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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 2d

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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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 2d

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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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 28d

📢 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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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Sep 4

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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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 27

Five days left to apply for this PhD fellow position!👇

Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Jul 23

📣1 PhD fellow position open at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo.
👉We invite applications from excellent candidates in all sub-fields of political science.
📅Deadline: September 1st, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, September 1, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢 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...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢 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.

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢 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.

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 18

📢 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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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 18

📢 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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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 18

📢 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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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 18

📢 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...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 17

📢 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...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 17

📢 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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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 17

📢 New article
👥 @philippbroniecki.bsky.social & @bjornhoyland.bsky.social land
🔎 What Unites the Right in the European Parliament?
📖 Open access In European Union Politics.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1465...

What unites the right in the European Parliament? - Philipp Broniecki, Bjørn Høyland, 2025

This letter analyzes coalition patterns among right-wing groups in the European Parliament, exploring the conditions that lead these groups to unite on policy. ...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 16

📢 New article
👥 Hallvard Hodne Sandven
🔎 Is residence at the core of subjection?
📖 Open access In Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP)
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Is residence at the core of subjection?

This article critically assesses Patti Lenard’s conception of subjection, which lies at the heart of Democracy and Exclusion. My aim is to uncover and analyse the logic underlying this conception, ...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 16

📢 New book chapter
👥 Jan Erling Klausen & Marte Winsvold
🔎 Leger tiden alle sår? Om velgernes oppfatning av kommunereformen noen år i etterkant.
📖 Published with open access in Lokalvalgene 2023: maktforskyvning og normalisering
🔗 doi.org/10.23865/cdf...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 16

📢 New article
👥 @philippbroniecki.bsky.social , Lukas Obholzer & Christine Reh
🔎 Legislation Against the Odds: Overcoming Ideological Gridlock in EU Decision-Making.
📖 Open access in Legislative Studies Quarterly
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/lsq....

Legislation Against the Odds: Overcoming Ideological Gridlock in EU Decision‐Making

Negotiations in bicameral settings face the risk of gridlock when veto players' preferences diverge on the ideological (left–right) dimension. In the European Union (EU), a high proportion of legisla...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 16

📢 New article
👥 Xavier Fernández-I-Marín, Markus Hinterleitner, @cknill.bsky.social & Yves Steinebach
🔎 When Less Means More: Policy Accumulation, Administrative Capacities, and Policy Performance.
📖 In The Economists` Voice
🔗 doi.org/10.1515/ev-2...

Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢 New book chapter 🌟
👥 Kaja Sparre Bakke @kajbak.bsky.social (ISV) and three other co-authors
🔎 Women Ambassadors in the UN Security Council: Are They Shaping the Practice of Diplomacy?
📗 Published in Gender and Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢 New article 🌟
👥 Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social and Tamta Gelashvili @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social (ISV)
🔎 How can institutions better support researchers? The case of extremism and terrorism research
📗 Open access in Qualitative Research
doi.org/10.1177/1468...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢 New article 🌟
👥 Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social (ISV), Glen Philip Peters & Jale Tosun
🔎 Policy-driven acceleration of climate action
📖 Open access in PLOS Climate
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Policy-driven acceleration of climate action

Since the signing of the Paris Agreement, the term “acceleration” has become increasingly prevalent in the global discourse on climate change mitigation. Its meaning, however, is ambiguous. While this...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢 New article 🌟
👥 Miroslav Kreos-Nemcok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social (ISV), Hanna Wass @hannawass.bsky.social & Juho Vesa
🔎 Partisan Influence on Policy Preferences in Retrenching the Welfare State
📖 Open access in Public Opinion Quarterly
doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢 New article 🌟
👥 Ilana Shpaizman, Jon Bøe @jbvalgermo.bsky.social (ISV) & Jens Jungblut @jjungblut.bsky.social (ISV)
🔎 Power in the Pre-Decisional Stage: Stability Sentences and Non-Decisions in Coalition Agreements in Israel and Norway
📗 Published in Policy Studies Journal
doi.org/10.1111/psj....

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Jul 23

📣1 PhD fellow position open at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo.
👉We invite applications from excellent candidates in all sub-fields of political science.
📅Deadline: September 1st, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, September 1, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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