@adrianabuneauib.bsky.social, @ibenskasr.bsky.social & Florian Weiler: Power, policy and national background: understanding interest groups-legislators ties on social media in the European Parliament 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Adriana Bunea
@adrianabuneauib.bsky.social
Professor, Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen. PI on ERC StG CONSULTATIONEFFECTS. Former Marie Curie, Max Weber, Fulbright-Schuman Fellow. EU enthusiast.
New Article: Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text-as-Data Approach From: @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social, @sergiulipcean.bsky.social, @chrauh.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Delighted to see our article out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social! Right on time to make a contribution to the debate on the @ec.europa.eu's new initiative to reform its Better Regulation policy. Open access & part of @erc.europa.eu ERC project CONSULTATIONEFFECTS. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Does public participation in supranational policymaking enhance the European Commission’s legislative agenda-setting success?
Under what conditions does public participation in supranational policymaking help the European Commission strengthen its legislative agenda-setting power and minimise the change of legislative pro...
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In light of the European Commission's decision to reform (again!) its Better Regulation and public participation procedures, Steve Balla and I wrote a short piece on the erosion of public comment in the EU and the US. @regstudies.bsky.social regulatorystudies.columbian.gwu.edu/no-further-c...
No Further Comment: The Erosion of Public Comment in the EU and US | Regulatory Studies Center | Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | T...
Governments on both sides of the Atlantic have recently taken steps to limit opportunities for public comment during the policymaking process.
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Christian R. - the wizard of bootstrapping! 🙌👏👏👏🫶
Christian Rauh@chrauh.bsky.social · 6mo agoBootstrapping against the deadline 😬
Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT: When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
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This week was really great at work! SAMPOL hosted not one but two Zurich-based scholars!👏
Department of Comparative Politics UiB@sampol.bsky.social · 10mo agoCORE 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!
It was great to host Silvana Tarlea (a fellow Transylvanian 😇) at our IPA research group! 🙌
Department of Comparative Politics UiB@sampol.bsky.social · 10mo agoInstitutions, 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?”
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?”
📣 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...
Our article on how government invitations impact the levels and diversity of participation in online public consultations is now out with an issue number! Data from our favourite country: awesome Norway! 😇
European Journal of Political Research@ejprjournal.bsky.social · 11mo ago📘 64.4 @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social & @norbidunn.bsky.social use 🇳🇴 datasets 📊 to make claim that government invitations boost participation in online public consultations, increasing both the number and diversity of stakeholders. #Governance #PublicPolicy Read more:
🌟 New article 🇱🇹🇵🇱🇷🇴 👥 @ibenskasr.bsky.social @paulinasl.bsky.social @sonagolder.bsky.social @allansikk.bsky.social 👉 Independents in Parliament: Temporary Status or Final Destination? 📗 Open access in: Legislative Studies Quarterly 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Independents in Parliament: Temporary Status or Final Destination?
Political parties are essential for structuring parliamentary decision-making in democracies. However, in some countries, as many as 10% of legislators experience spells outside of parliamentary part....
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Delighted to see our paper on how government invitations shape stakeholder participation in public consultations published in EJPR! Part of my @erc.europa.eu project CONSULTATIONEFFECTS. Co-authored with @norbidunn.bsky.social . 🙌 Open access!😇 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Do government invitations to consultations shape stakeholder participation in public policymaking?
Online public consultations are an instrument frequently used by governments to invite citizens and interest organisations to participate in the formulation of public policies. A key feature of the c....
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📢 New article 🌟 👥 Adriana Bunea & Idunn Nørbech 👉 Do government invitations to consultations shape stakeholder participation in public policymaking? 📗 European Journal of Political Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1475...
Do government invitations to consultations shape stakeholder participation in public policymaking?
Online public consultations are an instrument frequently used by governments to invite citizens and interest organisations to participate in the formulation of public policies. A key feature of the c...
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Thrilled to publish "Does public participation foster stakeholder support for policy proposals? Evidence from the EU." in the Policy Studies Journal @psjeditor.bsky.social. Co-authored with @norbidunn.bsky.social. Part of my @erc.europa.eu. Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library
We examine whether and how public participation in policymaking contributes towards fostering stakeholder support for policy proposals formulated in the bureaucratic arena. We explain how key markers...
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Doru Frantescu, CEO of EUMatrix (and former director and co-founder fo VoteWatch) came from Brussels to give a talk on EU policymaking in practice to our students in the course EUR105 European Union Institutions, Politics, and Policies. Many thanks!
Great day at SAMPOL: enjoying the visit and presentation of Professor Jonas Tallberg! Thank you for your inspiring presence @jonastallberg.bsky.social !
Department of Comparative Politics UiB@sampol.bsky.social · last yr.Sampol seminar today with Professor Jonas Tallberg, Stockholm University, presenting his ERC Advanced Grant project “Democracy, Autocracy, and International Cooperation.” Thanks for visiting and sharing @jonastallberg.bsky.social !
A real treat to visit Bergen and @sampol.bsky.social for a talk and great conversations about democracy, autocracy, and international cooperation!
Department of Comparative Politics UiB@sampol.bsky.social · last yr.Sampol seminar today with Professor Jonas Tallberg, Stockholm University, presenting his ERC Advanced Grant project “Democracy, Autocracy, and International Cooperation.” Thanks for visiting and sharing @jonastallberg.bsky.social !
American media in particular need to stop equivocating and speaking in euphemism and tell Americans that they are aligned with Russia now. They owe the people that honesty.
Our 2024 article now with a 2025 JEPP volume and issue number! A story about mapping the policy space of public consultations organised by the European Commission!
JEPP Journal@jeppjournal.bsky.social · last yr.▶️ @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social , @retowuest.bsky.social and @sergiulipcean.bsky.social map public consultations by the European Commission 👇
Delighted to see our paper out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social! As always, it was great to work again with Florian and Raimondas!
JEPP Journal@jeppjournal.bsky.social · 2y agoWho do interest groups follow in the European Parliament—and why? 🤔 @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social, @ibenskasr.bsky.social, and Florian Weiler @weareceu.bsky.social investigate how MEP power and policy proximity shape these ties on Twitter. 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Big congrats to Il Biondo Fantastico @ibenskasr.bsky.social and the American Viking @jonathanpolk.bsky.social for their new @jeppjournal.bsky.social article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Bravo bravissimo! #On behalf of Porte-parole of the Bunea-Ibenskas house! :)
Party responsiveness to public opinion in a multi-dimensional policy space
Party responsiveness to public opinion is a key question in the study of democratic representation. While numerous studies have examined party responsiveness on broad ideological dimensions, there ...
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A massive, coordinated expensive Tik-Tok promotion campaign helped a pro- Russian candidate in Romanian presidential elections. He declared he spent no money on the campaign... www.bbc.com/news/article...
Romania hit by major election influence campaign, amid Russian cyber-attacks
Romania's intelligence service reveals details of what it says is an attempt from abroad to meddle in the country's presidential election.
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SAMPOL seminar today with Professor John Boswell, University of Southampton, talking about Whitehall’s response to the Brexit vote and how the experience of individual and collective emotions coloured the work of British government in delivering Brexit. Thanks for an interesting presentation!
The Call for Papers for EPSA XV, June 26-28 June, Madrid is now open! Proposal Submission Deadline: December 18, 2024 Proposals can be submitted via coms.app/epsa2025/wel...
15th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association
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The blessings of having two social media accounts: you get to celebrate published articles twice! 😇
Department of Comparative Politics UiB@sampol.bsky.social · 2y ago📢 New article 🌟 👥 Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social Reto Wüest @retowuest.bsky.social & Sergiu Lipcean @sergiulipcean.bsky.social 👉 Mapping the policy space of public consultations: evidence from the European Union 📗 Journal of European Public Policy 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1350... #ERC
Come join us! We currently have 3 vacant positions: • Postdoc ConFront project ⏳ 7 February tinyurl.com/y2hfd2zf • Associate Professor all fields/methodological approaches in comparative politics ⏳ 28 February tinyurl.com/2f8v5sh3 • Associate Professor Arctic Politics ⏳ 20 March tinyurl.com/2b8jry5s
@sonagolder.bsky.social and I are organising a workshop on conflict in parliamentary parties at the June 2024 Nordic PolSci conf. in Bergen. Submit proposals to @sonagolder.bsky.social and @ibenskasr.bsky.social by January 12th! More info: www.nopsa2024.no
Deadline extension to Jan 12! Also, there are travel grants for PhD students affiliated with Nordic universities (more info at www.nopsa2024.no.)
Sona Golder@sonagolder.bsky.social · 3y agoAttn polisky scholars of parties, parliaments & political behavior: Raimondas Ibenskas & I are organizing a workshop on conflict in parliamentary parties @ the June 2024 Nordic PolSci conf. in Bergen. Submit proposals to @ibenskasr.bsky.social & @sonagolder.bsky.social by 15 Dec! www.nopsa2024.no