Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture today: Professor Steven Levitsky: "The Great Abdication. How America Lost Its Democracy".

Why is right-wing populism resurging in Latin America? Check out the latest issue of the Journal of Politics in Latin America 🥳👇 www.giga-hamburg.de/en/press/new... #LatinAmerica #PoliticalScience #Populism #RightWingPopulism #Democracy #LatinAmericanPolitics #PoliticalResearch #ComparativePolitics

New Journal of Politics in Latin America 2/2026

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Happy to share that this paper with @jacobnyrup.bsky.social has been accepted for publication, subject to minor revisions, in AJPS @ajpseditor.bsky.social 🚨 Couldn't be more proud! Watch this space for the final version of the paper! 🚣 (a tiny viking row for us) tinyurl.com/ynk7epa5 👆

𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥@jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We use the new PtP dataset to compare cabinet members on background characteristics. Overall, politicians look pretty similar across genders. But women in the most prestigious positions conform closer to the typical politician than men, indicating that women must conform to make it to the top.

How do governments quietly shape asylum outcomes? Not by rejecting claims outright, but by choosing which kind of protection to grant New evidence published in Political Research Quarterly: doi.org/10.1177/1065... #AsylumPolicy #EUPolitics @NORCE @sampol.bsky.social @hakangs.bsky.social

The State and the Refugee. Governing Asylum at the Intersection Between Politics and Administration - Pierre G. Van Wolleghem, 2026

This article examines how asylum decisions in European Union member states are shaped by the tension between administrative assessment and government preference...

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The proofs are in! Youth Wings of the Populist Radical Right will be published in mid-June by OUP. Covering 10 PRR youth wings across Europe, we show how these organisations act as motors of mobilisation, socialisation, internationalisation, professionalisation, & normalisation for their parties.

A US military strike on #Venezuela and mounting pressure on Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico signal a return to coercive power politics. 10 things to watch in #LatinAmerica this year - outlined in the latest #GIGAFocus by @berthoffmann.bsky.social. ➡️ Read now: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...

Paths to Power (PtP) is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! It is a database with data on cabinet members' social profile globally from 1966-2021. This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏 A short 🧵

Very proud to have been a part of this project and to see my first co-authored article out in the world! Read @jacobnyrup.bsky.social excellent thread for more info on the data! 🥳

𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥@jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Paths to Power (PtP) is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! It is a database with data on cabinet members' social profile globally from 1966-2021. This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏 A short 🧵

We are hiring: 4-year post doc position at our department, open to all topics in political science. 75% research and 25% teaching, good salary, great department and colleagues, and a beautiful city. Deadline: February 15 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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🌟 New article 👥 Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem @piervanwoll.bsky.social & Hakan G. Sicakkan @hakangs.bsky.social 👉 Recognizing international protection how institutional arrangements affect asylum decisions 📗 Open access in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Convocatoria postdoctoral COES. Plazo para postular vence el lunes 25 de noviembre coes.cl/2024/11/04/c...

COES abre convocatoria para cuatro plazas de investigación postdoctoral en Chile – COES

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The tension between urgency and process. Learn more about the ERC StG project proposal of Pierre Van Wolleghem @piervanwoll.bsky.social 👇 www.uib.no/en/svf/17040...

Bringing Crises into Focus

«Is there a response pattern that cuts across different crises? We don’t really know,» UiB researcher Pierre-Georges Van Wolleghem says. Now he wants to study just that.

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CORE Lecture today with Markus Holdo, Lund University, presenting findings from his book "Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism. Contesting the Boundaries of Democratic Practices".

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Josefina Sipinen, Jana Belschner @janabelschner.bsky.social & Brittany Anlar @britanlar.bsky.social 👉 Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections 📗 Open Access in Electoral Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

We are hiring! Please share! 👉 Associate Professor with Arctic focus 🌟 Permanent position, full time, 50/50 research/teaching 🇳🇴 Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen ⏳ 20 March 2024 ♀️ Female candidates especially encouraged to apply 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor with Arctic focus, Department of Comparative Politics (256657) | University of B...

Job title: Associate Professor with Arctic focus, Department of Comparative Politics (256657), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Wednesday, March 20, 2024

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🌟 Postdoc position available! 🇳🇴 Department of Comparative Politics, Univ of Bergen 🔍  ERC project: Contested frontiers of settler states. Understanding the constitutional politics of settler-state peripheries 🗓️ 4 years 👩‍🏫 75 % research / 25 % teaching ⏳ 7 Feb 2024 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Following up with the recent events in Ecuador @bergenglobal.bsky.social is organizing a breakfast together with @monicabeeder.bsky.social, @leivm.bsky.social and myself to further discuss the Ecuadorian situation. Come and join us 👇

Bergen Global CMI/UiB@bergenglobal.bsky.social · 3y ago

How did Ecuador 🇪🇨 go from one of the safest to one of the deadliest countries in Latin America? Join us for breakfast with Monica Beeder, José Zurita-Tapia and @leivm.bsky.social ➡️ Thursday 18 Jan. ⏰ 8:30 am 📍 here or Zoom bergenglobal.no/events/cocai...

Ecuador has faced one of the most serious/difficult situations in national security terms: Criminal organizations terrorising citizens. As of tuesday Ecuador is in an Internal Armed Conflict with Criminal Organizations More on this on VG where I commented the events: www.vg.no/nyheter/uten...

Væpnede personer brøt seg inn i studioene til TV-kanal i Ecuador

Direktesendte bilder viste flere væpnede personer som tok seg inn i studioene til en TV-kanal i Ecuador. Nå er gjerningspersonene pågrepet, ifølge politiet.

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Leiv Marsteintredet @leivm.bsky.social · 3y ago

Alvorlig situasjon i Ecuador. Saken utvikler seg fort også virker det som. VG skriver med kommentar fra @josezuritat.bsky.social www.vg.no/nyheter/uten...

The deadline for abstracts for NoPSA has been extended ! Now you can still apply until January 12, 2024. Join us with Eduardo Tamaki at our Workshop on Comparative Political Institutions in Bergen from 25 to 28 June 2024. More Info👇

Happy to see Jana Belschner @janabelschner.bsky.social being honoured at the Trond Mohn Foundation annual celebration today. Congratulations again on a Starting Grant worth NOK 26.8 million / € 2.3 mill to research The Politics of Demographic Change!

#CallForAbstracts ❗ Workshop on Comparative Political Institutions at the Nordic Political Science Association Conference.  📍Bergen, Norway 📅 25-28 June 2024 ℹ️ @josezuritat.bsky.social and #EduardoTamaki Deadline on December 15, 2023. Join us !!

Peter Starke and I are organizing a workshop at the Nordic Political Science conference in Bergen in June 2024: "Comparative and Historical Political Economy: The Continuing Relevance of Macro and Meso-Level Approaches" Send us your paper proposals by 15 December! www.nopsa2024.no

📣 New article 🌟 👥 Idunn Nørbech 👉 Does policy context matter for citizen engagement in policymaking? Evidence from the European Commission's public consultation regime 📗 Open Access in European Union Politics 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#OpenAccess - Founding Narratives and Men's Political Ambition: Experimental Evidence from US Civics Lessons - cup.org/46JgaUN - Amanda Clayton, Diana Z. O'Brien & Jennifer M. Piscopo #FirstView

On November 10, 2023 Marianne Tøraasen will defend her PhD thesis "Women Judges in Fragile States. Insights from the Haitian Judiciary". The defence is open to anyone interested. For details, please see: www.uib.no/nye-doktorgr...