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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 19d

#OpenAccess from July 2025 -

How Does Public Opinion Respond to Government Injustices Against Historically Discriminated Minorities? Evidence from Norway - cup.org/4lRGSBG

- Helga Malmin Binningsbø, Karin Dyrstad & @finseraas.bsky.social

BJPolS abstract discussing the treatment of the Sámi and other minorities by governmental discrimination, the role of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in Norway, and their historical and present effects on national reconciliation.

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Amalie Nilsen @amalienilsen.bsky.social · Sep 7

I’m very happy to share that the first paper of my PhD, «From the streets to the ballots: Protests, polls and Polarization in Hong Kong» has been published online in @democratization.bsky.social

It is open access, and you can read it here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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...

www.tandfonline.com

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Marianne Dahl @mariannedahl.bsky.social · Aug 29

📊 New dataset and paper alert!
We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Below follows a 🧵

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Marianne Dahl @mariannedahl.bsky.social · Jun 20

New paper alert 😄 ! Mauricio Rivera Celestino, Scott Gates and I have a paper out in the Journal of Conflict Resolution: lnkd.in/gzqYuTmN! The work began in 2017 as part of the Street-Level Autocrat project. Since then, children have been born, data collected, and now, the article is finally out:

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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · Feb 25

Endelig fikk jeg skrevet ned kronikken som har tatt opp mye plass i hodet mitt de siste par ukene:

www.vg.no/nyheter/i/gw...

Meninger: Professor Carl Henrik Knutsen: – Mer sannsynlig enn ikke at det amerikanske demokratiet vil overleve Trump

Trump og hans støttespillere undergraver demokratiet, og det er en reell fare for demokratisk sammenbrudd. Det er likevel gode sjanser for at demokratiet overlever, men det krever mot-mobilisering.

www.vg.no

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Vilde Lunnan Djuve @vldjuve.bsky.social · Feb 10

Can citizen action translate into incumbents changing their regimes from within? @chknutsen.bsky.social and I find that the answer is yes in our latest piece, “Citizen Action and Elite Responses: Opposition Mass Movements and Regime Change From Within”, now out in JCR: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

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Martin Søyland @martigso.bsky.social · Nov 28

For de som husker studien som fant at "[...] fritidsklubber [har ikke] noen direkte effekt på lokalmiljøet utenfor klubbens fire vegger" (doi.org/10.18261/nju...). @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social og Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit svarer på hvorfor dette er fullstendig feil konklusjon å dra fra studien. (1/n)

Hva kan vi vite om effekten av etablering av ungdomsklubb på Furuset?: Et svar til Tøge, Ulland og Andersen: Nordic Journal of Urban Studies: Vol 4, No 2

Idunn is Scandinavian University Press’ (Universitetsforlaget) digital publishing platform for academic journals and books.

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Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social · Nov 19

Charles Butcher (NTNU) presenting the LEGACIES project. Capturing the presence of pre-colonial states and their potential influence on post-colonial democratization.

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Nihad Aboud نهاد عبود @nihadaboud.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hello! I thought a list of women scholars in conflict and security studies could be helpful! Let me know if you want to be added/removed! go.bsky.app/Np3NivX

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Thea Johansen @theajohansen.bsky.social · Jun 21

@andreavik.bsky.social’s trial lecture🔥🔥Fantastic insights on how perspectives from political psychology can inform our understanding of the legitimacy of unelected representation. Amazing lecture by an amazing scholar

On the role of emotions in explaining how we think about politics, and vice versa

Making the case for a citizen’s perspective

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Thea Johansen @theajohansen.bsky.social · Apr 24

Congrats! 🎉🥳

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Ben Yoel @benyoel.bsky.social · Mar 8

For those interested in democratic backsliding - After a lot of hard work, I'm excited to share that the data visualizations for the Democratic Erosion Event Dataset are all now in order and Shiny apps up and running. We have a lot of exciting things in the pipeline. Stay tuned!

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Thea Johansen @theajohansen.bsky.social · Feb 16

LEGACIES is also hiring a PhD candidate in CP/IR:

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

Super exciting project and a fantastic PI! You will also become a part of our research group @NTNU «Political Instability and Armed Conflict»

Application deadline: 17.03.2024

polisky conflictsky

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Elisabeth L. Rosvold @lisrosvold.bsky.social · Feb 15

Come join us in Trondheim! Two weeks left to apply for the postdoc position in the very cool (both people- and research-wise) LEGACIES project: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
#polisky #conflictsky

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Thea Johansen @theajohansen.bsky.social · Feb 8

Vacancy for a postdoc on ERC-funded LEGACIES at NTNU: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

More about LEGACIES and the project team: www.legacies-project.com

Postdoctoral Fellow in political science/international relations: LEGACIES project (257118) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in political science/international relations: LEGACIES project (257118), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Thursday, February 29, 2024

www.jobbnorge.no

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · Feb 1

We are planning the first WhoGov Workshop to be held in Oslo on the 29-30th of August 2024. We welcome all research using WhoGov in some capacity and we have funding to cover travel expenses for participants.

Find the call for papers through the link or use the QR code: bit.ly/WhoGov_Workshop

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Kyle Marquardt @kailmarkvart.bsky.social · Jan 11

Very happy to have worked on this PS article with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @acrowinghen.bsky.social, @medzihorsky.bsky.social, @danpemstein.bsky.social, @silindberg.bsky.social and four other colleagues! 1/6 doi.org/10.1017/S104...

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During the past decade, analyses drawing on several democracy measures have shown a global trend of democratic retrenchment. While these democracy measures use radically different methodologies, most partially or fully rely on subjective judgments to produce estimates of the level of democracy within states. Such projects continuously grapple with balancing conceptual coverage with the potential for bias (Munck and Verkuilen 2002; Przeworski et al. 2000). Little and Meng (L&M) (2023) reintroduce this debate, arguing that “objective” measures of democracy show little evidence of recent global democratic backsliding.1 By extension, they posit that time-varying expert bias drives the appearance of democratic retrenchment in measures that incorporate expert judgments. In this article, we engage with (1) broader debates on democracy measurement and democratic backsliding, and (2) L&M’s specific data and conclusions.

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håvard mokleiv nygård @havardmn.bsky.social · Dec 10

Andre advent tenner vi et lys for håp. Da passer dagens kronikk av @mariannedahl.bsky.social, @haakongjerlw.bsky.social, og @chknutsen.bsky.social perfekt. ‘Iranske Narges Mohammadi er tildelt årets fredspris. Men nytter arbeidet til aktivister som Mohammadi?’ Ja, viser forskningen!

Nytter arbeidet til aktivister som fredsprisvinner Narges Mohammadi?

Les kronikken.

www.aftenposten.no

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Elena Leuschner @elenaleuschner.bsky.social · Dec 1

What happens when autocrats concede to protests? Our paper on state concessions and protest mobilization has an issue now!

with Sebastian Hellmeier in @cpsjournal.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Snorre Valen @snorrevalen.bsky.social · Nov 15

– Høyre kunne mandag satt en ny standard for håndtering av alvorlige habilitetsbrudd i norsk politikk. Istedenfor blir det et nytt lavmål i det som må kunne kalles et politisk uår, skriver @theajohansen.bsky.social som er stipendiat ved ISS på NTNU.

Vern av demokratiet er ikke en popularitetsmåling

Erna Solberg annonserte i en pressekonferanse mandag at hun fortsetter som Høyres leder og statsministerkandidat inn mot valget i 2025. Det er en avgjørelse som skaper en skummel presedens i norsk p...

www.tronderdebatt.no

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Thea Johansen @theajohansen.bsky.social · Nov 14

Skal ikke alvorlige habilitetsbrudd få konsekvenser i norsk politikk? Jeg mener det er spesielt tre grunner til at Høyre burde konkludert annerledes i fortsatt støtte til Erna Solberg
www.tronderdebatt.no/vern-av-demo...

Vern av demokratiet er ikke en popularitetsmåling

Erna Solberg annonserte i en pressekonferanse mandag at hun fortsetter som Høyres leder og statsministerkandidat inn mot valget i 2025. Det er en avgjørelse som skaper en skummel presedens i norsk p...

www.tronderdebatt.no

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Thea Johansen @theajohansen.bsky.social · Nov 13

Det er også uforståelig for meg at man ikke ser ut til å ha vektlagt hvorvidt andre partier kan ha tillit til Høyre. Ønsker vi oss et politisk klima der partiene ikke kan stole på at overtramp hos regjeringspartier får konsekvenser?

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Thea Johansen @theajohansen.bsky.social · Nov 13

Høyres sentralstyre sier at de tror velgerne vil ha tillit til Erna neste stortingsvalg, men norske velgere burde aldri bli satt i en posisjon der de må velge mellom hvem de tror vil levere politisk og hvem som har fulgt demokratiske spilleregler.

Snorre Valen @snorrevalen.bsky.social · Nov 13

Det er ganske enkelt en umiskjennelig ein av maktarroganse over Høyres håndtering av hele saken. De dundrer videre, fordi de vet at de kan. Smilende kunngjør partiet at nå er saken over, mens omdømmet til norsk politikk står i brann rundt dem. Burning down the house.

Burning down the house

Erna Solberg er visst så viktig for Høyre at det bare får gå som det går med tilliten og omdømmet til norsk politikk.

www.tronderdebatt.no

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Thea Johansen @theajohansen.bsky.social · Nov 6

Sellanraa er bra på lunsj og god kaffe!

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Thea Johansen @theajohansen.bsky.social · Nov 6

Anbefaler Jacobsen og Svart!

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