Department of Comparative Politics UiB

Excited to join #IPSA in Seoul to present "Parliamentary Switching & Electoral Party Evolution" and co-present "Gender & Parliamentary Party Switching" with @sonagolder.bsky.social co-authored by: @ibenskasr.bsky.social & @paulinasl.bsky.social. instapartyproject.com in full swing! Panel links ⬇️

🌟 Nytt kapittel
👤 Kristin Strømsnes @kstroemsnes.bsky.social ‬
👉 Civilsamhället som en tredje sektor mellan stat och marknad
📗 Civilsamhällesvetenskap: en grundbok, red Karlsson, von Essen, Forssell, Vamstad & Lindberg
🔗 www.liber.se/webshop/prod...

Social Sustainability in Ageing Welfare States ‘In recent years, a significant body of literature has addressed the so-called “double transition” involving technological and environmental changes, as well as the role of the welfare state. This boo...

🌟 New chapter
👥 Mari S. Helliesen & Yvette Peters
👉 The political perspective of social sustainability: age-based representation
📗 Maria Vaalavuo, Kenneth Nelson & Kati Kuitto eds: Social Sustainability in Ageing Welfare States
🔗 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/soc...

Nærmere om emnet med kursbeskrivelse.

Europa har havnet midt i en perfekt storm Europa står midt i en krevende sikkerhetspolitisk situasjon som raskt vil endre hvordan private bedrifter, det offentlige og politikere tenker sikkerhet framover. Hvordan skal europeiske institusjoner...

Nytt videreutdanningskurs om den nye sikkerhetspolitiske situasjonen i Europa.

Trustees, Delegates, and Direct Democracy: Exploring Mass‐Elite Incongruence in Perceptions of Advisory Referendums Previous research has demonstrated that the legitimacy of a majority-rule procedure, as perceived by the general population, is dependent on turnout, the size of the majority, and the favourability o...

🌟 New article
👥 @ts-broderstad.bsky.social ‬@sveinunga.bsky.social Mikael P. Johannesson & @jonaslinde.bsky.social ‬
👉 Trustees, Delegates, and Direct Democracy: Exploring Mass‐Elite Incongruence in Perceptions of Advisory Referendums
📗 Scandinavian Political Studies
🔗 dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Independents in Parliament: Temporary Status or Final Destination? Political parties are essential for structuring parliamentary decision-making in democracies. However, in some countries, as many as 10% of legislators experience spells outside of parliamentary part....

🌟 New article 🇱🇹🇵🇱🇷🇴
👥 @ibenskasr.bsky.social‬ @paulinasl.bsky.social @sonagolder.bsky.social @allansikk.bsky.social
👉 Independents in Parliament: Temporary Status or Final Destination?
📗 Open access in: Legislative Studies Quarterly
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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📢 New article 🌟
👥 Torvald Falch, Per Selle & Jonas Stein
👉 Internal cleavages and changing party system in indigenous politics – The Sámi Parliament of Norway
📗 Party Politics
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Bokomslag Sametingsvalget 2021: Et partisystem i endring?

📣 Nytt kapittel
👥 Torvald Falck, Per Selle & Jonas Stein @tromsojonas.bsky.social
📄 Norske Samers Riksforbund sin dominerende rolle i samepolitikken – i endring og under press
📗 Saglie, Berg-Nordlie & Pettersen (red): Sametingsvalget 2021: Et partisystem i endring?
🔗 cdforskning.no/cdf/catalog/...

Bokomslag Sametingsvalget 2021: Et partisystem i endring?

📢 Nytt kapittel
👥 Johannes Bergh & Kristin Strømsnes @kstroemsnes.bsky.social
📄 Et levende demokrati blant manntallsførte samer: Om deltakelse i og mellom valg
📗 Saglie, Berg-Nordlie & Pettersen (red): Sametingsvalget 2021: Et partisystem i endring?
🔗 cdforskning.no/cdf/catalog/...

Bokomslag Sametingsvalget 2021: Et partisystemet i endring?

🌟 Nytt kapittel
👥 Jonas Stein @tromsojonas.bsky.social & Per Selle
📄 Nordkalottfolkets gjennombrudd ved sametingsvalget i 2021: En ny type utfordrerparti vokser fram
📗 Saglie, Berg-Nordlie & Pettersen (red): Sametingsvalget 2021: Et partisystem i endring?
🔗 cdforskning.no/cdf/catalog/...

Representing the Future in an Aging Europe: The Politics of Demographic Change

They work you, here in Norway :) About to give the 5th talk of my Norwegian research visit, at @janabelschner.bsky.social's
@sampol.bsky.social
project workshop. With Vera Troeger, Maria Grasso, Javier Olivera, Benny Geys and many others
www.uib.no/en/sampol/16...

Lunch seminars in Comparative Political Economy An inter-departmental seminar series at the University of Bergen

"Measuring human capital globally:" presenting today at the @unibergen.bsky.social's interdepartmental seminar series in Comparative Political Economy

www.uib.no/en/sampol/11...

Thanks to Professor Pieter Vanhuysse @pietervanhuysse.bsky.social University of Southern Denmark, for visiting our department and giving a seminar on the question Do Low-Fertility Societies Tax their Own Reproduction?

Petr Kopecký: Political Patronage and Autocratisation, Online, 21 May 2025 Free and open to all as part of the ECPR House Series

🚨 TOMORROW, 17:15 CEST 🚨
➡️ 2025 Stein Rokkan Lecture
🎙️ Live from #ecprjs25
🤝 Political Patronage and Autocratisation
🗣️ Petr Kopecký
🏡 FREE with #ECPRHouseSeries
👉🏽 buff.ly/K4JKTJP

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@charlesuni.cuni.cz‬
@polscileiden.bsky.social

Handbook of European Union Governance This expansive Handbook compares the global, milieu, security, economic and societal systems of EU governance. It identifies the theoretical underpinnings and characteristics of each governance system...

📣 New chapter 🌟
👥 Arjan Schakel & Michaël Tatham
📘 Multilevel governance in the EU 23
📚 Handbook of European Union Governance, eds Sonia Lucarelli & James Sperling
🔗 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

Political Patronage and Autocratisation House Series – The Stein Rokkan Edition, Delivered by Petr Kopecký, Online, 21 May 2025

🔜 2025 Stein Rokkan Lecture
🎙️ Live from #ecprjs25 @charlesuni.cuni.cz
✊ Political Patronage and Autocratisation
🗣️ Petr Kopecký
📅 Wed 21 May, 17:15–18:30 CEST
🏡 FREE with #ECPRHouseSeries
👉🏽 ecpr.eu/Events/328
@polscileiden.bsky.social

📣 Ny bok 🌟
👥 Stefan Dahlberg, Ulf Mörkenstam, Ragnhild Nilsson & Tim Segerberg (red.)
📘 Sametingsval 2021. Stabila mönster och utvecklingstendenser
📚 Santérus Förlag
🔗 santerus.se/vara-bocker/...

📣 New article 🌟
👤 Alexander Verdoes
👉 Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments
📗 Open Access in Electoral Studies @electoralstudies.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

We were honoured today by a visit from Professor Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social, Johns Hopkins University SAIS-Europe, presenting his book Intent to Destroy. Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine 🇺🇦

Regionalt handlingsrom i grunnforvaltinga i Finnmark? Om kvifor Finnmark fylkeskommune ikkje gjorde Finnmarkseigedommen til ein regional grunnforvaltingsinstitusjon I 2005 vedtok Stortinget Finnmarkslova og gav Finnmarkseigedomen (FeFo) eigarskap og mynde til forvalting av nærast all grunn i Finnmark. Finnmarkslova slo fast at Finnmark fylkeskommune (FFK) og Same...

📢 Ny artikkel
👥 Sveinung Eikeland & Per Selle
👉 Regionalt handlingsrom i grunnforvaltinga i Finnmark? Om kvifor Finnmark fylkeskommune ikkje gjorde Finnmarkseigedommen til ein regional grunnforvaltingsinstitusjon
📗 Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift
🔗 doi.org/10.18261/nst...

Happy and proud to see the final article from my PhD dissertation out in the world! Thank you @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social for great collaboration and guidance! 🎉💫

Do government invitations to consultations shape stakeholder participation in public policymaking? Online public consultations are an instrument frequently used by governments to invite citizens and interest organisations to participate in the formulation of public policies. A key feature of the c...

📢 New article 🌟
👥 ‪Adriana Bunea‬ & ‪Idunn Nørbech‬
👉 Do government invitations to consultations shape stakeholder participation in public policymaking?
📗 European Journal of Political Research
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Svarer russerne sant når de sier at de støtter Putin? Forskere har stilt nettopp det spørsmålet, og har en ganske klar konklusjon.

Derfor er Putin og Trump populære i Russland. Dagsavisen har snakket med Sampol-professor @kailmarkvart.bsky.social

www.dagsavisen.no/nyheter/2025...

Congratulations!

<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library We examine whether and how public participation in policymaking contributes towards fostering stakeholder support for policy proposals formulated in the bureaucratic arena. We explain how key markers...

Thrilled 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/...

So excited our beautiful article is out!

<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library We examine whether and how public participation in policymaking contributes towards fostering stakeholder support for policy proposals formulated in the bureaucratic arena. We explain how key markers...

📢 New article 🌟
👥 Adriana Bunea & Idunn Nørbech
👉 Does public participation foster stakeholder support for policy proposals? Evidence from the European Union
📗 Open Access in Policy Studies Journal
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/psj....

Doru 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!

Høyresidens amasoner Stadig flere ytre høyre-partier i Europa er ledet av kvinner. Samtidig har disse partiene få kvinner blant velgere, medlemmer og folkevalgte, ifølge forskere.

Intervju med Jana Belschner @janabelschner.bsky.social og andre om kvinnelig lederskap i høyrepopulistiske partier 👇