The Politics of Insecurity (POINS)

👏 Thank you to all our authors, reviewers, board members, readers and friends of Policy & Politics for another great year! 🥳To celebrate, we have made our top 10 most highly cited articles in 2024 free to access until 31 Jan 2025. Happy holiday reading! policyandpoliticsblog.com/2024/12/11/tha…

Geht ein härteres Strafrecht auch mit mehr sozialstaatlichen Sanktionen einher? Peter Starke @UniSouthDenmark widmet sich dieser Frage in einem aktuellen Forschungsprojekt @POINSproject und in seinem Beitrag auf #sozialpolitikblog: difis.org/blog/?blog=130

Ed. by Peter Starke, @ElbekLund and Georg Wenzelburger with great contributions by @AlperKaitlin @QTornafoch @zhen_j_im Oscar O'Mara, Ingrid R. Lundeberg, @PScharffSmith @danielbeland Barry Maydom @lgarcia_anais @SarahBerens27 Phil Mike Jones, Emily Gray, and Stephen Farrall 🙏

📢 Our new #OpenAccess book "Unequal Security" is now available for download or pre-order at Routledge. Critical analysis of subjective #insecurity, #crime and #welfare policies and how it all relates to #inequality. Get your copy here: routledge.com/Unequal-Securi…

Happy to have contributed to @POINSproject's new book "Unequal Insecurity" with a chapter on the security policy preferences of informal workers in Latin America, co-authored with the amazing @SarahBerens27 and Barry Maydom. routledge.com/Unequal-Securi…

🚨 Newest Comparative Political Data Set released! 🚨 Updated until 2022 Available here 👉 cpds-data.org/data/ ✨ Bonus - new feature: Data also by government with R and Stata code to link it to CHES and CMP! @IPZ_ch @leuphana @UniLuzern @UZH_en

The 13th International NordWel Summer School will take place at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen from 19 to 23 August 2024. With @danielbeland @MarianneSUlrik1 @KlausPSDU @MarkusTepe and many other guests. Read more on our CRC 1342 website: socialpolicydynamics.de/en/

📢Vacancy alert: the Department of Political Science at SDU is looking for Associate Professors in International Politics, with a focus on int'l security, governance, cyber, intelligence, and digitalization. Deadline: 1 October. See details: …sd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

🚨Job alert: 3-4 PhDs at the Dept of #Politicalscience, University of Southern #Denmark. Topic: AI, management and leadership and/or Danish politics preferred, but generally open to excellent proposals. Infos and inquiries: …sd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… DEADLINE 15 Oct 2024

🪧#Activists and social movements have traditionally been accused of being irrational and purely driven by ideology, instincts, and emotions. This attribution of emotionality has served as a tool to disavow and silence grievances and protests for political #change. 🧵 #PROTEMO

🔎Why is #PROTEMO investigating the emotions of protective policies? Why does this matter for our democracies?🏛️ Our partners will soon reveal surprising facts about the role of emotions in our political systems. Stay tuned! #PROTEMOFacts #Democracy #Emotions

Tomorrow 11h15 @DanishIAS: Paul Marx (U Bonn) on 'Is there a conservative backlash against identity politics?' sdu.dk/en/updates/f73…

UGENS FORSKER: Hvordan er brugen af AI-teknologier ifm. med militære beslutninger med til at ændre vores handlemønstre og evne til at træffe valg? @IngvildBode fra @SyddanskUni undersøger integrationen af AI-teknologier i forbindelse med krigsførelse 👇 dff.dk/ansog/stottet-…

Congrats! 👏More evidence on hybrid penal-welfare developments beyond simplistic prison vs. welfare ideas. It's complicated!

The article "The politics of anger: emotional appraisal mechanisms and the French pension reform protests" by @joh_kuhlmann /Starke in Policy & Politics is accessible free of charge until tomorrow. Check it out here: policyandpoliticsblog.com/2024/05/15/lat…

We should discuss the hidden working hours & the financial costs of raising children, says @DaWS_SDU & @DanishIAS prof @PieterVanhuysse in @nordjyskedk newspaper: nordjyske.dk/nyheder/nordjy…

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/10.1177/014383… 🧵A thread (1/7)

Does holding elections during a pandemic benefit incumbent candidates? In a newly published article on @PLOS_ONE with @maxlschaub @HClolery and @gkonkamking we find that this is the case journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… 1/

We are organising a seminar in Copenhagen: Supporting welfare state expansion in the Global South: what role for development aid? 30 April 9.30 - 12.25. Event in English. Register latest 15 April: sdu.dk/en/forskning/f… @JustSdu @SAMF_SDU @JuridiskInstitu

New paper on emotions & policymaking by @joh_kuhlmann & Peter Starke finally out! "The politics of anger: emotional appraisal mechanisms and the French pension reform protests" doi.org/10.1332/030557…