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Identity Politics: Economic Incentives, Elite Capture, and Collective Memory by Michele Rosenberg

Why did poor Southern whites defend slavery, an institution that hurt their economic prospects? In a new Broadstreet post, Michele Rosenberg explains how planter elites used clientelistic relationships and media to capture support. Read here: www.broadstreet.blog/p/identity-p...

Why did Southern whites who didn’t own slaves defend slavery, an institution that hurt their own economic prospects?
In a new Broadstreet post, Michele Rosenberg explains how planter elites relied on clientelistic relationships to capture political support: www.broadstreet.blog/publish/post...

We will be updating this post, so reach out if you study HPE and are on the market this year.

HPE candidates on the job market Job market season is here.

Looking for rising stars in Historical Political Economy? 🌍📚
Check out this year’s job market candidates: www.broadstreet.blog/p/hpe-candid...

HPE candidates on the job market Job market season is here.

Searching in HPE or related fields? Check out these great students/postdocs on the market!

Congratulations to the four MIT Political Science faculty members who were included on MIT's summer reading list: Professors Andrea Campbell, @vcharnysh.bsky.social, Fotini Christia and @kathleenthelen.bsky.social!

news.mit.edu/2025/summer-... @mit-cis.bsky.social

‪Interested in “the historical roots of electoral politics” and have a free spot on your Friday afternoon schedule? Come see this fun EPSA panel! Ft. @vcharnysh.bsky.social‬, @hannohilbig.bsky.social, ‪‪@rantuna.bsky.social, Jose Maycas-Sardi, @nilsblossey.bsky.social‬, and Makoto Fukumoto

We have a great lineup of papers for the Junior Workshop in HPE. A limited number of spots are available for scholars interested in attending the workshop. Fill this form if you want to join us next June 25 at UC3M forms.gle/DckGoQDfniTU... @tinepaulsen.bsky.social @franvillamil.bsky.social

The Myth of Meritocracy: How Exams Helped Build an Empire By Peng Peng (Washington University in St. Louis)

New Broadstreet post by Peng Peng: Narratives of Imperial China as a meritocracy need a corrective. Using data from Qing dynasty she shows exams didn’t just determine who governed—they created a bureaucracy that was culturally & ideologically unified, raising questions about how we study meritocracy

Check out this fun new Broadstreet post by @alicirone.bsky.social on trends in crowdsourcing historical data

Uprooted Cambridge Core - Political Economy - Uprooted

"In this theoretically rich, historically nuanced study of post-WWII population transfers, Charnysh offers evidence that will make liberals swoon: where the receiving state is willing to supply public goods, diversity outperforms homogeneity."

Uprooted by @vcharnysh.bsky.social

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Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine A SSEES Rethinking Eastern Europe and Eurasia seminar with Prof Eugene Finkel, in conversation with Dr Olesya Khromeychuk. This event is co-organised by the Ukrainian Institute London

Due to high demand, we've moved our event with @efinkel.bsky.social to a larger venue and made more tickets available. Don't miss out, Londoners! 13/2/35, 6pm, full details+registration below. Co-organised by @uclssees.bsky.social and @ukrinstitute.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

The book isn't going to promote itself, so I will. Here is a New Books Network podcast episode on Intent to Destroy, if you don't have anything better to listen to. Thanks to John Vsetecka for the conversation.

An outstanding HPE workshop in a stunning setting—don't miss the chance to apply! Deadline: Feb 28 🔗 shorturl.at/w96jk

Great opportunity!

Check out my new paper w Brenton and Emiel. Just out at World Politics: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Great opportunity for students working on East Central Europe!

Introducing the Centre for Democratic Resilience - world-leading research and educational programmes to understand and promote the resilience of liberal democracy: ow.ly/1sKl50UL7Wn

Two days until the deadline! Don't forget!

Big thanks to @javiermejiac.bsky.social for an engaging conversation about my new book, Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe. 📖✨
Catch our discussion here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ1lW3EqE8w
📚 Get the book: tinyurl.com/27pwac6v

🎙️ New #EPHPodcast with @vcharnysh.bsky.social!

We discussed her work on mass displacement: how post-WWII Poland & West Germany turned diversity & ruptured ties into stronger states and thriving local economies.

Plus, idea generation beyond academia.

🎥 Watch: youtu.be/fQ1lW3EqE8w?...

On #InternationalMigrantsDay we highlight the struggles of migrants without legal status.

❗ These people are highly vulnerable to labour exploitation & fundamental #rights abuses.

👉 Understanding the rights of those 'outside the law' is complex.

Read a blogpost by Clare Fox-Ruhs 📌 loom.ly/FTTA-kc

Amazing!! Congratulations, Guillermo!

Call for Papers, it’s free to attend for presenters: Young Scholars Conference 2025
🗓️ May 5-6, 2025 | UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
📊 Theme: History, Social Science, and Digital Methods for Researching China
📝 Abstract by: Jan. 15, 2025
🔗 Submit here: ow.ly/hpe150UsSee
🚩Details: ow.ly/WmPq50UsSef

The projects of Politics of Diversity In the Politics of Diversity group we study real-world questions on political representation and power, struggles for equality, backlash, oppression and policies. We focus on three dimensions of polit...

The website of my research group Politics of Diversity is online! Scroll and explore our ongoing and completed projects on migration/ethnicity/race, gender/sexuality and intersectionality www.politicsofdiversity.eu

⚠️ Six-year position at our department - work in lovely Vienna with a friendly team, 2 classes a term, and follow/develop your own research agenda. Feel free to ask me questions you might have. Deadline 24/01/25 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Book award 🚨! Deadline for the European Pol. & Soc. APSA book award is March 15th. To nominate a book on European Politics please email an electronic copy at cavaille@umich.edu.
Committee members: Isabela Mares, @simonhix.bsky.social and myself!

How information about historic carbon emissions affects support for climate aid: evidence from a survey experiment - Climatic Change In recent years, international climate negotiations have reached increasing consensus that the wealthiest countries should make significant financial contributions to offset the damages caused by the ...

Following #COP29, critical to understand sources of support, resistance for climate aid to the Global South. Published today in Climatic Change, we highlight that messages about America's historic carbon emissions boost support for climate-related foreign aid...

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