I wrote about the coming Iranian-American talks in Pakistan, the role of Vance and Ghalibaf; and how the talks could change Iran.
Let me know what you think!
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The Political Economy of National Identity: a chapter with Moses Shayo for the Handbook of the Economics of Identity. We review econ & pol‑sci research on how national identities shape trade, welfare policy, conflict, and polarization.
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At @promarket.bsky.social, @samuel-bagg.bsky.social and Shai Agmon argue that competition policy should pay greater attention to friction between competitors, an insight that favors the neo-Brandeisian approach over the traditional consumer welfare approach.
Thanks to @lpeblog.bsky.social for highlighting my blog post with @shaiagmon.bsky.social in their weekly roundup! The post draws from our chapter in a new book on Democracy and Competition, which I co-edited with @alfredmoore.bsky.social: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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My and @henrikdku.bsky.social paper on regulating AI is accepted in Journal of Business Ethics! We argue for domain specific theorising and against the use of abstract thought experiments: autonomous cars are better understood as participants in the traffic institution than as trolleys, for example.
In any case, both the chapter and the shorter blog post draw on @shaiagmon.bsky.social's seminal work distinguishing between parallel and friction competition. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Fantastic stuff from @shaiagmon.bsky.social and @samuel-bagg.bsky.social
#PolTheory #EconSky
What kind of "competition" should competition policy promote? In a new post, @shaiagmon.bsky.social and I argue that friction btw competitors is key to realizing the social benefits of competition. Yet we routinely ignore it when designing competitive institutions. www.promarket.org/2026/03/18/e...
Hey #poltheory and #polisky folks, check out this new book on Democracy and Competition from @britishacademy.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social, which I edited with @alfredmoore.bsky.social - www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history
Department of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/
FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely!
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Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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📚 Out with OUP this summer: "Experts in a Turbulent World" 📚
An edited volume that connects historical and contemporary perspectives on the role of experts in international organisations. 1/3 👇 #HistIR global.oup.com/academic/pro...
My wish for 2026 is that politicians and political analysts realize that public opinion is endogenous to elite behavior, that polling single issues tells us nothing about electorally successful strategies, that politics means shaping public opinion and that popularism is the death of progressivism.
Such a treat to speak with @volts.wtf about social identity and the epistemic crisis.
David is really sharp and does a fantastic interview - no small feat to make a plodding academic sound like a lively conversationalist!
Highly recommend the podcast to anyone (like me) who didn't know it before.
Combat your broligarchy-induced despair & pre-order Democratizing AI here (or convince your university library to order it 😉): www.amazon.com/Democratizin...
Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
The UCL Ronald Dworkin Colloquium is back for the new term! It is our main interdisciplinary seminar in normative legal and political philosophy at UCL Institute for Law, Politics and Philosophy (ILPP), and it runs in a pre-read format >>
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Who protests against democratic backsliding? A new working paper with Margalit, Sheffer and Yakir examines this issue and finds that people’s conceptions of what democracy means play a crucial role in predicting whether they engage in active opposition to backsliding efforts. osf.io/preprints/so...
If you are in London and interested in these conversations, you are very welcome to join us. Attendance is in person only. Details and booking (including titles and abstracts) are in the link above. Sign up to secure a seat and to receive the paper :)
This year’s list of speakers is particularly outstanding: Temi Ogunye (Princeton), Rufaida Al Hashmi (Reading), Zeynep Pamuk (Oxford), Danielle Allen (Harvard), Daniel Viehoff (Berkeley), Lowry Pressly (Stanford), and Cécile Laborde (Oxford).
The UCL Ronald Dworkin Colloquium is back for the new term! It is our main interdisciplinary seminar in normative legal and political philosophy at UCL Institute for Law, Politics and Philosophy (ILPP), and it runs in a pre-read format >>
www.eventbrite.com/cc/dworkin-c...
Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere
Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere By Elsa Kugelberg, University of Oxford The online dating application has in recent years become a major avenue for meeting potential partners. However, while the digital public sphere has gained the attention of…
Now open: call for abstracts for the 2026 Berkeley Graduate Conference on Political Theory
Keynote: John T. Scott (UC Davis)
Submission deadline: January 31
Date: April 11
Submission form: forms.gle/xZUupQbhSfD7...
Please circulate widely!
