What makes technical expertise a legitimate source of authority? Trym Nohr Fjørtoft (@trymnf.com) examines “technical legitimacy”, proposing conditions under which expertise can justify delegation to non-majoritarian institutions. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/b3DAdu1 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #ECRs

My Technical Legitimacy piece is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social! Pretty happy with this one, where I try to sort out the common claim that neutrality and expertise may be sources of legitimacy for unelected bodies. ➡ doi.org/10.1177/0032...

My Technical Legitimacy piece is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social! Pretty happy with this one, where I try to sort out the common claim that neutrality and expertise may be sources of legitimacy for unelected bodies. ➡ doi.org/10.1177/0032...

i think powell's response here is a demonstration of the folly of the idea that democratic accountability requires presidential control. what if the president is not acting in the public interest? you want independent agencies to be able to push back and pursue their *congressional mandate*

Wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian: "Since migration has become the cornerstone of the current authoritarian turn, it is precisely around migration that resistance needs to form." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

They updated the website today to remove the word "independent" Before (left), after (right)

My paper "Technical Legitimacy" has just been accepted for publication in @polstudies.bsky.social. A preprint available here for those who just can't wait for the typeset version: www.trymnf.com/files/papers...

My paper "Technical Legitimacy" has just been accepted for publication in @polstudies.bsky.social. A preprint available here for those who just can't wait for the typeset version: www.trymnf.com/files/papers...

Rachel Carson, in giving advice to a high schooler who was going to debate Silent Spring, showed a better awareness than many contemporary Democrats of how an opponent will ascribe positions to you that you do not espouse in bad faith to win over a public too inattentive to check for themselves.

Ok, her har vi jo en ny KI-skandale. Og den innbefatter jo attpåtil Riksrevisjonen. De har gått helt god for et notat fra Menon (av alle steder) om at KI vil effektivisere staten med 155 000 årsverk. Hvordan Menon har kommet frem til tallet? Ved å spørre Chat GPT. www.scup.com/doi/10.18261...

I'm gonna try to articulate something I've been thinking about for a while, regarding *why* disillusionment, distrust, & dissatisfaction with democracy are rising. Almost everything I read takes this phenomenon as an exogenous shock, assuming no one chose to make it so. I suspect that's incomplete.

Hallvard is in @ethicsjournal.bsky.social !!! Feasibility, Sandven argues, is superfluous or moralised in normative discourse 🤔🤔 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Two new publications today, both in Publius: The Journal of Federalism. 🏗️ Why Do Americans Not Care about Interstate Barriers in Construction? doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjaf027 🍸 Federal Spirits: Single Markets and the Case of Spirits Drinks doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjaf033

Still not as bad as Microsoft Teams

Serbia, Sprint Insight poll: Scenario: joint government vs. student list Student list-*: 55% SNS/SPS+-EPP: 42% Fieldwork: 23 June - 05 July 2025 Sample size: 1458 ➤ europeelects.eu/serbia

This should be deeply embedded into everyone’s understanding: the pursuit of EU migration policy and the equivalent law-enforcement & surveillance agencies consistently violate the EU’s own laws. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate. Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics. We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

...endorsement of Putin's imperial war of conquest in Ukraine. Vučić, the autocratic leader of an EU candidate country, is siding with the EU's geopolitical adversary. This is a pretty black and white affair: the EU has to react with meaningful measures, beyond mere statements.

Aleksandar Vučić, treated by the EU as its closest ally in the Balkans, has arrived in Moscow to attend Putin's spectacle tomorrow, defying very clear warnings by EU leaders. Slovakia's Robert Fico is also expected to attend. With their presence, these leaders signal their endorsement of...

A footnote from David Miller, expressing highly recognisable reservations about the rise of the journal article.

Analysis | Trump is finally giving us the recession that Biden could never deliver.

Man, just LOOK at how everyone's reaction to Le Pen goes exactly in the quadrant my model says it would

Hør meg og @mariannedahl.bsky.social i Ekko om studentdemonstrasjoner og demokrati i Europa 📻 radio.nrk.no/serie/ekko/M...

Agree, with the exception that I have found republican worries about arbitrary power very helpful lately

In virtue of romantically engaged individuals having mixed their labour with the night,

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Not an Onion headline

New paper💡! My work on online dating, power and social institutions is now published in @apsrjournal.bsky.social! I provide a normative framework for what goes on in this part of the ‘digital sexual sphere’ and explore the role dating apps play in our societies. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is #Belgrade right now. Citizens have responded to the students’ call for a 24-hour blockade and protest, shutting down one of the main highways in the city. Could this be the end of #AleksandarVučić? I hope so. I stand in solidarity with Serbian students and citizens fighting for democracy!

Big news! The EU Court of Justice has assigned our Hamoudi v. Frontex appeal to its Grand Chamber! It will hold a hearing on the groundbreaking damages claim filed by Alaa Hamoudi following a 17-hour pushback operation by Frontex and the Hellenic Coast Guard on 28-29 April 2020.

The Banks of the Fjord at Christiania, 1895

New open access book edited by Melanie Fink - on redressing fundamental rights violations by the EU - www.linkedin.com/posts/melani...

We are celebrating ARENA's 30th anniversary!🎈 In this conference you will learn about our ongoing research, and a panel will discuss the Nordic countries' EU experiences. Welcome! 21 November 13.00 | Domus Bibliotheca Register here 👇

#OpenAccess from our new issue - Inductive Risk and the Legitimacy of Non-Majoritarian Institutions - cup.org/3xa0IUQ - @trymnf.bsky.social

[puts finger to earpiece] i’m getting breaking news that DEI was not in fact responsible for the problems at boeing

My @bjpols.bsky.social piece "Inductive Risk and the Legitimacy of Non-Majoritarian Institutions" is now out in a proper issue: