Eli Baltzersen
@elibaltz.bsky.social
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Doctoral researcher at University of Oslo | Gender and politics
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Zambian politics have been quite dramatic in the last 20 years (timeline below). With that kind of competition, you’d expect MPs to fight to gain an edge in every arena, especially MPs elected on a thin margin. However, I find the opposite in Zambia’s parliament: doi.org/10.1080/1357...
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Given the findings of this first paper, I’m looking forward to now studying the “real-life” effect of introducing a consent law on social norms and individual attitudes toward sexual consent. 5/
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As mentioned above, sex without consent is now legally defined as rape in Norway. The government has stated that an aim of this legal reform is that attitudinal change will follow and contribute to reducing the prevalence of rape. 4/
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Contrary to our pre-registered expectations, we found a small backlash effect: respondents, who had read information about proposed consent-based legal reform, attributed less importance to sexual consent. 3/
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This June, Norway revised its rape legislation. Prior to this legal reform, we ran a survey experiment, where we held information about the current (at the time) coercion-based law constant and provided information about the proposal to include consent in the law to half of the respondents. 2/
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Thrilled that the first paper in my PhD thesis “State Action and Moral Attitudes toward Sexual Consent”, co-authored with Francesca R. Jensenius and @oskorge.bsky.social , has been accepted for publication in the @thejop.bsky.social! 1/
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Great #EPSA conference in amazing Madrid! Excited to meet up again in Belfast 2026 @epssnet.bsky.social
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Thursday 9.30am, @torewig.bsky.social will present a paper on measuring and explaining global variation in "critical social science" 🌎 2/5
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I'm especially happy to have presented the first solo authored paper in my PhD “Rape legislation as state action: Perceived social norms and individual attitudes toward sexual consent in Norway and Sweden” w/ other great papers on the panel “The effect of gender-based violence in different spheres”!
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Very happy to be at this year's #EPSA conference in the delightful Madrid! 🌞
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Super exciting, congratulations!