We have a vacant position as Associate Professor in Political Science (International Relations). Deadline April 29. Please apply or distribute. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Weekend of cross-country skiing (Stugudal). Cold, but great conditions

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

Very happy to see this out in CPS! We study class identities and their social and political relevance over several decades in Britain, Denmark, Norway, and the US. A small thread: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SIRW4...

🌟 Publication alert 🌟 "Workplace Peer Effects in Turnout" by Magnus Carlsson & @finseraas.bsky.social just accepted for publication in @thejop.bsky.social! 👏 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Happy to learn I received the Michael Wallerstein prize in political economy for this article on the political consequences of technological change in agriculture in the US: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Enjoying @charliefthompson.bsky.social convincing defense of his thesis on The Politics and Regulation of Online Gambling

Påmeldingen til nasjonal fagkonferanse i statsvitenskap 2026, Trondheim, 6.-8. januar 2026 er ute, påmeldingsfrist er 14. november. Ingenting å tenke på, bare å melde seg på! www.ntnu.no/iss/nasjonal...

From our latest issue: Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior by Jack Lucas et al. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Påmeldingen til nasjonal fagkonferanse i statsvitenskap 2026, Trondheim, 6.-8. januar 2026 er ute, påmeldingsfrist er 14. november. Ingenting å tenke på, bare å melde seg på! www.ntnu.no/iss/nasjonal...

The 5th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop in Trondheim! @lchristensen.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @finseraas.bsky.social et al!

"Do Integration Courses Influence Refugees’ Integration Trajectories? Evidence from Norway" by Jeremy Ferwerda and Henning Finseraas. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#OpenAccess from July 2025 - How Does Public Opinion Respond to Government Injustices Against Historically Discriminated Minorities? Evidence from Norway - cup.org/4lRGSBG - Helga Malmin Binningsbø, Karin Dyrstad & @finseraas.bsky.social#OpenAccess

Excited to share that our article "Gender and Support for Climate Change Policies: The Case of Offshore Wind Farms" with my PhD supervisor and co-author @finseraas.bsky.social is now out in Scandinavian Political Studies! Find out more below 👇🏼

Great day at the Frisch Centre, hosted by @kotsadam.bsky.social , presenting ongoing work on the integration paradox

Et rykende ferskt spesialnummer av Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift, men en rekke lettleste og interessante kommentarer knyttet til stortingsvalget 2025 og norsk politikk, deriblant en kommentar jeg har skrevet om "Hvordan skjer regjeringsdannelser i Norge?"

We are pleased to announce the 2025 Editors’ Choice Award for the paper “How Much Should We Trust Instrumental Variable Estimates in Political Science? Practical Advice Based on 67 Replicated Studies” by @apoorvalal.com‬, @maclockhart.bsky.social, @yiqingxu.bsky.social‬, and @garyzu.bsky.social.

🗳️Multiple elections on the same day, but some voters skip certain votes. Why? ➡R Foellmi, R Heim & L Schmid show that voters weigh the salience and information costs of each vote, influencing turnout and selective abstention www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

NEW - How Does Public Opinion Respond to Government Injustices Against Historically Discriminated Minorities? Evidence from Norway - cup.org/4lRGSBG - Helga Malmin Binningsbø, Karin Dyrstad & @finseraas.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🚨 New research alert! 🚨 Check out this recent paper by Johannes Bergh, Dag Arne Christensen and @finseraas.bsky.social on the impact of early voting on partners mobilisation. Available open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do family-friendly hours make it easier for women politicians to participate in meetings? 🕚 In a new working paper, I find they don’t. 🧵1/10

🏆We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2024–25 Best Paper Award in @psrm.bsky.social 🏅The political consequences of technological change that benefits low-skilled workers, by @finseraas.bsky.social and @olenyhus.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Congratulations to the authors!🎉

Forthcoming article by Alexander W Cappelen @ranveigfalch.bsky.social and Bertil Tungodden "Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind" @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social @eeanews.bsky.social Teaching materials available: www.eeassoc.org/teaching-mat... doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

Want to delve into how responses to climate change impact conflict across the world? Then we have just the PhD position in political science for you at NTNU! More information about the position here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Deadline for applications is 1 September 2025. Conflictsky

Artig sak: www.vg.no/nyheter/i/bm... Dette har Ap strevet med før; i 1995 leverte Flå Ap lista for sent og fikk ikke delta i kommunevalget i Flå. I en artikkel publisert i @psrm.bsky.social studerer jeg effektene av dette på lokale budsjettprioriteringer: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Sammen med en stor gruppe forskere har vi i dag publisert den nye boka om lokalvalgene 2023. En herlig mulighet for alle som elsker å nerde med politikk, valg og lokaldemokrati til å dykke ned i detaljene. Boka er Open Access og tilgjengelig for alle! cdforskning.no/cdf/catalog/...

Har NRK publisert dokumentasjon på hvordan Valgomaten regner ut prosenter for hvert parti?

Dette er verken absurd eller useriøst. Dette er måten å unngå å ta politiske beslutninger i blinde. Modig og riktig. www.aftenposten.no/norge/politi...

*CALL FOR PAPERS* We are happy to invite proposals to the 5th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop at NTNU Trondheim, Norway, October 2-3. See mikaelpersson.org/workshop for more information and how to submit your proposal (deadline May 10). Please distribute to people that might be interested

Really enjoyed presenting today, critical but constructive feedback, lots to think about when revising. Thanks to @tobiastober.bsky.social for organizing

NEW - The Correlates of Ethnicity: Why the Ethnic Majority Expects That Ethnic Minorities Contribute Less to the Collective - cup.org/4lOX7jN - @matkruse.bsky.social #OpenAccess

From February 2025 - Examining Voting Spillover Effects of Text Message Reminders - cup.org/418Eduu "Our findings suggest that a simple text message increases the likelihood of voting by 0.3 percentage points" - Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Pär Nyman & Sven Oskarsson #OpenAccess

Ang Yu and Felix Elwert updated their paper "Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Disparities." They develop a new framework that isolates differential selection into treatment. A must-read for social scientists, policy analysts, and applied causal researchers arxiv.org/abs/2306.165...

Have you successfully defended your doctoral thesis and are looking for a postdoc opportunity? Then apply with us at NTNU in Trondheim for a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship! DM if you are interested & want more information. Pls help me to spread the word by reposting. www.ntnu.edu/horizon-euro...

*CALL FOR PAPERS* We are happy to invite proposals to the 5th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop at NTNU Trondheim, Norway, October 2-3. See mikaelpersson.org/workshop for more information and how to submit your proposal (deadline May 10). Please distribute to people that might be interested

Excited to be at @eui-eu.bsky.social to present ongoing work (with Rino Heim) on biases against Muslim political candidates

Terrific lineup for our Comparative Politics & Political Economy series this summer,incl @clandwehr.bsky.social @finseraas.bsky.social @eunjikim.bsky.social @ccavaille.bsky.social @anewq.bsky.social & @valentimvicente.bsky.social . Thanks for organizing @tobiastober.bsky.social @na-wehl.bsky.social

"The Cultural Origins of Populism" by Yotam Margalit, Shir Raviv, and Omer Solodoch. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Technological change has had important consequences for labour markets in recent decades. What about its electoral consequences? In this new article in EJPR, we use administrative data to follow nearly a million workers over 16 years to study this. 🧵 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Very happy to share our new article in JoP @thejop.bsky.social, where we explore how parties forge links with social groups (here: social classes) through different appeals and how citizens respond to such appeals. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

🧵 Who enters politics? Are politicians different from the general population? In our @jeeanews.bsky.social paper (M. Jokela, @jannetukiainen.bsky.social, Å. von Schoultz), we study Finnish politicians’ cognitive and personality traits using military conscription test data. 📊

Explaining why the Nordic countries have such low income inequality and discussing the lessons, if any, for other countries, from Magne Mogstad, Kjell G. Salvanes, and Gaute Torsvik https://www.nber.org/papers/w33444

The far-right parties in the Netherlands and Germany experienced a decrease in expressed support after the US January 6th Capitol insurrection www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Free access until the end of February 2025 from our new issue - Lexicographic Preferences in Candidate Choice. How Party Affiliation Dominates Gender and Race - cup.org/42yvggi - @mortenhjortskov.bsky.social & Simon Calmar Andersen

#OpenAccess from our new issue - Bound by Borders: Voter Mobilization Through Social Networks - cup.org/4hlPjCY - Gary W. Cox, @fiva.no & @maxemilking.bsky.social

📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo

Excited about my visiting position at Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin) this semester. Thanks to the Collegio for hosting me!

🚨 Out now in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social : "Citizens' Preferences for Multidimensional Representation". Jack Blumenau, Fabio Wolkenstein & I investigate citizens' preferences regarding 6 dimensions of representation using surveys conducted in 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪. Short 🧵(1/10) doi.org/10.1017/S15375

A lot of Alesina papers succinctly summarized here. www.theguardian.com/politics/200...

Kicking off 2025 with cross-country skiing (Bymarka, Trondheim)