Methods don’t make meaning. Theory does. Better methods won’t eradicate the slot machine. Put the tools to the use of theory. Thanks to @lseimpactblog.bsky.social for featuring my post. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

👤 @vibekewoien.bsky.social & @liserodland.bsky.social : Explaining interest group position-taking across partisan policy dimensions 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Friends, my article w/ @silje-hermansen.bsky.social and @louisabo.bsky.social on how/why the "have nots" come out ahead in litigation @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! We propose a theory of judicial leveling & spotlighting to explain these contrarian results: take a look!

Very proud to have been a part of this project and to see my first co-authored article out in the world! Read @jacobnyrup.bsky.social excellent thread for more info on the data! 🥳

📣 New chapter 🌟 👥 Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social & Idunn Nørbech @norbidunn.bsky.social 📘 Public Policymaking and Stakeholder Consultations in Norway 📚 The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics, eds Kolltveit, Allern, Braut-Hegghammer & Rasch 🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Our article on how government invitations impact the levels and diversity of participation in online public consultations is now out with an issue number! Data from our favourite country: awesome Norway! 😇

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI. We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research! Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Super excited to finally see this project out in the wild! What a journey it's been! Looking forward to see how people will use this awesome data. See thread below for more details from @jacobnyrup.bsky.social.

Paths to Power (PtP) is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! It is a database with data on cabinet members' social profile globally from 1966-2021. This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏 A short 🧵

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

Does lobbying access actually mean lobbying influence? In our new @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper we try to answer this key question in interest group politics and lobbying by exploring models of access = influence translation. Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... is #OA

❇️ Check out our new OA article in the BJPS! You'll find everything you love (hate?) like public perceptions of climate policy risk, IO backlash, devolution concerns, and trust politics in the UK. Tldr: climate blacklash should be read through regional lenses. Past thread: bsky.app/profile/fgen...

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...

I am happy to see that Maiken Røed's, Vibeke Wøien Hansen's (@vibekewoien.bsky.social), and my paper on the relationship between party-interest group ties and political influence is one of the highly viewed articles in @polstudies.bsky.social Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/h7NaH4Y

What are the political effects of organizational ties between parties & interest groups? Maiken Røed, @allernelin.bsky.social & @vibekewoien.bsky.social examine the relationship between party-interest group ties & political influence. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/h7NaH4Y #PSHighlyViewed 6/10 #polsci

🚨 New paper in Science Advances @science.org Can changing how we argue about politics online improve the quality of replies we get? T HeideJorgensen, @gregoryeady.bsky.social & I use an LLM to manipulate counter-arguments to see how people respond to different approaches to arguments Thread 🧵1/n

Our letter @philippbroniecki.bsky.social on what unites the right in the European Parliament is out in @eupthejournal.bsky.social , journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 w/ @chrishillion.bsky.social & @ascherz.bsky.social! How can governments restore liberal democracy after a period of democratic erosion? We theorize "democratic frontsliding" & how obstructions to frontsliding can be overcome, using Poland/the EU as a case: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Thrilled that our article is published open access @annualreviews.bsky.social! We review recent strides in the study of lobbying & flesh out 1) transaction, 2) persuasion and 3) mobilisation mechanisms with @garlicksauce.bsky.social & @heathbrown.bsky.social www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

New paper alert 😄 ! Mauricio Rivera Celestino, Scott Gates and I have a paper out in the Journal of Conflict Resolution: lnkd.in/gzqYuTmN! The work began in 2017 as part of the Street-Level Autocrat project. Since then, children have been born, data collected, and now, the article is finally out:

@vibekewoien.bsky.social Mjelde, Saglie & Segaard study the relationship between local party branches & councillors in Norway 💡Key findings: 1️⃣Work in local party branches & in the council is integrated 2️⃣Left-leaning parties ➡️ more likely to be involved in council work doi.org/10.1111/spsr...

Out now! The introduction to our Special Issue on Party Politics at the Local Level with @rafreuse.bsky.social @christinajuen.bsky.social @martingross.bsky.social and Michael Jankowski onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

💥Very happy & proud that the Special Issue "Party Politics at the Local Level" has found such an excellent home @spsr.bsky.social Huge thanks to my co-editors @christinajuen.bsky.social @rafreuse.bsky.social @simonotjes.bsky.social & @cerpintaxt.bsky.social A 🧵on the SI contributions:

Delighted to see our paper on how government invitations shape stakeholder participation in public consultations published in EJPR! Part of my @erc.europa.eu project CONSULTATIONEFFECTS. Co-authored with @norbidunn.bsky.social . 🙌 Open access!😇 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Why do interest organizations network with their opponents? @marcelhanegraaff.bsky.social, Andrea Pritoni, @wmjunk.bsky.social & @michelecrepaz.bsky.social examine the logic of brokerage. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/qWmDNXp @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsci

So proud of this article "Between class conflict and culture war How left-right self-positioning reflects elite conflict and social-economic context" Slaven Zivkovic, @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social & I study when left & right have an economic or cultural meaning 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 New article 👥 @liserodland.bsky.social, @vibekewoien.bsky.social & @allernelin.bsky.social 🔎 Party Receptiveness to Interest Group Diversity: Evidence From Policymaking in Six European Democracies. 📖 Open access in Governance @govjournal.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove...

Working with "the enemy" is a wide-spread lobbying strategy! In our new article, we study the logic of brokerage & how brokers between opposing policy positions can secure advantages in lobbying. doi.org/10.1177/0032... with @marcelhanegraaff.bsky.social Andrea Pritoni & @michelecrepaz.bsky.social

Apply! Vacant position 👉🏼 2 yrs (100%) survey methods and gender representation, University of Bergen. My ERC project on political career, gender dynamics and political inclusion. Great team, exciting opportunities. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

*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

So excited our beautiful article is out!

Thrilled to publish "Does public participation foster stakeholder support for policy proposals? Evidence from the EU." in the Policy Studies Journal @psjeditor.bsky.social. Co-authored with @norbidunn.bsky.social. Part of my @erc.europa.eu. Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@stefaniereher.bsky.social and my recent article on 'Public Opinion towards Interest Groups' now appears in print in the European Journal of Political Research More on its contents in the 🧵 below @ecpr.bsky.social @ecprinterestgroups.bsky.social

Are lobbyists influential? The public sure thinks so, but applied political science since lobbying registration data emerged (late 90s) struggled to produce evidence that it does. In new review @wmjunk.bsky.social @heathbrown.bsky.social and I chart a wave of research showing that lobbying matters.

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....

Which groups get what they want without having to lobby? In this new article, we revisit theories about structural power & link them to patterns in preference attainment across 7 European countries & at EU level. With @michelecrepaz.bsky.social & Marcel Hanegraaff #InterCov @psjeditor.bsky.social

🥁The LOBBYMETRY project is hiring: 1 PostDoc & 1 fully-funded PhD 🥳 Come to beautiful Copenhagen to research lobbying, informational quality and public policy formulation! PostDoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli... Please spread the word & and do not hesitate to reach out with questions!

Støres regjering er balansert på kjønn. Men hvor er distriktene og arbeiderklassen? @nedregardoda.bsky.social, Henning og jeg skriver i DN om vårt paper som er under publisering Journal of Politics www.jon.fiva.no/docs/FivaNed... www.dn.no/innlegg/poli...

Also new @michelecrepaz.bsky.social and De Francesco "Incremental lobbying reform: the patchy case of Italy" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Still two weeks (and two days) left to apply to our workshop on political elites. Last year's workshop was great, and this year will be even better. It is possible to apply for funding to cover expenses. Find more information here (or just look at the picture below): bit.ly/WhoGovWorksh...

Here are some thoughts on both the root cause of DOGE and why the Congressional response is so tepid: the power of organized wealth. This is a problem we as a nation have confronted in the past and we must do so again. @3streamsblog.bsky.social medium.com/3streams/org...

Delighted that @gregoryeady.bsky.social and my paper "Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies" is now online @apsrjournal.bsky.social (Open access) More in this [1/14]

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....

Happy to announce that my first article is finally in print in Political Science and Research Methods (PSRM).

☀️ Join the @ecprinterestgroups.bsky.social Summer School and/or our Research Workshop! Let students and colleagues know 👇 📆 6 – 11 Jul 📍 Maastricht University ⏰ Apply by Tue 8 Apr ecpr.eu/Events/324

Delighted to see our paper out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social! As always, it was great to work again with Florian and Raimondas!

Can citizen action translate into incumbents changing their regimes from within? @chknutsen.bsky.social and I find that the answer is yes in our latest piece, “Citizen Action and Elite Responses: Opposition Mass Movements and Regime Change From Within”, now out in JCR: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Be part of the @leverhulme.bsky.social Climate Vulnerability team 🚀 I’m looking for a 2-year postdoc to join my group at @politicsoxford.bsky.social. Apply if you’re an empirically minded junior researcher who just finished or abt to finish a PhD! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ634/p... ⏰ midday Feb 26 ⏰

‘Bistand gir mer igjen pr. krone i form av liv reddet, menneskelig utvikling og utslippskutt enn noe vi kunne brukt det på i Norge. Men all bistand er ikke god bistand.’ I @aftenposten.no i dag setter @bardvegar.bsky.social og jeg skapet på plass ;) www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...