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Congrats to my amazing colleagues Serena Merrino and Idil Uz Akdogan for completing their mandate as Deputy Heads of Programme with such brilliance! 🥳
To mark the end of this chapter, we stitched on the UCL200 cloth together — a lasting memory of our teamwork🧵✨ #Gratitude

I attended the Education Awards ceremony at UCL yesterday - such an inspiring event.
The room was full of positive energy, celebrating the incredible work colleagues do every day to inspire and support students.
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For all those we research place and space in CEE

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Had an amazing few days in Krakow for the 3rd Annual Conference of the Taube Centre.

Huge thanks to the organisers esp. Paulina Lenik who masterminded our panel.

Excellent academic and social programme.

And a short blog entry here:
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You can read our introduction here:
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Rayamajhee et al. (2024) finds that Hurricane Katrina reduced state involvement in economic affairs but did not affect social capital in Louisiana, suggesting that informal institutions are more resilient. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Choutagunta et al. (2024) discuss constitutional compliance (CC), which is higher when de jure and de facto rules align. They show that external shocks, such as civil conflicts and coups, decrease CC, while banking crises and natural disasters have no sign. impact. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Buchen (2024) shows with a coordination game that formal institutions promote resilience during external shocks. The paper contrasts formal institutions (legal context) with informal institutions (observed practices) and their roles in maintaining cooperation. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Arvanitidis and Papagiannitsis (2024) explore local water governance in Greece, highlighting the tension between local communities and top-down formalisation. They discuss how citizens resist and adapt to changing rules that conflict with customary practices. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Our Special symposium with @gerhardschnyder.bsky.social is out in the Journal of Institutional Economics

It includes 4 papers exploring:
‘Crisis and persistence: dynamics of institutional changes at the interface between formal and informal institutions’

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What do hurricane Katrina, a sovereign debt crisis in Greece & military coups have in common?
Find out in our post on the UCL SSEES blog about a new special symposium of the Journal of Institutional Economics that I co-edited with @elodiedouarin.bsky.social

blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/2025/0...

Collaborators are looking for participants for a new multi-analyst study using SOEP data. For more information on registration, eligibility criteria, requirements, procedure, and timeline, please visit www.manydaughters.com. Deadline for registration is April 27

Congratulations!

A great joy after winning the Scientific Economics Book of the Year award by the Polish daily Puls Biznesu

Big thanks to my dear co-authors Jakub Sawulski and Michał Brzeziński

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🔊 Job vacancy: Alexander Nash Fellowship in Albanian Studies

The Alexander Nash Fellow will be appointed for two years to undertake an independent programme of research in Albanian Studies.

🗓️ Deadline: 16 March 2025
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🌍💶 How did the eurozone survive turbulent times? Join us for Professor Yuemei Ji’s Inaugural Lecture 'Trust and Central Banking in Europe' to find out more.

🗓️06 March 2025 at 6pm
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7th Conflict & Change PhD Workshop 2025 – Studying Peace and Conflict in Tumultuous Times — Conflict & Change The 7th Conflict & Change PhD Workshop once again attracted an international pool of PhD researchers to the UCL campus in London. Studying conflict in tumultuous times, participants presented a gr...

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Really enjoyed attending the Conflict and Change PhD workshop today, and discussing some of the work presented.

Amazing to see how ambitious, intriguing and varied the research presented was.

🎊 Congratulations to the organisers and all the presenters.

Venice Summer Institute 2025: Poverty, Persistence and Policy: Comparative Development and the Deep Roots of Prosperity Scientific Organizers: Sascha O. Becker, Uwe Sunde, and Hans-Joachim VothWhy do some regions and countries achieve prosperity while others linger in poverty? While progress has been made in finding an...

Please submit your best papers to this workshop on 25 – 26 June 2025 (part of @cesifo.org Venice 🇮🇹 Summer Institute).

Keynotes: Paola Giuliano and @albertobisin.bsky.social

My co-organizers: Uwe Sunde & @jvoth.bsky.social

Deadline 9 Feb 2025 (midnight CET)

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CFP: Economics, Nationalism and Politics in Central, East and South-East Europe

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152177

Ljubljana, 19.06.2025-20.06.2025, Nataša Henig Miščič, Institute of Contemporary History Ljubljana
Stefan Nikolić, Loughborough University and WEast, Bewerbungsschluss: …

Cultural Aspects of Tax Preferences in Transition Economies In this work, we look at the role played by cultural values on individuals' tax preferences towards contributing to public goods. More specifically, looking at the transition economies of Central and....

Published online (not yet OA)
New work with Luca Andriani and Gaygysyz Ashyrov

We show that people who jointly value personal achievements and are not strongly embedded in narrow social group express more support for public good provision
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CRS | Cedric Smith Prize The CRS welcomes submissions for the Cedric Smith Prize 2019 which is a peace research prize awarded for the best piece of peace and conflict research by a student

🏆 Cedric Smith Prize 2025: Submit your best peace & conflict research (max 14k words) for a chance to win the Conflict Research Society's prestigious award. Open to PhD students/early grads (after 1 Sep 2024). Deadline: 31 Jan 2025.

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Angry Men and Civic Women? Gendered Effects of Conflict on Political Participation in Kosovo This article studies the effect of the 1998–99 Kosovo war on current political participation, disaggregating the analysis by the type of conflict experience – namely death or injury to self or a fa...

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As a first post (months after joining - sorry), I thought I could share my OA paper on the long term legacies of war on political participation.

We show that war violence increases PP in Kosovo, but very differently for men compared to women.

This was a first step, more related work coming soon.

Call for Participation Dates May 28-29, 2025 (with graduate student pre-conference reception on May 27) Location Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA Contact pag@apsanet.org Conference Website http://pagcon...

📣Announcement📣

Politics & Gender Conference 2025

A conference celebrating 20 years of P&G for scholars working on all aspects of women, gender, & politics.

📅 May 28-29, 2025

📍 Rutgers University

CFP: mlkrook.org/PAGC_CFP_202...

Website: www.pagconference.org

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UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Reminder that we’re hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology at UCL Social Research. Position is open to any applied field, deadline 20 December. (Reposting as the link was broken) www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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We're new here. In case you don't know who we are, here's an intro: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD0G...