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ECPR Parliaments Standing Group @sgparliaments.bsky.social · 5d

🎉 Many congratulations to @saradybesland.bsky.social for winning Best Paper Prize at the @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference 2025! Her paper is entitled "Misrepresented or Miss Represented?" focusing on gender and policy responsiveness, praised for its contribution and creativity! Well done! 🥳

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Regional & Federal Studies @regfedst.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲! 🚨
🇪🇸 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗮 and 𝗩𝗼𝘅 in Catalonia: united in nativism, divided by the nation
🔓Read the new #openaccess article by @javiermcanto.bsky.social & @julitudo.bsky.social here 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1359...
#Radicalright #Catalonia #Vox #AliançaCatalana #nationalism

Aliança Catalana and Vox in Catalonia: united in nativism, divided by the nation

Radical right nativist parties have gained ground across Europe in recent decades. However, a key unanswered question is how these parties adapt in contexts marked by the centre–periphery cleavage ...

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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 7d

📣 New article 🌟
👥 Javier Martínez-Cantó @javiermcanto.bsky.social & Julià Tudó-Cisquella @julitudo.bsky.social
👉 Aliança Catalana and Vox in Catalonia: united in nativism, divided by the nation
📗 Open Access in: Regional & Federal Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1359...

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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 19d

CORE Lecture today with Jonathan Slapin, University of Zurich: How Descriptive Over- and Under-Representation Impacts Citizens Evaluations of Decision-making across Policy Domains.

Thanks for sharing your research!

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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 19d

Chapter available here
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 19d

📣 New chapter 🌟
👥 Fay Farstad, Erlend A. T. Hermansen & Bård Lahn
👉 For Better or for Worse. A Break with Norway’s Consensual Climate Tradition?
📗 OA in: Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance, eds Paul Tobin, Matthew Paterson & Stacy D. VanDeveer
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance

Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance

www.cambridge.org

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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 20d

Institutions, Policies, and Actors (IPA) research group meeting today: Silvana Târlea, ZHAW, presenting the paper “From presence to participation – What explains parties’ active participation in UN climate negotiations?”

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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · Oct 2

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 · Sep 29

📣 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
🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · Sep 29

📣 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 · Sep 29

📣 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 · Sep 29

📣 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
🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · Sep 29

📣 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
🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · Sep 25

📣 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 · Sep 12

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 · Sep 12

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 · Sep 12

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...

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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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