🚨 New paper in JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies: 'Waking a Dormant Legal Resource. Institutional Activation and the Origins of Important Projects of Common European Interest' (with Henrique Lopes Valença). 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵 👇

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such? My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020). A thread (1/n)

Congratulations @luukschmitz.bsky.social and @timoseidl.bsky.social, winners of the JEPP Best Paper Prize 2024! 💐 Read the open access paper 'Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy' here: s.gwdg.de/LMomqf

Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy

The fear of falling behind has been a driving force of European integration. Historically, Europe’s response to the looming angst of declining competitiveness has been more market-creation, not mar...

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

🥁 And the JEPP Best Paper Prize 2024 goes to... 🥁 @timoseidl.bsky.social‬ and @luukschmitz.bsky.social for their paper 'Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy' 🎉 Read the jury statement 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It was a daunting task that Antoaneta Dimitrova and I took on. But we reached a compelling conclusion, I believe: “Moving on not to fall behind” was the best article in @jeppjournal.bsky.social in 2024 Much deserved congrats to @timoseidl.bsky.social and @luukschmitz.bsky.social

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

🥁 And the JEPP Best Paper Prize 2024 goes to... 🥁 @timoseidl.bsky.social‬ and @luukschmitz.bsky.social for their paper 'Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy' 🎉 Read the jury statement 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Super happy, deeply honored, and a little humbled to win this award! JEPP has always been one of my favourite journals, not just as an author, but also as a reader, reviewer, and even SI editor—so this one is especially dear to my heart! Many thanks to the jury, the editors, and my co-author Luuk!

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

🥁 And the JEPP Best Paper Prize 2024 goes to... 🥁 @timoseidl.bsky.social‬ and @luukschmitz.bsky.social for their paper 'Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy' 🎉 Read the jury statement 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#jobs 🚨🚨🚨 4 postdocs in Münster: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/5... I‘m involved in one appointment. More details will follow soon!

Postdoctoral Research Associate - EU Forscher*in - (salary level E 13 TV-L, 100 %)

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We are inviting applications for a 4-year PhD position in International Relations at the @unisalzburg.bsky.social. Requirement: MA in Political Science or a closely related social science Application deadline: 2 June 2025 For more details, see tinyurl.com/5ew3auby #Polisky #poliscijobs

🚨 New book alert! Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission is out with OUP @oxfordacademic.bsky.social It’s about the behind-the-scenes stage of EU policymaking that shapes everything—yet rarely gets the spotlight: how the Commission prepares its proposals. Link: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

Mark Blyth and I sang a duet. It’s about how a country’s growth model shapes its state capacity to decarbonize - both the advantages and disadvantages. Enjoy! @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Decarbonising national growth models: derisking, ‘hobbled states’, and the decarbonisation possibility frontier

This article brings together Growth Model Theory and climate change under the assumption that economic growth will remain a policy priority during the green transition. The relevant research questi...

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Very grateful for two days of collective thinking on the EU’s geoeconomic challenges Huge thanks to my fab co-organizers @ankehassel.bsky.social @katemcnamara.bsky.social @donatodc.bsky.social @trgn.bsky.social + to the brilliant scholars who shared their insights about the challenges ahead

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

🚨 Want to join me at the Technical University of Munich? I’m hiring a PhD student (100%) in the area of the political economy of technological change! 📅 Apply by 18 May | Start Date: July (flexible) 🔗 More info & how to apply: hfp.heyrecruit.de?page=job&id=... ❓Reach out if you have any questions

PhD position in the field of Political Economy of Technological Change bei Hochschule für Politik München

The Professorship Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Timo Seidl) invites applications for a PhD position in the field of Political Economy of Technological Change

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⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due: 2 May 2025 Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods

📢 New JEPP collection 📢 One of Europe's toughest 🥜 to crack? Balancing the green and digital transitions while staying competitive. Martin B. Carstensen and Berthold Rittberger bring together the latest JEPP collection on European competitiveness in the twin transition 👇

The politics of European competitiveness in the twin transition

Explore the article collection: The politics of European competitiveness in the twin transition. Published in Journal of European Public Policy.

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Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.

As the new semester is approaching (at least here in Munich), I thought it might be a good time to reshare my course guidelines on the use of A.I. Perhaps you find it useful or have some comments on what I'm missing here (this is work in progress of course). 🔗 www.timoseidl.com/blog/seidl-a...

For everyone interested in working with computational tools, this is an amazing Postdoc position at the Political Science Department in Aarhus If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me.

Kristina Bakkær Simonsen@kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · last yr.

💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

Ich habe eine Stelle als Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in (@criticaldatalab.bsky.social / Uni Oldenburg) zu vergeben und freue mich sehr über Bewerbungen. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 30.4., Fragen gern an mich: www.soziopolis.de/ausschreibun...

Busy day for COM, with defence package (ec.europa.eu/commission/p...), Savings and Investment Union strategy (ec.europa.eu/commission/p...) and now the Steel and Metal Action Plan presented - one of multiple sector plans, which are the work horses for implementing the Clean Industrial Deal. So far,

Commission unveils the White Paper for European Defence and the ReArm Europe Plan/Readiness 2030

Today, the Commission and the High Representative have presented a White Paper for European Defence – Readiness 2030.

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Instead of teaching political economy and R separately, I’ve once again combined them into a single integrated course—this time focusing on the (European) Political Economy of climate change & economic security. You can find both slides and syllabus here: www.timoseidl.com/teaching/r-a...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 "Moral Economies of the Polycrisis. Conflict, Critique, and Legitimation in Critical Times" Workshop, June 16-17 University of Hamburg Deadline for abstracts: 07/04 Supported by the Economic Sociology section of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social linuswestheuser.com/cfp-moral-ec...

📚✨ New paper alert: How are we doing on turning nature into a source of calculable risk? We take a critical look at how 1990s risk models and environmental science enable riskification, and study very new regulatory strategies that go beyond it. #openaccess: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What are the political and legal implications of #blockchain technology? 📖 Book launch: “Blockchain Governance” 📅 28 March 2025, 5PM 📍 Am Kupfergraben 5, Berlin / online (DM for more info) With @wesselreijers.bsky.social, @katrinbecker.eu and @annanosthoff.bsky.social. See you there!

New Publication 🚨 Why are contemporary societies increasingly looking to private companies to solve climate change? In my latest article, I analyze the rise of green tech firms and the cultural operations driving this shift. Out now in @jcultecon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Global warming as investment climate: green tech and the translation of needs

Climate change is not only altering temperatures but also the very composition of the economic field. So-called ‘green tech firms’ are successfully claiming new jurisdictional task areas related to...

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I agree—Political Economy, in both its economics and its political science versions, should at least partly be »Geopolitical Economy«. This has probably always been true, but it has become really obvious in recent years.

Dani Rodrik@drodrik.bsky.social · last yr.

This article made me think about how almost all major economic policy changes are driven by geopolitical considerations (Cold War, China, Russia, Ukraine) rather than economics. Many think economists are influential in policy; but economists apparently rank far behind national security types.

Lots of great positions at @mpifg.bsky.social, pls share! - 2yr postdoc in wealth research - 2yr postdoc in technology & sovereignty - 3+3yr senior researcher in political economy - 3+3yr senior researcher in economic sociology - tenure/director-track group leader digitalization & society

Job Openings

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Some professional news: Last week I joined the Technical University of Munich as an Assistant Professor of Political Economy (with a focus on technological change). Can't wait to get to know my new students & colleagues at HfP, and big thanks to everyone who made this possible—you know who you are!

Terrific & much needed deep empirical analysis of new EU industrial policy state aid tool by @timoseidl.bsky.social & @luukschmitz.bsky.social. The key goldilocks punch line? Critical policy goals best achieved with ‘just the right’ amount of EU conditionality rules.

Timo Seidl@timoseidl.bsky.social · last yr.

IPCEIs have recently emerged as a key tool in the EU's fast-growing industrial policy toolbox. In a new paper in Competition & Change, @luukschmitz.bsky.social, @tobiaswuttke.bsky.social and I take a closer look at how this instrument works on the ground. A short thread (link to the paper below)👇