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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
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ISV - Institutt for statsvitenskap, UiO
University of Oslo, Norway
https://www.sv.uio.no/isv/
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📢 New article
👥 Rune Karlsen, Kristoffer Kolltveit (ISV), and Øyvind Bugge Solheim
👉 Balancing Acts: The Communicative Roles of Cabinet Ministers on Social Media
📗 Open Access in Media and Communication
🔗 doi.org/10.17645/mac...
Balancing Acts: The Communicative Roles of Cabinet Ministers on Social Media | Article | Media and Communication
Rune Karlsen, Kristoffer Kolltveit, Øyvind Bugge Solheim
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November 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
📢 New Article
👥 Vegard Tørstad @vegardtorstad.bsky.social (ISV), Jon Hovi, & Håkon Grøn Sælen
👉 Does Distributive Conflict Explain Variation in Green Stimulus Spending?
📗 Published in Regulation & Governance
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/rego...
Does Distributive Conflict Explain Variation in Green Stimulus Spending? Evidence From 40 Major Economies During the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid‐19 Recession
The 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic triggered large economic stimulus packages in most countries. While aimed primarily at saving the domestic economy from widesprea....
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November 27, 2025 at 5:51 AM
📢 New article 🌟
👤 Amalie Nilsen @amalienilsen.bsky.social
👉 From the streets to the ballots: protests, polls and polarization in Hong Kong
📗Open Access in: Democratization
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1351...
From the streets to the ballots: protests, polls and polarization in Hong Kong
Social movement research indicates that protests can influence voting behaviour through several informational and psychological mechanisms. Yet, we know little about the individual variation in how...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Ser frem til å innlede til dette frokostmøtet sammem med @chknutsen.bsky.social om demokratiets motstandskraft i møte med det ekstreme i regi av @crexuio.bsky.social og CIR forskergruppen ved @statsvitenskap.bsky.social

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Demokratiets motstandskraft i møte med det ekstreme - C-REX – Senter for ekstremismeforskning
Hvordan designe et robust demokrati og beskytte det mot voldelig ekstremisme? Innledninger ved professor og statsviter Carl Henrik Knutsen og professor og statsviter Jacob Aasland Ravndal.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:23 AM
On November 11, 2025, @kaeggen.bsky.social will defend her PhD thesis “Russia’s Contemporary Grand Strategy: The Use of Information and Other Unconventional Means Towards the Nordic Region”. The defense is open to anyone interested. For time and place, see 👇
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Disputation Karen-Anna Eggen - Institutt for statsvitenskap (ISV)
Master in Political Science Karen-Anna Eggen will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science: Russia’s Contemporary Grand Strategy: The Use of Information and Other Unconven...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
On November 7, 2025, Solveig Bjørkholt @sunny369.bsky.social will defend her PhD thesis “The Politics of International Standardization”. The defense is open to anyone interested. For time and place, see 👇
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Disputation Solveig Bjørkholt - Institutt for statsvitenskap (ISV)
Master in Political Science Solveig Bjørkholt will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science: The Politics of International Standardization
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October 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
📣CfA for 1-2 Postdoctoral Fellow Positions in political science (3-4 years) as part of the ERC project “Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy” (GETGOV) - PI Jacob Nyrup. The application deadline is November 17, 2025.

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2025
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October 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
📣CfA for 1-2 PhD Research Fellow Positions (3-4 years) in political science as part of the ERC project “Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy” (GETGOV) - PI Jacob Nyrup. The application deadline is November 24, 2025.

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PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (3-4 years) (288543) | Universitetet i Oslo
Stillingstittel: PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (3-4 years) (288543), Arbeidsgivar: Universitetet i Oslo, Søknadsfrist: måndag 24. november 2025
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October 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
📢 New article 🌟
👥 Tom Christensen (ISV) & Per Lægreid
👉 Cabinet Turbulence and Political Scandals— Accountability Under Pressure
📗 Published in Scandinavian Political Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.70014
Cabinet Turbulence and Political Scandals—Accountability Under Pressure
This article adds to studies of why ministers lose their posts due to political scandals while a government is still in office. It examines the ministerial resignation process in terms of accountabil....
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October 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
📢 New article
👥 Tian Xiaolong, Ma Liang & Tom Christensen (ISV)
👉 Why did China persist with a zero-COVID policy? A cultural interpretation of Confucianism
📗 Published in Public Policy and Administration
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/09520767251360124
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October 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
📢 New article
👥 Meng Qingguo, Chen Xiaoyang, Chen Sicheng & Tom Christensen (ISV)
👉 Reputation management and communication under political control: The case of China’s central bank
📗 Published in International Public Management Journal
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2025.2503830
Reputation management and communication under political control: The case of China’s central bank
Central banks, under political influence, employ nuanced communication strategies within the framework of bureaucratic reputation to navigate external risks. This study of the People’s Bank of Chin...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
On October 13, 2025, Palina Kolvani @palinakolvani.bsky.social will defend her PhD thesis “The State of Numbers: Political Economy of Official Statistics”. The defense is open to anyone interested. For time and place, see 👇
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Disputation Palina Kolvani - Institutt for statsvitenskap (ISV)
Master of Science in Political Science Palina Kolvani will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science: The State of Numbers: Political Economy of Official Statistics
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October 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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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October 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
📢 New article 🌟
👥 Ma Liang, Liu Weixing, Chen Sicheng & Tom Christensen (ISV)
🔎 Where you are matters: Network position, designed network, and central government agency termination
📗 Published in Public Administration
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/padm...
Where you are matters: Network position, designed network, and central government agency termination
This study synthesizes insights from collaborative network and agency termination theories to investigate how agencies' positions in designed networks impact their survival probability. Using longitu...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Congratulations to @jacobnyrup.bsky.social on receiving an ERC Starting Grant! His project, "Governing Elites Since the Dawn of Modern Democracy (GETGOV)," will examine how democratization changes governing elite composition and its effects on policies and outcomes.
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Jacob Nyrup awarded EU funds to research political elites - Department of Political Science
Jacob Nyrup from the Department of Political Science has been granted a substantial 18 million Norwegian kroner by the EU's research council to examine political elites in countries before and after d...
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September 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Five days left to apply for this PhD fellow position!👇
August 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
📢 New article 🌟
👥 Jacob Nyrup @jacobnyrup.bsky.social (ISV) and five co-authors
🔎 Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality? Evidence from the United Kingdom
📗 Published in World Politics
doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...
August 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
📢 New book chapter 🌟
👥 Tobias Bach @tobiasbach.bsky.social (ISV), Bjørn Mo Forum @bjornforum.bsky.social (ISV) & Stine Hesstvedt
🔎 Norway: formal and informal politicization in a merit bureaucracy
📗 Published in Handbook of Politicization and Political Patronage. Edward Elgar Publishing.
August 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
📢 New book chapter 🌟
👥 Jostein Askim (ISV), Tobias Bach @tobiasbach.bsky.social (ISV) & Jørgen Grønnegård Christensen
🔎 Quiet politicization in Northern Europe
📗 Published in Handbook of Politicization and Political Patronage. Edward Elgar Publishing.
August 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
📢 New article 🌟
👤 Helena Seibicke
🔎 The Institutional Design of Scientific Advisory Boards on Climate Change: A Comparison at the Intergovernmental, Supranational, and National Level
📖 Open access in Global Challenges
doi.org/10.1002/gch2...
The Institutional Design of Scientific Advisory Boards on Climate Change: A Comparison at the Intergovernmental, Supranational, and National Level
This article compares the institutional design of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), UK's Climate Change Committee, and the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ES...
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August 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📢 New article 🌟
👥 Constantin Kaplaner @kaplaner.bsky.social , Cristoph Knill & Yves Steinbach (ISV)
🔎 Administrative Overload and Policy Triage: Causal evidence from the Introduction of the Acid Rain Program in the United States
📖 Open access in JPART
doi.org/10.1093/jopa...
Administrative overload and policy triage: causal evidence from the introduction of the Acid Rain Program in the United States
Abstract. Recent research suggests that additional public policies can sometimes decrease overall policy effectiveness rather than improve the problem-solv
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August 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
📢 New article 🌟
👥 Yves Steinbach (ISV), Cristoph Knill & Mattia Casula
🔎 Policy Growth and Its Impacts on Policy Implementation: Changes, Challenges and Chances
📗 Published in Regulation & Governance
doi.org/10.1111/rego...
Policy Growth and Its Impacts on Policy Implementation: Changes, Challenges and Chances
In this Special Issue titled “Policy Growth and Its Impacts on Policy Implementation,” we present a collection of articles examining the relationship between the policy growth and policy implementati...
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August 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
📢 New article 🌟
👥 Vilde Lunnan Djuve @vldjuve.bsky.social & Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social
🔎 Citizen Action and Elite Responses: Opposition Mass Movements and Regime Change From Within, 1900–2019
📖 Open access in Journal of Conflict Resolution
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
August 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
📢 New article
👥 @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social, @haakongjerlw.bsky.social & @liserakner.bsky.social
🔎 The politics of litigating and adjudicating electoral disputes: Evidence from Zambia.
📖 Open access In Electoral Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
August 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
📢 New article
👥 @mariannedahl.bsky.social , Mauricio Rivera Celestino & Scott Gates
🔎 Disaggregating Defection: Dissent Campaign Strategies and Security Force Disloyalty.
📖 Open access In Journal of Conflict Resolution.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0022...
Disaggregating Defection: Dissent Campaign Strategies and Security Force Disloyalty - Marianne Dahl, Mauricio Rivera Celestino, Scott Gates, 2025
Extant research posits that nonviolent campaigns increase security force defection during dissent, thereby improving their success rates over violent campaigns....
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August 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM