🔔 Job Alert 🔔 The ad for the PhD position on my Swiss National Science Foundation project on polarization is now online: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen… Please help me share! #PoliSci_Jobs #academicjobs PS: Also find me on 🟦 --> 'jellekoedam'

New in LGS: in 'Avoiding a natural resource curse? The impact of administrative efficiency on Colombian municipalities’ fiscal effort' Maria Antonieta Collazos& Arjan H. Schakel find it is higher when producer municipalities have more-efficient administrations tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨 Publication alert 🚨 My first dissertation paper has just been published in JEPP 🎉🎉 In the paper I investigate the relationship between place-based resentment and political trust in local and national institutions. Link: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 🧵(1/9)

🇮🇪 ECPR SG Federalism & Regionalism endorsed #ecprgc24 Section ⤵️ 💡 Seeks Papers & Panels on Comparative Territorial Politics in Multilevel States: Citizens, Voters, and Political Actors 🪑 Chairs @MartinRGross & Arjan H. Schakel ⌛ 18 Jan 2024 ecpr.eu/Events/Event/S…

What a pleasure to award an honorary doctorate to Prof. Hooghe and Prof. Marks on behalf of FASoS! FASoS Maastricht #diesnatalis #maastrichtuniversity

💬Words of the project #3 Another central concept: democratic governance and its trade-offs during a crisis. #LEGITIMULT

🙃Over 20 people, 11 partner institutions, 7 presentations and countless exchanges. We are at the halfway point, and it's time to discuss the first results together! #LEGITIMULT #midtermconference with @InEthnicStudies

Rule of law, dem participation and crisis management: during a crisis, separation of powers is challenged in favor of the executive. Yet, parliaments have not been inactive. Edina Szöcsik Institute of Federalism looks at ex post committees #LEGITIMULT #midtermconference @InEthnicStudies

Human rights and non-discrimination: what are the perceptions and attitudes of persons belonging to diverse minorities on the legitimacy of crisis management during Covid-19? Mitja Žagar @InEthnicStudies #LEGITIMULT #midtermconference

#2 Economic sustainability & crisis management: Did multi-level institutions shape the size of Covid-19 socioeconomic measures? Ana Herrero Alcalde, Javier Martin-Roman UNED delved into this question through an econometric analysis and come to some important, differentiated results

#1 Economic sustainability and crisis management: Does intergovernmental coordination improve crisis management? Marius Guderjan Freie Universität, Mario Kölling UNED and Johanna Schnabel Johanna Schnabel answered this issue by comparing France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK.

Mapping multilevel government during a crisis: 32 policies, 2 main categories (containment and closure policies + health system policies), based on @OxCRGT with new insights from a multilevel perspective. Arjan H. Schakel presented the coding scheme with Bilal Hassan. #LEGITIMULT

Legitimate crisis governance: does multi-level government matter? The team Universiteit Leiden compares pairs of unitary and federal states (Netherlands/Belgium, France/Germany). Their aim is the uncover governance patterns that are specifically related to different MLG modes.

Political #Trust in times of crisis: UAntwerpen team is looking at trust in their research. Their survey analysis shows how the national level becomes more important in terms of trust during a crisis for citizens, and particularly in unitary systems #LEGITIMULT

💜Our Greta #Klotz presented the concepts of the e-learning course and the citizens' juries at the LEGITIMULT #midtermconference hosted by @InEthnicStudies in Ljubljana🇸🇮 More on our Horizon Europe 🇪🇺 project on legitimate crisis governance here: legitimult.eu European Research Executive Agency

Professor Arjan H. Schakel på Department of Comparative Politics, UiB har avsluttet sitt forskningsprosjekt støttet av Trond Mohn forskningsstiftelse (TMF). Les sluttrapporten her! mohnfoundation.no/aktuelt-nb/sta… TMF

❗This introduction to the Annual Review of Regional Elections by Romanova & Arjan H. Schakel provides a literature review of no less than 324 regional election articles published in our journal, distilling the contributions of seven Reviews published since 2018 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

#OpenAccess from JPublicPolicy - Does multilevel government increase legitimacy? Citizens’ preferences for subnational authority and acceptance of governmental decisions - cup.org/424zydA - Berkay Alıca & Arjan H. Schakel (both Universitetet i Bergen) #FirstView

NEWYDD/NEW In which Rachel Minto & I argue that incommensurable understandings of the post-devolution state at the central and devolved levels preclude the existence of *any* mutually satisfactory IGR arrangements in the UK tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…