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Staffan Kumlin
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Political Science Professor, Univ of Oslo.
Democracy and discontent in European welfare states.
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Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social · Nov 23
"Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change: Democratic Linkage and Leadership Under Pressure" academic.oup.com/book/44051, co-authored with Achim Goerres @emppolitikwiss.bsky.social
Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change: Democratic Linkage and Leadership Under Pressure
Abstract. For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater need and more insecure re
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allernelin.bsky.social
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
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miroslavnemcok.bsky.social
Our introduction to to the special issue on the formation of public opinion in the welfare state is now out in the @jeppjournal.bsky.social!

📖 Freely available: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

A big thanks to Zhen Jie Im, Maria Grasso, and Franco Bonomi Bezzo for outstanding co-editorship.
October 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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peterla.bsky.social
Excited to share a glimpse of my book on party families via LSE European Politics and Policy! The book delves into the heart of what constitutes a party family, offer updated categorisations, contemporary descriptions, and an insight into their supporters. #polisky

blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Why we should rethink how we categorise party families in western Europe
It is common to refer to party families such as “social democrats” and the “radical right” when discussing European politics. Drawing on a new book, Peter Egge Langsæther writes that while th...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 3, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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silkegoubin.bsky.social
Shout-out to all #PoliticalTrust researchers interested in attending the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference in #Belfast

@annakern.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @cvalebeek.bsky.social, @hannesbey.bsky.social and I are coordinating 3 trust panels!
October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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statsvitenskap.bsky.social
ISV’s Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social receives 12 million NOK from the RCN program 'Welfare and Education' for the research project 'Struggling Women and Men: Political-Democratic Gender Gaps in a High-Trust Welfare State.'🌟👏Congratulations!
www.sv.uio.no/isv/om/aktue...
Staffan Kumlin får Forskingsrådsmidler for å se på politiske og demokratiske kjønnsforskjeller - Institutt for statsvitenskap (ISV)
Med 12 millioner kroner fra Forskningsrådet vil Staffan Kumlin på Institutt for statsvitenskap forske på politiske og demokratiske kjønnsforskjeller. Han vil blant annet ta for seg hvordan utdanning, ...
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October 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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jonaslinde.bsky.social
New chapter on political trust in Norway, co-authored with @staffankumlin.bsky.social.
sampol.bsky.social 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
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September 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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ldeblok.bsky.social
Finding: political trust can influence how people experience socio-economic risks 💡

In our article in @joftrustres.bsky.social, Atle Haugsgjerd & I show that political trust works as a psychological coping-mechanism - especially for those who believe the welfare state should manage economic risks.
September 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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statsvitenskap.bsky.social
📢 New article 🌟
👥 Miroslav Kreos-Nemcok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social (ISV), Hanna Wass @hannawass.bsky.social & Juho Vesa
🔎 Partisan Influence on Policy Preferences in Retrenching the Welfare State
📖 Open access in Public Opinion Quarterly
doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
August 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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miroslavnemcok.bsky.social
As global population growth starts to hit the brakes, Rein Taagepera and I consider what this means for our future and look for lessons from the past.
🔽👇⬇️
ecprtheloop.bsky.social The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · Aug 12
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 As #PopulationGrowth slows, @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social & Rein Taagepera draw on a striking demographic stall 2,000 years ago that preceded political fragmentation and imperial collapse.
🌍 Can modern states withstand the pressures of a post-growth world?
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August 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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statsvitenskap.bsky.social
📣1 PhD fellow position open at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo.
👉We invite applications from excellent candidates in all sub-fields of political science.
📅Deadline: September 1st, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479) | University of Oslo
Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, September 1, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
July 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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polstudies.bsky.social
Do generous welfare policies foster political trust? Matthijs Gillissen, @silkegoubin.bsky.social & Anna Ruelens examine the long-term effects of welfare generosity on trust in political institutions. Read more:
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@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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emppolitikwiss.bsky.social
Later that day, he will present “The Causal Effects of Poor and Corrupt Welfare State Service Delivery on Political Solidarity and Political Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Novel Virtual-State Approach” (co-authored with Achim Goerres, Philipp Chapkovski and @jeicheler.bsky.social )!
July 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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annanhelgoy.bsky.social
Really honored to be awarded the King’s Gold Medal for my dissertation!

You can read more about it below, and then I want to add that I was incredibly lucky with my workplace, colleagues, co-authors and supervisors during my PhD<3 feeling grateful!!
Anna Nordnes Helgøy awarded the King's Gold Medal for dissertation on gender division in private and public spheres - Department of Political Science
– It is a great honour to receive recognition for a doctoral dissertation on gender equality at a time when the American president is actively working against research in this field, says Anna Nordnes...
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June 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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statsvitenskap.bsky.social
📢 New article
👥 Tor Gaute Syrstad, Atle Hennum Haugsgjerd & Staffan Kumlin, staffankumlin.bsky.social.
🔎 Iceberg of discontent? Emotional responses to welfare state development and political trust.
📖 Open access in Journal of European Social Policy
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0958...
May 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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excinequality.bsky.social
First Wednesday of the month – time for a new In_equality podcast! This time, our hosts @mbusemeyer.bsky.social and Gabriele Spilker @uni-konstanz.de talk with @juandiego48cr.bsky.social about how people (mis-)perceive inequality – and why it matters for politics. ➡️ inequality.uni.kn/podcast
May 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
staffankumlin.bsky.social
Interested in how public services affect political distrust, populist support, and similar? Longitudinal evidence from Germany and Norway.
doi.org/10.1080/1471...
Welfare state evaluations, normative expectations, and political trust: longitudinal evidence from Germany and Norway
The expectancy-disconfirmation model (EDM) explains satisfaction with public services as a combination of service expectations and perceived performance. We study how satisfaction in turn affects p...
doi.org
May 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
staffankumlin.bsky.social
Sunny Saarland days. Very enjoyable!
March 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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peterla.bsky.social
Technological change has had important consequences for labour markets in recent decades. What about its electoral consequences? In this new article in EJPR, we use administrative data to follow nearly a million workers over 16 years to study this. 🧵

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The gendered long‐term consequences of automation risk on electoral behaviour: Evidence from Norway
We examine long-run effects of automation risk on turnout. We expect gendered negative effects because men's turnout is more sensitive to job loss and earnings, but negative effects might be offset b...
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March 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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peterla.bsky.social
Very happy to share our new article in JoP @thejop.bsky.social, where we explore how parties forge links with social groups (here: social classes) through different appeals and how citizens respond to such appeals.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
February 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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annanhelgoy.bsky.social
New article w brilliant @anacweeks.bsky.social on the mental load and effects on public participation out in @bjpols.bsky.social!
Ana summarizes the article nicely in the thread below 👇
February 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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arnovanhootegem.bsky.social
Happy to see my new paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social!
February 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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statsvitenskap.bsky.social
One week left to apply for this postdoctoral fellow position!👇
February 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
staffankumlin.bsky.social
Political trust is likely in global decline. What are the consequences? Our experiment suggests low-trusters more often accept info saying immigration threatens the welfare state. Trust matters more than most economic, cultural, and contextual factors - with @finseraas.bsky.social & Atle Haugsgjerd
Immigration and welfare state sustainability: whose perception is affected by fiscal cost cues?
Who reacts politically to fiscally costly immigration? A political economy tradition holds that reactions depend on economic self-interest, whereas a social psychology tradition emphasizes generali...
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February 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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January 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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