Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at Institute of Public Goods and Policies (CSIC). PhD@EUI. Institutions, electoral systems, and European politics. 🇵🇹 in 🇪🇸 via 🇮🇹🇩🇪🇺🇸
‼️ Hiring‼️
One postdoctoral position in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid.
Application deadline: end of February.
Job ad & details: tinyurl.com/3dwm96kb
Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications, traveling, and fun!
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‼️ US now advocates for 🇺🇦 EU accession by 2027 as part of „peace plan“.
I know many pro EU & pro 🇺🇦 people may support this. But I think it is a terrible idea. A few thoughts 💭 👇
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project
You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!
⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025
wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
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So proud and happy of our #MESS2025 — growing in size, diversity, quality, and good vibes every year!
See you all tomorrow! 😎
#SocialScience#Conference#Madrid@amaliaab.bsky.social@emmylindstam.bsky.social@sergio-galazgarcia.bsky.social
If you want to know why the capital of Central Europe became the city of ideas that created the modern world & what the house of Austria has to do with this I can recommend reading first Martyn Rady's "The Habsburgs" & then Richard Cockett's "Vienna" - 2 excellent & witty books.
Breaking news: The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The resolution was co-sponsored by Kyiv and EU nations, despite the US voting against it and urging other states to do so. www.ft.com/content/d0f3...
How does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life?
In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out.
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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I am one of over 900 political scientists who signed this statement to express our "urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy."
drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...
Political scientists, you can sign here:
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‼️ Hiring‼️ -- 10 days to deadline!
Two postdoctoral positions in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid.
Application deadline: February 28
Job ad & details: tinyurl.com/3dwm96kb
Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications, traveling, and fun!
With Macron calling an intergovernmental summit in Paris tomorrow, many wonder what is best institutional venue to discuss Europe's response to biggest security crisis since 1945. Here are 8 reasons why intergovernmental route is crucial now instead of relying on 🇪🇺 & Brussels institutions. 🧵👇 1/10
Last week, CDU and AfD coalesced in a historic moment for post-WWII German political history. @chriswratil.bsky.social, @mafaldapratas.bsky.social and I ran a survey immediately after the event to measure voters' reactions.
You wonder how the CDU/CSU playing with the "Brandmauer" to AfD last week has influenced German voters? @mafaldapratas.bsky.social@jmfernandes86.bsky.social & I have you covered. We surveyed sample of 2,000 German voters. 🧵with first results 👇. Spoiler: It did not go down as well as CDU/CSU hoped.
You wonder how the CDU/CSU playing with the "Brandmauer" to AfD last week has influenced German voters? @mafaldapratas.bsky.social@jmfernandes86.bsky.social & I have you covered. We surveyed sample of 2,000 German voters. 🧵with first results 👇. Spoiler: It did not go down as well as CDU/CSU hoped.
EPSA rejection: to all early career people who face this today, I want to say that I had two of them in the past, one of them was published in AJPS in the end, the other has not been submitted yet. Today, my third EPSA rejection. If you have it, too: hear me it means nothing! Enjoy your weekend 😇
‼️ Hiring‼️
One postdoctoral position in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid.
Application deadline: end of February.
Job ad & details: tinyurl.com/3dwm96kb
Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications, traveling, and fun!
Please share widely.
🎉 I'm very happy to share this new publication with
@jmfernandes86.bsky.social in @jeppjournal.bsky.social! In the paper, we look into the implementation of #decentralization agreements in multilevel systems using the Spanish case. 1/3
ELECTORAL SYSTEMS
Personalization is a cornerstone of representation & most ESs have a personal vote dimension. @jmfernandes86.bsky.social/Shomer/@laderafrutal.bsky.social review the politics of the personal vote, incl measurement & impact on legislative behavior www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
🚨🇪🇺⚖️ The ERC @curiafides.bsky.social project on trust and judicial cooperation is offering a postdoc position (3+1 years). Join our vibrant interdisciplinary research community at @ic3jm.bsky.social, @macies.bsky.social & @uc3m.es
• Expressions of interest: anytime
• Submissions deadline: 31/01/2025
The Institute for Public Goods and policies (@ipp-csic.bsky.social ) is launching its visitors program with both long and short stays. Get in touch with me if you want to know more about the institute. ipp.csic.es/en/visitors-...
I am over the moon and humbled to have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to study how we think about representation in proportional electoral systems. Soon, I will make a thread with most relevant questions for the 2M project for the 2025-2030 period. 1/n
Finally, it is sort of ironic that I am tweeting from Badia Fiesolana, where it at started back in 2009. Now it's time to thank my mentors in grad school, Peter Mair, Kaare Strøm, and Stefano Bartolini, as well special thanks to @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social and Thomas Saalfeld. They know why. /END
I am over the moon and humbled to have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to study how we think about representation in proportional electoral systems. Soon, I will make a thread with most relevant questions for the 2M project for the 2025-2030 period. 1/n
For now, I would like to thank those without whose support this wouldn't have been possible. First and foremost, of course, I would like to thank my wife, @mafaldapratas.bsky.social, for her daily intellectual challenges and for always pushing me to see a more complex and yet simpler picture. 2/n
I would like to thank Vincenzo Pavone and @martafraile.bsky.social, the directors of @ipp-csic.bsky.social for their unwavering support ever since I joined @csic.es in January 2023. Next, I would like the dozens of people who provided feedback on the proposal, particularly those who sat on mocks 3/n
You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇.
t.co/aJ0SOwyCge
A few days left to apply for our postdoc in computational social science 👇. Please get in touch if you have any questions. Please apply if you do quantitative text analysis & want to expand this during the next years.
🚨 Job alert: Postdoc in Computational Social Science, especially text analysis in the MULTIREP @ERC_Research
project at Uni Vienna @Dept_Government
. If you do quantitative text analysis & are interested in pol representation, this 👇 is for you 🧵 (1/4)
wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
Thrilled to announce the release of Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe with Cambridge UP 🎉🎉
The book argues that accommodating the displaced population can strengthen states and benefit local economies in the long run.
📚 [Amazon: tinyurl.com/24m2mbkf]
See thread below:
I need your help. I am looking for Twitter data. Now that the API is closed, I need data covering legislators' Twitter activity for several European countries (the usual suspects) going bac, at least, a couple of election cycles! If you have or know who has these data, it will be greatly appreciated