📣Publication alert! New article just published online in @ejprjournal.bsky.social: “Organizational ties to political parties and interest groups’ news coverage”👇 cup.org/4cx2WOM Ahead-of-print and Open Access! 🧵[1/12]

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗨 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴? Yesterday's #election in #Hungary forces us to grapple w/ the politics of "𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨." In @jeppjournal.bsky.social, @chrishillion.bsky.social, @ascherz.bsky.social & I have an argument- and warning- from Poland 👇thread

Together with @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social and Lise Rakner, I've prepared a short brief on Zambia's upcoming general elections, and three key challenges for the resilience of its democracy. www.prio.org/publications...

Make excommunications great again!

1/ Many were wondering whether Fidesz would actually concede if it lost. High turnout today is encouraging — but there are now clear signals the government is preparing the ground to contest the legitimacy of the result, at least if it’s close.

🚨Post-doc opportunity at @unioslo-jus.bsky.social 🚨 ⚖️ Study how the rule of law is perceived, observed and applied in Norway! ⚖️3 years without teaching or 4 years with 25% teaching ⚖️ Socio-legal research and qualitative methods www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline: 27th April 2026

V-Dem v.16 is now released, w. updated scores for 2025. Most countries remain stable from 2024, but some clear improvements (on diff’t democracy indices), incl. S. Korea, Sri Lanka & Mauritius. Largest declines came, by far, in the US. This figure shows 10-yr changes on the Liberal Dem. index.

🚨Publication alert🚨 New paper by @jonkskiple.bsky.social & @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy: "Bringing Rights Back Home? How Judges Handle Multilayered Constitutional and International Human Rights Laws on the Supreme Court of Norway" publicera.kb.se/ejels/articl.... Read it; share it; cite it!

My villain origin story

🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

📢 New book chapter 👤 Øyvind Stiansen (ISV) @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social 🔎 The Courts 📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Fantastic opportunity to join @felixhaass.bsky.social for a PhD position on contentious politics, political violence, or authoritarian politics at HU Berlin: www.hu-berlin.de/universitaet...

well, well, well if it isn't the book I started working on in 2017: academic.oup.com/book/61769

So happy to see our article on "Courts and Social Participation in Latin America: The Use of Public Hearings and Amici Curiae" published! Many thanks to @millanos.bsky.social and Pedro Martins da Costa for the great collaboration! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

E24s pushvarselansvarlig doing the lords work🙏

We are very excited about our #ecprgc26 Section on "Judicial Politics in an Age of Democratic Contestation" chaired by @thaliagerzso.bsky.social and @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... and hope to see you all in Kraków (8-11 September 2026)!

Når en gruppe norske akademikere etter 27 desk rejects endelig får manuset sitt sendt ut til vurdering:

Er jo litt pinlig at den norske regjeringen må ringe Viktor Orbans regjering og pent be om hjelp. Interessant fellesskap vi er i her!

Næringsminister Cecilie Myrseth i Arbeiderpartiet mener vi må forholde oss til retten, men nekter å svare på om regjeringen vil respektere dom i Høyesterett. Førdefjorden. @trulsgulowsen.bsky.social #dax18 tv.nrk.no/se?v=NNFA561...

Jeg har skrevet om sløseridebatt, offentlig pengebruk og om å prioritere velferd. Det er ikke sløsing å bruke penger på velferd, det er en prioritering. Og skal vi beholde velferdsstaten i fremtiden må vi sannsynligvis regne med at den blir dyrere. Les hvorfor her:

Very happy to share my first publication! 🥳 It's published in @jpube.bsky.social (w/ Benny Geys & Rune Sørensen) and tackles a classic question: Why do people vote in large elections, when the probability of casting a pivotal vote is virtually zero? 🗳️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... [1/7]

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Better get your paper submissions in for the @epssnet.bsky.social conference in June 2026, as the deadline is 7 November, and we have no intention of extended that (given the submission numbers)! epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

🚨🚨🚨@thaliagerzso.bsky.social and @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy are organizing our Standing Group's section proposal for #ecprgc26! Send them your panel abstract by the end of this week to be included in the section proposal!🚨🚨🚨

🚨🚨 Final call! Propose a panel for the Law & Courts section at ECPR 2026 (Kraków 🇵🇱, 8–11 Sept). Submit by 31 Oct: 👉 Short title 👉 ≤80-word abstract 👉 1–2 co-chairs + ECPR emails 📧 Send your proposal to: [email protected] & [email protected] @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social

I am thrilled to announce the publication of the Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics! Over 70 scholars from various institutions in Norway and abroad have contributed their expertise and insights to 48 chapters on different aspects of Norwegian politics. A short🧵 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Dette er fantastiske nyheter for det norske demokratiet! Det blir ikke avstemning over alternativ (forslaget fra AP og H) i statsbudsjettvoteringer likevel. Ville skjøvet mye makt fra storting til regjering om det gikk gjennom.

Happy and thankful that our WP "Debating threats to authoritarian rule: Inclusion and Discrimination in the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia" has won the David Olson Award 2025! rc08.ipsa.org/post/2025/09... 1/4

Utrolig spennende og å få 12 millioner kroner til å forske på partienes rolle i å etablere den norske velferdsstaten ved hjelp av omfattende historisk datamatrialet og naturlig eksperimenter. Les mer her: www.usn.no/forskning/fo...

Dette framstår som helt håpløst. Vi bruker masse tid hvert år på å finne eksterne sensorer til masterstudentene våre og så skal noen av dem som gjør en innsats for fellesskapet miste retten til opphold i landet? www.khrono.no/har-jobba-i-...

Penn State is searching in Comparative Politics or International Relations for someone with a focus on non-democratic politics who can offer undergraduate and graduate courses in political methodology.

I'm not on the search committee but happy to chat to anyone interested about this line, Tulane, or New Orleans!

I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV). It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more. #ERCStG

Jeg skriver metodebok 📖 📈: Laget for å gjøre kvantitativ metode tilgjengelig, relevant og gøy for alle—uten krav til forkunnskaper i statistikk eller programmering. Boka bruker R👨‍💻, og gir deg alt du trenger å vite om statistikk, databehandling og formidling for å begynne å forske på samfunnet. 👉🧵

The ECPR Standing Group on the Politics of Law & Courts Bluesky account is now bridged to the Fediverse. Follow it for updates and browse posts on talks at the just concluded ECPR-GC in Thessaloniki: @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social #ecprgc25 #ecprgc2025 #ecpr2025 #ecpr

Having heard about this possible competition, @benjaminengst.bsky.social is bringing his discussant artwork to even greater heights 🎨

👏 👏 👏 Congratulations to @ripplingeralina.bsky.social, who won the best paper award for last year's conference and was handed the 🏆 and diploma by @benjaminengst.bsky.social at the business meeting 👏 👏 👏

Is there a best art work by a discussant award at #ecprgc25? @benjaminengst.bsky.social wants to enter the competition.

#ecprgc25 is just days away! We are looking forward to seeing you in Thessaloniki and to the excellent papers in the section “The Politics of Law and Courts” which this year is chaired by @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social and Urszula Jaremba! Make sure to add these 12 excellent panels to your itinerary 👇

Pengegavene i årets stortingsvalg kommer fra både privatpersoner, bedrifter og organisasjoner. Høyresiden får mest fra bedrifter mens venstresiden får mest fra fagbevegelsen. (Tall per 15. august, 2024+2025)

📣1 PhD fellow position open at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. 👉We invite applications from excellent candidates in all sub-fields of political science. 📅Deadline: September 1st, 2025 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

The Junior Law and Politics Research Community is accepting proposals for its fall seminar series on zoom! Submit by August 25 for full consideration. To apply to present or to get on our email list to attend our seminars see 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #psworkshop

Zambian politics have been quite dramatic in the last 20 years (timeline below). With that kind of competition, you’d expect MPs to fight to gain an edge in every arena, especially MPs elected on a thin margin. However, I find the opposite in Zambia’s parliament: doi.org/10.1080/1357...

Thrilled that this book, with Driscoll and Krehbiel, is out this week. Its topic that become surprisingly relevant: under what conditions does the public punish presidents who ignore court decisions?

Thrilled that the first paper in my PhD thesis “State Action and Moral Attitudes toward Sexual Consent”, co-authored with Francesca R. Jensenius and @oskorge.bsky.social , has been accepted for publication in the @thejop.bsky.social! 1/

The ability to challenge flawed elections in independent courts can be crucial for democratization Spoiler: It can also be used by ruling parties to consolidate control of the legislature New article w/ @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social & @liserakner.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

Proud of @annanhelgoy.bsky.social, who just won the King's Gold Medal at @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social. I highly recommend reading her wonderful research on the gendered division of (un)paid labor and its political consequences.

Contemplating (vertical) judicial power.

𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 in @bjpols.bsky.social! We show the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social neither favors the "haves" nor has a pro-business bias: it consistently levels the odds for disempowered individuals & spotlights support for their rights. Why 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 the haves come out ahead? Read on: tinyurl.com/28662tae