Félicitations Luis!!🙌🙌

The limits of green concertation: business fragmentation and the political economy of the agricultural transition in the Netherlands Greening production models is likely to generate costs and, in turn, resistance from organised interests. Concertation institutions enable governments to diffuse this opposition by involving and co...

Link to the full article: doi.org/10.1080/1356...

🙏 We thank everyone who helped us along the way, reading and commenting on different drafts of this article. This is very special to me as it is my first journal article publication and was co-authored with my dear friend and colleague, @lucacigna.bsky.social ! 🫶

Our findings refine institutional theories in environmental policy and highlight the limits of consensual democracy in addressing environmental challenges. 🌍

High costs and limited transition opportunities can exacerbate this fragmentation, making consensus-finding more difficult, even in the case of financial compensation.

While concertation is often seen as a key enabler for reform, we argue that governments’ ability to implement such reforms depends on the degree of horizontal business fragmentation—i.e., intra-business conflicts over the sector’s core interests.

We dive into the institutional conditions for a successful ecological transition, using the Dutch nitrogen crisis (2019–2023) as a case study. 🚜

Our new article on the limits of green concertation with @lucacigna.bsky.social is out in New Political Economy (in open access - thanks to @mpifg.bsky.social🙏)

Congratulations Alex!

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much ☺️

This outcome wouldn’t have been possible without the support from my peers at the EUI, who made my PhD years so incredibly fulfilling (despite the struggles of writing a dissertation), my family and host institutions like @hertiesustain.bsky.social and @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social

I am now back in Cologne at the @mpifg.bsky.social to continue researching the political economy of green housing policy. Stay tuned!

I am extremely grateful to my supervisor, Ellen Immergut @immergutem.bsky.social, as well as to the members of my committee: Anton Hemerijck, Emiliano Grossman @egrossman.bsky.social and Natascha van der Zwan @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social for their guidance and support in this process!

Two weeks ago, I defended my PhD dissertation on the making and unmaking of stringent climate policies in the housing sector! What a day to finish these four years at the @eui-sps.bsky.social!

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

A vacancy for a professorship in economic sociology at the @eui-eu.bsky.social’s School of Transnational Governance. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

Call for participants 🔥

The 4th Doctoral Conference @mpifg.bsky.social is happening and if you’re pursuing your PhD you really should be part of it.

It’s a relaxed, super inspiring atmosphere and you‘ll build a great network of peers 🌍

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📣 Call for Abstracts!

Join the 4th Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, March 19 -20, 2026 at the MPIfG in Cologne.

🎓 We welcome abstracts by doctoral researchers in economic sociology, political economy and related fields by Dec 8, 2025.

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📣 New call for postdoctoral researchers!

We are seeking candidates with a doctorate in the social sciences for our research areas Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro) and Economic Sociology (Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert).

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Fourth Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy The Fourth Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy aims at building bridges and finding commonalities among young scholars whose research is addressing the complex ...

*Call for Applications*

We’re excited to announce the Fourth Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy!

Abstract Deadline: December 1, 2025

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Thank you!! Haha yes indeed!

I'm very happy to have started my postdoctoral position at @mpifg.bsky.social, after submitting my PhD at @eui-eu.bsky.social! I'll be continuing to research the political economy of climate change, with a focus on the building sector. Feel free to reach out if you are in Cologne!

Radical-right parties are often linked to the “left-behind”. But supporting them when stigma is strong is costly. So who is willing to pay that cost early on, before it’s normalized?

In my new WP, I argue that breaking political norms is socially stratified. 🧵👇

It’s striking how much these patterns are similar across many European counties (both the center left one and the radical right one).

And yet there’s much work to be done in shifting the discourse from competing narratives that have little empirical backing.

“.. democracy often erodes slowly at first .. But with each concession, autocrats become bolder.. and reversal becomes harder. Responses that, early on, can feel pragmatic—waiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a deal—only embolden ..”

@dziblatt.bsky.social
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Publication du rapport d’évaluation d’impact des ateliers 2tonnes dans l’enseignement supérieur !

Le rapport publié ici: rens-chazottes.com/publication/...

Un wébinaire pour discuter des résultats!

Mardi 23 juillet 2025, de 15h00 à 17h00
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Une pétition pour demander l’abrogation de la loi Duplomb bat des records sur le site de l’Assemblée nationale La pétition a déjà recueilli plus de 200 000 signatures en l’espace de huit jours. La conférence des présidents de l’Assemblée nationale peut décider d’organiser un débat en séance publique si elle en recueille au moins 500 000.

Une pétition pour demander l’abrogation de la loi Duplomb bat des records sur le site de l’Assemblée nationale