🚨Job alert: Fully-funded PhD position in our 4-year project KU Leuven Instituut voor de Overheid. Interested in how expert arguments survive in policy decisions, over time and in different countries (BE, NL, AT)? Details: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs… #COVID19 #policy ECPR Knowledge Transforming Evidence

Having an absolute blast this week talking science, connecting with scholars from all over Europe & enjoying the view on the Alps🏔🇦🇹! And now have the photo evidence to prove it #ecprgc22

Great catching up with the wonderful people from the many great IPPA events! Thank you Philippe Zittoun Denitsa Marchevska and @livmkj ! #ecprgc22 #ecprgc2022

A worrying development in our democracies today is that many of us are willing to accept undemocratic behavior by politicians if we agree with them politically. In my new American Political Science Review article, I scrutinize the perceptual logic behind such behavior in the US & globally.🧵👇🏾

📢JUST OUT in PSJ (@psjeditor.bsky.social)! Our article on policy advice & policy influence in hybrid regimes. We look at policy-making in #Ukraine & #Moldova and examine the relevance of long-standing assumptions based on the Western policy experience. 📚Check it out👉bit.ly/3cVsZ7z

A 🧵for political scientists working on politics and society in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Cambridge University Press is launching a new Elements Series on the region. The editors-- Lenka Bustikova, Petra Guasti, Gergana Yankova-Dimova, and I—are inviting pitches. 1/ Please, share widely!

This new PSJ (@psjeditor.bsky.social) article by Denitsa Marchevska & Trui Steen identifies a range of factors that shape the perceived influence of policy advice on public policy in Moldova and Ukraine. This is a rare but important policy process study on hybrid regimes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/154100…

By focusing on the cases of Ukraine and Moldova, Denitsa Marchevska and Trui Steen argue that complex policy challenges call for a reconsideration of state-centered deliberative models. Read more: doi.org/10.1111/psj.12… models.Read

Great way to start 2023! Our article "How does #policylearning take place across a multilevel governance architecture during crises?" with Ellen Wayenberg Gov & PA Ghent University @ResearchUgent is now published at Policy & Politics #PublicAdministration #PublicPolicy bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

📣‼️Call for papers‼️📣 Party scholars, can we have your attention please? With great enthusiasm, Nick Martin , Gunther Vanden Eynde and I are organising a workshop on how political parties and their networks have adapted to the contemporary challenges parties face. 1/ 👇

Hard at work in Toulouse! Workshop at #ecprjs on Stakeholder participation in bureaucratic politics and policymaking. Co-directed by SAMPOL’s Adriana Bunea with Caelesta Braun (Leiden) & Dovile Rimkute (Leiden & EUI). UiB Samfunn Caelesta Braun Dr. Dovilė Rimkutė

Yesterday we had the pleasure of hosting prof. Brian Head. His seminar on #wickedproblems in #publicpolicy and #governance gave an insightful look on complex issues that are plaguing governments around the world and future directions on how to deal with this.

Had a great time yesterday in Toronto presenting my paper on cross-domain differences in policy advice provision and listening to some fantastic presentations. Thanks Jonathan Craft Tullia Galanti Andrea Migone for organising and for the great comments and discussion! #ICPP6

What a fantastic week in Toronto attending #ICPP6, meeting policy scholars from around the world, listening to amazing new research and exploring the city! Now off to the mountains for a much-needed holiday and digital detox! Thanks for the experience IPPA - see you next time!

Does climate policy incorporate latest science? New Policy Sciences article addresses this question through case study of Bulgaria’s 2021-2030 National Climate & Energy Plan. Denitsa Marchevska shows that science is mostly used to justify predetermined positions link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🎺🎺 Call for papers for PSJ (@psjeditor.bsky.social) special issue on policy advisory systems & the policy process. Great opportunity to advance research in an outstanding journal! Looking fwd to editing with Claire Dunlop info: psjblog.net/2024/03/25/the… #policyprocess #policyadvice #publicpolicy

NEW PSJ BLOG POST ALERT! Understanding Policy Influence in Hybrid Regimes: Insights from a Qualitative Study of Policy Advice in Ukraine and Moldova by Denitsa Marchevska & Trui Steen psjblog.net/2024/07/03/und… #PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal #PSJblog #PSJnews

Immigration from Central and Eastern Europe increased support for right-wing Eurosceptic parties in the West, North and South of the EU 🇪🇺 Evidence from 30 national and European elections (2004-2019) in 7 countries 🇳🇱🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮🇦🇹🇮🇹🇵🇹 Just published in EUP_The Journal

Increasingly allergic to the quiet polisci norm that empirical papers should come up with elaborated theories/expectations first even if effectively they're intuitions from the process of data exploration. We/I have been inculcated this is the way to present but often doesnt work