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! 😇

🌟 New article 🇱🇹🇵🇱🇷🇴 👥 @ibenskasr.bsky.social‬ @paulinasl.bsky.social @sonagolder.bsky.social @allansikk.bsky.social 👉 Independents in Parliament: Temporary Status or Final Destination? 📗 Open access in: Legislative Studies Quarterly 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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....

📢 New article 🌟 👥 ‪Adriana Bunea‬ & ‪Idunn Nørbech‬ 👉 Do government invitations to consultations shape stakeholder participation in public policymaking? 📗 European Journal of Political Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1475...

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/...

Doru Frantescu, CEO of EUMatrix (and former director and co-founder fo VoteWatch) came from Brussels to give a talk on EU policymaking in practice to our students in the course EUR105 European Union Institutions, Politics, and Policies. Many thanks!

Great day at SAMPOL: enjoying the visit and presentation of Professor Jonas Tallberg! Thank you for your inspiring presence @jonastallberg.bsky.social !

A real treat to visit Bergen and @sampol.bsky.social for a talk and great conversations about democracy, autocracy, and international cooperation!

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American media in particular need to stop equivocating and speaking in euphemism and tell Americans that they are aligned with Russia now. They owe the people that honesty.

Our 2024 article now with a 2025 JEPP volume and issue number! A story about mapping the policy space of public consultations organised by the European Commission!

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

Big congrats to Il Biondo Fantastico @ibenskasr.bsky.social and the American Viking @jonathanpolk.bsky.social for their new @jeppjournal.bsky.social article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Bravo bravissimo! #On behalf of Porte-parole of the Bunea-Ibenskas house! :)

A massive, coordinated expensive Tik-Tok promotion campaign helped a pro- Russian candidate in Romanian presidential elections. He declared he spent no money on the campaign... www.bbc.com/news/article...

SAMPOL seminar today with Professor John Boswell, University of Southampton, talking about Whitehall’s response to the Brexit vote and how the experience of individual and collective emotions coloured the work of British government in delivering Brexit. Thanks for an interesting presentation!

The Call for Papers for EPSA XV, June 26-28 June, Madrid is now open! Proposal Submission Deadline: December 18, 2024 Proposals can be submitted via coms.app/epsa2025/wel...

The blessings of having two social media accounts: you get to celebrate published articles twice! 😇

Come join us! We currently have 3 vacant positions: • Postdoc ConFront project ⏳ 7 February tinyurl.com/y2hfd2zf • Associate Professor all fields/methodological approaches in comparative politics ⏳ 28 February tinyurl.com/2f8v5sh3 • Associate Professor Arctic Politics ⏳ 20 March tinyurl.com/2b8jry5s

@sonagolder.bsky.social and I are organising a workshop on conflict in parliamentary parties at the June 2024 Nordic PolSci conf. in Bergen. Submit proposals to @sonagolder.bsky.social and @ibenskasr.bsky.social by January 12th! More info: www.nopsa2024.no

Deadline extension to Jan 12! Also, there are travel grants for PhD students affiliated with Nordic universities (more info at www.nopsa2024.no.)

How interesting...

Attn polisky scholars of parties, parliaments & political behavior: Raimondas Ibenskas & I are organizing a workshop on conflict in parliamentary parties @ the June 2024 Nordic PolSci conf. in Bergen. Submit proposals to @ibenskasr.bsky.social & @sonagolder.bsky.social by 15 Dec! www.nopsa2024.no

The sweetest of the sweetest R-lovers & departmental colleagues!

What a fantastic line-up of international guests!

Fun day at SAMPOL!

Big day at UiB & SAMPOL!

Romania outperforms Hungary on one of the most important economic indicators Over the last ten years, Romania has been catching up with the EU average 2.5 times faster than Hungary.

Sampol Seminar today with Ken Benoit, LSE, giving a talk entitled “Predicting Left-Right Positions from Hand-Coded Content Analysis Using Machine Learning”.

Great company to keep at Leiden!