Ravie de retrouver Simon Persico à l' IPZ - Political Science UZH où il est invité aussi ce semestre ! L'occasion de parler clivages, campagnes et représentation au pied des Alpes 🇨🇭

The European Graduate Network Conference in 2024 has begun!
The EGN is hosted for the first time by the IPZ - Political Science UZH in beautiful Zurich.

The EGN starts with a fascinating keynote from Ronja Sczepanski (@sciencespo)!

See the full program here: egn.ac

We are recruiting 4 LSE (postdoctoral) Fellows in Political Science, including one position with some seminar/lab teaching on 'Research Design in Political Science', the undergrad module I've been running for 5 years: jobs.ac.uk/job/DGU417/lse…

I briefly visited the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich last week and spotted this overview of inclusive teaching & learning practices. Great summary! 👏

You can download the poster from the IPZ - Political Science UZH website (PDF): ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:38e36e…
Universität Zürich UCD Teaching & Learning

In a constrained context, citizens’ social policy demands are more narrowly self-interested. Hard times for social investment.

Highly recommended new study by Reto Bürgisser and Björn Bremer in PSRM Journal 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

New article on place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society, out in Electoral Studies.

If you study spatial inequalities, rural resentment, and/or generally cleavage politics, this might be of interest!

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Finally another summer school in comparative welfare state research:
socialpolicydynamics.de/nordwel-crc-su…
Highly recommended to all PhD students!

Roughly one week left to apply for two postdocs with me in Comparative Politics/Political Behavior/Political Economy.

It is a broad call on purpose, there is no pre-defined set of topics that are not welcome:

🤩 Excited to have hosted such a fantastic group of scholars at our project's concluding workshop Universität Konstanz. A big thank you 🙏 to all participants and helpers for their invaluable contributions, making this workshop so much fun! Zukunftskolleg DFG public | @[email protected]

Interested in survey measures for policy priorities and trade-offs (social policy or other fields)? This article Journal of Politics @[email protected] may be of interest to you.
Joint work with Macarena Ares Matthias Enggist and Michael Pinggera from the European Research Council (ERC) welfarepriorities-project IPZ - Political Science UZH .

Three more weeks to apply to our UC Berkeley Summer School on Inequality

Top-notch teachers, 25 PhD students from all over the world, and completely free!

sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/s…

What explains spatial and temporal variation in protest against natural resource extraction? In this new article, Manuel Vogt and I explore the question, focusing on Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru World Development #OpenAccess [1/8]

The Guardian covered the launch of our PPRNet in two ways today:

1. By running a great news story by jon henley about why adopting right-wing policies doesn't help the centre-left win votes, including insights by Tarik Abou-Chadi, Matthias Enggist, & myself

theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Today we launch the Progressive Politics Research Network with a first theme tackling some widespread myths around progressive politics
In this article, Silja Häusermann and I reflect on some key findings from the six research briefs in this theme
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…