Øyvind Stiansen

Better get your paper submissions in for the @epssnet.bsky.social conference in June 2026, as the deadline is 7 November, and we have no intention of extended that (given the submission numbers)!
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🚨🚨🚨@thaliagerzso.bsky.social and @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy are organizing our Standing Group's section proposal for #ecprgc26! Send them your panel abstract by the end of this week to be included in the section proposal!🚨🚨🚨

🚨🚨 Final call! Propose a panel for the Law & Courts section at ECPR 2026 (Kraków 🇵🇱, 8–11 Sept).
Submit by 31 Oct:
👉 Short title
👉 ≤80-word abstract
👉 1–2 co-chairs + ECPR emails
📧 Send your proposal to: thalia.gerzso@york.ac.uk & j.k.schaffer@gu.se
@ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social

I am thrilled to announce the publication of the Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics! Over 70 scholars from various institutions in Norway and abroad have contributed their expertise and insights to 48 chapters on different aspects of Norwegian politics.

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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.

Happy and thankful that our WP "Debating threats to authoritarian rule: Inclusion and Discrimination in the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia" has won the David Olson Award 2025!

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Får 12 millioner til forskning på politiske partier og velferdsstaten - Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge USN-statsviter er med i eksklusivt selskap av erfarne forskere som får penger fra Forskningsrådets FRIPRO-ordning.

Utrolig spennende og å få 12 millioner kroner til å forske på partienes rolle i å etablere den norske velferdsstaten ved hjelp av omfattende historisk datamatrialet og naturlig eksperimenter.

Les mer her: www.usn.no/forskning/fo...

Poenget med denne loven må vel være å sikre at arbeidstakere har heltidsarbeid hos én arbeidsgiver og ikke å hindre dem som tilfredsstiller dette kravet fra og å gjøre småoppdrag for andre institusjoner i tillegg sånn at hjulene i høyere utdanning går rundt.

Har jobba i Noreg i ni år — nekta opphald etter sensuroppdrag Professor Justin Parks har fått avslag på søknad om å få bli i landet. Grunnen er at han har vore sensor ved andre universitet enn sitt eige.

Dette framstår som helt håpløst. Vi bruker masse tid hvert år på å finne eksterne sensorer til masterstudentene våre og så skal noen av dem som gjør en innsats for fellesskapet miste retten til opphold i landet? www.khrono.no/har-jobba-i-...

Assistant Professor, Political Science APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

Penn State is searching in Comparative Politics or International Relations for someone with a focus on non-democratic politics who can offer undergraduate and graduate courses in political methodology.

I'm not on the search committee but happy to chat to anyone interested about this line, Tulane, or New Orleans!

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...

I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV).

It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more.

#ERCStG

Jeg skriver metodebok 📖 📈:

Laget for å gjøre kvantitativ metode tilgjengelig, relevant og gøy for alle—uten krav til forkunnskaper i statistikk eller programmering. Boka bruker R👨‍💻, og gir deg alt du trenger å vite om statistikk, databehandling og formidling for å begynne å forske på samfunnet.
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The ECPR Standing Group on the Politics of Law & Courts Bluesky account is now bridged to the Fediverse. Follow it for updates and browse posts on talks at the just concluded ECPR-GC in Thessaloniki: @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social

#ecprgc25 #ecprgc2025 #ecpr2025 #ecpr

Having heard about this possible competition, @benjaminengst.bsky.social is bringing his discussant artwork to even greater heights 🎨

👏 👏 👏 Congratulations to @ripplingeralina.bsky.social, who won the best paper award for last year's conference and was handed the 🏆 and diploma by @benjaminengst.bsky.social at the business meeting 👏 👏 👏

Is there a best art work by a discussant award at #ecprgc25? @benjaminengst.bsky.social wants to enter the competition.

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#ecprgc25 is just days away! We are looking forward to seeing you in Thessaloniki and to the excellent papers in the section “The Politics of Law and Courts” which this year is chaired by @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social and Urszula Jaremba! Make sure to add these 12 excellent panels to your itinerary 👇

Pengegavene i årets stortingsvalg kommer fra både privatpersoner, bedrifter og organisasjoner.

Høyresiden får mest fra bedrifter mens venstresiden får mest fra fagbevegelsen.

(Tall per 15. august, 2024+2025)

PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479) | University of Oslo Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, September 1, 2025

📣1 PhD fellow position open at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo.
👉We invite applications from excellent candidates in all sub-fields of political science.
📅Deadline: September 1st, 2025
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Junior Law and Politics community sign-up The Junior Law and Politics research community and seminar series is a vibrant network of junior researchers (graduate students, post-docs, assistant professors, other non-tenured faculty) in the fiel...

The Junior Law and Politics Research Community is accepting proposals for its fall seminar series on zoom! Submit by August 25 for full consideration.

To apply to present or to get on our email list to attend our seminars see 👇

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#psworkshop

Zambian politics have been quite dramatic in the last 20 years (timeline below). With that kind of competition, you’d expect MPs to fight to gain an edge in every arena, especially MPs elected on a thin margin. However, I find the opposite in Zambia’s parliament: doi.org/10.1080/1357...

Thrilled that this book, with Driscoll and Krehbiel, is out this week. Its topic that become surprisingly relevant: under what conditions does the public punish presidents who ignore court decisions?

Thrilled that the first paper in my PhD thesis “State Action and Moral Attitudes toward Sexual Consent”, co-authored with Francesca R. Jensenius and @oskorge.bsky.social , has been accepted for publication in the @thejop.bsky.social! 1/

The politics of litigating and adjudicating electoral disputes: Evidence from Zambia Elections are increasingly judicialized in many multiparty regimes. The ability to challenge flawed elections in independent courts can be crucial for…

The ability to challenge flawed elections in independent courts can be crucial for democratization

Spoiler: It can also be used by ruling parties to consolidate control of the legislature

New article w/ @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social & @liserakner.bsky.social

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Anna Nordnes Helgøy awarded the King's Gold Medal for dissertation on gender division in private and public spheres - Department of Political Science – It is a great honour to receive recognition for a doctoral dissertation on gender equality at a time when the American president is actively working against research in this field, says Anna Nordnes...

Proud of @annanhelgoy.bsky.social, who just won the King's Gold Medal at @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social.

I highly recommend reading her wonderful research on the gendered division of (un)paid labor and its political consequences.

Probably LLMs.

Contemplating (vertical) judicial power.

𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 in @bjpols.bsky.social! We show the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social neither favors the "haves" nor has a pro-business bias: it consistently levels the odds for disempowered individuals & spotlights support for their rights. Why 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 the haves come out ahead? Read on: tinyurl.com/28662tae

Aprilsnarr, absurd eller tull? Nei. Vi trenger flere lotterier i norsk politikk. Kritikerne avslører mangel på forståelse for kunnskapsbasert politikk.

Flere lotterier! Det vil gi mer og bedre kunnskap, som igjen kan gi bedre og mer effektiv politikk. Det skriver jeg sammen med @fiva.no, @torewig.bsky.social, @haakongjerlw.bsky.social, Aksel Braanen Sterri og Andreas K. Tveit i @aftenposten.no.