Arianna Tassinari

We are delighted that our Special Issue on "The Politics of Growth, Stagnation and Upgrading in Peripheral Economies" coedited w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & Aldo Madariaga is now out in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social, Vol. 29(3–4). 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...

doi.orgShifting paths? The evolution of Southern European growth trajectories in the post-Eurozone crisis decade (2010–9)Abstract. This article traces the growth trajectories of Southern European economies (Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain) over the decade 2010–9. Drawing o

New in @socioeconreview.bsky.social: w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social we trace Southern Europe’s post-crisis growth paths, from the Eurozone crisis up to Covid19, to reconcile the competing claims of a decade of CPE literature on growth in the region: doi.org/10.1093/ser/... 👇

Main finding 3: divergence occurred within shared peripherality constraints: all four struggled with limited capacity to foster high-value-added growth and employment — though our data does show some timid improvements, which may well have developed further after Covid.

Take-away point: a lesson for today’s EU competitiveness debate. Exportism without domestic demand offers limited scope for redistribution and upgrading. High-road development also needs strong wages, public investment, skills and industrial policy—and the fiscal space to support them.

Main finding 1: all four economies (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece) became more export-oriented after 2010. But exports alone could not sustain recovery where domestic demand remained depressed. Robust growth emerged only when exports were accompanied by revived consumption and investment.

Main finding 2: there is no Single European model. Trajectories diverged: Spain and Portugal combined domestic and foreign demand more successfully, while Italy and Greece remained stuck in weak, export-dependent recoveries.

dsps.unibo.itBeyond the energy crisis. The politics and political economy of inflation in uncertain timesInternational research workshop nell'ambito del progetto MAINSOC - Managing Inflation through Social Dialogue.

7 Oct 2025

Looking fwd to welcoming a great bunch of colleagues to Bologna on 9-10 October for the workshop "Beyond the energy crisis. The politics and political economy of inflation in uncertain times". Program here - write me if you're in Bologna and wanna attend some of it! 👉 dsps.unibo.it/it/eventi/be...

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2 Sept 2025

We're also happy to announce the calendar for the 2025-2026 CONNECT Seminar Series, featuring a brilliant line up of CONNECT members from @unibo.it and SPS visiting scholars @fbulfone.bsky.social (Leiden) & Anuscher Farahat (UWien). Every first Tuesday of the month, 1-2pm - all welcome!

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Ⓐ Anarchist Federation News 🏴

2 Sept 2025

After the summer break, CONNECT is back for a new academic year!🍂 Mark your calendars for our first lecture of 2025-2026: 📅 Sept 19, 3pm-4.30pm | Aula Poeti, Palazzo Hercolani, Bologna 👩‍🏫 Emma Mawdsley (Cambridge) 🗣️ “DOGE-ing USAID: what next for humanitarianism & global development” #Connect #Unibo

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25 July 2025

Your Guide on How to Support Mutual Aid Groups in Palestine as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens

anarchistfederation.netYour Guide on How to Support Mutual Aid Groups in Palestine as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens

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Cas Mudde

@casmudde.bsky.social

25 July 2025

I just donated to several of these (vetted) organizations. Please consider doing the same if you have the means and are outraged by the Israeli starvation of the Gaza population.

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The papers explore how peripheral advanced economies navigate global hierarchies, balance of payments constraints & structural heterogeneity, and how peripherality shapes coalitional politics and agency -in varied cases such as Turkey, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Spain, Serbia, Chile, Uruguay & Israel

Thanks to all the authors and reviewers who contributed to this effort, and to the @mpifg.bsky.social for supporting the workshop that launched the project 3+ years ago! Read the full issue—including our introduction—here: 📖 Competition & Change, Vol. 29(3–4) ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/...

With this project, we wanted to bring peripherality at the centre of contemporary debates in Comparative Political Economy. How does our understanding of growth models and their politics change once we take peripheral capitalism seriously?

…and what adaptations does the growth model conceptual toolkit need to make sense of the politics of growth and stagnation in peripheral capitalist contexts? To tackle these questions, the SI brings insights from Latam structuralism, dependency theory and IPE in dialogue with the GM debate in CPE.

My time at the @mpifg.bsky.social coincided with a good chunk of the PhD journeys of these brilliant junior colleagues - a fantastic cohort of talented political economists and economic sociologists. Follow them to keep track of the future of the discipline!

Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)@mpifg.bsky.social

🎓 Yesterday, at the graduation ceremony of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), we had the great pleasure of honoring ‪@tobiasarbogast.bsky.social, @cerencevik.bsky.social, @hadoose.bsky.social, ‬... 🧵 1/2

Since the great financial crisis, much has been written in CPE on the fate of South European economies. Have they really morphed into export-led growth models? With what outcomes? Are their trajectories convergent? In this new DP, we use granular data to put claims from the literature to the test 🧵

Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)@mpifg.bsky.social

In a new MPIfG Discussion Paper, @fbulfone.bsky.social, @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social, and @aritassinari.bsky.social trace the growth trajectories of Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain from the financial crisis to the covid pandemic. ‬ 🔗 pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces...

📌 Bottom line: 1️⃣ Southern Europe has not converged toward the EMU core. It has diverged within itself. 2️⃣ High-value added export niches exist, but remain small. 3️⃣Exports alone can't deliver sustainable growth. Without a strong boost in domestic demand, growth, employment and wages keep stagnating.

Taking stock of more than a decade of CPE literature on Southern European growth models, the granular sectoral data we use in this paper, masterfully analysed by @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social, help to shed light on what really changed—and what didn’t—after the eurozone crisis.

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In short: ✅ Export orientation increased ❌ Structural upgrading limited ❌ Employment outcomes disappointing Southern Europe may have moved toward a hybrid export model—but one still deeply peripheral within the EMU architecture.

We tentatively identify an “Iberian growth path” in Spain and Portugal—still peripheral, but relatively more successful in combining exports with domestic demand. Meanwhile, Italy and Greece remain trapped in externally imposed austerity logics with weak domestic multipliers.

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Spain and Portugal did see growth in some high value-added service exports—like IT, professional services, and R&D. These sectors are still small, but growing faster than others—hints of emerging niches amid a broader low value-added landscape where tourism still plays a key role.

🧵 Finding 3: Export-led growth in Southern Europe didn’t deliver in terms of jobs. Employment losses during the crisis were massive. Recovery in jobs— especially good jobs—was partial and slow. Export-related job creation didn’t offset earlier losses.

Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)@mpifg.bsky.social

The result? 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 Stronger overall growth performance. 🇮🇹 🇬🇷 Weak, export-dependent recoveries.

🧵 Finding 2: Despite reorientation to exports, SE economies still struggle to upgrade. Manufacturing exports remain, overall, low-tech. High value-added services are, overall, still marginal. Greece stands out as most peripheralized; Italy retains stronger industrial capabilities.

Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)@mpifg.bsky.social

We decompose the growth performance of Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain between the GFC and the Covid pandemic using import-adjusted data and detailed sectoral indicators of value added, working hours and labour costs. The data tell a nuanced story of both convergence and divergence.

🧵 Finding 1: All 4 countries shifted toward greater reliance on exports as a growth driver after 2010. BUT: Only Spain and Portugal managed to also revive domestic demand (private consumption & investment) after 2014. Italy and Greece didn’t.

Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)@mpifg.bsky.social

We revisit 3 key claims from the CPE literature: 1️⃣ Export-led growth has replaced domestic-demand-led models since the GFC. 2️⃣ South European economies still struggle to generate high value-added exports. 3️⃣ Employment creation is weak, esp. in high wage jobs. Do the data confirm these claims?

SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

19 June 2025

I'm very happy to be joining the editorial board of Competition & Change, a journal which has become home to some of the best and most stimulating interdisciplinary research in political economy and socioeconomics. Give us a follow and stay tuned for updates!

compchange.bsky.social@compchange.bsky.social

Hello! 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 has joined Bsky. We'll be sharing new articles and other journal-related updates. To start, excellent news: Our 2024 impact factor is up four points: 3.4. This reflects the high-quality work of our authors, reviewers, and editors—thank you, and keep them coming! 🙏

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@sasemeeting.bsky.social

12 June 2025

In Montréal for SASE 2025 – or nearby? 🇨🇦 Join us Thursday, July 10 for free public sessions at the Palais des Congrès – no badge needed. Global scholars, union leaders & policymakers discuss labor, social economy & policy innovation. #SASE2025 #Montreal #PublicSessions

on.ft.comDozens of Gazans killed and injured trying to get aid, health ministry saysIDF denies firing on civilians after more than 30 deaths among people headed to controversial humanitarian hubs

8 June 2025

in viaggio verso casa in tempo per andare a votare #referendum #italia #5Si

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Mike McCarthy

@itsmccarthy.bsky.social

5 June 2025

Workers fight for more than wages

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

2 June 2025

Please listen to the UN General Secretary.

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Erin A. Snider

@erinsnider.bsky.social

2 June 2025

From the FT today: "The killings on Sunday will deepen doubts about GHF’s ability to replace the UN, which previously delivered aid to families at local distribution sites. MSF International on Saturday described the new system as “disastrous. Ineffective. Dangerous. Reckless. Dehumanising”."

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Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

27 May 2025

“Reuters examined the data from the Gaza Health Ministry to look more closely at those who have died. It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”

reuters.comThe lives lost in Gaza: A closer look at those killed in the conflict so farThe death toll from the war already dwarfs the numbers killed in previous bouts of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza over many decades.

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The Associated Press

@apnews.com

26 May 2025

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

bit.lyIsraeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics sayAn Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.

aljazeera.com‘Burned alive’: Israel bombs Gaza school-turned-shelter, killing 30Latest attacks come as Spain urges world to consider sanctions on Israel to end the war on Gaza.

26 May 2025

Waking up to the news of yet another attack overnight on a school shelter in Gaza, 25 killed, among which many children, burnt to death in their sleep. What will it take for our governments to finally take decisive steps to stop Israel committing this genocide? www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/liv...

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Revoltinghippie

@revoltinghippie.bsky.social

23 May 2025

Opposite Downing Street in London this Friday evening

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Barry Eidlin

@eidlin.bsky.social

21 May 2025

Great to see the @isa-sociology.org speak out for Palestine and Palestinians 🇵🇸: www.isa-sociology.org/en/about-isa...

isa-sociology.orgISA Solidarity Statement with the Palestinian PeopleISA Solidarity Statement with the Palestinian People

youtube.comGender, Politics and Society Summer SchoolYouTube video by SPS Unibo

16 Apr 2025

📢On 9-12 June, Unibo's SPS Dept will host a free Summer School for postgrad students on Gender, Politics & Society co-organised with the University of Florida. The program introduces students to diverse gender-focused approaches in CPE & IR. Applications are now open! 👉 site.unibo.it/gender-polit...

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open.spotify.comConnecting the NodesPodcast · Università di Bologna · "Connecting the Nodes" è il podcast di Connect.Connect è il centro di ricerca del Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali.Connect si occupa di temi senza confini:...

16 Apr 2025

🎧 Connecting the Nodes è ora su Spotify!🙌 🌍 Il podcast di CONNECT propone uno sguardo transnazionale su politica e la società, trasformando la ricerca in sapere pubblico. 🎙️ Sono già online i primi due episodi—segui la pagina per non perderti le prossime uscite: 👉 open.spotify.com/show/6l9HyZJ...

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1 Apr 2025

Next Friday (April 11, 3pm), we are honoured to welcome Prof. Emerita Vivien Schmidt (BU) to our Department. Prof. Schmidt will give a CONNECT lecture on “The Power of Ideas and Discourse in the Rise of Populism: A Transatlantic Perspective.” All welcome! 👉 centri.unibo.it/connect/en/a...