🏆 The 2025 ECPR Best Paper Prize from the Standing Group on Public Policy goes to @elifcan.bsky.social & @v-yilmaz.bsky.social for their work on narrative power in electoral autocracies — a fascinating study of the Turkish pension movement. Congratulations! 👏
ecpr.eu/News/News/De...
🎉 Our paper just won the 2025 Best Paper Prize at the ECPR General Conference (Public Policy Section)! Honoured to share this with @v-yilmaz.bsky.social The paper's core message: movements acting strategically under authoritarian pressure can still win social policy battles👇
doi.org/10.1111/psj....
Now begins the work of extricating Hungary’s public assets from the transnational far-right networks that the Orbán regime has built using them.
Tenure Track Position: Senior Researcher, Political Economy. Application Deadline. April 20, 2026
📢 Call: Tenure Track Position
The MPIfG Political Economy Research Area led by Lucio Baccaro is seeking a Senior Researcher. Open to candidates with at least two years’ postdoc experience.
Please share widely!
🗓️ Apply by April 20, 2026
s.gwdg.de/WPMPp1
I’ll be giving a talk in Dublin this Tuesday. Building on Dr Göçmen's early-2010s Türkiye research, we're tracking developments and extending the analysis to Hungary. The presentation will draw on a work in progress with @elifcan.bsky.social, Judit Keller, and Tünde Virag. Join us if interested.
229 million women live in the EU, and they all deserve safe, affordable abortion care. 1 million citizens have spoken, and so has the Parliament. It’s time for the Commission to act: make safe abortion access a reality across Europe NOW! ✊💜 action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-02...
If you know Irish, Italian and/or Swedish citizens, please encourage them to sign this initiative and to disseminate! There is a need of a push for these countries, so they can reach their respective minimum thresholds.
Overview of seminar series, details available at: https://www.ucd.ie/connected_politics/events/
Connected_Politics Lab Seminars, Spring Trimester ⤵️
- 28 Jan: @jessicadicocco.bsky.social
– 11 Feb: Akitaka Matsuo
– 25 Feb: @malojan.bsky.social, @luissattelmayer.bsky.social, and Noémie Piolat
– 4 Mar: @vivifabrien.bsky.social
– 1 Apr: @elisaadamico.bsky.social
– 15 Apr: @miriamsorace.bsky.social
Financial war in response to trade war and territorial threats? More and more people appear to be calling for it. So I updated my post on U.S. Treasuries holdings—now with the latest data.
benjaminbraun.org/posts/treasu...
Book Launch of “How Ireland Voted 2024: The New Normal?”
21 January, 6pm, Dublin @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social
Editors: @michaelgtcd.bsky.social, @theresareidy.bsky.social & Eoin O'Malley
Launch by Pat Leahy, Political Editor, Irish Times
All welcome! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
@ucdpolitics.bsky.social seminar series programme for Spring 2026 is ready!
📅 Wednesdays, 12:00 (Dublin time), in a hybrid format (webinar open to all!)
👉 You can register here: bit.ly/SPIReSeminar
Please join us and feel free to share with anyone who might be interested.
A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
The central argument in this excellent paper & thread is that the open-access turn has neglected profit; indeed, it turbo-charged publishers’ margins. As political economists who know a thing or two about profit and power we should speak up a lot more. As it says below: What we’re doing is crazy.
I know people have a lot on their plates right now, but the opposition candidate who Erdogan most wants to avoid running against is being threatened with a jail sentence of over 2000 years.
apnews.com/article/turk...
I'm curious about how platform-based care will evolve in the future, in different national contexts...
3- Also, it was very interesting to observe that care platforms not only mediate traditional services, such as childcare and domestic work, but also increasingly commodify new types of care, including pet-sitting and tutoring.
2- In the EU, platform governance structures, the scope of commodification and the distribution of market risks vary across business models. Marketplace care platforms, relying on self-employment and non-interference, dominate the European landscape with significant national variations.
Some crucial findings: 1- Care platforms share features with other digital labour platforms, but the intimate, relational and non-standardised nature of care work limits algorithmic control and commodification.
New publication in IJSSP 🎉 We analyse with @mkemmerling.bsky.social how digital care platforms (CPs) contribute to the marketisation of care across the European Union (EU) by examining their business models and national variations. Full article is here: doi.org/10.1108/IJSS...
Applications are now open for the UCD Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship 2026.
Closing Date: 30 January 2026
✔️Covers full fees (EU and Non-EU)
✔️Provides a living stipend of €25,000 per year for up to four years
✔️Is open to EU and non-EU applicants
👇
www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
New Sustainable Welfare post—a very short piece introducing some ideas from articles recently published in the area of post-growth. Growth is a fundamental part of capitalism, and transitioning to a post-growth economy requires learning how to transition to non-capitalist institutions.
“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
Discover how Turkey’s pension movement used strategic policy narratives to expand its base and win change, revealing the power of stories in electoral autocracies.
By @elifcan.bsky.social & @v-yilmaz.bsky.social
Read here:
psjblog.net/2025/09/24/t...
#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
✨ Excited to share that the SPIRe Research Seminar Series – Autumn 2025 programme is now live! ✨We are delighted to welcome an excellent line-up of speakers who will be joining us on Wednesdays at UCD SPIRe @ucdpolitics.bsky.social soon.
✍️Fueled by digital activism and pop culture, youth-led protests in Turkey converge with social policy innovations, marking a generational shift in how dissent and governance challenge authoritarianism, Ebru Işıklı and @elifcan.bsky.social argue in their op-ed.🇹🇷🇹🇷
🧑💻Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/yxbaj98s
A regular reminder that the Political Studies Association of Ireland (@psaireland.bsky.social) publishes a weekly newsletter.
Sign up to stay informed about job opportunities and events across the island: www.psai.ie/newsletter/
Maintained by PSAI Secretary @sarahwagner.bsky.social.
Happy to share that I’ve joined the Editorial Board of the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. Looking forward to contributing to @jicsp.bsky.social for critical, interdisciplinary & global scholarship on social policy.
More about JICSP via
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🗓️ Termin für #IchBinHanna & alle Interessierten:
Am 14. Juli um 11 Uhr stellt der @wissenschaftsrat.de sein Positionspapier "Personalstrukturen im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem" vor. Wir sind gespannt! @drkeichhorn.bsky.social @kubon.bsky.social
Mehr Infos hier. ⬇️