📣 New chapter 🌟 👥 Dag Arne Christensen & Kristin Strømsnes 📘 Political Participation and Voter Turnout Inequalities in Norway 📚 The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics, eds Kolltveit, Allern, Braut-Hegghammer & Rasch 🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

🌟 Nytt kapittel 👤 Kristin Strømsnes @kstroemsnes.bsky.social ‬ 👉 Civilsamhället som en tredje sektor mellan stat och marknad 📗 Civilsamhällesvetenskap: en grundbok, red Karlsson, von Essen, Forssell, Vamstad & Lindberg 🔗 www.liber.se/webshop/prod...

📢 Nytt kapittel 👥 Johannes Bergh & Kristin Strømsnes @kstroemsnes.bsky.social 📄 Et levende demokrati blant manntallsførte samer: Om deltakelse i og mellom valg 📗 Saglie, Berg-Nordlie & Pettersen (red): Sametingsvalget 2021: Et partisystem i endring? 🔗 cdforskning.no/cdf/catalog/...

Bond in Fenway Park news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

- Høyresidens kanselleringskultur har erstattet venstresidens kanselleringskultur Når politikk blir farlig www.dagsavisen.no/nyheter/verd...

📢 New chapter 👥 Lars Skov Henriksen & Kristin Strømsnes @kstroemsnes.bsky.social 👉 Skandinavien - Merkmale zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements und Folgen der Covid-19-Pandemie 📘 Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement und Freiwilligendienste, Nomos 🔗 www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/zivilge...

Lesverdig! www.nrk.no/ytring/klass...

CORE Lecture today by Kristen Kao of the University of Gothenburg titled "The Effects of Post-Conflict Injustice Gaps on Local Leaders’ Legitimacy: Empirical Evidence from Iraq"

Eva Anduiza visiting the department today, talking about ‘The Social Perceptions of Feminism’

Today @sampol.bsky.social was lucky enough to host V-Dem Data Manager Linnea Fox and @demscore.bsky.social Data Manager Melina Liethmann to discuss “Using Demscore and V-Dem for Research Projects: A User’s Guide.”

Congratulations to Anu Bradford, Columbia Law School, on the 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize for the book Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology (OUP)! Path-breaking book addressing a major challenge of our time: the regulation of the digital economy. 👏👏👏 council.science/news/anu-bra...

CORE Lecture today with Professor Rachel Gibson, University of Manchester: Are Online Political Influencers Harmful or Helpful to Democracy? Comparing the Role of Established and New Actors in the U.S. 2020 Presidential Election.

CORE Lecture today with John Polga-Hecimovich, U.S. Naval Academy, examining explanations for the rise in impeachment attempts and trials in presidential democracies in recent years.

The tension between urgency and process. Learn more about the ERC StG project proposal of Pierre Van Wolleghem @piervanwoll.bsky.social 👇 www.uib.no/en/svf/17040...

CORE Lecture today with Markus Holdo, Lund University, presenting findings from his book "Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism. Contesting the Boundaries of Democratic Practices".

CORE Lecture today with Kate Dommett @profkatedommett.bsky.social, University of Sheffield, presenting her new book “Data-Driven Campaigning and Political Parties: Five advanced democracies compared” co-authored with Glenn Kefford and Simon Kruschinski @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social.

Come join us! Two PhD positions in the ERC project "Contested frontiers of settler states", PI Aaron Spitzer. Deadline 5th August 2024.

CORE Lecture today with Sona Golder & Matt Golder, Pennsylvania State University: “Interaction Approaches to Intersectionality Theory”.

Department seminar today with Nicholas Barnes, University of St Andrews, giving a fascinating presentation on “Inside Criminalized Governance: How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro” 🇧🇷

Still time to nominate

📢 We are hiring! Please share 🌟 👉 Postdoc 4 years 🔎  Project: Representing the Future in an Aging Europe: The Politics of Demographic Change 🇳🇴 Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen ⏳ 3 May 2024 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Kultur- og likestillingsdepartementet inviterer til konferanse 28. februar om frivillige organisasjoners sivilsamfunnsrolle i endring www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/k...

We are offering a Ph.D. course on Deep Learning for Social Scientists with Reto Wüest @retowuest.bsky.social, April 18-19 2024, on campus in Bergen. Deadline for registration: April 7. Please find more information online 👇 www4.uib.no/en/courses/S...

Responskonferansen i Bergen i gang med Q&A med Espen Barth Eide. Fullt hus hos Studentersamfunnet.

Hvilken rolle skal Norge spille på den utenrikspolitiske arenaen i årene fremover? Få med deg Respons-konferansen i Universitetsaulaen 13. februar. www.uib.no/aktuelt/1680...

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

🌟 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize: Nominations now open! 🏆 Presented by International Science Council, ECPR @ecpr.bsky.social & University of Bergen 📚 For outstanding published work in comparative social science 💰 €5,000 prize fund ⏰ 30 April 🔗https://ecpr.eu/Prizes/PrizeDetails.aspx?PrizeID=6

Nominations are now open for the 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize, honouring a substantial and original contribution to comparative social science research ecpr.eu/Prizes/Prize...

Global orden og demokratiske verdier i en tid med maktforskyvning og stormaktrivalisering - delta i diskusjonen om Norges utenrikspolitikk på Responskonferanse i Bergen 13. februar www.uib.no/ledelsen/165...

Join us! 👉 Associate Professor, open to all fields & methodological approaches in comparative politics 🌟 Permanent position, 50/50 research/teaching 🇳🇴 Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen ♀️ Female candidates especially encouraged to apply ⏳ 28 February 🔗 tinyurl.com/2f8v5sh3

We are offering a Ph.D.-course on Panel and Pooled Data Analysis with Professor Vera Troeger. 18.-20. March, on campus in Bergen. Register by 1. March. Details 👇 www4.uib.no/en/courses/S...

We are hiring! Please share! 👉 Associate Professor with Arctic focus 🌟 Permanent position, full time, 50/50 research/teaching 🇳🇴 Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen ⏳ 20 March 2024 ♀️ Female candidates especially encouraged to apply 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

We are offering a course on Better Data Visualization (using R) with Ruben Mathisen 14-15 February 2024 in Bergen 🇳🇴 Sign up by 1 February! @rubenmathisen.bsky.social www.uib.no/en/sampol/16...

Hadde en interessant samtale med Magnus Marsdal på podcasten Mímir & Marsdal, om offentlig opinion, skatt på de rike, og hvem som har politisk innflytelse i Norge og USA. Hør podkasten her: podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/mag…

🌟 New chapter 👤 Kristin Strømsnes 👉 Civic engagement 📘 Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology, eds Maria Grasso & Marco Giugni 🔗 doi.org/10.4337/9781...

❇️ Fascinating ❇️ Highly impressive 🙌 Delighted to congratulate Elisabeth Anderson on winning the 🏆 2023 Stein Rokkan Prize for 📗 Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State 🔗https://ecpr.eu/News/News/Details/708

🌟 Postdoc position available! 🇳🇴 Department of Comparative Politics, Univ of Bergen 🔍  ERC project: Contested frontiers of settler states. Understanding the constitutional politics of settler-state peripheries 🗓️ 4 years 👩‍🏫 75 % research / 25 % teaching ⏳ 7 Feb 2024 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

🦉 Congratulations to the team behind SAMPOL223 Democratic Transformations in Europe: Trends and Implications on winning the University of Bergen Owl Award in recognition of quality in education! 👏👏👏 www.uib.no/svf/166876/u...

🌟 New article 👥 Per Selle & Kristin Strømsnes @kstroemsnes.bsky.social 👉 Indigenous People’s Self-governing Bodies and the Role of Civil Society: The Case of the Norwegian Sámi 📗 Ethnopolitics 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1744...

Hyggelig besøk i dag av Canadas ambassadør Amy Baker og ambassaderåd Michael Horler

Gratulerer til denne gjengen her!

Ny rapport om frivillige organisasjoners påvirkningsarbeid innenfor klima-og miljøfeltet og velferdsfeltet

Om slipset, skjørtet og skjortens språk: www.dn.no/magasinet/po...

Come and join us at the best coding club in town!

Thanks to Eri Bertsou, University of St. Gallen, for today’s CORE Lecture: Varieties of Expertise. What do citizens consider to be politically legitimate uses of expertise? @eribertsou.bsky.social

Awesome mural of *Stein Rokkan* in the offices of GESIS in Cologne, via Alexia Katsanidou #polisky

A wonderful roundtable concluding the Rokkan symposium 2023: Daniele Caramani, Isabelle Engeli, Alexia Katsanidou and Robert Huber.

Da er det snart klart for årets Rokkanforelesning - Daniele Caramani om ‘Global Cleavages: Political Conflict across World Regions in Historical Perspective’ www.uib.no/sampol/15578...