Deadline for EPSS 2026 is this Friday!

🎓 New paper accepted today, on the intergenerational educational mobility among immigrants in Denmark! At first glance, immigrants seem more mobile than natives – but this is largely a data illusion. Poor register data quality drives the pattern. w/ @rlandersoe.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...

No-one has covered themselves in glory here. The authors made errors that shouldn't even be possible. The peer reviewers didn't spot the red flags. The journal wrote a clickbait press release. The journalists lapped it up. The editors failed to swiftly retract the paper.

I drafted a correlation heatmap package for Stata. Does something like this already exist? I want to make sure before I put more work into this.

NEW - Interstate Conflict Increases the Appeal of Undemocratic Candidates - https://cup.org/3Lx7bjx "undemocratic candidates are evaluated more positively under conflict compared to peace" - @kristianvsf.bsky.social & Lasse Laustsen #OpenAccess

Discussant duties completed…

Now April coffee roasters. Probably the closest to the Tokyo experience you can get outside of Tokyo.

Major disappointment even for danish coffee. Avoid at all cost.

I am back in the country of bitter and sour espresso.

Always important to remind our danish friends of what they have lost...

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...

Time to get dirty.

Micro-tape-data

Bakeriet credo ved national biblioteket lager en meget god espresso for bakeri å være.

Suksess.

This is a great opportunity! You’ll get to work with a fantastic team and be a member of Norway’s leading political science environment. Best of all, you’ll have a supportive and innovative supervisor—by all accounts.

Moreover, I have recently been awarded an ERC starting grant towards the project GETGOV to work further on this, so expect more data on cabinet members in the future. I am currently hiring two PhDs and two postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

From the local newspaper Lister (1899), this gem: Political economy. 12-year-old: “What is political economy, Dad?” Dad: “Never buy more votes than you strictly need.”

From the local newspaper Lister (1899), this gem: Political economy. 12-year-old: “What is political economy, Dad?” Dad: “Never buy more votes than you strictly need.”

Blast from the past

Happy to announce that I have been promoted to full professor in Political Science.

New APSR sure to spark discussion argues: Confederate monuments actually reduced violence against Black people historically & that their recent removals have increased anti-Black hate crimes Monuments "act as a substitute for performative violence in constructing a white supremacist social order"

Working on topics of Inequality and the #environment ? Join @sitestockholm.bsky.social workshop on Nov 28! Deadline October 15.

Are you interested in research on corruption/illicit finance/kleptocracy? We are hiring a Research Fellow at @acdatacollective.bsky.social: acdatacollective.org/wp-content/u... Please share in your networks, this could be a great gig.

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

Please submit to EPSS Belfast! @knalewajko.bsky.social and I are section chairs for HPE 👇 Deadline: November 7, 2025 Conference: June 18-20, 2026

Hello Darkness, Hello Friend, I have come to talk to you again..

Fantastisk at det i Oslo nå er mulig å ta buss, bane og trikk med barnevogn styrt med en hånd (kaffekopp i andre hånda 😅) Store framskritt med nye trikker, busser, holdeplasser og enkelte stasjonsoppgraderinger. Dette er investeringer som MDG virkelig kjempet for gjennom bompenger og prioritering!

It's now certain, but the rural-agrarian Centre Party, while suffering heavy losses, will be kingmakers in Parliament. Their leader underlines in his speech that no one can take them for granted - reminding Labour that the Centre party will require influence to not switch sides.

Seems like Labour will continue its minority government but with even more fragmented support base on the left. However still need to pay attention to the small parties hovering around the electoral threshold before we can say for sure

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...

Nå har det også kommer oppdaterte byindekser basert på trafikktellinger t.o.m. august. Dette er usikre tall, men det er tydelig at særlig Stavanger-området ligger dårlig an i forhold til nullvekstmålet. Ny bussvei kan kanskje hjelpe noe, men det trengs også restriktive tiltak.

Det er få ting som er så krevende som å utforme et enmannskretsbasert flertallssystem som ikke strider mot vår grunnleggende rettferdighetsforståelse.

Job! Two assistant/associate professors in educational sociology with a quantitative methods focus based either in Copenhagen or Aarhus dpu.au.dk/om-dpu/ledig...

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

Thanks to @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social for giving us the possibility to guest edit a special issue on "Political violence in democracies". Ursula Daxecker, @neerajprsd.bsky.social and I wrote an open access introduction: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Thanks to all authors of 14 articles!

Høyre druknet i det som skulle være en høyrebølge. Hva skjedde? Og trenger partiet en oppdatert forståelse av ansvarlighet? Her er Minervas post mortem for partiet som nå skal ledes av noen andre enn Erna Solberg. www.minerva.no/ansvarlighet...

Frp ser ut til å bli 1,5 prosentpoeng større enn H, KrF og V til sammen. Det var aldri noen teoretisk diskusjon at Listhaug kunne bli statsminister. Det var en reell fare. MDG over sperregrensen sikret at vi ikke får vår første høyrepopulistiske statsminister de neste fire årene.

Norway, 82% of the vote counted: Seat projection Ap-S&D: 53 (+5) FrP~ECR: 48 (+27) H-EPP: 24 (-12) Sp~RE: 10 (-18) SV~LEFT: 9 (-4) R~LEFT: 9 (+1) MDG-G/EFA: 7 (+4) KrF-EPP: 7 (+4) V-RE: 2 (-6) +/- vs. Last election ➤ europeelects.eu/norway

I have given in and started a Substack to write about illicit finance, development and data In my first post, I explain why we should be careful about citing the $312 billion statistic on the size of Chinese money laundering datadarkly.substack.com/p/exactly-ho...

📊 New dataset and paper alert! We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Below follows a 🧵

MDG ber velgere stemme taktisk for å passere sperregrensa (mdg.no/taktisk). Illustrasjonen 👇 er litt optimistisk, men viser en viktig diskontinuitet i valgsystemet. I 2021 ville 1720 flere stemmer til MDG gitt 4 ekstra mandater – tatt fra FrP (2), SV og H.

We just released version 3.1 of WhoGov, a global dataset on members of government from 1966-2023. The update fixes the mistakes that came to our attention while creating the Paths to Power dataset + mistakes users have notified us of More additions and updates to WhoGov are on their way, including:

Hvor mye skatt betaler vi egentlig?💰 SSB har regnet på det og finner at de rikeste betaler en langt lavere effektiv skattesats enn folk flest.

Teaching statistics 101 with some insights from Russell.

Cool thread! This is the kind of thing I’m in science bluesky for

To punish critics and to intimidate dissidents, the communist parties in the Soviet bloc would conduct raids on their apartments, searching for more pretexts to put them on show trials.