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Magnus B Rasmussen
@magnusrasmussen.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, specialising in Historical Political Economy.

www.magnusbrasmussen.com
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"Want to understand how local and national politics intertwine to shape old-age pension systems?

Curious about how class and party preferences influence the design of pension policies?

Interested in how institutionalized parties leverage local politics to set the national agenda?
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Deadline for EPSS 2026 is this Friday!
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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🎓 New paper accepted today, on the intergenerational educational mobility among immigrants in Denmark!

At first glance, immigrants seem more mobile than natives – but this is largely a data illusion. Poor register data quality drives the pattern.

w/ @rlandersoe.bsky.social

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November 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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No-one has covered themselves in glory here.

The authors made errors that shouldn't even be possible.
The peer reviewers didn't spot the red flags.
The journal wrote a clickbait press release.
The journalists lapped it up.
The editors failed to swiftly retract the paper.
November 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I drafted a correlation heatmap package for Stata. Does something like this already exist? I want to make sure before I put more work into this.
November 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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NEW -

Interstate Conflict Increases the Appeal of Undemocratic Candidates - https://cup.org/3Lx7bjx

"undemocratic candidates are evaluated more positively under conflict compared to peace"

- @kristianvsf.bsky.social & Lasse Laustsen

#OpenAccess
October 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Discussant duties completed…
October 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Now April coffee roasters. Probably the closest to the Tokyo experience you can get outside of Tokyo.
October 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Major disappointment even for danish coffee. Avoid at all cost.
October 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I am back in the country of bitter and sour espresso.
October 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Always important to remind our danish friends of what they have lost...
October 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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I am thrilled to announce the publication of the Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics! Over 70 scholars from various institutions in Norway and abroad have contributed their expertise and insights to 48 chapters on different aspects of Norwegian politics.

A short🧵

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October 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Time to get dirty.
October 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Micro-tape-data
October 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Bakeriet credo ved national biblioteket lager en meget god espresso for bakeri å være.
October 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Suksess.
October 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This is a great opportunity! You’ll get to work with a fantastic team and be a member of Norway’s leading political science environment. Best of all, you’ll have a supportive and innovative supervisor—by all accounts.
October 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Moreover, I have recently been awarded an ERC starting grant towards the project GETGOV to work further on this, so expect more data on cabinet members in the future. I am currently hiring two PhDs and two postdocs:

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

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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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October 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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From the local newspaper Lister (1899), this gem:

Political economy.
12-year-old: “What is political economy, Dad?”
Dad: “Never buy more votes than you strictly need.”
October 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
From the local newspaper Lister (1899), this gem:

Political economy.
12-year-old: “What is political economy, Dad?”
Dad: “Never buy more votes than you strictly need.”
October 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Blast from the past
October 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Happy to announce that I have been promoted to full professor in Political Science.
October 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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New APSR sure to spark discussion argues:

Confederate monuments actually reduced violence against Black people historically & that their recent removals have increased anti-Black hate crimes

Monuments "act as a substitute for performative violence in constructing a white supremacist social order"
October 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Working on topics of Inequality and the #environment ? Join @sitestockholm.bsky.social
workshop on Nov 28! Deadline October 15.
October 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Are you interested in research on corruption/illicit finance/kleptocracy? We are hiring a Research Fellow at @acdatacollective.bsky.social: acdatacollective.org/wp-content/u...
Please share in your networks, this could be a great gig.
acdatacollective.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM