☀️ June Issue 💼 Profession @jjungblut.bsky.social @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & @chknutsen.bsky.social examine political science departments at universities across the world to assess the extent to which they vary with regime type. 👉 buff.ly/qEIeGoB

An der @unigreifswald.bsky.social sind zwei unbefristete Vollzeitstellen ausgeschrieben: eine für Politikwissenschaftler:innen, eine für Soziolog:innen. Bewerbungsfrist: 31. August 2026. Teilen ausdrücklich erwünscht. Die Ausschreibungen folgen im nächsten Post. Fragen gerne per DM.

Our project "Struggling Women and Men: Political-Democratic Gender Gaps in a High-trust Welfare State" is looking for a PhD fellow. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (3-4 years) (303073) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (3-4 years) (303073), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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🎉 Publication Day! 🥳 And this one feels special: after many years of wondering about, studying, and learning from #PartyYouthWings, my comparative study on German PYWs is now out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/S175... 🔓 #OpenAccess @ecpr.bsky.social

We're hiring 2 postdocs at @uio.no on my ERC-Cog project on how authoritarian regimes shape scientific knowledge. 3–4 years, U. of Oslo. Deadline: 10 Sept 2026. Great dept., terms, well funded, bustling & green Scandi capital. Apply! 👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303060/postdoctoral-fello

Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 10, 2026

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📢 New article 🌟 👥 Jens Jungblut @jjungblut.bsky.social (ISV) & Bjørn Stensaker 👉 Extended collegiality? The role of students in external quality assurance panels in Europe 📗 Open Access in Quality in Higher Education 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1353...

Extended collegiality? The role of students in external quality assurance panels in Europe

Student representation in external quality assurance is a mandatory requirement in European higher education systems and the involvement of students in such processes is seen as important for the l...

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🚨 Coming soon: “The Political Economy of Public Bureaucracy” 🚨 My book is forthcoming in 2026 with @universitypress.cambridge.org. A preview of the cover art is below. Thanks to D. Carpenter, @sean-gailmard.bsky.social, and J. Gingrich for their endorsements! 🙏 More detailed info in the future. 😊

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto

The problems with our tech philosopher kings

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📢 New article 🌟 👤 Jens Jungblut @jjungblut.bsky.social 👉 Turning the university into a political actor 📗 Open Access in Policy Reviews in Higher Education 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2332...

Turning the university into a political actor

Higher education has gained significant political salience globally, driven by continuous massification, increased public and private investment, and its central role as a driver of modern knowledg...

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📢 New article 🌟 👥 Jens Jungblut @jjungblut.bsky.social (ISV), Nils B. Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, & Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social (ISV) 👉 The politics behind political science: A cross-national perspective 📗 Open Access in European Political Science 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/s168...

In how far does today's political environment make universities become more political actors? My new paper celebrates work by Georg Krücken and Frank Meier on organizational actorhood & develops their argument further in light of today's challenges: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Turning the university into a political actor

Higher education has gained significant political salience globally, driven by continuous massification, increased public and private investment, and its central role as a driver of modern knowledg...

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One of them is for the project "Inequalities in Climate Finance". Apply.

The Politics of Inequality@excinequality.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚀 Come work with us: 7 PhD positions in #InequalityResearch at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”, @uni-konstanz.de Fully funded (TV-L E13, 75%, 4 years) Start: 1 Oct 2026 Application deadline: 15 Apr 2026 ℹ️ t1p.de/j3vk5, apply here: t1p.de/h5mz9

*Call for Abstracts* The abstract submission is now open for our (w/ @asheinze.bsky.social) special issue: Party Youth Wings Across Europe: Organisation, Influence, and the Future of Party Democracy We still have a few spots open (e.g. several countries in Southern Europe and CEE or the UK) 😊

Future Issues | Politics and Governance

Politics and Governance is an innovative new offering to the world of online peer-reviewed open access publishing in the Political Sciences.

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❇️ FirstView -💼 Profession @jjungblut.bsky.social, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & @chknutsen.bsky.social examine political science departments at universities across the world to assess the extent to which they vary with regime type. 👉 buff.ly/qEIeGoB

In a new study (OA) in @epsjournal.bsky.social @nilsweidmann.bsky.social @chknutsen.bsky.social & I study the global distribution of polit. science depts. Political science is today a truly global discipline & we find few differences along the democracy–autocracy continuum: doi.org/10.1017/S168...

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 6mo ago

#OpenAccess from @epsjournal.bsky.social - The politics behind political science: A cross-national perspective - https://cup.org/3ObeH5g - @jjungblut.bsky.social, Nils B. Weidmann & @chknutsen.bsky.social #FirstView

Siden jeg nå har gått over til rektoratet er min gamle stilling ledig. Det er en fantastisk fin jobb med gode kollegaer på et av de beste universitetene man kan jobbe på. Løp og søk!! www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

Førsteamanuensis i statsvitenskap (292199) | UiT Norges arktiske universitet

Stillingstittel: Førsteamanuensis i statsvitenskap (292199), Arbeidsgiver: UiT Norges arktiske universitet, Søknadsfrist: mandag 9. februar 2026

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Many great colleagues from @statsvitenskap.bsky.social have coordinated the new Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics and today the book is presented in a seminar. If you are in any way interested in how Norway functions politically have a look at the volume, you will definitely find something.

Ob Lothar, Klinsi und die anderen auch mit auf der Bühne stehen werden?

The Athletic | Football@theathleticfc.bsky.social · 9mo ago

FIFA has announced that the Village People, the pop group that sings President Donald Trump’s adopted anthem of “Y.M.C.A.,” will perform at the World Cup draw Friday. Full story from @adamcrafton.bsky.social ⬇️

On Nov. 19 at @uio.no: the 4th C-REX/CIR meeting on Democracy and Extremism. Presentations by @arjupskas.bsky.social, @jjungblut.bsky.social, and @sirianned.bsky.social, followed by comments from Pro-Rector Bjørn Jamtveit and Minister Sigrun Aasland (Labour Party). www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/aktuel...

Akademia under angrep - C-REX – Senter for ekstremismeforskning

Hvordan undergraves akademisk frihet, og hva kan gjøres for å motvirke dette? Innledning ved statsviter og C-REX-leder Anders Ravik Jupskås, professor og statsviter Sirianne Dahlum og professor og sta...

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If you are interested in Norwegian Education Policy, @marielken.bsky.social & I have a chapter in the new Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics (edited by great colleagues at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social) entitled "Searching for the Right Balance between Equality and Differentiation" t.co/qHsCMXMgZT

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI. We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research! Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2025

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Moreover, I have recently been awarded an ERC starting grant towards the project GETGOV to work further on this, so expect more data on cabinet members in the future. I am currently hiring two PhDs and two postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Jacob Nyrup awarded EU funds to research political elites - Department of Political Science

Jacob Nyrup from the Department of Political Science has been granted a substantial 18 million Norwegian kroner by the EU's research council to examine political elites in countries before and after d...

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📢 New article 🌟 👥 Ilana Shpaizman, Jon Bøe @jbvalgermo.bsky.social (ISV) & Jens Jungblut @jjungblut.bsky.social (ISV) 🔎 Power in the Pre-Decisional Stage: Stability Sentences and Non-Decisions in Coalition Agreements in Israel and Norway 📗 Published in Policy Studies Journal doi.org/10.1111/psj....

Some publications feel a bit more special than others, this is one of them. What started during a chat at the @ecpr.bsky.social conference in Prague in 2023 just got published in @psjeditor.bsky.social together with @jbvalgermo.bsky.social and Ilana Shpaizman onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library

Non-decisions are manifestations of power in the policy process. This paper shows that in parliamentary democracies with coalition governments, stability sentences in coalition agreements entail non-...

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Das Buch zu unserem BMBF Projekt zu Fußballfans und Identifizierung mit Europa ist erschienen und natürlich ist der Inhalt super spannend, aber das echte Highlight ist das Titelbild von der großartigen @zambrine5.bsky.social

New publication in European Review together with Peter Maassen and Mari Elken: Based on our studies for the STOA panel of the EP we develop and suggest six categories of threats to academic freedom in Europe: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Keine Eintracht. www.beveswelt.de?p=17041

Are football fans holding stronger European identities than non-fans? That was the question we investigated in our latest paper from the FANZinE project which has just been published in Contemporary European Politics (open access). The short answer is Yes: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Football Effect: Comparing European Identity Between Fans and Non‐Fans

The formation of European identities is a pivotal issue for the cohesion of the European community in times of multiple crises. Based on theories of identity formation through habitualisation, we pos...

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As part of the Horizon Europe Consortium “Sustainable Public Administration in Modern Democracies (SUPA)", our department is advertising a PhD position. It is a 4 year position with 25% teaching. More information here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (272231) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (272231), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, February 4, 2025

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Our department has just opened a call for a 4-year postdoc position. This position is open to all sub-disciplines of political science and comes with a 25% teaching load: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (4 years) (272043) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (4 years) (272043), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, February 15, 2025

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