Ben was interviewed by Mark Blyth for the Rhodes Centre Podcast about the myth of banishing politics through technocratic governance, as explored in his recent OBR book published with OUP.

A new article co-authored by Ben Clift and former PAIS Professor Ben Rosamond is just published in New Political Economy. Entitled ‘Technocratic reason in hard times: the mobilisation of economic knowledge and the discursive politics of BrexitLink opens in a new window’, it explores why credentialed economic expertise did not enjoy a privileged position within the Brexit debate.

While at CIDE in Mexico, Andreas Murr has been developing election forecasts for the upcoming Mexican presidential election on 2 June. In two blog posts written together with Mike Lewis-Beck he describes what citizens as well as other approaches forecast.

NEW FUND: Interdisciplinary Research Spotlights: Research Development Fund (IRDF) Call 24/25
As part of the launch on the new Spotlights programme, we are pleased to announce the opening of a new fund aimed at interdisciplinary research. The 2024-25 Interdisciplinary Research Spotlights Research Development Fund (IRDF) will support awards of normally up to a maximum of £15,000 for interdisciplinary research projects that align with the Research Spotlights with activities taking place between 1 August 2024 - 31 July 2025.
The deadline for IRDF applications for 24/25 is 1pm, Wednesday 5 June 2024.

Joseph Haigh’s article ‘‘Every one (re)membered’: Anxiety, family history, and militarised vicarious identity promotion during Britain’s First World War centenary commemorations’ has just been published open access in the Review of International Studies.

The article explores how during the 2014-18 First World War Centenary key national custodians encouraged Britons to emotionally buy into militarised revisionist narratives about the First World War by vicariously identifying with military ancestors.

Joe wishes to thank PAIS colleagues as well as the PAIS Manuscript Improvement Service (10/10, would recommend!) who provided invaluable feedback on the paper and guidance on approaching the revisions.