An infographic of a man standing on a pile of books, looking through a telescope. There is a ladder leant against the books.
Take a look & book on a @bodleian.ox.ac.uk iSkills workshop this Trinity Term. These free workshops help staff, researchers & students at @ox.ac.uk gain essential skills in discovering, critically evaluating, managing, presenting and sharing information. Find out more at tinyurl.com/33u3nu6x
Join us for a talk by sociologist Tymofii Brik, Rector of Kyiv School of Economics!
Drawing on 30 years of evidence, he’ll explore how Ukrainian society has evolved before and during Russia’s war against Ukraine.
📅 Wed 29 April, 5pm
📍 Nuffield College
www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/ukrain...
Interview with Cécile Laborde on religion, secularism, and political theory
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Interview with @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Cécile Laborde in @democratictheory.bsky.social
Ideal theory as fetishism
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Paper in @polphiljournal.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Research Fellow @jasperfriedrich.bsky.social
📢ONE WEEK REMINDER! The Department of Social Policy & Intervention and the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods at DPIR seek to appoint an Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods in Politics and Social Policy. 🗓️ CLOSES: Noon (BST) 27 April: https://ow.ly/PLO850Yv8na
Well, this may not be as interesting as Pete Hegseth’s preaching of the gospel according to Quentin Tarantino, but I had a fabulous interview with David Marr of Late Night Live in Australia about how scandals lead the public to strike down on big corporations with great vengeance and furious anger.
Nuclear norm regularized estimation of panel regression models
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Paper in Journal of Econometrics by Hyungsik Roger Moon and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.socialFellow @weidnerecon.bsky.social
Asset specificity in climate politics: How polluting firms become climate policy supporters
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@socarxiv.bsky.social preprint by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student @jonasfischer.bsky.social
🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 Is this Andy Burnham's moment?
👑 MP Karl Turner and @profjanegreen.bsky.social join @alaintolhurst.bsky.social, @siennarodgers.bsky.social and @tomscotson.bsky.social to discuss whether the so-called ‘king of the north’ will make it back down to Westminster
🎧 Listen: pod.fo/e/400299
Cover of The ethics of uncivil protest and resistance
The ethics of uncivil protest and resistance edited by Candice Delmas and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Alumna Avia Pasternak
Cover of Democratic falsehoods: legitimate fictions in public speech
Democratic falsehoods: legitimate fictions in public speech by Associate Member Maxime Lepoutre
Cover of Trade unions and the British industrial relations crisis: an intellectual biography of Hugh Clegg
Trade unions and the British industrial relations crisis: an intellectual biography of Hugh Clegg by Peter Ackers. Hugh Clegg was a Fellow of @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social 1949-1966. This book includes the chapter: Industrial Democracy: Nuffield College, Oxford (1947-54)
Cover of Of paradoxes, dilemmas, and comparisons: essays in honor of Kevin Middlebrook
Of paradoxes, dilemmas, and comparisons: essays in honor of Kevin Middlebrook edited by Paulo Drinot and Par Engstrom
Includes the chapter: A brief survey of the past half century of political evolution in Mexico by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow Laurence Whitehead
A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library. They are: Of paradoxes, dilemmas, and comparisons edited by Paulo Drinot and Par Engstrom Youthquakes and aftershocks by James Sloam, Matt Henn and Ana Isabel Nunes Rebuilding fiscal democracy by Paolo Liberati and Massimo Paradiso Trade unions and the British industrial relations crisis by Peter Ackers The ethics of uncivil protest and resistance edited by Candice Delmas and Avia Pasternak One hundred years of game theory edited by Mark Voorneveld, Jörgen W. Weibull, Tommy Andersson, Roger Myerson, Jean-François Laslier, Rida Laraki and Yukio Koriyama Life and labour edited by Maria Giatsi Clausen and Eurig Scandrett The permanent problem by Brink Lindsey Democratic falsehoods by Maxime Lepoutre
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
Read on for a 🧵 on books with a @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social connection...
Alphabet Soup: Randomized Ballot Order and the Representation of Marginalized Candidates
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Paper in @polbehavior.bsky.social by Sean Freeder, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @rivb.bsky.social
Public preferences for saving lives versus life-years: evidence from a person-trade-off experiment in 12 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
doi.org/10.1007/s101...
Paper in European Journal of Health Economics by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow Raymond M. Duch and 4 others
Prof. Culpepper: Populism is democracy’s way of the people telling elites to ‘listen harder’
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European Centre for Populism Studies interview with @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @pculpepper.bsky.social
Prevalence of low-level viremia and its association with virological failure among adolescents living with HIV in Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Paper in @hivmedicine.bsky.social co-auth by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student Janke Tolmay and Fellow Lucie Cluver & 6 others
Photos of Nuffield MPhil-DPhil student Sarah Marshall and her crewmates, who won the 2026 Women's Boat Race at the beginning of the month. Congratulations again to Sarah and the whole crew!
Our news story at www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
Photos courtesy of The Boat Race / AllMarkOne
Think populism is always bad for democracy? Check out my discussion with Selcuk Gultasli from the European Center for Populism Studies to get a different take (ignore that the picture makes me a distorted clown).
A new study co-authored by DPIR’s Lauren Sukin reveals a global ripple effect: America’s deep political divisions aren’t just a domestic issue—they’re eroding trust around the world. 🌍📉: www.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/americas-deep-polit...
If you’ve secured a postgraduate offer from DPIR, the next chapter starts now. Here’s what you have to look forward to: www.politics.ox.ac.uk/about
We’re delighted to welcome Professor Desmond King to our Geopolitical Risk programme. An Oxford professor and member of the US National Academy of Sciences, he will join our panel on US political uncertainty.
Apply today: https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/executive-education
Graphic advertising the talk 'The Limits of Identitarianism' on Friday 8 May, 5pm, at Nuffield College
Our 2nd Annual Halsey Lecture is here! 🎓
Professor Chetan Bhatt (LSE) will explore the rise of identitarian thinking across politics and academia.
📅 Fri 8 May, 5pm
📍 Nuffield College
Register here 👉 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
More from Nuffield Professorial Fellow @pculpepper.bsky.social, this time talking about anti-immigration policies and the AI bubble on @blavatnikschool.bsky.social's new YouTube series, 'Policy Unpacked'
Link to full episode below
#nuffsky
The gender wealth gap and the role of private pension wealth in Great Britain
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Paper in Review of Economics of the Household by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow Brian Nolan and Juan C. Palomino
Popular attitudes are often seen as a safeguard against democratic backsliding: if citizens don’t oppose lib democracy, politicians have little incentive to erode it.
In @cpsjournal.bsky.social I argue that, while intuitive, this reasoning conflates two states of the world:
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Anti-immigration policies are bad for democracy, argues Professor Pepper Culpepper (Nuffield College, Oxford).
Catch up with the first episode of Policy Unpacked, with MPP student Karan Kalsi (Rhodes Trust, Trinity College, Oxford)👇
https://ow.ly/hPeL50YEQjV
📢 ONE WEEK REMINDER!: DPIR seeks to appoint an Associate Professor in International Relations, in association with Nuffield College, to conduct internationally excellent research in the area of International Relations.
🗓️ CLOSES: Noon (BST) Tue 21 April: https://ow.ly/U5kJ50Yrczb less
