Preview of essay at World Politics

An answer to my own puzzle of why political economy exhausts so much effort on artificial debates & theories… and dreads big, intriguing questions

It boils down to a mechanical ⚙️ view 🥽 of social worlds

With the arrival of these copies, time to share a🧵of what the📕is about (1/n): getting schools to work better is a global imperative, for which commitment of MDG2/SDG4 has resulted in impressive improvement in schooling. Yet, raising student learning outcomes remains challenging

A few more days to apply! Erin McDonnell
(Notre Dame University) and I are organizing a small international conference CIDE in Mexico City 11-13 June. Lodging is covered as well as airfare up to 600 USD (approx.). Deadline: MAY 3. Details below:

Really excellent and thought provoking piece by Prof Jishnu Das about the field of development economics and its moral compass … a must read

@'Did Development Economics lose its moral compass?'linkedin.com/pulse/did-deve… on LinkedIn

Hard to believe this is actually out, but happy to see that it is. Thankful to the many colleagues & friends who helped me make it happen.

Wise words from Uma Mahadevan: 'Public policy calls for deep reserves of sympathy. Fieldwork in real-world settings...can teach young civil servants valuable lessons.' Only thing I'd add - these lessons can apply to researchers too.

Happy this is published! If you are interested in the political effects of technological change or the mystery of how the rural US became so conservative in the 20th century, read about it here (open access): cambridge.org/core/journals/…

as the new semester starts in Germany (weird academic calender), I am happy to share this advice again on how to read academic literature quicker and more efficiently

📣 Call for Papers for inaugural What Works Hub for Global Education Conference Sep 25/26 in Oxford. Papers due May 3. Also register to attend. Join us!
Blavatnik School of Government FCDO Research Gates Foundation World Bank Education UNICEF Innocenti J-PAL Innovations for Poverty Action
bsg.ox.ac.uk/call-papers-wh…

Do you address big questions on civic leadership, governance, or public sector labor markets? Have you written recently on any of these topics (particularly, but not limited to, in book form)? Then, CLEAR Initiative - USC Price School wants to talk to you and promote your work! uscclear.com/bookmarked/cfp…

Thrilled to learn that #MakingBureaucracyWork has won the 2023/24 Mackenzie Book Prize! I'm honored and humbled by this recognition. Many thanks to the judges The Political Studies Association. And congrats to my fellow shortlisted authors! Cambridge University Press - Politics Saïd Business School #PSA24

🚨 forthcoming Journal of Politics @[email protected]: super excited that the 1st paper on project with Alyssa René Heinze & Rachel E. Brule is now accepted.

We show that inequality does not stop at the gate of political office: Indian women face large inequalities in voice & centrality AFTER they reach office 1/n

Righteous Demagogues is out today Oxford Academic! It's available at global.oup.com/academic/produ…, including as an e-book. || There are dozens of books about populism out there. So why read this one? 🧵...

We are organising a research symposium on ‘Education and Inequity: Perspectives from South Asia’ at Somerville College with Education.SouthAsia. We invite graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the UK to present their work at the symposium on 24th May 2024.

The APSA education section is hosting a fantastic online spring conference. Registration is free for section members and $25 for non-section members. Please register if you are interested. Link and program below!

NEW PAPER ALERT! On Ethngraphy and Open Science.
We argue: claims that open data would improve data quality are, in our assessment, potentially reversed. In our own ethnographic work, open data practices would likely have compromised our data quality.

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

🚨My Annual Review article 'Endogenous State Capacity' is now online. I am grateful for the rich conversations with Anna Grzymala-Busse Pablo Beramendi Cathy Boone, David Stasavage, Emily Sellars, Volha Charnysh , Dann Naseemullah, Francesca R. Jensenius , Mai Hassan & Xiuyu Li: tinyurl.com/3ux8dyds

Indigo

Fantastic to see our new SKOPE and Education Policy Institute report on post-16 E&T across the UK out. It highlights key areas of policy divergence and some stark inequalities in participation and outcomes. Department of Education, University of Oxford Association of Colleges (AoC) WorldSkills UK The Edge Foundation

In the latest Review of Public Personnel Administration, CLEAR Initiative - USC Price School scholars, Cynthia J. Barboza-Wilkes, PhD, Esther Gonzalez, Stephanie Wong, and I use a diary study of local public servants in LA to understand how they navigated the initial lockdown from an emotional labor lens. Check it out here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…