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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
@statsvitenskap.bsky.social
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ISV - Institutt for statsvitenskap, UiO
University of Oslo, Norway
https://www.sv.uio.no/isv/
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📢 New article
👤 Marika Miner (ISV)
👉 Strategic disruptions: The subnational targeting of internet shutdowns in India
📗 Published in Journal of Peace Research
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0022...
Strategic disruptions: The subnational targeting of internet shutdowns in India
Abstract. Since 2016, governments in 77 countries have implemented 1,118 internet shutdowns, revealing a growing trend in the use of ‘digital repression’.
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January 23, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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📢 New article
👥 Tom Christensen (ISV) & Per Lægreid
👉 Future Challenges of Public Administration
📗 Open Access in Public Performance and Management Review
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1530...
Future Challenges of Public Administration
This article addresses the future theoretical, thematical, empirical, and normative challenges for public administration as a research field. Theoretically, it argues for combining organizational a...
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January 21, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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📢 New book chapter
👤 Dag Harald Claes (ISV)
🔎 Energy turbulence between politics and markets
📖 Published in Energy Politics in a Turbulent Era
🔗 doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Book cover of Energy Politics in a Turbulent Era
January 20, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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📢 New book chapter
👤 Dag Harald Claes (ISV)
🔎 Energy Policy - Resource Abundance and External Challenges
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Energy Policy: Resource Abundance and External Challenges
AbstractNorway is a country rich in energy resources. Most domestic energy consumption is based on hydroelectricity, with low production costs. Since the b
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January 19, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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📢 New book chapter
👥 Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social (ISV) & Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social
🔎 Political Trust in Norway; A Large But Lopsided Research Field
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Abstract of the book chapter
January 16, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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📢 New article
👥 Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social (ISV) & three others
👉 How Group Appeals Shape Group-Party Linkages in Two Political Systems
📗 Published in Journal of Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1086/735505
How Group Appeals Shape Group-Party Linkages in Two Political Systems | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
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January 15, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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📢 New book chapter
👥 Jonas Stein & Bjørn Erik Rasch (ISV)
🔎 Executive – Legislative Relations: Negative Parliamentarism and Its Consequences for Governing Norway
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Executive–Legislative Relations: Negative Parliamentarism and Its Consequences for Governing Norway
AbstractThe most salient feature of negative parliamentarism is that the confidence relationship between the legislative and executive branches is weak. In
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January 14, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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📢 New article
👥 Jacob Nyrup, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Peter Egge Langsæther, & Ina Lyftingsmo Kristiansen
👉 Paths to Power: A New Dataset on the Social Profile of Governments
📗 Open Access in the British Journal of Political Science
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/s000...
Abstract of the article
January 13, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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📢 New book chapter
👤 Øyvind Stiansen (ISV) @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social
🔎 The Courts
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
The Courts
AbstractCourts frequently decide politically important cases in Norway. Yet, despite voicing concerns about the consequences of judicialization for represe
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January 12, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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On January 15, 2026, Bintu Zahara Sakor will defend her PhD thesis “Unlocking Africa’s Demographic Future: Youth Bulges, State Policies, and Pathways to Dividend and Political Stability”. For time and place, see 👇
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Disputation Bintu Zahara Sakor - Department of Political Science
Master of Science in Conflict Resolution Bintu Zahara Sakor will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science:Unlocking Africa’s Demographic Future: Youth Bulges, State Policie...
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January 12, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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On January 13, 2026, Ari Mamshae will defend his PhD thesis “Who Gets Appointed and Why? The Politics of Selecting Senior Civil Servants in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region”. For time and place, see 👇
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Disputation Ari Mamshae - Department of Political Science
Master of Arts and Master of Public Policy Ari Mamshae will be defending his dissertation at the Department of Political Science:Who Gets Appointed and Why? The Politics of Selecting Senior Civil Serv...
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January 12, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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📢 New article
👥 Tora Berge Naterstad (ISV) and four co-authors
👉 Sixty years of Nordic International Relations
📖 Published in Cooperation and Conflict
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
Sixty years of Nordic International Relations - Benjamin de Carvalho, Kristin Haugevik, Paul Beaumont, Øyvind Svendsen, Tora Berge Naterstad, 2025
In this contribution, the editors introduce the 60th anniversary Special Issue of Cooperation and Conflict. Emerging during the early Cold War, Cooperation and ...
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December 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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📢 New book chapter
👥 Jens Jungblut @jjungblut.bsky.social (ISV) and Mari Elken
🔎 Searching for the Right Balance between Equality and Differentiation: Education Policies in Norway
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Searching for the Right Balance between Equality and Differentiation: Education Policies in Norway
AbstractThis chapter presents an overview of education policies and policy debates in Norway. To this end, it encompasses three main parts. First, the chap
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December 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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📢 New book chapter
👥 Elin Haugsgjerd Allern (ISV) & Vibeke Wøien Hansen @vibekewoien.bsky.social
🔎 Interest Groups in Norwegian Politics: Strategies, Access, and Influence
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Interest Groups in Norwegian Politics: Strategies, Access, and Influence
AbstractThis chapter is about interest groups’ strategies for influence and their access to, and influence on, policy decision-making processes and outcome
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December 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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📢 New article
👤 Sverke Runde Saxegaard @sverke.bsky.social
👉 Careful what you promise: Executive constraints and conflict recurrence
📗 Open Access in Journal of Peace Research
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0022...
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December 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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📢 New book chapter
👥 Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social (ISV) & Lars H. Gulbrandsen
🔎 Paradoxes of Twin Crises: Nature Protection and Climate Governance in Norway
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Paradoxes of Twin Crises: Nature Protection and Climate Governance in Norway
AbstractThis chapter examines and compares nature protection and climate policies in Norway. Whereas nature protection policies are characterized by a limi
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December 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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📢 New book chapter
👥 Elin Haugsgjerd Allern @allernelin.bsky.social, Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Kristoffer Kolltveit & Bjørn Erik Rasch
🔎 Introduction: Norway, A Stable Democracy in Flux
📗 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Introduction: Norway, A Stable Democracy in Flux
AbstractNorway has long exhibited several distinct features: a cooperative and consensual political culture that permits minority coalitions and broad parl
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December 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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📢 New article
👥 Miroslav Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social (ISV) and 3 others
👉 Public opinion and the welfare state: sources, processes, and consequences
📗 Published in Journal of European Public Policy
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Public opinion and the welfare state: sources, processes, and consequences
The legitimacy and resilience of the welfare state rest on sustained public support. This introduction reviews the literature on welfare attitudes and public opinion formation on the welfare state....
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December 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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📢 New article
👥 Francesca R. Jensenius @fr-jensenius.bsky.social (ISV) and 3 others
👉 Indian election data for polling stations and villages: National elections 2009–2019
📗 Open Access in Scientific Data
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Indian election data for polling stations and villages: National elections 2009–2019 - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Indian election data for polling stations and villages: National elections 2009–2019
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December 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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📢 New article
👥 Mathilde B. Mjelva (ISV), Francesca R. Jensenius @fr-jensenius.bsky.social (ISV) and 2 others
👉 Beyond Hate Speech: Online Rumors and Out-Group Resentment in Divided Societies
📗 Open Access in Comparative Political Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Congratulations to @torewig.bsky.social on receiving an ERC Consolidator Grant!🌟His project, "Authoritarian Threats to Scientific Knowledge (AutoKnow)," will examine how authoritarian rule affects scientific knowledge production.
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Large EU-grant to Tore Wig to study the state of science in autocracies - Department of Political Science
Will scientific progress slow down if more countries in the world become autocratic? That is one of the questions political science professor Tore Wig will seek to answer with two million euros from t...
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December 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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📢 New book chapter
👥 Kristoffer Kolltveit (ISV) & Jarle Trondal
🔎 The Norwegian Central Government: A Robust Yet Adaptive Apparatus
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
Abstract. This handbook provides a comprehensive examination of Norway’s political institutions, electoral politics, public policymaking, and international
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December 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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📢 New book chapter
👤 Ari Mamshae
🔎 Persistent patronage and a dynamic regime: bureaucratic politicization in Iraq.
📖 Published in Handbook of Politicization and Political Patronage
🔗 doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Book cover Handbook of Politicization and Political Patronage
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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📢 New article
👥 Johan Lindholm, Mattias Derlén og Daniel Naurin @dnaurin.bsky.social (ISV)
👉 A Source-Based Theory of Variation in Judicial Reasoning: Evidence from Sweden
📗 Open Access in Journal of Law & Empirical Analysis
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2755...
December 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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📢 New article
👥 Jacob Aars, Tobis Bach @tobiasbach.bsky.social (ISV), & Jarle Trondal
👉 The value of paired and longitudinal surveys in public administration research
📗 Open Access in International Review of Administrative Sciences
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0020...
Abstract
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM