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Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social · 10d

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

Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 10d

📣 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
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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 10d

📣 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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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Sep 1

3-year, full-time post-doc position with my ‪@griffith.edu.au‬ friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma.

Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia.

Please apply, share, etc.

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1

Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why. Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excel...

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Tom van der Meer @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social · Aug 24

Interested in political trust, and participating in the ECPR GC 2025?
Next week, the nascent network of political trust scholars will host 8 panels and nearly 40 papers at the #ecprgc25. Visit our panels in the section 'New venues in political trust research'. And join us for drinks on Wednesday!

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Thomas Sedelius @sedelius.bsky.social · Aug 14

Does cohabitation weaken presidents? Our global study (1850–2022), now out in International Political Science Review, finds it does – but only in semi-presidential systems and under a broader definition of cohabitation. P
Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social · Jun 11

New article with @ts-broderstad.bsky.social, @sveinunga.bsky.social and Mikael Johannesson in @scandpolstud.bsky.social. Open access.

Trustees, Delegates, and Direct Democracy: Exploring Mass‐Elite Incongruence in Perceptions of Advisory Referendums

Previous research has demonstrated that the legitimacy of a majority-rule procedure, as perceived by the general population, is dependent on turnout, the size of the majority, and the favourability o...

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Svend-Erik Skaaning @skaaning.bsky.social · Apr 8

Who supports free speech, and how consistent is the support? Together with @suthank.bsky.social, I’ve conducted a survey of citizens in 33 countries for The Future of Free Speech. A lot of interesting findings (see 🧵 + link): futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/u...

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Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social · Mar 28

Enjoy your power pop weekend!

The power of pop vol. 106

Playlist · Jonas Linde · 22 items

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Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social · Feb 26

Do you want to know how anti-immigrant attitudes are related to different forms of participation and how this relationship is conditioned by the “traditional” economic conflict dimension?

Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Feb 26

IN NEW ISSUE: Anti-Immigrant Attitudes & Political Participation in Europe: @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & @jonaslinde.bsky.social find a general political participation gap between pro- and anti-immigrant citizens.

OPEN ACCESS: https://buff.ly/41eWjLF

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Feb 26

IN NEW ISSUE: Anti-Immigrant Attitudes & Political Participation in Europe: @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & @jonaslinde.bsky.social find a general political participation gap between pro- and anti-immigrant citizens.

OPEN ACCESS: https://buff.ly/41eWjLF

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · Jan 20

📚 Do you know of an outstanding published work in comparative social sciences?
🌟 Nominations are now OPEN for the 2025 Stein Rokkan Prize!
🏆 Presented with @sciencecouncil.bsky.social & @sampol.bsky.social
💰 €5,000 prize fund
⏰ 24 April
#AcademicSky #ComparativeSky #PolSci #ECPRPrizes

Call for Nominations: Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research

Submit your nomination by 24 April 2025

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Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social · Jan 10

Great postdoc opportunity in very promising project!

Suthan Krishnarajan @suthank.bsky.social · Jan 10

🚨 Only 3 weeks left to apply! 🚨
Postdoc position in Advertising Democracy. An excellent opportunity to join a dynamic team and do impactful research.

Suthan Krishnarajan @suthank.bsky.social · Dec 3

Join our team! 🚨

We are hiring 2 postdocs for the new Advertising Democracy project at Aarhus University.

We are looking for researchers who are passionate about advertisements & citizens’ democratic values in Western democracies.

Feel free to share!👇🏾

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Suthan Krishnarajan @suthank.bsky.social · Jan 10

🚨 Only 3 weeks left to apply! 🚨
Postdoc position in Advertising Democracy. An excellent opportunity to join a dynamic team and do impactful research.

Suthan Krishnarajan @suthank.bsky.social · Dec 3

Join our team! 🚨

We are hiring 2 postdocs for the new Advertising Democracy project at Aarhus University.

We are looking for researchers who are passionate about advertisements & citizens’ democratic values in Western democracies.

Feel free to share!👇🏾

bss.au.dk/en/about-aar...

Postdoctoral positions in Political Science at Aarhus University – Advertising Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social · Jan 8

Happy to see this research note published in EJPR. This has been a fun little project with great colleagues at the @sampol.bsky.social that took off in a hotel lobby in Rome 2022.

Adding economic insult to chauvinistic injury? Attitudes toward immigration in Germany, Sweden and the UK

In this study we show that on different dimensions of social security (compensation level, maximum duration and eligibility criteria), respondents in Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom prefer the...

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Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social · Dec 26

Happy holidays!
The power of pop volume 104.

The power of pop vol 104

Playlist · Jonas Linde · 22 items

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Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social · Dec 23

Maybe less "pure" power pop than the usual year but, hey, aren't we all old punks by now?

Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social · Dec 23

(2/2)

Nada Surf - Moon Mirror
Daniel Markham - Just Like a Dream
Faulty Cognitions - Somehow, We Are Here
Motorists - Touched by the Stuff
Nick Piunti - Up and Out of It
Teenage Frames - Everything Has Led to This

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Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social · Dec 23

2024 has been a great year of music. Every year is a great music year. You just have to spend some time to find the nuggets of gold. Great albums from this year (1/2)

Evening Standards - The Shining
Reflectors - Going out of Fasion
Gentlemen Rogues - Surface Noise
The Second Summer - Undertow

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · Dec 19

Stockholm University's Political Science department is hiring two PhD students: one open position and one project position with an orientation towards International Relations and Comparative Politics.

The deadline is February 6th! Join us!

Open position:

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PhD Student Positions - Stockholm University

PhD Student Positions

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · Dec 13

Hey everyone,

I'm really happy that our paper w/ Elias & Sergi won the Joseph L Bernd award for best paper published in the JOP.

This was one of the first projects I worked on during my PhD & one about which I feel v dearly. So this feels very special.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Dec 7

Beyond the ballot: Sveinung Arnesen, @jonaslinde.bsky.social, @ts-broderstad.bsky.social & Mikael P Johannesson examine the impact of turnout, majority size & outcome favorability on perceived ref legitimacy: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00323217241266025 (OPEN ACCESS)

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Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social · Nov 28

Great opportunity to do a PhD at the great Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg! www.gu.se/en/political...

We are looking for 4-5 new PhD students in Political Science

The Department of Political Science announces 4-5 PhD (Doctoral Studentship) Positions with a general focus. The application deadline is January 30, 2025. The positions are fully funded for four years...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Nov 28

Come and join us! We are recruiting a researcher (with PhD) for a three-year position as part of the EU-funded Horizon Europe Consortium "Sustainable Public Administration in Modern Democracies" (SUPA) - PI Yves Steinebach. The application deadline is 16 December 2024.

Researcher position in political science (three years) (271092) | University of Oslo

Job title: Researcher position in political science (three years) (271092), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, December 16, 2024

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Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social · Nov 26

Looks very promising!

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · Nov 26

Are you interested in political trust but think 'actually, it's a bit more complicated than that'? You'd be right!

In a draft paper, we use original data from 13 surveys across 11 countries & 52 focus groups w/ 311 participants in 8 countries, arguing that trust, mistrust, & distrust are distinct:

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Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · Nov 26

I have updated the interactive dashboard of #asylum #migration statistics with the Eurostat data for 2023.
anonyms.shinyapps.io/asylum/

You can use the dashboard to explore trends in asylum applications, decisions and recognition rates across the EU 🇪🇺 since 2011.

interactive dashboard of asylum migration statistics for the EU+ countries

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Michael Albertus @mikealbertus.bsky.social · Nov 26

I’ve had many interesting conversations about the election & what the next Trump administration will bring. Is the US set to slide into authoritarianism? Will we wall ourselves off from the world? Is it a new dawn of American prosperity? Might Trump remake the whole political landscape? 🧵 1/N

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Suthan Krishnarajan @suthank.bsky.social · Nov 22

Political Science Starter Pack Collection!

Many have shared excellent starter packs lately, but finding the most relevant ones can be tricky.

This 🧵 gathers many of them in one place 👇🏽

#PoliticalScience #StarterPack

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Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social · Nov 22

I have been doing power pop playlists for quite a while. Here is the latest one.

The power of pop vol. 103

Playlist · Jonas Linde · 22 items

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Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social · Nov 22

Veldig fin plate!

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