If you happen to be in Barcelona on Feb 28, or want to follow online, I will talk about ⁦Palina Kolvani⁩ and my research on how democracy and state capacity influence Covid death tolls and reporting of Covid deaths at the IBEI Research Seminar: ibei.org/en/research-se…

Back home after a fantastic first in-person conference #EPSA2022 Had the pleasure to present our paper with Carl Henrik Knutsen on COVID-19, democracy and state capacity in a panel on managing the pandemic, with Max Schaub as the discussant.

EITM-Oslo ☑️ Many thanks to Bjørn Høyland, Philipp Broniecki, and Linda G. for organizing, and our instructors for excellent lectures, lab exercises and discussions 🧠 also, big thanks to my awesome classmates, hoping to see you all in the near future 💛

Interested in pursuing a PhD in #PoliticalScience? Do you want to work in a young+vibrant+freiendy+egalitarian environment with experts from all parts of political sci.? Do you want a decent salary? Design your own project and apply for a Phd at Universitetet i Oslo jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

We are hiring in Oslo: Open call 4-year postdoc (any political science topic), with 25% teaching and 75% research at our department. jobbnorge.no/en/available-j… Please spread the word to relevant candidates! Deadline: 15 Feb.

Our BA course "Autocratic politics" at SV-fakultetet UiO starts today. Check it out: uio.no/studier/emner/… Excited to meet all the students and teach together with Felix Haass , Vilde Lunnan Djuve Jonas W. Schmid , Tore Wig , Philipp Lutscher , 𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 , Palina Kolvani , Amalie Nilsen , Eric Nilsen

Kicking off the PhD workshop Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg with an exciting session at V-Dem Institute ! 🎉 Universitetet i Oslo

Just concluded a two-day workshop with Political Science PhDs from Universitetet i Oslo and Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg, thank you everyone for great presentations and discussions! Special thanks to Ankita Barthwal for being the best co-organizer and to Jana Schwenk Felicia Robertson for hosting us!

Concluding the PhD trip with a visit to the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute. Thank you to Marina Nistotskaya and Natalia Alvarado Pachon from QoG-Data for fantastic presentations!

Excited to see the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology published online, where Marina Nistotskaya and I have co-authored an entry on Bureaucracy: elgaronline.com/display/book/9…

The July issue of World Politics is online! Check out articles from Edward Goldring Peter Ward, 워드 피터，皮得 Sam van Noort Maayan Mor Carles Boix 🇺🇦 Carl Henrik Knutsen Palina Kolvani & Kurt Weyland muse.jhu.edu/issue/52899

Does a complementary relationship exist between #Democracy and state capacity? In their July World Politics article Carl Henrik Knutsen & Palina Kolvani use states' response to and reporting of #COVID cases to suggest that it does. doi.org/10.1353/wp.202…