Not a sentence I expected to write: Our research has been picked up by the @dailymail.co.uk @mtsakiris.bsky.social @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social @parkbmb.bsky.social www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/...

Charts reveal where your feelings about politics are felt in the body

Most Brits are probably feeling more than their usual share of political anxiety at the moment. Now, charts reveal exactly where your feelings about the current state of affairs are felt in the body.

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@ejprjournal.bsky.social even timed the publication to my birthday 🎉😀 More seriously: so happy to see this published, and grateful to have worked with and learned from @plutscher.bsky.social & @draege.bsky.social Propaganda—>Diff’t Emotions—>Protest behavior Check out Philipp’s thread 👇

Philipp Lutscher@plutscher.bsky.social · 4mo ago

(1/8) New Open Access paper out today in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/S147... "The effects of government propaganda in electoral authoritarian regimes: Evidence from Turkey" with @draege.bsky.social & @chknutsen.bsky.social #polisky #socsky #commsky #dictatorsky #OA

Excited to share “Commanders of the Mujahideen: Introducing the Jihadist Leaders Dataset” at JPR! Analyzing Arabic, French, German, Turkish, and Urdu sources, we gathered information on the backgrounds and experiences of 237 leaders across multiple regions academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...

NEW - Elections Without Constraints? The Appeal of Electoral Autocracy Across the World - https://cup.org/49auQPf - @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, @sirianned.bsky.social, Kristian Vrede Skaaning Frederiksen & @aykutozturk.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Yesterday I defended my thesis and officially became a doctor 🎓 Huge thanks to the committee @chknutsen.bsky.social @hannefjelde.bsky.social for the thoughtful questions and helpful suggestions for future work!

From October 2025 - Paths to Power: A New Dataset on the Social Profile of Governments - https://cup.org/47i6oKQ - @jacobnyrup.bsky.social, @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social & Ina Lyftingsmo Kristiansen #OpenAccess

Excited to defend my PhD dissertation on pro-democracy mobilization on December 18th! www.ntnu.no/kalender/det...

New preprint with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park & @mtsakiris.bsky.social : 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... Key takeaways: 🎨 Political emotions create distinct embodied signatures ⚖️ These bodily patterns shift with ideology. 🗳️ The embodied impact of political emotions predicts participation

🚨 New article out! “Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right” in @bjpols.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000... We (Alex De Juan, @juvoss.bsky.social & I) examine how right-wing attacks shape support for the far-right in Germany. Short summary thread below 👇

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 · 10mo 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 🧵

#OpenAccess from July 2025 - How Does Public Opinion Respond to Government Injustices Against Historically Discriminated Minorities? Evidence from Norway - cup.org/4lRGSBG - Helga Malmin Binningsbø, Karin Dyrstad & @finseraas.bsky.social

I’m very happy to share that the first paper of my PhD, «From the streets to the ballots: Protests, polls and Polarization in Hong Kong» has been published online in @democratization.bsky.social It is open access, and you can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From the streets to the ballots: protests, polls and polarization in Hong Kong

Social movement research indicates that protests can influence voting behaviour through several informational and psychological mechanisms. Yet, we know little about the individual variation in how...

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📊 New dataset and paper alert! We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Below follows a 🧵

New paper alert 😄 ! Mauricio Rivera Celestino, Scott Gates and I have a paper out in the Journal of Conflict Resolution: lnkd.in/gzqYuTmN! The work began in 2017 as part of the Street-Level Autocrat project. Since then, children have been born, data collected, and now, the article is finally out:

Endelig fikk jeg skrevet ned kronikken som har tatt opp mye plass i hodet mitt de siste par ukene: www.vg.no/nyheter/i/gw...

Meninger: Professor Carl Henrik Knutsen: – Mer sannsynlig enn ikke at det amerikanske demokratiet vil overleve Trump

Trump og hans støttespillere undergraver demokratiet, og det er en reell fare for demokratisk sammenbrudd. Det er likevel gode sjanser for at demokratiet overlever, men det krever mot-mobilisering.

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Can citizen action translate into incumbents changing their regimes from within? @chknutsen.bsky.social and I find that the answer is yes in our latest piece, “Citizen Action and Elite Responses: Opposition Mass Movements and Regime Change From Within”, now out in JCR: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

For de som husker studien som fant at "[...] fritidsklubber [har ikke] noen direkte effekt på lokalmiljøet utenfor klubbens fire vegger" (doi.org/10.18261/nju...). @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social og Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit svarer på hvorfor dette er fullstendig feil konklusjon å dra fra studien. (1/n)

Hva kan vi vite om effekten av etablering av ungdomsklubb på Furuset?: Et svar til Tøge, Ulland og Andersen: Nordic Journal of Urban Studies: Vol 4, No 2

Idunn is Scandinavian University Press’ (Universitetsforlaget) digital publishing platform for academic journals and books.

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Charles Butcher (NTNU) presenting the LEGACIES project. Capturing the presence of pre-colonial states and their potential influence on post-colonial democratization.

Hello! I thought a list of women scholars in conflict and security studies could be helpful! Let me know if you want to be added/removed! go.bsky.app/Np3NivX

@andreavik.bsky.social’s trial lecture🔥🔥Fantastic insights on how perspectives from political psychology can inform our understanding of the legitimacy of unelected representation. Amazing lecture by an amazing scholar

For those interested in democratic backsliding - After a lot of hard work, I'm excited to share that the data visualizations for the Democratic Erosion Event Dataset are all now in order and Shiny apps up and running. We have a lot of exciting things in the pipeline. Stay tuned!

LEGACIES is also hiring a PhD candidate in CP/IR: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Super exciting project and a fantastic PI! You will also become a part of our research group @NTNU «Political Instability and Armed Conflict» Application deadline: 17.03.2024 polisky conflictsky

PhD Candidate in comparative politics or international relations (258521) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: PhD Candidate in comparative politics or international relations (258521), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, March 17, 2024

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Thea Johansen@theajohansen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Vacancy for a postdoc on ERC-funded LEGACIES at NTNU: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... More about LEGACIES and the project team: www.legacies-project.com

Come join us in Trondheim! Two weeks left to apply for the postdoc position in the very cool (both people- and research-wise) LEGACIES project: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #polisky #conflictsky

Vacancy for a postdoc on ERC-funded LEGACIES at NTNU: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... More about LEGACIES and the project team: www.legacies-project.com

Postdoctoral Fellow in political science/international relations: LEGACIES project (257118) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in political science/international relations: LEGACIES project (257118), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Thursday, February 29, 2024

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We are planning the first WhoGov Workshop to be held in Oslo on the 29-30th of August 2024. We welcome all research using WhoGov in some capacity and we have funding to cover travel expenses for participants. Find the call for papers through the link or use the QR code: bit.ly/WhoGov_Workshop

Very happy to have worked on this PS article with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @acrowinghen.bsky.social, @medzihorsky.bsky.social, @danpemstein.bsky.social, @silindberg.bsky.social and four other colleagues! 1/6 doi.org/10.1017/S104... polisky poldatasky openaccess

Andre advent tenner vi et lys for håp. Da passer dagens kronikk av @mariannedahl.bsky.social, @haakongjerlw.bsky.social, og @chknutsen.bsky.social perfekt. ‘Iranske Narges Mohammadi er tildelt årets fredspris. Men nytter arbeidet til aktivister som Mohammadi?’ Ja, viser forskningen!

Nytter arbeidet til aktivister som fredsprisvinner Narges Mohammadi?

Les kronikken.

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What happens when autocrats concede to protests? Our paper on state concessions and protest mobilization has an issue now! with Sebastian Hellmeier in @cpsjournal.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

– Høyre kunne mandag satt en ny standard for håndtering av alvorlige habilitetsbrudd i norsk politikk. Istedenfor blir det et nytt lavmål i det som må kunne kalles et politisk uår, skriver @theajohansen.bsky.social som er stipendiat ved ISS på NTNU.

Vern av demokratiet er ikke en popularitetsmåling

Erna Solberg annonserte i en pressekonferanse mandag at hun fortsetter som Høyres leder og statsministerkandidat inn mot valget i 2025. Det er en avgjørelse som skaper en skummel presedens i norsk p...

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Skal ikke alvorlige habilitetsbrudd få konsekvenser i norsk politikk? Jeg mener det er spesielt tre grunner til at Høyre burde konkludert annerledes i fortsatt støtte til Erna Solberg www.tronderdebatt.no/vern-av-demo...

Vern av demokratiet er ikke en popularitetsmåling

Erna Solberg annonserte i en pressekonferanse mandag at hun fortsetter som Høyres leder og statsministerkandidat inn mot valget i 2025. Det er en avgjørelse som skaper en skummel presedens i norsk p...

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