📣New scholarship from @bartazsofi.bsky.social on how credit rating agencies (Fitch, Moody’s, S&P) discount long-term climate risks to preserve their epistemic authority - preventing the reallocation of capital away from carbon-intensive assets.
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ACTION ITEMS #polisky:
(1) Tell Congress to Save NSF's SBE Directorate
(2) Consortium of Social Science Assns (COSSA) Town Halls: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
(3) COSSA Alerts and APSA’s Advocacy Newsletter
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(4) Write to Congress
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Unfortunately resonant with how financial markets seem to treat climate risk in pactice
Don't look now the IEA is advocating for degrowth
1/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order
Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“
i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries
If the euro takes on a more prominent international role, it will undoubtedly evaluate.
This creates one huge problem. French wine will get more expensive
To secure global support for a new financial architecture, Europe must provide export subsidies for wine producers (and cheese makers)
This is the largest oil supply shock in history in mb/d
The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths
(1) Gulf Kings
(2) Financial meltdown
(3) AI tech oligarchs
(4) Fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions
Read our Polycrisis Dispatch:
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
May be of interest to @harrovanasselt.bsky.social @benjaminfaude.bsky.social @widerberg.bsky.social @jakobskovgaard.bsky.social @jfmorin.bsky.social @yoramhaftel.bsky.social @greenprofgreen.bsky.social @mer29-cam.bsky.social
The broader point: fragmentation in sustainable finance governance is a challenge, but it's uneven. Developing tools to diagnose where fragmentation is most concentrated, we think, is really important regardless of issue area - for scholars and practitioners alike.
We also look at how public authority shapes fragmentation over time. Overall, it's a mixed story. There are cases of "empty institutions," but also instances in which IOs are carefully figuring out how to best complement existing private governance efforts
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What we find: ~36% of governance spaces exhibit outright duplication by 2020. But the broader landscape is more characterized by a division of labor than redundancy — with significant heterogeneity across issues. Climate disclosure is especially crowded
To get at fragmentation, we code each SFGI by issue, governance function, actor target, and time of launch. This lets us distinguish redundant duplication from functional divisions of labor in the "governance spaces" or niches that make up global governance over time
New paper with Stefan Renckens in @ripejournal.bsky.social!
Sustainable finance standards are often accused of being highly fragmented.
We built an original dataset of 111 Sustainable Finance Governance Initiatives (SFGIs), covering 2000-2020, to see for ourselves. The result? It's complicated.
I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨
What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions
This is the key dilemma in integrating AI into university education. All the 'innovative' tactics - critiquing AI generated content, using AI to reproduce good writing - assume skills will develop in the interaction, but it's like expecting food photographers to cook tasty meals
🚨New piece in Politics & Society! w/ @maxkiefel.bsky.social @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social
Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles 🇨🇳 🇺🇸
doi.org/10.1177/0032...
And a very special happy holidays to those of you who actually completed your peer reviews on time #polisky
*Political scientists who rejected sociological institutionalism* did not anticipate the potential for democratic breakdown
Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?
Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7
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PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
Best practice in academia: prepare 2-3 jokes based on out of date cultural references
Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️
Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians?
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Hi! Added.
I interviewed Mathias Larsen on key takeaways of our Hopkins report @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
Why is this BRI 2.0 private-sector led? Does Beijing know the scale? What are motivations of firms going out? What are host countries agency & developmentalist plans
phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
We can have the dig and the ezra klein show
I don't need him to be my superman, he can take an L from time to time
hey #polisci, if you're at #APSA2025, set the alarm, grab coffee & come hear about my new book Existential Politics w/ @profkharrison.bsky.social @thomasnhale.bsky.social ale.bsky.social @bentleyallan.bsky.social allan.bsky.social @agazmararian.bsky.social rarian.bsky.social & Michael Ross. Deets 👇
I do think you’ve gotta hand it to Ezra Klein for this one, which we need more of, much more, from his peers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
Held together by glue
I wonder which departments will pause the tenure clock for anti-fascist mobilization