📢 New article 👥 Tora Berge Naterstad (ISV) and four co-authors 👉 Sixty years of Nordic International Relations 📖 Published in Cooperation and Conflict 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

📢 New book chapter 👥 Jens Jungblut @jjungblut.bsky.social (ISV) and Mari Elken 🔎 Searching for the Right Balance between Equality and Differentiation: Education Policies in Norway 📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

📢 New book chapter 👥 Elin Haugsgjerd Allern (ISV) & Vibeke Wøien Hansen @vibekewoien.bsky.social 🔎 Interest Groups in Norwegian Politics: Strategies, Access, and Influence 📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

📢 New article 👤 Sverke Runde Saxegaard @sverke.bsky.social 👉 Careful what you promise: Executive constraints and conflict recurrence 📗 Open Access in Journal of Peace Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0022...

📢 New book chapter 👥 Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social (ISV) & Lars H. Gulbrandsen 🔎 Paradoxes of Twin Crises: Nature Protection and Climate Governance in Norway 📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

📢 New book chapter 👥 Elin Haugsgjerd Allern @allernelin.bsky.social, Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Kristoffer Kolltveit & Bjørn Erik Rasch 🔎 Introduction: Norway, A Stable Democracy in Flux 📗 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

📢 New article 👥 Miroslav Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social (ISV) and 3 others 👉 Public opinion and the welfare state: sources, processes, and consequences 📗 Published in Journal of European Public Policy 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

📢 New article 👥 Francesca R. Jensenius @fr-jensenius.bsky.social (ISV) and 3 others 👉 Indian election data for polling stations and villages: National elections 2009–2019 📗 Open Access in Scientific Data 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

📢 New article 👥 Mathilde B. Mjelva (ISV), Francesca R. Jensenius @fr-jensenius.bsky.social (ISV) and 2 others 👉 Beyond Hate Speech: Online Rumors and Out-Group Resentment in Divided Societies 📗 Open Access in Comparative Political Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Congratulations to @torewig.bsky.social on receiving an ERC Consolidator Grant!🌟His project, "Authoritarian Threats to Scientific Knowledge (AutoKnow)," will examine how authoritarian rule affects scientific knowledge production. www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...

📢 New book chapter 👥 Kristoffer Kolltveit (ISV) & Jarle Trondal 🔎 The Norwegian Central Government: A Robust Yet Adaptive Apparatus 📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

📢 New book chapter 👤 Ari Mamshae 🔎 Persistent patronage and a dynamic regime: bureaucratic politicization in Iraq. 📖 Published in Handbook of Politicization and Political Patronage 🔗 doi.org/10.4337/9781...

📢 New article 👥 Johan Lindholm, Mattias Derlén og Daniel Naurin @dnaurin.bsky.social (ISV) 👉 A Source-Based Theory of Variation in Judicial Reasoning: Evidence from Sweden 📗 Open Access in Journal of Law & Empirical Analysis 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2755...

📢 New article 👥 Jacob Aars, Tobis Bach @tobiasbach.bsky.social (ISV), & Jarle Trondal 👉 The value of paired and longitudinal surveys in public administration research 📗 Open Access in International Review of Administrative Sciences 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0020...

On December 11, 2025, Sofi Granö will defend her PhD thesis “Economic inequality and electoral participation: A register-based study on the effects of contextual factors and economic disparities in Norwegian neighbourhoods”. For time and place, see 👇 www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...

On December 10, 2025, Tor Syrstad will defend his PhD thesis “Trouble in Paradise? - Studies on Fear and Anger in the Norwegian Electorate”. For time and place, see 👇 www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...

📢 New Article 👥 Daniel Alexander Novick Goldstein @daniel-a-n-goldstein.com (ISV) & Drew Stommes 👉 Who Should Fight? Experimental Evidence on Policy Corrections to the Unequal Costs of US Wars 📗 Open Access in International Studies Quarterly 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

📢 New Article 👥 Eli Sofie Baltzersen @elibaltz.bsky.social (ISV), Francesca R. Jensenius @fr-jensenius.bsky.social (ISV), & Øyvind Søraas Skorge 👉 State Action and Moral Attitudes toward Sexual Consent 📗 Published in The Journal of Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1086/737554

📢 New article 👥 Rune Karlsen, Kristoffer Kolltveit (ISV), and Øyvind Bugge Solheim 👉 Balancing Acts: The Communicative Roles of Cabinet Ministers on Social Media 📗 Open Access in Media and Communication 🔗 doi.org/10.17645/mac...

📢 New Article 👥 Vegard Tørstad @vegardtorstad.bsky.social (ISV), Jon Hovi, & Håkon Grøn Sælen 👉 Does Distributive Conflict Explain Variation in Green Stimulus Spending? 📗 Published in Regulation & Governance 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/rego...

📢 New article 🌟 👤 Amalie Nilsen @amalienilsen.bsky.social 👉 From the streets to the ballots: protests, polls and polarization in Hong Kong 📗Open Access in: Democratization 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1351...

Ser frem til å innlede til dette frokostmøtet sammem med @chknutsen.bsky.social om demokratiets motstandskraft i møte med det ekstreme i regi av @crexuio.bsky.social og CIR forskergruppen ved @statsvitenskap.bsky.social www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/aktuel...

On November 11, 2025, @kaeggen.bsky.social will defend her PhD thesis “Russia’s Contemporary Grand Strategy: The Use of Information and Other Unconventional Means Towards the Nordic Region”. The defense is open to anyone interested. For time and place, see 👇 www.sv.uio.no/isv/forsknin...

On November 7, 2025, Solveig Bjørkholt @sunny369.bsky.social will defend her PhD thesis “The Politics of International Standardization”. The defense is open to anyone interested. For time and place, see 👇 www.sv.uio.no/isv/forsknin...

📣CfA for 1-2 Postdoctoral Fellow Positions in political science (3-4 years) as part of the ERC project “Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy” (GETGOV) - PI Jacob Nyrup. The application deadline is November 17, 2025. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

📣CfA for 1-2 PhD Research Fellow Positions (3-4 years) in political science as part of the ERC project “Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy” (GETGOV) - PI Jacob Nyrup. The application deadline is November 24, 2025. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Tom Christensen (ISV) & Per Lægreid 👉 Cabinet Turbulence and Political Scandals— Accountability Under Pressure 📗 Published in Scandinavian Political Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.70014

📢 New article 👥 Tian Xiaolong, Ma Liang & Tom Christensen (ISV) 👉 Why did China persist with a zero-COVID policy? A cultural interpretation of Confucianism 📗 Published in Public Policy and Administration 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/09520767251360124

📢 New article 👥 Meng Qingguo, Chen Xiaoyang, Chen Sicheng & Tom Christensen (ISV) 👉 Reputation management and communication under political control: The case of China’s central bank 📗 Published in International Public Management Journal 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2025.2503830

On October 13, 2025, Palina Kolvani @palinakolvani.bsky.social will defend her PhD thesis “The State of Numbers: Political Economy of Official Statistics”. The defense is open to anyone interested. For time and place, see 👇 www.sv.uio.no/isv/forsknin...

ISV’s Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social receives 12 million NOK from the RCN program 'Welfare and Education' for the research project 'Struggling Women and Men: Political-Democratic Gender Gaps in a High-Trust Welfare State.'🌟👏Congratulations! www.sv.uio.no/isv/om/aktue...

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Ma Liang, Liu Weixing, Chen Sicheng & Tom Christensen (ISV) 🔎 Where you are matters: Network position, designed network, and central government agency termination 📗 Published in Public Administration 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/padm...

Congratulations to @jacobnyrup.bsky.social on receiving an ERC Starting Grant! His project, "Governing Elites Since the Dawn of Modern Democracy (GETGOV)," will examine how democratization changes governing elite composition and its effects on policies and outcomes. www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...

Five days left to apply for this PhD fellow position!👇

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Jacob Nyrup @jacobnyrup.bsky.social (ISV) and five co-authors 🔎 Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality? Evidence from the United Kingdom 📗 Published in World Politics doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

📢 New book chapter 🌟 👥 Tobias Bach @tobiasbach.bsky.social (ISV), Bjørn Mo Forum @bjornforum.bsky.social (ISV) & Stine Hesstvedt 🔎 Norway: formal and informal politicization in a merit bureaucracy 📗 Published in Handbook of Politicization and Political Patronage. Edward Elgar Publishing.

📢 New book chapter 🌟 👥 Jostein Askim (ISV), Tobias Bach @tobiasbach.bsky.social (ISV) & Jørgen Grønnegård Christensen 🔎 Quiet politicization in Northern Europe 📗 Published in Handbook of Politicization and Political Patronage. Edward Elgar Publishing.

📢 New article 🌟 👤 Helena Seibicke 🔎 The Institutional Design of Scientific Advisory Boards on Climate Change: A Comparison at the Intergovernmental, Supranational, and National Level 📖 Open access in Global Challenges doi.org/10.1002/gch2...

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Constantin Kaplaner @kaplaner.bsky.social , Cristoph Knill & Yves Steinbach (ISV) 🔎 Administrative Overload and Policy Triage: Causal evidence from the Introduction of the Acid Rain Program in the United States 📖 Open access in JPART doi.org/10.1093/jopa...

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Yves Steinbach (ISV), Cristoph Knill & Mattia Casula 🔎 Policy Growth and Its Impacts on Policy Implementation: Changes, Challenges and Chances 📗 Published in Regulation & Governance doi.org/10.1111/rego...

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Vilde Lunnan Djuve @vldjuve.bsky.social & Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social 🔎 Citizen Action and Elite Responses: Opposition Mass Movements and Regime Change From Within, 1900–2019 📖 Open access in Journal of Conflict Resolution doi.org/10.1177/0022...

📢 New article 👥 @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social, @haakongjerlw.bsky.social & @liserakner.bsky.social 🔎 The politics of litigating and adjudicating electoral disputes: Evidence from Zambia. 📖 Open access In Electoral Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

📢 New article 👥 @mariannedahl.bsky.social , Mauricio Rivera Celestino & Scott Gates 🔎 Disaggregating Defection: Dissent Campaign Strategies and Security Force Disloyalty. 📖 Open access In Journal of Conflict Resolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0022...

📢 New article 👥 @philippbroniecki.bsky.social & @bjornhoyland.bsky.social land 🔎 What Unites the Right in the European Parliament? 📖 Open access In European Union Politics. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1465...

📢 New article 👥 Hallvard Hodne Sandven 🔎 Is residence at the core of subjection? 📖 Open access In Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP) 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...

📢 New book chapter 👥 Jan Erling Klausen & Marte Winsvold 🔎 Leger tiden alle sår? Om velgernes oppfatning av kommunereformen noen år i etterkant. 📖 Published with open access in Lokalvalgene 2023: maktforskyvning og normalisering 🔗 doi.org/10.23865/cdf...

📢 New article 👥 @philippbroniecki.bsky.social , Lukas Obholzer & Christine Reh 🔎 Legislation Against the Odds: Overcoming Ideological Gridlock in EU Decision-Making. 📖 Open access in Legislative Studies Quarterly 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/lsq....

📢 New article 👥 Xavier Fernández-I-Marín, Markus Hinterleitner, @cknill.bsky.social & Yves Steinebach 🔎 When Less Means More: Policy Accumulation, Administrative Capacities, and Policy Performance. 📖 In The Economists` Voice 🔗 doi.org/10.1515/ev-2...

📢 New book chapter 🌟 👥 Kaja Sparre Bakke @kajbak.bsky.social (ISV) and three other co-authors 🔎 Women Ambassadors in the UN Security Council: Are They Shaping the Practice of Diplomacy? 📗 Published in Gender and Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social and Tamta Gelashvili @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social (ISV) 🔎 How can institutions better support researchers? The case of extremism and terrorism research 📗 Open access in Qualitative Research doi.org/10.1177/1468...