@vldjuve.bsky.social og jeg har skrevet litt om formelle og uformelle regler og institusjoner i møte med anti-demokratiske bevegelser. Nå er et godt todsptidspunkt for å ta en titt på deler av det norske systemet. klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...

In over 99.5 percent of protest events in April and May, we recorded no injuries, arrests, or property damage — an unprecedentedly tiny fraction for a movement of this size and geographic dispersion.

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

Jeg lurer på hva som er en bedre grunn enn dette til å ikke syns at stemmeplikt er så viktig likevel. Siden hun har over 60% fravær over alle voteringer.

Incredible scenes from #Istanbul tonight where thousands of students are marching towards Şişli to protest against Erdogan.

1/3 A central question in institutional political science is, who governs? A central question in political sociology is, which social groups govern? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social , @chknutsen.bsky.social , @sirianned.bsky.social , @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social take a novel approach to these questions.

Neither could it have been done w.o. a common template for identifying regimes and providing experts relevant information about time periods and regimes to code. The underlying HRD data are described here by @vldjuve.bsky.social , @torewig.bsky.social and me: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Our data paper on the Regime Support and Opposition Groups data was just published in @bjpols.bsky.social ! Co-authored with @sirianned.bsky.social , @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social and @torewig.bsky.social Here comes a relatively long thread (as is appropriate for a long-term project)

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....

A dictatorship hosting another dictatorship to negotiate with an aspiring dictatorship about the future of a democracy that’s not represented.

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...

"Camus’ brand of pessimism is apt, simultaneously acknowledging that sense of being cosmically screwed while knowing that finding purpose, and even some kind of hopefulness, is possible in a world that promises nothing." www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

🚨 Only 3 weeks left to apply! 🚨 Postdoc position in Advertising Democracy. An excellent opportunity to join a dynamic team and do impactful research.

Maria Corina Machado is in hiding. Although her movement won the election, Venezuela's dictatorial president has not left office. Still, she told me, she's an optimist: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Are you planning to attend APSA 2025? I'm putting together a panel proposal on democratic backsliding, democratic resilience, and opposition to democratic backsliding for APSA with Erica Frantz. I'm looking for other authors and discussants with interests in those topics. Thanks in advance!!

with Tim Miller www.thebulwark.com/p/anne-apple...

We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunning military achievements in modern history.

📣1-3 PhD fellow positions 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, 2024 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

📣We are hiring! Please share! 👉Postdoc 3-4 years, part of the ERC Project “Systemic Effects of Crises on Policy-Making in Modern Democracies" 🇳🇴 Department of Political Science, University of Oslo 📅 Deadline: September 10th, 2024 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Erna Solberg har vært borte fra 96.9% av alle voteringene i Stortinget denne perioden. 32 ganger har hun stemt ja og 70 ganger nei. 3188 mulige voteringer. 30 representanter over 50% fravær. Legger ved snitt over parti i Rick & Morty theme.

New paper, coauthored with @sunny369.bsky.social, out in LSQ. We find very low levels of conflict between government and opposition in the Norwegian Parliament through sentiment analysis of WPQs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

On the fourth Sunday of advent we light a candle for peace ‘on this little earth.’ 2023 will not be peaceful, perhaps the least peaceful since WWii. Peace now! For Gaza, for Ukraine, for Sudan and for all the other overlooked, but not forgotten, places ‘where humans live’.

📣 Submission reminder! Workshop on Political Regimes, broadly defined, at next year's NoPSA! All paper stages and methodological approaches very welcome. Submit to me ([email protected]) and Lasse Leipziger ([email protected]) by Friday! More info: www.nopsa2024.no