📖

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