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Excited to share a new article! Why Do Elites Sometimes Undo Their Own Constitutional Privileges? With Victor Menaldo and Jorge Rojas Vallejos World Development kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…

Capitalists are having to re-learn to love governing competency

Delighted that my paper with Felix Kersting on the political implications of land inequality in Prussia and Sweden has been accepted for publication in Comparative Political Studies! Find the previous version here: osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Some publications feel a bit more special than others, this is one of them. What started during a chat with Dr. Ilana Shpaizman (Political Studies Department, Bar Ilan University) at the European Consortium for Political Research Conference in Prague in 2023 just got published in PSJ (@psjeditor.bsky.social) together with jon_valgermo: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ps…

🚨 The annual calls for assistant & associate professorships in political science at Aarhus BSS are out! 🚨 international.au.dk/about/profile/… international.au.dk/about/profile/… The deadlines are *early* in the cycle: Aug. 25 & Sep. 8, respectively. Consider applying to join our... (1/3)

"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude." — Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)

What happens when Airbnb enters an area? Rent and home prices increase as a direct result.

📢 new paper klaxon 📢 @felixkersting.bsky.social and I reconsider agrarian inequality in German and Swedish history and the role played (or not played) by landlordism in the road to fascism in Germany and democracy in Sweden. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Min bog - Dansk demokrati i perspektiv - skrevet med David Andersen og udarbejdet i forbindelse med Magtudredningen 2.0 er netop udgivet! Gratis E-bog og gratis lydbog er tilgængelige her: unipress.dk/udgiv.../d/dan…

This paper by Fagareng et al (Ben Moll) is just so impressive -- very cool to see that it is now forthcoming in the JPE. biopen.bi.no/bi-xmlui/handl…

The annual EHS Residential Training Course for Postgraduate Students will be held 3-6 December 2025 12 part-funded places are available, primarily designed to raise the quality of dissertations. Deadline for applications: 16:00 (UK) Friday 12 September ehs.org.uk/society/studen…

Finally, an American gets it!

📬🙌 Our paper on parties' programmatic responses to inequality - and more often the lack of responses - will come out American Political Science Review ! Here is the Politics of Inequality working paper: kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstreams/424… with Jonathan Klüser.bsky.social & M. Haselmayer 🧗 voe-project.org

Vacation.

Very much enjoyed talking to Prof. Bob Allen on how the Natural Environment shapes the Economic Environment. A look at the Arabian Peninsula. Enjoy the summer! buzzsprout.com/1065133/episod…

Stanley Kubrick's 1975 timeless classic is arriving elegantly back in cinemas in 4K to celebrate the film's 50th anniversary this year. Barry Lyndon is released back into select cinemas in 4K worldwide from 18th July courtesy of Park Circus & Warner Bros.. Check local

any recommendations as to the best political and economic history of South Korea?

Vacation 2.

A massive drone attack in Kyiv was followed by ballistic strikes, with confirmed hits in residential areas. While Putin may see this as progress, the public reaction is the opposite. And yet, I don’t see France rushing to shoot down drones in Europe, the way it did in Israel