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Excited to announce #PEADS2025 April 23-24 in beautiful Pitlochry, Scotland hosted by Bernhard Reinsberg & Patrick Shea University of Glasgow. Thanks to generous support from UK Research and Innovation, no conference or registration fee! Please circulate widely & we look forward to seeing your submission!

Looking for a interdisciplinary #PhD? Apply to this funded position University of Glasgow on the political economy of antimicrobials: gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvls/…

Your voice matters! Vote for me in the ECPR SG on International Relations (SGIR) Steering Committee election. I'll champion Early Career Researchers & advocate for researcher engagement. Let's build a strong community of IR scholars in Europe together. Vote here until 12/12: ecpr.eu/MyEcpr/Electio… European Consortium for Political Research

Happy New Year! 2025 is already off to a great start - new work with Jack Taggart in Journal_Int_Development (doi.org/10.1002/jid.39…). We show that earmarked funding undermines recipient ownership using #GPEDC data OECD Development UN Development.

We thank Samuel Brazys Benjamin Faude Nikitas Konstantinidis Julia Loginovich @iborzyskowksi krzysztof pelc Carlos X Lastra-Anadon & more for helpful feedback! Thanks UK Research and Innovation for funding support.

New article in International Studies Quarterly: Alice Iannantuoni, Simone Dietrich, and I show that OECD Development #DAC peer reviews follow bureaucratic procedure - not parochial donor interests. doi.org/10.1093/isq/sq…. Carsten Staur #ODA #global #governance

📢 CfP "Understanding the Contemporary Consequences of Corruption" on 24-25 April 2025 UofG Soc & Pol Sci. Explore corruption's impact on politics, elections, and democracy. Submit your abstract by 3 March 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Rrwok…! #corruption #politics #democracy #cfp BridgeGap

Looking forward to presenting new work with Adina Dudau Denisse Rodriguez-Olivari UofG Social Sciences in the BridgeGap series on #anticorruption:

Sad to see the ATI paused due to aid cuts. As @PublishWhatYouFund highlighted, that's a big blow. We can't abandon transparency now. Aid is vital for public goods, & researchers must step up to fill the data gap. doi.org/10.1002/jid.37… #AidTransparency #GlobalDev #Accountability

Huge congratulations Timon Forster for winning European Consortium for Political Research's 2024 Rudolf Wildenmann Prize - so well deserved! Ueli Staeger & I were honored to have you at the #ecprjs24

My Centre for Public Policy blog on the drivers and effects of the #USAID shutdown: gla.ac.uk/research/az/pu… - UofG Soc & Pol Sci #ForeignAid #GlobalDevelopment Devex OECD Development IDOS_research Scottish Council on Global Affairs

What are the consequences of the #USAID shutdown and US #ForeignAid cuts for other donors and the future of the aid architecture? Read part two of our Centre for Public Policy blog here: gla.ac.uk/research/az/pu… - UofG Soc & Pol Sci Scottish Council on Global Affairs OECD Development Devex @IDOSresearch

Excited to share my Devex op-ed with Bernhard Reinsberg! We argue that despite budget cuts under the Trump Administration, history shows #development orgs can adapt and thrive. Read more: devex.com/news/opinion-d…

Citizens don't blindly reject IMF policies! Research in International Studies Quarterly /w Mirko Heinzel Andreas Kern Saliha Metinsoy shows support for loans increases with green, inclusive measures. People have clear policy preferences in global governance. doi.org/10.1093/isq/sq… - #IMF #GRID #development

We thank @ABinder1 Dr Clara Egger Katharina Fleiner Timon Forster Farsan Ghassim @KathaMKuhn Kseniya Oksamytna @Thomas_Rixen & participants European Consortium for Political Research GC 2023 Charles University + @DVPW_IPOE Uni Witten/Herdecke + #IPES 2023 for helpful feedback. UofG Soc & Pol Sci UofGARC IMF

New E&P publication /w @MartinSteinwand: Examining the temporal dynamics of donor engagement in multilateral trust funds. We contribute a novel dataset & find support for competitive regime creation & bureaucratic politics theories. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… - #aid #Development

Exciting #PhD opportunity UofG Soc & Pol Sci: Georgios Karyotis and I invite applications for a UofG Social Sciences PhD scholarship on 'Financing global peace: How international financial institutions seek to stabilise conflict-affected states'. Apply by 21 April: tinyurl.com/3pun9mt8.

New in Journal of Politics @[email protected]: Do UN staff see strings attached to earmarked funding? Our elite survey experiment /w Mirko Heinzel Christian Siauwijaya reveals their preferences for earmarking in their own work, but surprisingly, this doesn't impact their views on funding amounts or overheads.

We conducted conjoint experiments with 280 staff members from 6 UN organizations, probing UN staff preferences for projects with different earmarking features. Read the Journal of Politics @[email protected] article (registered report) here: doi.org/10.1086/736339 - #IOs #UN #development #funding