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

Norway’s center-left Labor Party looks likely to win the country’s parliamentary election, with the center-right Conservative Party on track for one of its weakest performances in decades.

🚀 Ønsker du å jobbe med forskingsdata? No har du sjansen! 🚀 KODEM søker ein forskningsdatakoordinator – ei stilling for deg som vil jobbe med surveydata og forskarar frå heile Noreg. 📅 Søknadsfrist: 23. april 🔗 Les meir her: www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige... @unibergen.bsky.social

This, incidentally, is what happens when you politicise the bureaucracy and base appointments on personal loyalty to the leader. A complete degradation of governing capacity.

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4

What is happening with the civil service? Is merit still a guiding principle? Are consultants taking over? Will traditional civil servants still exist in the future? Chapters by M. Nistotskaya, @rosiecollington.bsky.social @tobiasbach.bsky.social A. Ritz G Ripoll, L. Micacchi lup.be/book/futures...

One week left to apply for this postdoctoral fellow position!👇

📣We are hiring! Please share! 👉2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science 🇳🇴 Department of Political Science, University of Oslo 📅 Deadline: February 3rd, 2025 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

📣We are hiring! Please share! 👉 Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science 🇳🇴 Department of Political Science, University of Oslo 📅 Deadline: February 15th, 2025. 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

📣CfA for a PhD Research Fellow Position (three years or four years incl. teaching) as part of the EU-funded Horizon Europe Consortium "Sustainable Public Administration in Modern Democracies" (SUPA) - PI Yves Steinebach. The application deadline is 4th February 2025. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

📢 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 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Leiden University is looking to hire an Assistant Professor of Public Policy, with a focus on digital governance www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

Come an work with us! Happy to answer questions. 👇🏻

Join our team! 🚨 We are hiring 2 postdocs for the new Advertising Democracy project at Aarhus University. We are looking for researchers who are passionate about advertisements & citizens’ democratic values in Western democracies. Feel free to share!👇🏾 bss.au.dk/en/about-aar...

Come and join us! We are recruiting a researcher (with PhD) for a three-year position as part of the EU-funded Horizon Europe Consortium "Sustainable Public Administration in Modern Democracies" (SUPA) - PI Yves Steinebach. The application deadline is 16 December 2024.

Can your research help us to better understand the role of the state in bringing down greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and/or how to ensure that emissions scenarios and pathways reflect this knowledge? If yes, join us for a workshop in Paris in May 2025. More info here: www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...

For the last four years I have been warning about Schedule F in the abstract, but now we are in the specific details. In a sane administration the lawyers would tell the President this is unlawful, and bureaucrats would not co-operate. Now they have to decide how far they will go before being fired.

📢 New book chapter 🌟 👥 Jostein Askim, Bjørn Mo Forum @bjornforum.bsky.social, Bent Sofus Tranøy @bentsofus.bsky.social 🔎 The party politics of policy endurance: parliamentary settlements in Norway 📖 Open Access in Pathways to Positive Public Administration, Edward Elgar 🔗 doi.org/10.4337/9781...

Less than 10 days left to apply for our PhD fellow positions!👇

📣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...

📣We are hiring! Please share! 👉Postdoc 3-4 years, part of the part of the project “Energy turbulence, the political response” 🇳🇴 Department of Political Science, University of Oslo 📅 Deadline: September 10th, 2024 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

📣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...

Want to work in an inspiring and young public administration research group? Come and join us! We are hiring one or more Assistant Professors (tenure track) and one or more Associate Professors in Public Administration. Application deadline: April 1, 2024.

We are planning the first WhoGov Workshop to be held in Oslo on the 29-30th of August 2024. We welcome all research using WhoGov in some capacity and we have funding to cover travel expenses for participants. Find the call for papers through the link or use the QR code: bit.ly/WhoGov_Workshop

Cutting UNRWA's funding means the end of the localization agenda in development aid. Organizations won't hire people from the community if that means risking their funding, and funders won't fund local organizations. conflictsky

The extended deadline for paper proposals ends this Friday 12th January 👇🏻 polisky

We are hiring! Postdoctoral Fellowship, 4 years, all sub-disciplines of Political Science, at Department of Political Science in Oslo, Norway. Application deadline 15th February. Happy to answer questions! More information 👇 polisky

Reminder that we are hiring a post-doctoral fellow in political science! The post-doc will develop and implement their own research related to the legal-political aspects of the domestic implementation of European law. Application deadline: 2 January 2024 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

We need a Latvian expert! Please spread widely!

Polisky hivemind: Does anyone know good resources for event data on the Russian-Ukrainian war?

New article - together with main author Stéphanie Verlinden (Antwerpen) and other colleagues, we find that civil servants who experienced many changes at their workplace display less proactive behaviour. We analyze two waves of a survey with agency employees - free access to the article 👇 polisky

Norge er et håpløst bakstreversk land på samferdselssektoren. Norske politikere vil at folk skal kjøre bil eller reise med fly. Jon Ivar Nygaard har satt seg fast i drømmen om elfly. Vi trenger moderne jernbane i dette landet! www.nrk.no/osloogviken/...

A few days left to apply for our NOPSA workshop-see below for more information 👇🏻

Exciting news! 🎉 Our @ecpr.bsky.social section on the Politics of Bureaucracy has been accepted for #ecprgc24! 📅 Submit your paper proposals by January 18. Details and tentative panel descriptions here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... 📍 Reach out to panel or section chairs for any inquiries!

The bravery and determination of the students and teachers in this story contrasted with the people who were supposed to protect them is a fucking gutpunch.

Nothing like seeing a print version of your writing! https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/opinion/trump-deep-state-schedule-f.html

We are hiring! 🌍  The #ClimatePolicy team led by @chflachsland.bsky.social is looking for a Doctoral Researcher/Research Associate in multi-level climate governance in Germany. Learn more here: hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

Jeg ble intervjuet om den nye kompetanse-hub'en SURVEY som kobler sammen IT og forskermiljøer ved flere fakulteter 👇

Turns out that people are actually interested in wonky explanations about how the administrative state matters

Veldig bra artikkel om Norsk medborgerpanel og hvordan det tenkes videre med flere paneler (forvaltningsansatte, politikere) som vil gi mulighet til bedre forskning på samfunnsutviklingen i Norge. 👇

Hvilke ny kunnskap vil gjøre det lettere å håndtere klimakrisen? Kom og diskuter med oss i kveld da vel!

@profmusgrave.bsky.social thanks for adding me to polisky

We invite paper proposals for the workshop “The politics of bureaucracy: New perspectives on politics and administration” at the NOPSA congress in Bergen (Norway) in June 2024. Please send your proposals by 15th December - more instructions below and here: www.nopsa2024.no @sog-rc27.bsky.social

@sog-rc27.bsky.social has joined BlueSky! Please follow for information on IPSA’s research committee on Structure and Organization of Government (SOG)! #PAsky #Policysky

If you are worried about Trump's plan to politicize the executive branch, here is a specific thing you can do: write a public comment supporting a proposed rule that would block Schedule F, Trump's executive order to turn career staff into at-will appointees. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

PostDoc in behavioral political science? I am looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (full-time, Salary Scale 13 TV-L, for an initial period of 3 years) at the SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy in Bremen. Please don‘t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions!

CfA now open at EUI for the fully-funded PhD program. Deadline is 31 January 24. www.eui.eu/en/services/...

Great to see NFR adjusted the requirements for mobility👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 khrono.no/endrer-utlys...

The Norwegian Research Council now requires a Norwegian MA or PhD to receive personal funding for research mobility. Another not-so-smart move to make Norwegian academia less attractive for international scholars. khrono.no/reagerte-med...

Yesterday we kicked off the COST Action ‘Comparative Research on the Executive Triangle in Europe’ or simply CoREx. Looking forward to working together on politico-administrative relations with an incredible group of colleagues from all over Europe and beyond.