Lise Rakner
@liserakner.bsky.social
Political Scientist. Democracy, autocratization, Human Rights, African politics.Recent research projects: Rights Activism Under Political Uncertainty. Program Director Politics and Governance of Global Challenges, Master's, 2 years | University of Bergen
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Lise Rakner
@liserakner.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Studenter mer EU-vennlige enn resten av befolkninga
Det er svært jevnt løp mellom nei og ja til EU blant studentene, viser ny meningsmåling. — Vi har behov for å være del av et større fellesskap enn vi er i dag, sier student og ja-mann Petter Hov Jacob...
www.khrono.no
This is a note of hope- Norwegian students realize that EU membership makes sense for a liberal democracy with an open economy sharing a border with Russia... go figure- smart kids! www.khrono.no/studenter-me...
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“The Golden Age of Transnational Repression”
by @nateschenkkan.bsky.social in @jodemocracy.bsky.social (2025)
#AutumnReading
by @nateschenkkan.bsky.social in @jodemocracy.bsky.social (2025)
#AutumnReading
The Golden Age of Transnational Repression | Journal of Democracy
Authoritarian regimes are targeting exiles and diaspora communities in more places than ever before. Activists, journalists, and regular people living abroad must watch their backs…
www.journalofdemocracy.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
“The Golden Age of Transnational Repression”
by @nateschenkkan.bsky.social in @jodemocracy.bsky.social (2025)
#AutumnReading
by @nateschenkkan.bsky.social in @jodemocracy.bsky.social (2025)
#AutumnReading
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📢 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...
👥 @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...
August 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
📢 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...
👥 @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...
Reposted by Lise Rakner
Finally out! Together with @liserakner.bsky.social we discuss notions around taxation and solidarity! “Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries | The Journal of Modern African Studies | Cambridge Core
Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries - Volume 62 Issue 2
www.cambridge.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Finally out! Together with @liserakner.bsky.social we discuss notions around taxation and solidarity! “Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Yay! New article our with @haakongjerlw.bsky.social and @oivindstiansen.bsky.social
The ability to challenge flawed elections in independent courts can be crucial for democratization
Spoiler: It can also be used by ruling parties to consolidate control of the legislature
New article w/ @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social & @liserakner.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
Spoiler: It can also be used by ruling parties to consolidate control of the legislature
New article w/ @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social & @liserakner.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
The politics of litigating and adjudicating electoral disputes: Evidence from Zambia
Elections are increasingly judicialized in many multiparty regimes. The ability to challenge flawed elections in independent courts can be crucial for…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Yay! New article our with @haakongjerlw.bsky.social and @oivindstiansen.bsky.social
Listen to this great conversations between two amazing scholars if you a) want to understand what is going on in the US and b) what to DO about it! And as an extra bonus to us Europeans- yes- parliamentary systems will protect us against the tyranny of the minority. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS-n...
Backsliding and Resistance in the United States
YouTube video by Harvard Ash Center
www.youtube.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Listen to this great conversations between two amazing scholars if you a) want to understand what is going on in the US and b) what to DO about it! And as an extra bonus to us Europeans- yes- parliamentary systems will protect us against the tyranny of the minority. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS-n...
I recommend following Adam Przeworswki´s diary- when this is over and the history of the demise of America´s democracy is to be written- we will need daily accounts. This is scary. adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/diary?subs...
Diary
Week 1
adamprzeworski.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I recommend following Adam Przeworswki´s diary- when this is over and the history of the demise of America´s democracy is to be written- we will need daily accounts. This is scary. adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/diary?subs...
Please consider joining!
Climate Politics & Autocratization #PhdCourse /Conference 26-26 March at @unibergen.bsky.social and @lawtransform.bsky.social @bergenglobal.bsky.social
Applications by 10 February.
Check it out here www.lawtransform.no/climate-poli...
@liserakner.bsky.social
Applications by 10 February.
Check it out here www.lawtransform.no/climate-poli...
@liserakner.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Please consider joining!
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Starter pack for scholars in the Centre on Law & Social Transformation network (LawTransform www.lawtransform.no) and others researching the strategic use of rights, law & court for social change. #lawfare #legalmobilization. ♦️Want to be included? Let us know in comments ♦️
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January 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Starter pack for scholars in the Centre on Law & Social Transformation network (LawTransform www.lawtransform.no) and others researching the strategic use of rights, law & court for social change. #lawfare #legalmobilization. ♦️Want to be included? Let us know in comments ♦️
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On a day when resistance to autocratization seems particularly urgent, Lise Rakner @liserakner.bsky.social and I are pleased that our article on "Legalized resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa" is out - and open access. @lawtransform.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Legalised resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa
Since the 1990s, African incumbents have engaged in forms of rule-bending that weaken democratic institutions. The democratic backsliding witnessed weaponises law through processes of autocratic la...
www.tandfonline.com
January 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
On a day when resistance to autocratization seems particularly urgent, Lise Rakner @liserakner.bsky.social and I are pleased that our article on "Legalized resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa" is out - and open access. @lawtransform.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Lise Rakner
Congratulations to @jsoderstrom.bsky.social and @liserakner.bsky.social on having this very interesting article published!
Finally out! Together with @liserakner.bsky.social we discuss notions around taxation and solidarity! “Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries | The Journal of Modern African Studies | Cambridge Core
Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries - Volume 62 Issue 2
www.cambridge.org
January 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Congratulations to @jsoderstrom.bsky.social and @liserakner.bsky.social on having this very interesting article published!
Reposted by Lise Rakner
Congratulations on securing the grant and bravo for doing such important work!
November 29, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Congratulations on securing the grant and bravo for doing such important work!
A dream come true and I mean it! Cannot wait! www.uib.no/en/svf/17450...
UiB Master’s Programme Secures NOK 3 Million Grant for Global Classroom Initiative
«We will teach the courses at five universities in different ways. We will create shared teaching materials, and students at all five institutions will participate through teacher and student mobility...
www.uib.no
November 29, 2024 at 2:57 PM
A dream come true and I mean it! Cannot wait! www.uib.no/en/svf/17450...
This is a note of hope- Norwegian students realize that EU membership makes sense for a liberal democracy with an open economy sharing a border with Russia... go figure- smart kids! www.khrono.no/studenter-me...
Studenter mer EU-vennlige enn resten av befolkninga
Det er svært jevnt løp mellom nei og ja til EU blant studentene, viser ny meningsmåling. — Vi har behov for å være del av et større fellesskap enn vi er i dag, sier student og ja-mann Petter Hov Jacob...
www.khrono.no
November 26, 2024 at 6:45 PM
This is a note of hope- Norwegian students realize that EU membership makes sense for a liberal democracy with an open economy sharing a border with Russia... go figure- smart kids! www.khrono.no/studenter-me...
Reposted by Lise Rakner
Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
When are politicians willing to liberalize abortion laws? Check out of new article in CPS- the latest from the Bergen-Berkeley gang!
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
April 17, 2024 at 7:12 AM
When are politicians willing to liberalize abortion laws? Check out of new article in CPS- the latest from the Bergen-Berkeley gang!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Lise Rakner
Reposted by Lise Rakner
GLD's Research Seminar Series introduces the research process and covers 3 stages of research:
Refining a research question
Selecting methodology
Presenting findings.
All 15 videos are free to use and available on our website with English & Arabic subtitles: gld.gu.se/en/education...
Refining a research question
Selecting methodology
Presenting findings.
All 15 videos are free to use and available on our website with English & Arabic subtitles: gld.gu.se/en/education...
November 21, 2023 at 12:09 PM
GLD's Research Seminar Series introduces the research process and covers 3 stages of research:
Refining a research question
Selecting methodology
Presenting findings.
All 15 videos are free to use and available on our website with English & Arabic subtitles: gld.gu.se/en/education...
Refining a research question
Selecting methodology
Presenting findings.
All 15 videos are free to use and available on our website with English & Arabic subtitles: gld.gu.se/en/education...
Reposted by Lise Rakner
This paper is good! And it crystallizes an idea: the type of social change whose outcome you could measure through a randomized controlled trial is almost certainly system-preserving.
So, if you only study the policies that RCTs can evaluate, you'll *never* study transformative social change.
So, if you only study the policies that RCTs can evaluate, you'll *never* study transformative social change.
So pleased to see my paper out!
It surveys 50+ years of randomized control trials in criminal justice and shows that almost no interventions have lasting benefit -- and the ones that do don't replicate in other settings. 1/
www.bu.edu/bulawreview/...
#econsky #polisky #metascience #philsci
It surveys 50+ years of randomized control trials in criminal justice and shows that almost no interventions have lasting benefit -- and the ones that do don't replicate in other settings. 1/
www.bu.edu/bulawreview/...
#econsky #polisky #metascience #philsci
January 3, 2024 at 2:18 PM
This paper is good! And it crystallizes an idea: the type of social change whose outcome you could measure through a randomized controlled trial is almost certainly system-preserving.
So, if you only study the policies that RCTs can evaluate, you'll *never* study transformative social change.
So, if you only study the policies that RCTs can evaluate, you'll *never* study transformative social change.
Reposted by Lise Rakner
@benjaminwittes.bsky.social talked to @rparloff.bsky.social and @annabower.bsky.social about Judge Cannon's cryptic order in the Mar-a-Lago case, the latest in the Section 3 litigation, and the release of proffer videos in Fulton County on Trump's Trials and Tribulations. Listen now:
The Lawfare Podcast: Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: What Is Judge Cannon up to Now?
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 18, 2023 at 10:01 PM
@benjaminwittes.bsky.social talked to @rparloff.bsky.social and @annabower.bsky.social about Judge Cannon's cryptic order in the Mar-a-Lago case, the latest in the Section 3 litigation, and the release of proffer videos in Fulton County on Trump's Trials and Tribulations. Listen now:
Reposted by Lise Rakner
Thank you CEDAR (Uni of Birmingham) for offering an opportunity to exchange on democracy in Africa. Nic, Lise and I had a great time discussing the implications of our book on democratic backsliding!
@manoelgehrke.bsky.social
@manoelgehrke.bsky.social
October 11, 2023 at 9:30 PM
Thank you CEDAR (Uni of Birmingham) for offering an opportunity to exchange on democracy in Africa. Nic, Lise and I had a great time discussing the implications of our book on democratic backsliding!
@manoelgehrke.bsky.social
@manoelgehrke.bsky.social
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Working on political institutions and democracy in Africa? We're calling for participants for a mini-conference during the next APSA.
Scholars from the continent and early-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply.
Submit your abstract by Dec. 4: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Scholars from the continent and early-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply.
Submit your abstract by Dec. 4: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
APSA Mini-Conference 2024: Call for Papers - Institutions and Democracy in Africa
Following the introduction of multiparty electrons across many parts of Africa in the early 1990s, domestic and international analysts hoped that democracy would take root by institutionalizing horizo...
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November 9, 2023 at 9:44 AM
Working on political institutions and democracy in Africa? We're calling for participants for a mini-conference during the next APSA.
Scholars from the continent and early-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply.
Submit your abstract by Dec. 4: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Scholars from the continent and early-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply.
Submit your abstract by Dec. 4: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reposted by Lise Rakner
Doctors Without Borders in Gaza says 100% of the patients it has treated in the past 24 hours have been children
Doctors Without Borders in Gaza says 100% of the patients it has treated in the past 24 hours have b...
Medical-aid groups in the Gaza Strip told Insider they were running out of supplies due to Israel's counterattack and blockade.
www.businessinsider.com
October 12, 2023 at 7:02 PM
Doctors Without Borders in Gaza says 100% of the patients it has treated in the past 24 hours have been children