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Staffan Kumlin

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Political Science Professor, Univ of Oslo. Democracy and discontent in European welfare states.

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Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social · Nov 23

"Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change: Democratic Linkage and Leadership Under Pressure" academic.oup.com/book/44051, co-authored with Achim Goerres @emppolitikwiss.bsky.social

Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change: Democratic Linkage and Leadership Under Pressure

Abstract. For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater need and more insecure re

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 5d

ISV’s Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social receives 12 million NOK from the RCN program 'Welfare and Education' for the research project 'Struggling Women and Men: Political-Democratic Gender Gaps in a High-Trust Welfare State.'🌟👏Congratulations!
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Staffan Kumlin får Forskingsrådsmidler for å se på politiske og demokratiske kjønnsforskjeller - Institutt for statsvitenskap (ISV)

Med 12 millioner kroner fra Forskningsrådet vil Staffan Kumlin på Institutt for statsvitenskap forske på politiske og demokratiske kjønnsforskjeller. Han vil blant annet ta for seg hvordan utdanning, ...

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Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social · 12d

New chapter on political trust in Norway, co-authored with @staffankumlin.bsky.social.

Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 12d

📣 New chapter 🌟
👥 Staffan Kumlin & Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social
📘 Political Trust in Norway: A Large but Lopsided Research Field
📚 The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics, eds Kolltveit, Allern, Braut-Hegghammer & Rasch
🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 12d

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Lisanne de Blok @ldeblok.bsky.social · Sep 8

Finding: political trust can influence how people experience socio-economic risks 💡

In our article in @joftrustres.bsky.social, Atle Haugsgjerd & I show that political trust works as a psychological coping-mechanism - especially for those who believe the welfare state should manage economic risks.

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢 New article 🌟
👥 Miroslav Kreos-Nemcok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social (ISV), Hanna Wass @hannawass.bsky.social & Juho Vesa
🔎 Partisan Influence on Policy Preferences in Retrenching the Welfare State
📖 Open access in Public Opinion Quarterly
doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

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Miroslav Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social · Aug 12

As global population growth starts to hit the brakes, Rein Taagepera and I consider what this means for our future and look for lessons from the past.
🔽👇⬇️

The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · Aug 12

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 As #PopulationGrowth slows, @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social & Rein Taagepera draw on a striking demographic stall 2,000 years ago that preceded political fragmentation and imperial collapse.
🌍 Can modern states withstand the pressures of a post-growth world?
👉 buff.ly/BQCQ8Vj

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Johanna Söderström @jsoderstrom.bsky.social · Jan 24

Finally out! Together with @liserakner.bsky.social we discuss notions around taxation and solidarity! “Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries”
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Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries | The Journal of Modern African Studies | Cambridge Core

Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries - Volume 62 Issue 2

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Jul 16

Do generous welfare policies foster political trust? Matthijs Gillissen, @silkegoubin.bsky.social & Anna Ruelens examine the long-term effects of welfare generosity on trust in political institutions. Read more:
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@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

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Reposted by Carl Henrik Knutsen, Robert Klemmensen, Bjørn Høyland , and 1 more Carl Henrik Knutsen, Robert Klemmensen, Bjørn Høyland, Staffan Kumlin

Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Jul 23

📣1 PhD fellow position 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, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, September 1, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Empirical Political Science #Duisburg @emppolitikwiss.bsky.social · Jul 16

Later that day, he will present “The Causal Effects of Poor and Corrupt Welfare State Service Delivery on Political Solidarity and Political Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Novel Virtual-State Approach” (co-authored with Achim Goerres, Philipp Chapkovski and @jeicheler.bsky.social )!

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Anna Helgøy @annanhelgoy.bsky.social · Jun 11

Really honored to be awarded the King’s Gold Medal for my dissertation!

You can read more about it below, and then I want to add that I was incredibly lucky with my workplace, colleagues, co-authors and supervisors during my PhD<3 feeling grateful!!

Anna Nordnes Helgøy awarded the King's Gold Medal for dissertation on gender division in private and public spheres - Department of Political Science

– It is a great honour to receive recognition for a doctoral dissertation on gender equality at a time when the American president is actively working against research in this field, says Anna Nordnes...

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Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social · May 21

While I'm at it doi.org/10.1177/0958...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social · May 21

And more :) doi.org/10.1080/1471...

Welfare state evaluations, normative expectations, and political trust: longitudinal evidence from Germany and Norway

The expectancy-disconfirmation model (EDM) explains satisfaction with public services as a combination of service expectations and perceived performance. We study how satisfaction in turn affects p...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · May 15

📢 New article
👥 Tor Gaute Syrstad, Atle Hennum Haugsgjerd & Staffan Kumlin, staffankumlin.bsky.social.
🔎 Iceberg of discontent? Emotional responses to welfare state development and political trust.
📖 Open access in Journal of European Social Policy
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0958...

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The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social · May 7

First Wednesday of the month – time for a new In_equality podcast! This time, our hosts @mbusemeyer.bsky.social and Gabriele Spilker @uni-konstanz.de talk with @juandiego48cr.bsky.social about how people (mis-)perceive inequality – and why it matters for politics. ➡️ inequality.uni.kn/podcast

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Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social · May 5

Interested in how public services affect political distrust, populist support, and similar? Longitudinal evidence from Germany and Norway.
doi.org/10.1080/1471...

Welfare state evaluations, normative expectations, and political trust: longitudinal evidence from Germany and Norway

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Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social · Apr 2

Congratulations!

Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social · Mar 28

Sunny Saarland days. Very enjoyable!

DVPW #TakeOver @dvpwkongress.bsky.social · Mar 28

The final round of panels @dvpw.bsky.social
@uni-saarland.de
@protemo.bsky.social
#ActEU

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DVPW #TakeOver @dvpwkongress.bsky.social · Mar 28

The final round of panels @dvpw.bsky.social
@uni-saarland.de
@protemo.bsky.social
#ActEU

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · Mar 24

Technological change has had important consequences for labour markets in recent decades. What about its electoral consequences? In this new article in EJPR, we use administrative data to follow nearly a million workers over 16 years to study this. 🧵

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The gendered long‐term consequences of automation risk on electoral behaviour: Evidence from Norway

We examine long-run effects of automation risk on turnout. We expect gendered negative effects because men's turnout is more sensitive to job loss and earnings, but negative effects might be offset b...

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · Feb 26

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....

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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · Feb 21

How does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life?

In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out.

doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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Crowded Out: The Influence of Mental Load Priming on Intentions to Participate in Public Life | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

Crowded Out: The Influence of Mental Load Priming on Intentions to Participate in Public Life - Volume 55

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Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social · Feb 10

Congratulations!

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · Feb 10

Does politicizing redistribution increase support for equality? 🤔

@arnovanhootegem.bsky.social investigates—and finds no direct link. But greater party polarization? That deepens ideological divides over equality.

Food for thought to start the new week 👇

The impact of issue politicization around redistribution on support for equality and its ideological divides

This paper investigates whether there is a link between issue politicization around redistribution and public support for equality. Specifically, the study uses three dimensions of politicization (...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Dec 16

📣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...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (4 years) (272043) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (4 years) (272043), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, February 15, 2025

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Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social · Feb 6

Political trust is likely in global decline. What are the consequences? Our experiment suggests low-trusters more often accept info saying immigration threatens the welfare state. Trust matters more than most economic, cultural, and contextual factors - with @finseraas.bsky.social & Atle Haugsgjerd

Immigration and welfare state sustainability: whose perception is affected by fiscal cost cues?

Who reacts politically to fiscally costly immigration? A political economy tradition holds that reactions depend on economic self-interest, whereas a social psychology tradition emphasizes generali...

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Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social · Jan 30

Stoler vi på velferdsstaten? Ikke nødvendigvis.
Uttaler meg i @mentaltperspektiv.bsky.social

@unioslo-svfak.bsky.social
@statsvitenskap.bsky.social

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Velferdsspleisen - Mentalt Perspektiv

Alle pengene går til å få betalt privat psykolog og utredninger. Håper på å få hjelp til å få snakket med en privat psykolog og...

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Elin Haugsgjerd Allern @allernelin.bsky.social · Dec 10

📣 Call for Applications! Our department is seeking to hire 2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science. Come join us!
🔸Stimulating research environment
🔸Friendly, international workplace
🔸Oslo’s rich opportunities for culture and outdoor activities
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034) | University of Oslo

Job title: 2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025

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