Department of Comparative Politics UiB

Does public participation in supranational policymaking enhance the European Commission’s legislative agenda-setting success? Under what conditions does public participation in supranational policymaking help the European Commission strengthen its legislative agenda-setting power and minimise the change of legislative pro...

Delighted to see our article out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social! Right on time to make a contribution to the debate on the @ec.europa.eu's new initiative to reform its Better Regulation policy. Open access & part of @erc.europa.eu ERC project CONSULTATIONEFFECTS.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New article 🌟
👤 Alexander Verdoes
👉 District expectations and strategic defection in two-tiered proportional systems: The case of the 2021 Norwegian election
📗 Electoral Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

Nominate now European Consortium for Political Reearch

Do you know of an outstanding published work in comparative social science research?

🎉 Nominations are now open for the 2025 Stein Rokkan Prize!
💰 £4,300 fund
🎙️ Presented with @sciencecouncil.bsky.social & @sampol.bsky.social

🛎️ Nominations close Fri 1 Mar

❓ @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social and @sergiulipcean.bsky.social ask: If the European Commission consults more stakeholders, are its proposals less likely to be changed by legislators?

✅ Bottom line: Yes, but it depends

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Yvette Peters and Jana Belschner on receiving funding from the Research Council of Norway for the project Beyond Discrimination: Addressing Structural Challenges to Gender Equality in the Social Sciences!

I am extremely honored, and equally perplexed, that my book has received the Stein Rokkan Prize.

Thank you so much to everyone who helped out with this project along the way. So much of the book is the result of feedback by kind people who took the time to listen and read. Thank you.

In light of the European Commission's decision to reform (again!) its Better Regulation and public participation procedures, Steve Balla and I wrote a short piece on the erosion of public comment in the EU and the US. @regstudies.bsky.social

regulatorystudies.columbian.gwu.edu/no-further-c...

🏆 Warm congratulations to @valentimvicente on receiving the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research for his book "The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand".

https://council.science/news/vicente-valentim-wins-2025-stein-rokkan-prize/

Sampol seminar today with Professor Paul Marx, Universität Bonn, presenting on “Conservatives in conversations. A focus-group study on polarization, cultural backlash, and pluralistic ignorance in political talk”. Thanks for visiting and for an interesting presentation!

Thanks to funding from the European Commission, Professor Arjan H. Schakel and Researcher Berkay Alıca will update the Regional Authority Index (RAI).
www.uib.no/en/sampol/18...

Does public participation in supranational policymaking enhance the European Commission’s legislative agenda-setting success? Under what conditions does public participation in supranational policymaking help the European Commission strengthen its legislative agenda-setting power and minimise the change of legislative pro...

🌟 New article
👥 Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social & Sergiu Lipcean @sergiulipcean.bsky.social
👉 Does public participation in supranational policymaking enhance the European Commission’s legislative agenda-setting success?
📗 Journal of European Public Policy
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

📣 New article 🌟
👥 Andrea Ceron & Linn Sandberg @linnsandberg.bsky.social
👉 Preaching to the Unconverted: How Politicians Attacking the Media Influence Citizens' Evaluation of News Credibility
📗 Scandinavian Political Studies @scandpolstud.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Semester programme, seminars in Comparative Political Economy, University of Bergen

This semesters's programme of the interdisciplinary seminars in Comparative Political Economy @unibergen.bsky.social

@sampol.bsky.social

Boikott av fotball-VM: – Poengløst, ifølge forsker Det vil etter all sannsynlighet være poengløst for et fotballag å velge å ikke reise til VM, særlig siden Donald Trump har støtte i FIFA, sier forsker.

Exit, loyalty, voice og fotball-VM i USA. Dere som tar #sampol106 tar vel #sampol107 samtidig. Les hva @kstroemsnes.bsky.social har å si om saken.

What do citizens think about mistakes in asylum decisions? New research from 26 countries explores whether citizens find it worse to wrongly grant or wrongly deny asylum protection to those in need.

When making asylum decisions, is it worse to deny protection to someone who needs it or to grant it to someone who does not?

✍ Cornelius Cappelen, Hakan G. Sicakkan & Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem @sampol.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Stemningen er satt. Klar for Aarebrotforelesningen 2026.

– Ingen hadde snakket om Grønland om det ikke hadde vært for Trump – Interessen for Grønland er en besettelse for Trump, sier Aaron John Spitzer, førsteamanuensis i arktisk politikk ved UiB.

USA vil ikke få noen militære, økonomiske eller politiske gevinster av å overta Grønland, sier Sampols Aaron Spitzer @aaronjohnspitzer.bsky.social. Les hans analyser på UiB Aktuelt 👇

📣 New article
👥 @allansikk.bsky.social @sonagolder.bsky.social @ibenskasr.bsky.social @paulinasl.bsky.social
👉 Does switching pay off? The impact of parliamentary party instability on individual electoral performance
📗 Open access in Electoral Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

Impact of switching on preference vote change

Does party switching pay off for MPs? Not really, but... For details see our #instaparty paper w @sonagolder.bsky.social, @ibenskasr.bsky.social & @paulinasl.bsky.social just out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

📣 New article 🌟
👥 Atle Haugsgjerd, Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social &Ruben B. Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social
👉 Populist radical right party representation and satisfaction with democracy in Europe
📗 Open Access in Journal of European Public Policy
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

📣 New article 🌟
👥 Fernando Casal Bértoa, William Horncastle & Sergiu Lipcean @sergiulipcean.bsky.social
👉 Blessing or curse? A critical review of the paradoxical consequences of direct public funding for political parties
📗 Open Access in @epsrjournal.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S175...

For those interested in the effects of direct public funding of political parties on various dimensions of political activity, a brief review.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🌈 Online toxicity and political equality Jana Belschner analysed 875,000 Twitter exchanges during Germany's 2021 election. Here, she reveals complex patterns in online toxicity between citizens and elites. Politicians’ behaviour matters, but...

Jana Belschner @janabelschner.bsky.social & Linn Sandberg analysed every public Twitter conversation between citizens and candidates in Germany's 2021 federal election campaign => blog post in @ecprtheloop.bsky.social on Online toxicity and political equality 👇

How do #citizens weigh #fairness in #asylum decisions?

Some elements of answer in our latest article, together with Cornelius Cappelen and @hakangs.bsky.social, in International Migration Review.

[For those that understand Scandinavian]:
Interview about the #Nobel Peace Laureate María Corina #Machado, #Maduro, #Trump and #Venezuela, with @leivm.bsky.social, Professor and Head of @sampol.bsky.social, the University of Bergen; at #NRK #Nyhetsmorgen (min. 51:47).
tv.nrk.no/serie/nyhets...

Decision-Making Mistakes in Asylum Policy: A Comparative Study of Public Opinion - Cornelius Wright Cappelen, Hakan G. Sicakkan, Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem, 2025 Asylum policies present decision-makers with a difficult trade-off between falsely rejecting deserving applicants (false negatives) and falsely accepting undese...

🌟 New article
👥 Cornelius Wright Cappelen, Hakan G. Sicakkan & Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem
👉 Decision-Making Mistakes in Asylum Policy: A Comparative Study of Public Opinion
📗 Open Access in: International Migration Review
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

29 de Noviembre: hoy es el Día Nacional del Politólogo - 25 Digital Hoy se celebra en Argentina el día del Politólogo, en memoria del Dr. Mariano Moreno...

I dag er statstviterens dag i Argentina (Día nacional del politólogo), til minne om den argentinske statsviteren Guillermo O’Donnell. Det er bare å gratulere hverandre med dagen! www.25digital.com.ar/index.php/20...

Handbook on Coalition Politics ‘This volume brilliantly synthesizes the entire coalition lifecycle, integrates cutting-edge computational methods with game theory, and explores intra-party dynamics with unprecedented depth. A must-...

📣 New chapter 🌟
👥 Raimondas Ibenskas @ibenskasr.bsky.social & José Zurita-Tapia @josezuritat.bsky.social
👉 Pre-electoral Coalitions
📘 Thomas Bräuninger & Marc Debus (eds): Handbook on Coalition Politics, Elgar
🔗 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

Picture of the cover of the Handbook of Comparative Political Economy

Picture of the first page of the chapter "Labour market policy in comparative political economy research"

New publication 🚨 Happy to have a chapter in the new Handbook of Comparative Political Economy, which offers a great overview of the state of the field, edited by Marino Regini.

doi.org/10.4337/9781...

@sampol.bsky.social

Die politischen Systeme Nordeuropas

📣 New chapter 🌟
👥 Torvald Falch & Per Selle
👉 Indigene Politik in Finland, Norwegen und Schweden: Gleich und doch anders
📘 Henningsen & Jochem (eds): Die politischen Systeme Nordeuropas, Nomos
🔗 www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/die-pol...