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Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social · 29d

78,9% of the electorate voted in the Norwegian parliamentary elections – highest turnout in my lifetime! Beautiful!

Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social · Jun 6

Ireland is a fascinating country, especially for those of us interested in the politicisation of migration and European integration. This article, where I look into linkages of the two issues across four Irish treaty referendums, is now out in CEP!
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Mobilising on Migration? Linkages of Migration and European Integration in Four Irish EU Referendums

In a Europe where contestation over migration and European integration has become increasingly connected, Ireland seems to be an outlier. Whereas European integration has been a politicised issue in ...

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Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social · Apr 25

Such a nice piece to read while getting mentally prepared to pick up a paper in need of some heavy editing. Thanks for sharing! :)

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · Apr 14

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · Apr 4

How do challenger parties—those without prior governing experience—gain access to executive power? In our paper out now in @thejop.bsky.social, @mvinaes.bsky.social, @jacobnyrup.bsky.social, and I explore whether simply holding legislative office helps them join government. Brief 🧵👇
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Paolo Chiocchetti @pchiocchetti.bsky.social · Apr 3

📣New publication!
Happy to announce a special issue of West European Politics (@wepsocial.bsky.social) on "External differentiation: a new trajectory after Brexit and Ukraine?".
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fwep20/4...
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West European Politics

External Differentiation: A New Trajectory after Brexit and Ukraine? Guest Editors: Paolo Chiocchetti, Stefan Telle and Brigid Laffan. Volume 48, Issue 5 of West European Politics

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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · Apr 1

Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters - my latest @theintercept.com
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Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters

Four Gaza protesters in Germany are set for deportations despite objections from an immigration official that none were convicted of crimes.

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Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social · Mar 6

As Lise Rye and I show in this paper, debates about "where to wriggle" have been ongoing in Norway since the beginning of the association to the EU internal market and, as recent developments make clear, are not likely to go off the agenda anytime soon – happy to see this paper out!

WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · Mar 6

Online first: "Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association" by @kgraneng.bsky.social & Lise Rye

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Part of the SI "External Differentiation: A New Trajectory after Brexit and Ukraine?"

Abstract of the article "Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association" by Kristine Graneng and Lise Rye. Published online first in West European Politics.

Figure 1, displaying Norwegian parties’ first preference on EU affiliation as expressed in public debates, 1989–2022. The parties are listed from right (top) to left (bottom).

Table 1, providing an overview of the theoretical expectations of parties' presentations of a national wriggle room across the policy phases.

Figure 2, displaying the share of documents in the NORWEU database containing keywords relating to ‘wriggle room’, by electoral period. N: 285. Note: Government platforms and party manifestos were excluded to limit the use of the term in debates not related to European affairs. There were no documents included in the covered data for the period 1989–1993.

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Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social · Mar 3

New publication in European Union Politics!
Sina Özdemir, @pieterdewilde.bsky.social and I have examined how tweets by EU executives appeal to legitimacy beliefs – we find that they are more opinionated than we'd expected!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social · Feb 24

Thanks to the editors for putting this together! Also thanks to everyone who has provided input throughout the process, particularly to AMIS and the Saxo Institute at @ucph.bsky.social, who hosted me for a very rewarding research stay in the spring of 2022! 5/5

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Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social · Feb 24

The referendum highlighted complexities in Danish relations to EU migration policy. This made the campaign a complicated affair, with a lot of debates about what the referendum was really about. The case thus illustrates some of the democratic challenges that come with the complexities of DI. 4/5

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Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social · Feb 24

Migration has been linked to contestation of the EU in several recent referendums. This was also the case here, particularly with the Danish People's Party making such linkages. However, there was overall considerable debates about how and whether this was relevant for the referendum. 3/5

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Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social · Feb 24

My chapter looks at the Danish referendum on the Justice and Home Affairs opt-out in 2015, asking what role migration played in the referendum campaign. The political majority tried to take migration off the agenda, but they were not successful in doing so. 2/5

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Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social · Feb 24

Just received this in the mail! This edited volume looks into various cases of differentiated integration (DI) in the Nordic countries, and I contributed with a chapter based on my PhD project about discursive linkages of migration and European integration. 1/5

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Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social · Feb 5

Lise Rye and I have made a database of political documents on Norwegian European policies in the period 1987-2022. It's available here: doi.org/10.18712/NSD...

I hope this can contribute to more studies on Norway-EU relations (which hasn't become any less relevant these last weeks).

Surveybanken | Sikt

Surveybanken-analyse | Sikt

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · Jan 30

On this note, here is a thread with recent research on what normalization is and how it happens.

It includes links to references, from my work and that of others.

I tried to tag the authors whenever they are on here, in case you are interested in following their work.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Jan 29

No country is immune to the far right.

No country is immune to the normalization of the far right.

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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · Jan 29

Seems like a good day to reshare this recent study that shows how mainstream parties can fuel the success of the radical right by opening the door to them

Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · Dec 29

Super important experimental study by @lcjacobs89.bsky.social and @jbpilet.bsky.social showing that mainstream parties signaling willingness to govern with radical right legitimize these parties with higher propensity to vote for radical right as a result
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To rule or not to rule? An experimental study of the electoral ramifications of claims to (not) rule with radical right populist parties - Laura Jacobs, Jean-Benoit Pilet, 2024

In a between-subjects experiment (n = 3270) conducted in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), we examine the electoral ramifications of claims by a ri...

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Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social · Jan 23

Thanks for sharing!

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Andreas Dür @andduer.bsky.social · Jan 23

We are hiring! 5-year postdoc position in International Relations at the Department of Political Science of @unisalzburg.bsky.social.

Deadline for applications: 12 February 2025.

Full information: tinyurl.com/postdocIP

#Polisky #AcademicJobs

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Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social · Jan 19

A favourite thing about living in Berlin: Discovering amazing music and getting tickets for a show next month in the same evening.

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The Weather Station - Mirror (Official Video)

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Jan 7

“We find that fact-checks are successful in debunking misperceptions. Moreover, this debunking effect is consistent across countries”

Posting this key finding from our recent 16 country study.

For no particular reason today.

doi.org/10.1080/1520...

When are Fact-Checks Effective? An Experimental Study on the Inclusion of the Misinformation Source and the Source of Fact-Checks in 16 European Countries

Despite increasing academic attention, several questions about fact-checking remain unanswered. First, it remains unclear to what extent fact-checks are effective across different political and med...

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Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social · Jan 7

Could anyone inform me what this "range of domestic issues" refer to? Curious!

www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Iceland says it will put EU membership to referendum by 2027

Iceland has traditionally been ambivalent about joining the bloc but issues like the 2008 financial crisis, Brexit and a range of domestic issues has meant the country is slowly warming to the idea of...

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Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social · Dec 15

Oh, really excited to read this! Congrats!

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · Dec 10

Just a reminder that there were people claiming Syrian refugees were 'economic migrants' and it was perfectly safe for them to go back... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Saydnaya Prison: Mapping the Assads' 'human slaughterhouse'

Thousands of people have been executed and tortured in the secretive prison since the 1980s.

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Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social · Nov 29

A friend of mine very rightly pointed out that I fit the target group for this joke perfectly. Now decorates my office door. If there are any other fellow Narnia-Brexit geeks on here, enjoy:
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xkcd: Wardrobe

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