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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 6d

Klart for Sampolkonferansen 2025 og geopolitisk spenning i en usikker tid. Organisert av våre dyktige masterstudenter 🙌

Konferansen fyller 40 år i år! Slik bygges akademiske tradisjoner og positivt omdømme 👏👏👏

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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 9d

📣 New chapter 🌟
👥 Torvald Falch & Per Selle
📘 Indigenous Policies: Sámi System Building through Internationalization and Legalization
📚 The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics, eds Kolltveit, Allern, Braut-Hegghammer & Rasch
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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 9d

📣 New chapter 🌟
👥 Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social & Idunn Nørbech @norbidunn.bsky.social
📘 Public Policymaking and Stakeholder Consultations in Norway
📚 The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics, eds Kolltveit, Allern, Braut-Hegghammer & Rasch
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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 9d

📣 New chapter 🌟
👥 Mari S. Helliesen, Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social & Yvette Peters
📘 The Fairest of Them All? Political Representation and Equality in Norway
📚 The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics, eds Kolltveit, Allern, Braut-Hegghammer & Rasch
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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 9d

📣 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 · 9d

📣 New chapter 🌟
👥 Dag Arne Christensen & Kristin Strømsnes
📘 Political Participation and Voter Turnout Inequalities in Norway
📚 The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics, eds Kolltveit, Allern, Braut-Hegghammer & Rasch
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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 13d

📣 New chapter 🌟
👥 Arjan Schakel & Michaël Tatham
📘 Multilevel territorial governance
📚 Handbook of Territorial Governance, Giancarlo Cotella & Umberto Janin Rivolin (eds.), Edward Elgar
🔗 www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you to the department for hosting me, for everyone joining the lecture and asking wonderful questions.

It was a great visit.

Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 26d

Rokkan Memorial Lecture 2025. Professor Catherine De Vries: Public Service Deprivation and the Geography of Far-Right Support in Europe.

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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 26d

Rokkan Memorial Lecture 2025. Professor Catherine De Vries: Public Service Deprivation and the Geography of Far-Right Support in Europe.

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Georg Picot @gpicot.bsky.social · Sep 4

New publication: my co-author, Trond Holmen Erlien, and I provide a historical case study of the introduction of statutory extensions of collective bargaining in Norway.

doi.org/10.1111/1467...

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The Politics of Statutory Extensions of Collective Bargaining in Norway

By extending collective wage agreements through the force of law, states can prop up dwindling collective bargaining. This is a common policy in Continental Europe, but less so in Scandinavia. Norway...

doi.org

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Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Jeg skriver metodebok 📖 📈:

Laget for å gjøre kvantitativ metode tilgjengelig, relevant og gøy for alle—uten krav til forkunnskaper i statistikk eller programmering. Boka bruker R👨‍💻, og gir deg alt du trenger å vite om statistikk, databehandling og formidling for å begynne å forske på samfunnet.
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Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social · Sep 1

Resultatene fra skolevalget kommer på tirsdag (2. september). Hva kan de fortelle om hvem som vinner stortingsvalget?

Jeg har analysert dataene: rubenmathisen.substack.com/p/kan-skolev...

Her er 3 ting jeg fant 🧵

Kan skolevalget avsløre vinneren av stortingsvalget?

De siste 20 årene har blokken som vinner skolevalget alltid vunnet det "ekte" valget.

rubenmathisen.substack.com

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Scandinavian Political Studies @scandpolstud.bsky.social · Aug 29

Can states extend collective wage agreements through the force of law, thus propping up dwindling collective bargaining? Trond Holmen Erlien and Georg Picot @gpicot.bsky.social examine this feature in Norwegian labour market politics and the appears to be positive. doi.org/10.1111/1467....

The Politics of Statutory Extensions of Collective Bargaining in Norway

By extending collective wage agreements through the force of law, states can prop up dwindling collective bargaining. This is a common policy in Continental Europe, but less so in Scandinavia. Norway...

doi.org

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Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social · Aug 29

Intervju i Aftenposten om partienes pengegaver:

Syvdoblet valgkampstøtte til Frp. Fått over 100 millioner kroner sammen med Høyre.

Pengegaloppen i norsk politikk fortsetter. Fremskrittspartiet har så langt mottatt syv ganger så mye i bidrag som foran forrige stortingsvalg.

www.aftenposten.no

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Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨Oppdaterte tall: Hvem får mest i pengegaver foran årets valg?

+ data for valgnerder og journalister👨‍💻

Pengekappløpet 2025

Oppdaterte tall for pengegaver i norsk politikk

rubenmathisen.substack.com

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Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social · Aug 28

Intervju på NRK om partienes pengegaver: www.nrk.no/vestland/ny-...

Ny rekord: Så mykje har partia fått i valkampstøtte

Gavedrysset i norsk politikk har sin pris. Nå åtvarar fleire om at kronerullinga har tatt ein «unorsk retning».

www.nrk.no

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V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social · Aug 27

❓Are expert’s pessimism about global democracy affecting their coding of democracy locally, and thus greatly inflating estimates of global democratic backsliding?
Find out in the new V-Dem Working Paper: v-dem.net/media/public...
❗Spoiler alert for 🎞️ and 🧵
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#PoliSciSky #Polisky #ExpertCoding

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Kyle Marquardt @kailmarkvart.bsky.social · Aug 26

Excited to introduce a new working paper with @danpemstein.com, @chknutsen.bsky.social and other colleagues not on Bluesky! We use experimental and observational data to investigate the degree to which general biases affect expert perceptions of specific cases. 🧵 1/17 v-dem.net/media/public...

Title: Global Trends and Expert Perceptions: Pessimism and the Assessment of Democratic Backsliding.

Abstract There are longstanding concerns about biases in expert-coded data. Here we attempt to causally identify the effect of these biases, specifically evaluating the claim that pessimism about global democracy affects expert coding of democracy locally in specific countries. Observational analyses of data from an original survey of experts demonstrate that perceptions of global and local democratic trends are indeed correlated. However, an embedded experiment yields no evidence of a causal effect of perceptions of global democracy trends on perceptions of local trends. Moreover, we find little evidence that pessimism about global trends substantially affects actual coding behavior with regard to specific countries. Together, these results alleviate some concerns about expert biases both in widely-used measures of democracy and more broadly.

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Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hvor mye skatt betaler vi egentlig?💰

SSB har regnet på det og finner at de rikeste betaler en langt lavere effektiv skattesats enn folk flest.

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Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social · Aug 26

💰Partienes Pengegaver Del 9: Senterpartiet

Av de 9 største partiene er det Senterpartiet som har fått minst i pengegaver foran årets valg (så langt). Senterpartiet har lenge fått mesteparten av bidragene sine fra fagbevegelsen.

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Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social · Aug 25

💰Partienes Pengegaver Del 8: MDG

MDG har de siste årene fått inn store pengebidrag til å være et relativt lite parti. Det aller meste kommer fra privatpersoner.

Imorgen: Senterpartiet

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Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social · Aug 24

💰Partienes Pengegaver Del 7: KRF

KRF pleide å få en del fra privatpersoner, men dette har falt over tid. I stedet får de nå langt mer fra selskaper—og de mottar rekordstore bidrag foran årets valg, samlet sett.

Imorgen: MDG

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Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social · Aug 23

💰Partienes Pengegaver Del 6: Rødt

Rødt har sett stor økning i pengebidrag fra privatpersoner over tid. I likhet med SV kommer mye av dette fra partipolitikere som betaler partiskatt.
(SSB-data kun tilgjengelig for siste ti år)

Imorgen: KRF

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Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social · Aug 22

💰Partienes Pengegaver Del 5: Venstre

Venstre pleide å få relativt lite i pengegaver. Men fra 2017 har det vært stor økning. Foran årets valg har de så langt fått dobbelt så mye som i 2021. Økningen skyldes i hovedsak mer penger fra selskaper.

Imorgen: Rødt

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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · Aug 22

Sperregrense og utjamningsmandat. Sampols Jana Belschner @janabelschner.bsky.social forklarer korleis dette fungerer i nettavisa Framtida.

Er det lurt å stemme taktisk? Og kva er eigentleg sperregrensa?

Kva er sperregrensa og utjamningsmandat?

framtida.no

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