📢 New article 🌟
👥 Ilana Shpaizman, Jon Bøe @jbvalgermo.bsky.social (ISV) & Jens Jungblut @jjungblut.bsky.social (ISV)
🔎 Power in the Pre-Decisional Stage: Stability Sentences and Non-Decisions in Coalition Agreements in Israel and Norway
📗 Published in Policy Studies Journal
doi.org/10.1111/psj....

Our main finding is that stability sentences address conflict-laden policy issues that, if placed on the agenda, could threaten the survival of the coalition. Moreover, they are repeated often across multiple government coalitions and represent a distinct policy agenda.

This work is part of our continued effort to code Norwegian policy data using the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) approach, and I am especially thankful for the great collaboration with the colleagues from the Israeli agendas project.

In "Power in the Pre-Decisional Stage: Stability Sentences and Non-Decisions in Coalition Agreements in Israel and Norway" we analyse statements in coalition agreements where governing parties promise not to change an existing policy.

Some publications feel a bit more special than others, this is one of them. What started during a chat at the @ecpr.bsky.social conference in Prague in 2023 just got published in @psjeditor.bsky.social together with @jbvalgermo.bsky.social and Ilana Shpaizman
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Das zweite Buch ist noch nicht bei mir angekommen aber das Foto ist ja auch super gut 🙂

Das Buch zu unserem BMBF Projekt zu Fußballfans und Identifizierung mit Europa ist erschienen und natürlich ist der Inhalt super spannend, aber das echte Highlight ist das Titelbild von der großartigen @zambrine5.bsky.social

New publication in European Review together with Peter Maassen and Mari Elken:
Based on our studies for the STOA panel of the EP we develop and suggest six categories of threats to academic freedom in Europe:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Keine Eintracht.

www.beveswelt.de?p=17041

Ich fand es auch sehr unpassend. Der Verein feiert sich auf der einen Seite immer wieder (richtigerweise) für Werte & Gedenken und macht damit auch PR, spielt aber dann vor so einem Spiel die Onkelz statt Tankard. Da hat man Sachen für die Inszenierung in Kauf genommen, die nicht im Einklang stehen

Are football fans holding stronger European identities than non-fans? That was the question we investigated in our latest paper from the FANZinE project which has just been published in Contemporary European Politics (open access). The short answer is Yes:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

As part of the Horizon Europe Consortium “Sustainable Public Administration in Modern Democracies (SUPA)", our department is advertising a PhD position. It is a 4 year position with 25% teaching. More information here:

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Our department has just opened a call for a 4-year postdoc position. This position is open to all sub-disciplines of political science and comes with a 25% teaching load:

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

📣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 just opened a call for 2-4 Associate Professors at our Department at the University of Oslo. The call is open to all specialisations of political science but there are some teaching areas where we especially need capacity. Deadline is Feb 3:

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

We are recruiting a researcher with a specialization in public policy and administration or comparative politics for a three-year position in a Horizon project.
The application deadline is 16 December 2024 (!).

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

If you are working on HE policy in Asia, please consider joining our panel on "Comparing Higher Education Policy in Asia: Politics, Actors, and Processes" at the 2025 ICPP conference in Chiang Mai.

Deadline for proposals is January 31:

www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/i...

Are you interested in research policy & evidence-based strategies to enhance research quality? Then check out this new volume with policy briefs from the R-Quest project, joint work with NIFU, CWTS Leiden and many other colleagues.It is open access & available here:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

📣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...