This week was really great at work! SAMPOL hosted not one but two Zurich-based scholars!๐
23.10.2025 18:20 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@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.
This week was really great at work! SAMPOL hosted not one but two Zurich-based scholars!๐
23.10.2025 18:20 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It was great to host Silvana Tarlea (a fellow Transylvanian ๐) at our IPA research group! ๐
23.10.2025 18:17 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Institutions, Policies, and Actors (IPA) research group meeting today: Silvana Tรขrlea, ZHAW, presenting the paper โFrom presence to participation โ What explains partiesโ active participation in UN climate negotiations?โ
22.10.2025 10:52 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1๐ฃ New chapter ๐
๐ฅ Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social & Idunn Nรธrbech @norbidunn.bsky.social
๐ Public Policymaking and Stakeholder Consultations in Norway
๐ The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics, eds Kolltveit, Allern, Braut-Hegghammer & Rasch
๐ 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! ๐
13.09.2025 19:00 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐ New article ๐ฑ๐น๐ต๐ฑ๐ท๐ด
๐ฅ @ibenskasr.bsky.socialโฌ @paulinasl.bsky.social @sonagolder.bsky.social @allansikk.bsky.social
๐ Independents in Parliament: Temporary Status or Final Destination?
๐ Open access in: Legislative Studies Quarterly
๐ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
At least this explains a lot...OMG!
30.05.2025 12:50 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Delighted 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 . ๐ Open access!๐
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
๐ข New article ๐
๐ฅ โชAdriana Buneaโฌ & โชIdunn Nรธrbechโฌ
๐ Do government invitations to consultations shape stakeholder participation in public policymaking?
๐ European Journal of Political Research
๐ doi.org/10.1111/1475...
A pleasure as always to work with talented @norbidunn.bsky.social !๐
11.04.2025 07:44 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thrilled 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/...
11.04.2025 07:29 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Doru 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!
09.04.2025 11:33 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Great day at SAMPOL: enjoying the visit and presentation of Professor Jonas Tallberg! Thank you for your inspiring presence @jonastallberg.bsky.social !
03.04.2025 19:49 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A real treat to visit Bergen and @sampol.bsky.social for a talk and great conversations about democracy, autocracy, and international cooperation!
02.04.2025 17:43 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ช๐บ
28.02.2025 18:15 โ ๐ 203 ๐ 63 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 2American 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.
28.02.2025 20:03 โ ๐ 622 ๐ 117 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 3This looks like Russia in the 1990s....:(
14.02.2025 13:33 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Our 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!
14.02.2025 12:13 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Many thanks for spreading the word! ๐ We use data from the time when Twitter was still Twitter...Painful to see how much it has declined since then under the new owner!
14.02.2025 12:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Delighted to see our paper out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social! As always, it was great to work again with Florian and Raimondas!
07.02.2025 17:03 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Big 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! :)
20.12.2024 09:21 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A 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...
SAMPOL seminar today with Professor John Boswell, University of Southampton, talking about Whitehallโs 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!
and of course @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social
18.11.2024 20:50 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0You forget some Vestland brothers and sisters! :)
18.11.2024 20:49 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The 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...
The blessings of having two social media accounts: you get to celebrate published articles twice! ๐
11.03.2024 15:27 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Come join us! We currently have 3 vacant positions:
โข Postdoc ConFront project โณ 7 February
tinyurl.com/y2hfd2zf
โข Associate Professor all fields/methodological approaches in comparative politics โณ 28 February
tinyurl.com/2f8v5sh3
โข Associate Professor Arctic Politics โณ 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
08.01.2024 06:56 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Deadline extension to Jan 12!
Also, there are travel grants for PhD students affiliated with Nordic universities (more info at www.nopsa2024.no.)