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Political Science Professor, Univ of Oslo. Democracy and discontent in European welfare states.
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"Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change: Democratic Linkage and Leadership Under Pressure"
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, co-authored with Achim Goerres
@emppolitikwiss.bsky.social
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Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change: Democratic Linkage and Leadership Under Pressure
Abstract. For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater need and more insecure re
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about 1 year ago
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Carmen van Alebeek
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New paper out w/
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&
@hakhverdian.bsky.social
in
@epsrjournal.bsky.social
. We show that political trust dynamics matter for electoral behavior. While stable and variable distrusters behave similarly, declining trust boosts both abstention and anti-establishment voting. 🧵
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Gratulerer med dagen der ute
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UiO - Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet
24 days ago
On December 10th Master in Political Science and Cand. Psychol. Tor Syrstad will be defending his dissertation at the Department of Political Science: "Trouble in Paradise? - Studies on Fear and Anger in the Norwegian Electorate"
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Disputation Tor Syrstad - Department of Political Science
Master in Political Science and Cand. Psychol. Tor Syrstad will be defending his dissertation at the Department of Political Science:Trouble in Paradise? - Studies on Fear and Anger in the Norwegian E...
https://www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/research/news-and-events/events/disputations/2025/Disputation%20Tor%20Syrstad.html
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UiO - Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet
25 days ago
On December 11th Sofi Granö will be defending her dissertation at
@statsvitenskap.bsky.social
. "Economic inequality and electoral participation: A register-based study on the effects of contextual factors and economic disparities in Norwegian neighbourhoods."
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Disputation Sofi Granö - Department of Political Science
Master of Social Sciences in Political Science Sofi Granö will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science:Economic inequality and electoral participation: A register-based st...
https://www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/research/news-and-events/events/disputations/2025/disputation-Sofi-Granö.html
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Elin Haugsgjerd Allern
about 2 months ago
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🧵
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Miroslav Nemčok
about 2 months ago
Our introduction to to the special issue on the formation of public opinion in the welfare state is now out in the
@jeppjournal.bsky.social
! 📖 Freely available:
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
A big thanks to Zhen Jie Im, Maria Grasso, and Franco Bonomi Bezzo for outstanding co-editorship.
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Peter Egge Langsæther
almost 2 years ago
Excited to share a glimpse of my book on party families via LSE European Politics and Policy! The book delves into the heart of what constitutes a party family, offer updated categorisations, contemporary descriptions, and an insight into their supporters.
#polisky
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Why we should rethink how we categorise party families in western Europe
It is common to refer to party families such as “social democrats” and the “radical right” when discussing European politics. Drawing on a new book, Peter Egge Langsæther writes that while th...
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2024/01/03/why-we-should-rethink-how-we-categorise-party-families-in-western-europe/
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Dr. Silke Goubin
2 months ago
Shout-out to all
#PoliticalTrust
researchers interested in attending the first
@epssnet.bsky.social
conference in
#Belfast
@annakern.bsky.social
,
@danjdevine.bsky.social
,
@cvalebeek.bsky.social
,
@hannesbey.bsky.social
and I are coordinating 3 trust panels!
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
2 months ago
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...
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Staffan Kumlin får Forskingsrådsmidler for å se på politiske og demokratiske kjønnsforskjeller - Institutt for statsvitenskap (ISV)
Med 12 millioner kroner fra Forskningsrådet vil Staffan Kumlin på Institutt for statsvitenskap forske på politiske og demokratiske kjønnsforskjeller. Han vil blant annet ta for seg hvordan utdanning, ...
https://www.sv.uio.no/isv/om/aktuelt/aktuelle-saker/2025/nfr-midler-til-kumlin.html
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Jonas Linde
3 months ago
New chapter on political trust in Norway, co-authored with
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Lisanne de Blok
3 months ago
Finding: political trust can influence how people experience socio-economic risks 💡 In our article in
@joftrustres.bsky.social
, Atle Haugsgjerd & I show that political trust works as a psychological coping-mechanism - especially for those who believe the welfare state should manage economic risks.
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
4 months ago
📢 New article 🌟 👥 Miroslav Kreos-Nemcok
@miroslavnemcok.bsky.social
(ISV), Hanna Wass
@hannawass.bsky.social
& Juho Vesa 🔎 Partisan Influence on Policy Preferences in Retrenching the Welfare State 📖 Open access in Public Opinion Quarterly
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Miroslav Nemčok
4 months ago
As global population growth starts to hit the brakes, Rein Taagepera and I consider what this means for our future and look for lessons from the past. 🔽👇⬇️
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
5 months ago
📣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...
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PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479) | University of Oslo
Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, September 1, 2025
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/282479/phd-research-fellowship-in-political-science-4-years
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Political Studies
5 months ago
Do generous welfare policies foster political trust? Matthijs Gillissen,
@silkegoubin.bsky.social
& Anna Ruelens examine the long-term effects of welfare generosity on trust in political institutions. Read more:
buff.ly/tBe6gLG
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@uoypolitics.bsky.social
@sagepub.com
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Empirical Political Science #Duisburg
5 months ago
Later that day, he will present “The Causal Effects of Poor and Corrupt Welfare State Service Delivery on Political Solidarity and Political Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Novel Virtual-State Approach” (co-authored with Achim Goerres, Philipp Chapkovski and
@jeicheler.bsky.social
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Anna Helgøy
6 months ago
Really honored to be awarded the King’s Gold Medal for my dissertation! You can read more about it below, and then I want to add that I was incredibly lucky with my workplace, colleagues, co-authors and supervisors during my PhD<3 feeling grateful!!
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Anna Nordnes Helgøy awarded the King's Gold Medal for dissertation on gender division in private and public spheres - Department of Political Science
– It is a great honour to receive recognition for a doctoral dissertation on gender equality at a time when the American president is actively working against research in this field, says Anna Nordnes...
https://www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/about/news-and-events/news/2025/gold-medal-to-nordnes-helgoy.html
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
7 months ago
📢 New article 👥 Tor Gaute Syrstad, Atle Hennum Haugsgjerd & Staffan Kumlin,
staffankumlin.bsky.social
. 🔎 Iceberg of discontent? Emotional responses to welfare state development and political trust. 📖 Open access in Journal of European Social Policy 🔗
doi.org/10.1177/0958...
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The Politics of Inequality
8 months ago
First Wednesday of the month – time for a new In_equality podcast! This time, our hosts
@mbusemeyer.bsky.social
and Gabriele Spilker
@uni-konstanz.de
talk with
@juandiego48cr.bsky.social
about how people (mis-)perceive inequality – and why it matters for politics. ➡️
inequality.uni.kn/podcast
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Interested in how public services affect political distrust, populist support, and similar? Longitudinal evidence from Germany and Norway.
doi.org/10.1080/1471...
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Welfare state evaluations, normative expectations, and political trust: longitudinal evidence from Germany and Norway
The expectancy-disconfirmation model (EDM) explains satisfaction with public services as a combination of service expectations and perceived performance. We study how satisfaction in turn affects p...
https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2023.2297292
8 months ago
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Sunny Saarland days. Very enjoyable!
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9 months ago
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Peter Egge Langsæther
9 months ago
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. 🧵
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The gendered long‐term consequences of automation risk on electoral behaviour: Evidence from Norway
We examine long-run effects of automation risk on turnout. We expect gendered negative effects because men's turnout is more sensitive to job loss and earnings, but negative effects might be offset b...
https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.70010
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Peter Egge Langsæther
10 months ago
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.
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Anna Helgøy
10 months ago
New article w brilliant
@anacweeks.bsky.social
on the mental load and effects on public participation out in
@bjpols.bsky.social
! Ana summarizes the article nicely in the thread below 👇
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Arno Van Hootegem 🌱
10 months ago
Happy to see my new paper out in
@jeppjournal.bsky.social
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
11 months ago
One week left to apply for this postdoctoral fellow position!👇
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Political trust is likely in global decline. What are the consequences? Our experiment suggests low-trusters more often accept info saying immigration threatens the welfare state. Trust matters more than most economic, cultural, and contextual factors - with
@finseraas.bsky.social
& Atle Haugsgjerd
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Immigration and welfare state sustainability: whose perception is affected by fiscal cost cues?
Who reacts politically to fiscally costly immigration? A political economy tradition holds that reactions depend on economic self-interest, whereas a social psychology tradition emphasizes generali...
https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2166572
11 months ago
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Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers
11 months ago
Follow this pack to connect with interesting people and learn about social policy.
go.bsky.app/AvJWyV4
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Stoler vi på velferdsstaten? Ikke nødvendigvis. Uttaler meg i
@mentaltperspektiv.bsky.social
@unioslo-svfak.bsky.social
@statsvitenskap.bsky.social
mentaltperspektiv.no/aktuelt/velf...
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Velferdsspleisen - Mentalt Perspektiv
Alle pengene går til å få betalt privat psykolog og utredninger. Håper på å få hjelp til å få snakket med en privat psykolog og...
https://mentaltperspektiv.no/aktuelt/velferdsspleisen/
11 months ago
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Elin Haugsgjerd Allern
11 months ago
Six days left to apply!👇
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Johanna Söderström
11 months ago
Finally out! Together with
@liserakner.bsky.social
we discuss notions around taxation and solidarity! “Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries”
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Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries | The Journal of Modern African Studies | Cambridge Core
Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries - Volume 62 Issue 2
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-modern-african-studies/article/imagined-solidarity-around-tax-practices-a-twodimensional-framework-based-on-motivating-logic-and-group-boundaries/603BC2E90D84D75C66A05873EBC9732D?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
11 months ago
📢 New article 🌟 👥 Jean-François Daoust
@jfdaoust.bsky.social
, Miroslav Nemcok
@miroslavnemcok.bsky.social
, Philipp Christian Broniecki & Peter J. Loewen 🔎 Reassessing the winner-loser gap in satisfaction with democracy 📖 Open access in PLOS ONE
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Tobias Tober
about 1 year ago
Excited to share a new publication with Sharon Baute! In our latest paper
@bjpols.bsky.social
, we explore how the growing educational divide in EU support is partly shaped by European institutional integration itself. Check it out here, it's open access:
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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥
about 1 year ago
University of Oslo is hiring 2-4(!) Associate Professors in Political Science. The call is open to candidates from all subfields. Deadline is February 3rd. It comes with amazing colleagues, great work conditions, and lots of snow. Brown cheese, salmon, and cross-country skis can be supplementary.
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2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034) | University of Oslo
Job title: 2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/271034/2-4-associate-professors-in-political-science
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about 1 year ago
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Welcome!
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about 1 year ago
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Arno Van Hootegem 🌱
about 1 year ago
New article in Journal of Social Policy with the amazing
@annanhelgoy.bsky.social
. We ask: What explains preferences for different types of family policy? We find: Justice perceptions on the division of physical, but not mental, household labour do!
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The formation of family policy attitudes: the role of justice perceptions in the division of household labour | Journal of Social Policy | Cambridge Core
The formation of family policy attitudes: the role of justice perceptions in the division of household labour
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-social-policy/article/formation-of-family-policy-attitudes-the-role-of-justice-perceptions-in-the-division-of-household-labour/D0C1A181945C6926EF13592C01D7E756#
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Anna Helgøy
about 1 year ago
Super happy to my paper on feminized part-time work in Norway published! Below is a thread of what I find — it’s a complex issue with some complex, yet very interesting results, so buckle up.
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"Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change: Democratic Linkage and Leadership Under Pressure"
academic.oup.com/book/44051
, co-authored with Achim Goerres
@emppolitikwiss.bsky.social
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Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change: Democratic Linkage and Leadership Under Pressure
Abstract. For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater need and more insecure re
https://academic.oup.com/book/44051
about 1 year ago
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Trust in Thessaloniki. Section by
@tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social
and Ben Seyd with a whopping 8 panels on political trust. Will chair 1. Hope to see you there!
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about 1 year ago
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Journal of Public Policy
over 1 year ago
A new interesting article by
@staffankumlin.bsky.social
and
@miroslavnemcok.bsky.social
is now available on our FirstView page. It is entitled “Perceiving welfare state sustainability: fiscal costs, group deservingness, or ideology?”. Enjoy it here:
t.ly/WLWkW
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Miroslav Nemčok
almost 2 years ago
1/ Curious about the influence of public services on political distrust and populist support? Check out our latest article in Public Management Review featuring
@arnovanhootegem.bsky.social
and
@staffankumlin.bsky.social
, all from UiOslo
doi.org/10.1080/1471...
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