Francesc Amat
Ramon y Cajal & Deputy Director of IPERG http://www.ub.edu/iperg/. Advancing ub.edu/mipe/ at University of Barcelona
sites.google.com/site/cescamat
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- Reposted by Francesc Amat☀️☀️ Exciting news in Madrid! We are VERY happy to officially announce the creation of the Instituto Juan Linz (aka “IJL”). ijlinz.es The IJL ("Juan Linz Institute" in English) is dedicated to cutting-edge research and teaching in political science, sociology, economic history and more. thread 1/12
- Molt content amb la concessió de la Consolidación Investigadora 2025. 🎉 Really happy with this grant. Stay tuned — calls on HPE will be out soon! 😊
- Very happy to welcome today Fran Villamil @uc3m.es at IPERG. Seminar at the usual time, 2.30pm. Seminar Room 1038.
- Today's #seminar: 'The consequences of grassroots human rights: Mass grave exhumations in Spain' 🗣️Francisco Villamil @uc3m.es ⏰14:30 CET 📍Room 1038, 690 Building 🔗f.mtr.cool/hdxgkwkmzd 🗃️ IPERG seminar #EconSky #Economics
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- Reposted by Francesc AmatAre you about to complete a MA/MSc in social sciences? Do you have a very good idea to write a PhD? If so, please consider applying for one of the 5 doctoral studentships that @kcl-spe.bsky.social and @kingsqpe.bsky.social are currently advertising. All details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
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- Just one week to go! The deadline is next Wednesday, January 21. Send us your proposals.
- 📢 📢 Call for Papers IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social 🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford) 📍 University of Barcelona 🗓 June 29–30, 2026 Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026: shorturl.at/oZTNy #pleaseRT
- Reposted by Francesc AmatThe Economic History Review has published a virtual issue collecting the contributions of 2025 Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr in the journal. I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay. You can read it here, together with Joel's articles and reviews. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
- Reposted by Francesc Amat#psjminfo: 2 x 3-year PostDoc positions, deadline Jan 4. We'll study the effects of border change, in ways that overlap with many subfields in CompPol and IR: e.g., HPE, PE of development, state formation, pol. geography, identity, ethnic politics. Also lots of (new) methods (ML, GIS, CausalInf...)!
- 🚨Jobs!🚨 3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you! Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Francesc Amat🚨Jobs!🚨 3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you! Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Francesc Amatwe have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt - a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage - 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
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- Reposted by Francesc AmatL'aula plena per la presentació de la Barcelona Network of Political Science (BaNPS) per part de Jordi Muñoz @jordimunoz.bsky.social i Marc Guinjoan @mguinjoan.bsky.social 👉🏻 www.banps.cat
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- Admissions are now open for the MSc in Institutions and Political Economy at the UB @ub.edu! Check it out if you are interested in the intersection of political science, applied economics and economic history. It's a two-year research-oriented and highly internationalized master.
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- Això serà demà dimecres 10 de desembre a les 18.30h. Parlarem d'institucions, ciutadans i confiança en les institucions. Veniu!
- Reposted by Francesc AmatStudy after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
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- Very happy to host Francisco Garfias (Duke University) today at IPERG. Seminar at the usual time: 2.30pm. Seminar Room 1038. @ubeconomics.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social @econhistub.bsky.social @ub.edu
- 📢 📢 Call for Papers IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social 🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford) 📍 University of Barcelona 🗓 June 29–30, 2026 Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026: shorturl.at/oZTNy #pleaseRT
- Reposted by Francesc AmatI am hiring a 2-year post-doc, starting Sep 1 2026 econjobmarket.org/positions/12... If you are interested in culture, gender and masculinity, please apply and join me in Sydney!
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- Reposted by Francesc Amat🚨 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... 1/4 🧵
- Reposted by Francesc AmatHow are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations? In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer. tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp
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- Reposted by Francesc Amat👋Welcome to the Barcelona Network of Political Science. ▶️We are here to promote research, strengthen ties between institutions, and support young researchers and students in developing their research careers.
- Reposted by Francesc AmatThe official call is now out! seleccio.uab.cat/seleccio/con...
- 🧲 We are hiring! ✨ PhD position to join @dec-gr.bsky.social 🏁 4-year FPI contract 🎓 Pol Sci / Social Sci background + Master’s + English 📧 Send expression of interest with CV and motivation letter to gr.dec@uab.cat 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3epmv2
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- Reposted by Francesc AmatDelighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n
- Reposted by Francesc Amat🚨 New LSE job in political science 🚨 We're looking for a *Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy* to join the LSE School of Public Policy Please share! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Francesc AmatHere I am again to witness my academic funeral.As I did some years ago with my job at Oxford, here I come to advertise my EUI chair. It has been a great job and I am happy to answer Q's. Also, fyi, I am not (yet) leaving the EUI. I do need, however a new name for my chair:suggestions very welcome.
- 📢 The EUI’s SPS Department invites applications for the Swiss Chair in Federalism and Democracy, a prestigious position supported by the Swiss Government. Apply by 24 Nov 2025: eui.eu/About/JobOpportunities/Open-competitions-for-academic-posts #AcademicJobs #Federalism #Democracy #EUI
- «L'extrema dreta global no té la batalla guanyada, ni tan sols als Estats Units» | Nació naciodigital.cat/internaciona...
- Reposted by Francesc AmatWe have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
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- Today we are very happy to have @dominic-rohner.bsky.social (Geneva) giving an IPERG Seminar. Usual time: 2.30pm. Room 1038 Everyone is welcomed! @ubeconomics.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social @econhistub.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social @ub.edu
- Today's #seminar: 'Who wins wars' 🗣️@dominic-rohner.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social ⏰14:30 CEST 📍Room 1038, 690 Building 🔗f.mtr.cool/ebgpvlvkgm 🗃️ IPERG seminar
- Entrevista d'en @joanburdeus.bsky.social a la Susan Stokes, que la setmana passada ens va visitar a la UB per donar el tret de sortida a l'IPERC. www.nuvol.com/llibres/assa...
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- Reposted by Francesc Amat#RecercaUB | 📈 La #UniBarcelona inaugura a Economia i Empresa el Centre de Recerca en Institucions, Política i Economia (IPERC). ➡️ En la taula rodona inaugural hi van participar Susan Stokes, Massimo Morelli i @cboix.bsky.social, nou director del centre. web.ub.edu/web/actualit...
- En @rogermas.bsky.social cantant ahir al festival @2tersos.bsky.social de Mataró.
- Reposted by Francesc AmatWhy do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/... - Reposted by Francesc Amat[Not loaded yet]
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- Això serà aquest proper dijous! Donarem el tret de sortida a l'IPERC: el nou Centre de Recerca en Institucions, Política i Economia de la UB. Veniu, que segur que serà interssant: dijous 16 a les 12h a la Sala d'Actes de la Facultat d'Economia de la UB.
- Dijous 16 d’octubre, 12.00h 📍Sala d’Actes, Facultat d’Economia UB Taula Rodona “L’estat actual de les democràcies: reptes i camins de futur”: 🔹 Susan Stokes (U. Chicago) 🔹 Massimo Morelli (U. Bocconi) 🔹 Carles Boix (U. Princeton i UB) Més info i inscripció aquí: shorturl.at/FeJre
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- Dijous 16 d’octubre, 12.00h 📍Sala d’Actes, Facultat d’Economia UB Taula Rodona “L’estat actual de les democràcies: reptes i camins de futur”: 🔹 Susan Stokes (U. Chicago) 🔹 Massimo Morelli (U. Bocconi) 🔹 Carles Boix (U. Princeton i UB) Més info i inscripció aquí: shorturl.at/FeJre
- Looking forward to today’s IPERG Seminar by @jeanlacroix.bsky.social (Paris-Saclay) 📅 2:30 pm (usual time) 📍 Seminar Room 1038 @ub.edu @ubeconomics.bsky.social @econhistub.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social
- Reposted by Francesc Amat¿Por qué la investigación en la universidad es tan importante? @nadaesgratis.bsky.social nadaesgratis.es/luis-puch/no...
- Happy to announce the IPERG Seminar Series at @ub.edu for this academic year! A great lineup of seminars and events is coming up — don’t miss it. 📅 Full schedule here: www.ub.edu/iperg/activi... @ubeconomics.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social
- Reposted by Francesc AmatCall for abstracts for interdisciplinary conference on "Popular Support for Autocratic Regimes in Historical Perspective," May 26-27 in Toulouse @tse-fr.eu Deadline: Nov 15. Travel/accommodation will be covered. Please apply! Co-organized with Jan Stuckatz, Selina Hofstetter, and Mikkel Dack.
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- Reposted by Francesc AmatWe are hiring! We are looking for a prospective PhD student to work at the Department of Political Science of the University of Barcelona and the Institutions, Politics and Economics Research Center in connection to a research project on Backlash. More details here: sites.google.com/view/jordi-m...
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- Reposted by Francesc AmatIt’s a wrap for PEEP 2025! Thank you to all the presenters, discussants and attendees! @awiedemann.bsky.social @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social @miguelpereira.bsky.social and I are already looking forward to another full day of Political Economy in 2026!
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