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Department of Comparative Politics UiB
@sampol.bsky.social
Sampol • Institutt for sammenliknende politikk • UiB
Comparative Politics • Political Science • University of Bergen, Norway
https://www.uib.no/sampol
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🎉 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! 🥳
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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🚨 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 ...
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
📣 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...
November 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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!
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
📣 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
October 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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?”
October 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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 👏👏👏
October 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
📣 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...
September 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
📣 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
🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
September 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📣 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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September 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
📣 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
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September 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
📣 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
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September 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
📣 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...
September 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Thank you to the department for hosting me, for everyone joining the lecture and asking wonderful questions.

It was a great visit.
Rokkan Memorial Lecture 2025. Professor Catherine De Vries: Public Service Deprivation and the Geography of Far-Right Support in Europe.
September 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Rokkan Memorial Lecture 2025. Professor Catherine De Vries: Public Service Deprivation and the Geography of Far-Right Support in Europe.
September 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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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...

@sampol.bsky.social

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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...
doi.org
September 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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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.
👉🧵
September 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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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
September 1, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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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
August 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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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
August 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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🚨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
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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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
August 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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❓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
August 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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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...
August 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Hvor mye skatt betaler vi egentlig?💰

SSB har regnet på det og finner at de rikeste betaler en langt lavere effektiv skattesats enn folk flest.
August 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM