The third and final paper of our project on attitudes towards fiscal policy trade-offs is finally out in JEPP.

Check out the thread by my fantastic co-author Reto Bürgisser and read the paper which is #OpenAccess thanks to Central European University!

'Why the debt brake is a threat to democracy'

My piece in the WZB Mitteilungen with Daniel Ziblatt on how the #Schuldenbremse is bad economic policy at home, bad for the Eurozone's stability, & a threat to 🇩🇪 democracy in the face of serious threats

wzb.eu/en/article/why…

The Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference is back! We will reconvene at Temple University on Sep 4 (wed). A wonderful opportunity to get feedback and meet people.

Submissions: forms.gle/maWPnDd8Fs7khi…
Deadline Apr 30

PEEP 2023 program attached.

📢We are inviting you to our next seminar:

📚Right-wing Populism, Crisis Exposure and the Restrictiveness of Civil Society Regulation in Europe
👩‍🏫Nicole Bolleyer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)
📆Wed, March 27, 13:30 CET
📍CEU Vienna B-511/Online

RSVP ➡bit.ly/4cqlLCI

🚨Join us today at 4pm CET in our Virtual #ESPAnet workshop for a discussion of cutting-edge research by Gabriele Beretta on the SPD's curious role in consolidating Germany's fiscal restraint against all odds...🚨

Here more information on the programme: espanet.org/2024/02/20/vir…

🚨Happy #MaxCPE week! Tomorrow @ 3pm CET/ 10am EDT

Alison Johnston will present her new paper “So Right It’s Wrong? Right Governments, Far Right Populism, and Investment Risk” and Magnus Feldman (Bristol) will join to discuss! MPIfG

Read more📷mpifg.de/max-cpe-worksh…

European elections are looming, and everyone is talking about a green backlash. So, Tarik Abou-Chadi, Markus Kollberg, Jannik Jansen, and I collected lots of new data to see if voters are really turning away from climate policy. Here is a what we learned:
delorscentre.eu/en/publication…

I'm excited about presenting my book at Uni Wien tomorrow at 4:45pm. Join us if you're in town!

Thanks a lot for the invitation and organization, Visnja Vukov, and for discussing, Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik!

🗓 Hybrid Event: 'Austerity from the Left: Social Democratic Parties in the Shadow of the Great Recession'
Don't miss the IPW #Lecture on Wednesday, 6 March 2024 from 4.45 to 6.15 pm in Vienna and via #zoom . With speaker Björn Bremer from Central European University: ⤵
politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/details/news/i…

There are mounting signs that Christian Lindner Bundesministerium der Finanzen is preparing outright cuts in the 🇩🇪 federal budget 2025, aka #austerity

This is insane — economically & politically, including for 🇪🇺 — and needs to be stopped by the other two coalition members. /1

spiegel.de/wirtschaft/chr…

For the Guardian, Tom O'Grady and I wrote about what Labour can learn from the failures of the SPD and the current German government. Cautiousness and incrementalism hinder the transformative power of the left and will eventually strengthen the right.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Come work with us! 📢📢📢

Fully-funded PhD position (4 years)
at the Institute of Public Administration UniLeiden FGGA
on political economy of the green and digital transition

Deadline: March 31 🚨🚨🚨

Supervised by the amazing Sebastian Diessner and myself:

universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024…

We're hiring a TT Lecturer (Asst Prof equiv) in International Public Policy with a focus in IPE and/or int'l climate politics. Please consider applying if you work on int'l climate. You'd be joining an outstanding climate politics research group in our department. Link below.

In seiner Kolumne diskutiert Robert Pausch die Arbeit von Björn Bremer der zeigt wie fiskalkonservative Politik sozialdemokratischen Parteien schadet. Für das Progressive Politics Research Network gibt es die Forschungergebnisse hier auch zusammengefasst:
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/media/elsb5xyq…

🚨Happy #MaxCPE week! This Wednesday @ 3pm CET/ 9am EST

David Woodruff will present a fascinating paper “Intermittent Dictators: Lessons on the Incompatibility of Central Bank Independence and Democracy” and Jens van 't Klooster 🟦🟦🟦 will join to discuss

Read more📷mpifg.de/max-cpe-worksh…

Postdoc position! Come work with me and our team! fu-berlin.de/universitaet/b… Deadline: 4 March (Please share widely!)

Dear all, we are excited to issue a call for abstracts for Central European University-based conference titled 'Exploring the New Intersections of Capitalism, Development, and Democracy through the Scholarship of Bela Greskovits', which will take place on May 10. Read more: events.ceu.edu/2024-05-10/exp…