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

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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.

I will to add to this 🧵, but for now: We theorize how regime support coalition size & diversity shape regimes' abilities to ward off different threats (coups, revolutions, etc.) + report evidence that both size & diversity relate to longer-lived regimes. Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Are regimes with higher nr's of core supporters more durable? Are regimes with more diverse coalitions of supporters more durable? In this (published today) @cpsjournal.bsky.social article, @sirianned.bsky.social , @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social , and @torewig.bsky.social I answer "Yes" to both Qs.

We are really excited to welcome so many excellent scholars to Oslo for our WhoGov workshop/mini conference on political elites on September 1-2. If you are in or around Oslo and want to join for a session or a day, please reach out. You can find the program here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wp9m6...

NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Please share: @pavisuri.bsky.social and I are delighted to share details for the political economy of development section of @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 We welcome great work and fresh ideas! Please spread the word among interested colleagues not on here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

Always grateful that most people have more readable handwriting than I do...

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

Thinking about US gerrymandering stories in the news: A few years ago I published an article on "democracy by deterrence." Our motivating example was gerrymandering, examining tit-for-tat retaliation and how it can (or fail to) deter electoral tilting onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Trying to put together a list of restaurant & bar recs for friends coming to Vancouver (my hometown) for #APSA2025 has evolved into a ... slightly different project #polisky

Why do parties do what they do? Excited to share my 2nd dissertation paper, just published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social In the paper, I argue that parties seek internal unity and try to keep the team together: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/11 🧵

If you need to escape from current politics for a while, my co-author, Jørgen Møller, discusses our book "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, 1000-1500" on the New Books podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/the-catholic...

Det er alltid viktig å sette stemningen for metodeundervisningen i første forelesning.

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

Selv om jeg er generelt lunken både til big tech og norsk energipolitikk, synes jeg dette er spennende og positivt. Og ikke bare fordi jeg kommer fra Narvik (1/3) www.nrk.no/nordland/ake...

This book is a masterpiece of nonfiction storytelling.

Tourists and vacation homes are a great opportunity for the states that host them, the key thing is to think smart about how to use tax policy to make visitors win-win. www.slowboring.com/p/tax-the-to...

Det viktige spørsmålet til Frølich i Høyre er ikke hvilke studier som er tullestudier. Det viktige er hva han mener med mer detaljstyring av universitetene.

Finally, cold Norwegian proper academic weather is back!

Hard truths from @bengtssonz.bsky.social on the members of the middle classes (of which most academics today are members)

I’d appreciate academic-paper recommendations for my flight from Seoul to Helsinki. Feel free to suggest your own research alongside other authors’ work

I’d appreciate academic-paper recommendations for my flight from Seoul to Helsinki. Feel free to suggest your own research alongside other authors’ work

I will show how we randomised political power in Norwegian municipalities in about 20 minutes at IPSA and comment on two fantastic papers.

@magnusrasmussen.bsky.social, @chknutsen.bsky.social, @charasz.bsky.social, @deandulay.bsky.social, and I are closing down #IPSA with the last panel of the conference - come if you still have energy and want to see some intriguing projects using historical evidence in a variety of ways! ‪‪‪‪