Business-politics relations, social policy, industrial relations, taxation. Associate Professor in Business and Public Policy at Roskilde University, Denmark.
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Why do some trade unions support the EU’s Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages, while others oppose it? Eriks Ozols, Stefan Ivanov Hristov and I investigate this question in a new article in Economic and Industrial Democracy.
doi.org/10.1177/0143831X2412…
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Real banger here. We often treat descriptive analysis as a petty chore you need go through to get to the real (causal) stuff. Gerring argues that not only is good description crucial, it’s arguably the greater challenge. Deciding how to characterize things appropriately can be more consequential and difficult than establishing that X is related to Y in a particular way. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Die aktuelle SPÖ-Personaldebatte illustriert die nach wie vor engen Verbindungen zwischen Kammern und Parteien in Österreich. Dieser Profil-Beitrag, für den ich auch befragt wurde, analysiert die Funktionsweise dieser Partei-Kammer-Verhältnisse: profil.at/dasfruehstueck/mar…
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Hannah Arendts „Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft“ gehört zu den prägendsten und auch umstrittensten Analysen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dank der kritischen Gesamtausgabe kann man ihrer Denkarbeit zusehen. faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/b…
New article: Stefan Ivanov Hristov and I investigate the implementation of the EU's Platform Work Directive in Bulgaria:
doi.org/10.1515/zsr-2025-002…
Francis Fukuyama sieht die Ursachen des Aufstiegs der Rechtspopulisten in einem unerfüllten Verlangen nach Anerkennung | Ö1 | ORF-Radiothek oe1.orf.at/player/20260925/8…
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Mein Artikel "Selbstdarstellung contra Wissenschaft" in der @sueddeutsche_de über die Probleme aktivistischer Forschung steht jetzt online. Im Anhang der Text mit Quellen.
sueddeutsche.de/kultur/phili…
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Full Cover
I just received the full cover of my forthcoming @CUP_PoliSci book, Progress in the Social Sciences.
Thanks to Przeworski, Collier, Grzymała-Busse and @dlittle30 for their blurbs.
For more information: cambridge.org/ar/universityp…
It will be freely downloadable soon.
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Macro-level Social Structures
Drawing on different theoretical traditions and offering various kinds of arguments, these books seek to develop knowledge about the big structures that shape the lives of people.
They inspired me in graduate school and continue to motivate me.
"Seneca observed that the minds of those who read too many scrolls too quickly became restless and unsteady. This kind of mind was less able, he noted, to “stay in one place and spend time with itself.” Sarah-Jane Murray
I’m excited to share my essay in The New York Times this morning! “About 2000 years ago, the Roman philosopher Seneca warned of a crisis of attention.” With thanks to my editor, James Ryerson.
nytimes.com/2026/07/12/opini…
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The first copies of my book are coming into the world... I hope it will reach Hobsbawm fans, Hobsbawm sceptics, and anyone curious about the intellectual life of the left in the 20th century! Publication 18 Aug (US) & 4 Sep (UK). ToC below. To preorder: tinyurl.com/mwvt75fs
Hörtipp: Ein sehr spannendes Radiogespräch mit dem Wirtschaftshistoriker Sven Beckert (Harvard) über die Geschichte des Kapitalismus. Für Beckert liegen die Wurzeln des Kapitalismus nicht in Europa, sondern u.a. im arabischen Raum und in der Karibik.
oe1.orf.at/programm/20260703…
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Now reading this new suggestive book by @TK_Sakurai on Erich Fromm's theory of fascism. As Sakurai explains, for Fromm, individuals with evident sadistic and masochistic inclinations tend to show a "propensity toward authoritarianism."
Dutch and Danish employers' associations prefer the status quo in welfare state programs to radical reforms, argue Mikkel Mailand and Frank Tros in this paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
Hörtipp: Eine fundierte Analyse der politischen Entwicklungen in den USA unter Trump, mit Prof. Heinrich Heinisch:
oe1.orf.at/programm/20260524…
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Capitalism and Democracy in the West
Peter A. Hall has a forthcoming book that traces changes in the relationship between capitalism and democracy in Europe and the US since 1945.
The core of the argument can be read in this article: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Thank you Jeremy Adelman for this thoughtful read of Capitalism: A Global History
foreignaffairs.com/reviews/w…
