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Professor Arjan H. Schakel på Department of Comparative Politics, UiB har avsluttet sitt forskningsprosjekt støttet av Trond Mohn forskningsstiftelse (TMF). Les sluttrapporten her! mohnfoundation.no/aktuelt-nb/sta… TMF

🎓 Eminent comparativist Stein Rokkan, 1921–1979, formulated the idea that ‘votes count but resources decide’ in elections 📑 This #ECPRPress biography, translated from Arild Stubhaug's original Norwegian by @LucyTranslator, offers an intimate portrait bit.ly/3VS9cu6

This wonderful book on Stein Rokkan, the man and his work, is finally out in print.👇 Rokkan was a pioneer of macro-historical comparative research. And, as David Collier writes in his blurb, he was "a giant in the social sciences." For information: ecpr.eu/Shop/ShopProdu…

🎓 Eminent comparativist Stein Rokkan, 1921–1979, formulated the idea that ‘votes count but resources decide’ in elections 📑 This #ECPRPress biography, translated from Arild Stubhaug's original Norwegian by @LucyTranslator, offers an intimate portrait bit.ly/3VS9cu6

Leveraging framing experiments embedded in four surveys, Noah Buckley, @kailmarkvart, Ora John Reuter, & @KTertytchnaya demonstrate how the perception of a dictator's popularity affects their approval. #APSRNewIssue ow.ly/3b8W50RIzxh

We are hiring! 2 PhD positions in comparative politics for full time employment of 4 years. Come and join us in beautiful Bergen and be part of a great project team. More details here👇 jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

PROTECT's article on attitudes to #asylum #responsibility-sharing wins the #SAGE Award for the best article in #EuropeanUnionPolitics - EUP, Volume 24. Authors: Cornelius Cappelen, Hakan G. Sicakkan, and Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem, Universitetet i Bergen Department of Comparative Politics, UiB journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

🎉🎉🎉 The JEPP Best Paper Prize 2023 goes to twitterless, brilliant Michaël Tatham and Yvette Peters for their article: Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation doi.org/10.1080/135017… ! Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉 (1/2)

PhD Positions #ECPRMemberJobs 🌄 ERC project: Contested frontiers of settler states 📚 Explore and understand efforts to (re)constitute frontier jurisdictions 🇳🇴 University of Bergen ⌛ Monday 5 August ow.ly/p8xf50RneM0

Two PhD positions #ECPRMemberJobs ↗️ Project “Representing the Future in an Aging Europe: The Politics of Demographic Change" 📝 Address the impact of demographic change on representative democracy 🇳🇴 University of Bergen ⌛ Friday 2 August ow.ly/nxBG50S0hRL

Welcome to lovely Bergen, ERC!

Last session #nopsa: Jana Birke Belschner on solidaristic representation of involuntary nonvoters & I on age orientation of welfare states. Ends a fab Generational Politics workshop w Dustin Voss @kira_renee_kurz Reto Mitteregger (@indubioproreto.bsky.social) Empirical Political Science @unidue #Duisburg Clemens Nollenberger nopsa2024.no

Glad to see our paper (w/ Lisa-Christine) in print. Check out the open access version below 👇🏻

Bilal Hassan, researcher for LEGITIMULT has presented his paper "Multilevel Government During Crises: Decision-making and implementation by Local and Regional Governments during the Covid-19 Crisis in 31 European Countries" at the 30th Conference of Europeanists.

Lots of interesting patterns in these data from FiveThirtyEight, including: (1) Tim Walz estimated to be the most popular politician among the five shown here, (2) The huge contrast between popularity of Harris and Biden, (3) Growing gap between Harris and Trump. #dataviz

What a wonderful coincidence! I just got back home from a coffee shop where I was rereading some of Stein Rokkan and Urwin's ideas about the State. And at the door of my house this fantastic biography of Rokkan by Arild Stubhaug was waiting for me.

🏆 Thrilled to announce that Anu Bradford (@columbialaw) has won the 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize for her book #DigitalEmpires. Her seminal work tackles one of the major challenges of our time - the global fight to regulate technology. council.science/news/anu-bradf… Universitetet i Bergen Department of Comparative Politics, UiB European Consortium for Political Research

✨ Bold ✨ Provocative ✨ Path-breaking 👏 Excited to congratulate Anu Bradford on winning the 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize in Comparative Social Science Research for her book #DigitalEmpires 👏 ecpr.eu/News/News/Deta… Department of Comparative Politics, UiB International Science Council OUP Law @OUPPolitics #ECPRPrizes

Honored and grateful that #DigitalEmpires won the 2024 Stein Rokkan prize! My warmest thanks to International Science Council and European Consortium for Political Research and Department of Comparative Politics, UiB for recognizing my work.