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Martin Søyland

@martigso.bsky.social

Ass. Prof. @ University of Stavanger, Department of Media and Social Sciences

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I’m so tired of these taking-the-forklift-to-the-gym-arguments about LLMs.

Of course you’re «powerful» with a forklift at the gym, and never mind that the forklift ran over some people on the way over there, is spewing out black smoke -the other people wanting to do normal exercise has to breathe.

28.02.2026 12:56 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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The Electoral System: Representing Voters and Territory AbstractThe electoral system is a key part of any representative democracy. This chapter starts with an overview of the historical development of the Norwe

doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

23.02.2026 09:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Varaord­føreren jobber for nytt bolig­felt – reiste på ferie med utbyg­geren Stavangers varaordfører Henrik Halleland (KrF) har i flere år jobbet for å fjerne det som hindrer kameratene i å bygge ut et boligfelt på Finnøy. Halleland mener han snakker bygdas sak. Byens ordfører...

#debatten ™️ å ikke nå inn i kjernen av DEBATTEN. Hvis vi skal ha kontroll på innflytelse fra lobbyvirksomhet, som egentlig er det de snakker om, trenger vi lobbyregister. På Stortinget, ja. Men enda viktigere i kommunene. Finnes 1000 eksempel, men fra denne uka: www.aftenbladet.no/lokalt/i/m01...

19.02.2026 21:48 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Har aldri kjent meg meir igjen i eit anna menneske enn Atle Lie McGrath som hiv stavane til skogs, traskar avgårde og legg seg ned åleine i snøen.

16.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fun fact (eller what ever), i bistanden pusher Norge for sentral arealplanlegging, sentral som i styrt sentralt, til alle som vil høre (og en del som ikke vil høre). Det er det gode kunnskapsbaserte grunner for å gjøre. Her hjemme tenker vi litt annerledes om hva som er best 🤷‍♂️

28.12.2025 13:18 — 👍 21    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Large EU-grant to Tore Wig to study the state of science in autocracies - Department of Political Science Will scientific progress slow down if more countries in the world become autocratic? That is one of the questions political science professor Tore Wig will seek to answer with two million euros from t...

Happy to announce that I have received an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator grant for the project "Authoritarian Threats to Scientific Knowledge". AutoKnow will study how authoritarian regimes and politics affect scientific progress, contents and topics in different fields.

www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...

09.12.2025 11:57 — 👍 160    🔁 15    💬 21    📌 0
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Timeless @elibaltz.bsky.social

05.12.2025 09:25 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Hvis du ikke gidder skrive det, hvordan kan du forvente at noen skal gidde å lese det, tenker jeg.
Når det er sagt, hva tenker du om feks en klarspråkmodell for post-prosessering av tekst (språk) i offentlig sektor?

21.11.2025 08:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fragmentering og privatisering av jernbanesektoren var aldri en god idé. Og gjennomføringen var elendig.

20.11.2025 07:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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På Sørlandsbanen har punktlighetene på togene rast de siste årene Over 40 prosent av avgangene har blitt kansellert i høst. Med rekordmange innstillinger rømmer pendlerne. Finn Pettersen velger nå kronglete flyrute i stedet.

Du skal ha ganske store skylapper for å ikke klare å se sammenhengen mellom problemene på Sørlandsbanen og jernbanereformen til Høyre. Det er respektløst ovenfor oss som tar og er avhengig av det toget å skylde på noe annet, som M. Hagerup gjør her. www.nrk.no/rogaland/pa-...

20.11.2025 07:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Abstract for the article: How does right-wing terrorism affect electoral support for populist radical right parties (PRRPs)? Recent research has produced contrary answers to this question. We argue that only high-intensity attacks, whose motives and targets mirror PRRPs’ nativist agenda, are likely to generate a media backlash that dampens electoral support for PRRPs. We test this argument by combining high-frequency survey and social media data with a natural and survey experimental design. We find that right-wing terror reduced support for the radical right party Alternative für Deutschland after one of the most intense nativist attacks in recent German history. An analysis of all ninety-eight fatal right-wing attacks in Germany between 1990 and 2020 supports our argument. Our findings contribute to an understanding of how political violence triggers partisan detachment and have important implications for media responsibility in the aftermath of terrorist attacks.

Abstract for the article: How does right-wing terrorism affect electoral support for populist radical right parties (PRRPs)? Recent research has produced contrary answers to this question. We argue that only high-intensity attacks, whose motives and targets mirror PRRPs’ nativist agenda, are likely to generate a media backlash that dampens electoral support for PRRPs. We test this argument by combining high-frequency survey and social media data with a natural and survey experimental design. We find that right-wing terror reduced support for the radical right party Alternative für Deutschland after one of the most intense nativist attacks in recent German history. An analysis of all ninety-eight fatal right-wing attacks in Germany between 1990 and 2020 supports our argument. Our findings contribute to an understanding of how political violence triggers partisan detachment and have important implications for media responsibility in the aftermath of terrorist attacks.

🚨 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 👇

22.10.2025 15:14 — 👍 118    🔁 49    💬 1    📌 5

Great piece and data! And, big congrats to @inalkristiansen.bsky.social with her first (of many great) publications! 🥳

20.10.2025 13:28 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🚨 New paper out! 🚨I'll post a summary thread with the main findings shortly.

20.10.2025 13:18 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Stavanger Aftenblad Nyheter fra verdens beste fylke - Rogaland! Siste nytt innen lokalt, sport, innenriks, utenriks og kultur.

Er det "litt" ironisk at Per Morten Borgli fra Sandnes skal sitte i Kontroll- og konstitusjonskomiteen? Jeg bare legger denne her samlesiden om det jeg mener er helt åpenbar korrupsjon her: www.aftenbladet.no/emne/habilit...

16.10.2025 12:34 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Disputation Solveig Bjørkholt - Institutt for statsvitenskap (ISV) Master in Political Science Solveig Bjørkholt will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science: The Politics of International Standardization

On the 7th of November Master in Political Science Solveig Bjørkholt will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science @statsvitenskap.bsky.social:

"The Politics of International Standardization"

15.10.2025 11:09 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Finnes det eksempel i media på noen som evner å tenke kontrafaktisk? "Hadde dette aldri løst seg hvis ikke Trump ble president?", "kunne det løst seg enda tidligere uten ham?"

13.10.2025 14:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Forfatterne har også skrevet kronikk i DN om funnene: www.dn.no/kronikk/nye-...

13.10.2025 09:21 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Dette er fantastiske nyheter for det norske demokratiet! Det blir ikke avstemning over alternativ (forslaget fra AP og H) i statsbudsjettvoteringer likevel. Ville skjøvet mye makt fra storting til regjering om det gikk gjennom.

11.10.2025 12:53 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Go-Ahead som selskap og konsept kan faktisk bare brenne i helvete. For femte gang siden midten av august kansellerer eller endrer de billetten min samme dag som toget skal gå.

Privatisering av jernbane er _ikke_ løsning på noe som helst. 😤

10.10.2025 06:48 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Demokrati under press | 11. sep. 19:30 | Time bibliotek Statsvitar Martin G. Søyland og stortingsrepresentant Ingrid Fiskaa diskuterar demokrati.

I dag er eg så heldig at eg skal vera med på ein samtale mellom Ingrid Fiskaa og meg sjølv. Me vil ta for oss kva aspekt av norsk demokrati som er mest sårbare. Teori møter praksis! timebibliotek.no/nn/arrangeme...

11.09.2025 13:11 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Disputation Palina Kolvani - Institutt for statsvitenskap (ISV) Master of Science in Political Science Palina Kolvani will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science: The State of Numbers: Political Economy of Official Statistics

On October 13th Master of Science in Political Science Palina Kolvani will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science:

"The State of Numbers: Political Economy of Official Statistics"

11.09.2025 10:31 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Jeg skrev en sak om rikinger som vil flytte i KK på valgdagen. Om hvor stort problemet er, om vi trenger et "utvandringsregnskap" Kanskje timingen gjorde at noen her som ville lest den overså den på mandag? Ubeskjedent nok forsøker jeg å gi den en ny sjanse😁

11.09.2025 09:00 — 👍 35    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 1
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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...

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....

07.09.2025 17:11 — 👍 48    🔁 12    💬 5    📌 1

New article by @amalienilsen.bsky.social in Democratization on the effect of HK protests on pro-democracy voting

And there is more to come from Amalie on how protests shape pro- and anti-democratic behavior

07.09.2025 17:53 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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 🧵

29.08.2025 11:08 — 👍 94    🔁 44    💬 2    📌 1
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Are regimes with higher nr's of core supporters more durable? Are regimes with more diverse coalitions of supporters more durable?

In this (published today) @cpsjournal.bsky.social article, @sirianned.bsky.social , @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social , and @torewig.bsky.social I answer "Yes" to both Qs.

20.08.2025 09:20 — 👍 48    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 2
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What unites the right in the European Parliament? - Philipp Broniecki, Bjørn Høyland, 2025 This letter analyzes coalition patterns among right-wing groups in the European Parliament, exploring the conditions that lead these groups to unite on policy. ...

📢 New article
👥 @philippbroniecki.bsky.social & @bjornhoyland.bsky.social land
🔎 What Unites the Right in the European Parliament?
📖 Open access In European Union Politics.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1465...

17.08.2025 19:21 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 New article
👥 @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social, @haakongjerlw.bsky.social & @liserakner.bsky.social
🔎 The politics of litigating and adjudicating electoral disputes: Evidence from Zambia.
📖 Open access In Electoral Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

17.08.2025 19:33 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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"The super rich and the rest: Campaign finance pressures and the wealth of politicians"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

09.08.2025 01:06 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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The best explanation for the Democratic Peace according to GPT5: A norms explanation. Because you can apparently vary democracy while keeping institutions constant…

08.08.2025 12:35 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0