The special collection on the island of Ireland and the EU in @cep-uaces.bsky.social is now out!
Interesting insights from many perspectives on how the national and European levels interact:
lnkd.in/eqpEhe8B
It was great to be back at @eui-schuman.bsky.social
for a workshop on "The EU between differentiation, disintegration, and enlargement". Find most papers on @wepsocial.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/bdz7arw7) and @jeppjournal.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/4htxs4hk). Thanks to all organisers and participants!
78,9% of the electorate voted in the Norwegian parliamentary elections – highest turnout in my lifetime! Beautiful!
Ireland is a fascinating country, especially for those of us interested in the politicisation of migration and European integration. This article, where I look into linkages of the two issues across four Irish treaty referendums, is now out in CEP!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Such a nice piece to read while getting mentally prepared to pick up a paper in need of some heavy editing. Thanks for sharing! :)
One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse
How do challenger parties—those without prior governing experience—gain access to executive power? In our paper out now in @thejop.bsky.social, @mvinaes.bsky.social, @jacobnyrup.bsky.social, and I explore whether simply holding legislative office helps them join government. Brief 🧵👇
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📣New publication!
Happy to announce a special issue of West European Politics (@wepsocial.bsky.social) on "External differentiation: a new trajectory after Brexit and Ukraine?".
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fwep20/4...
A thread.
Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters - my latest @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/03/31/g...
As Lise Rye and I show in this paper, debates about "where to wriggle" have been ongoing in Norway since the beginning of the association to the EU internal market and, as recent developments make clear, are not likely to go off the agenda anytime soon – happy to see this paper out!
New publication in European Union Politics!
Sina Özdemir, @pieterdewilde.bsky.social and I have examined how tweets by EU executives appeal to legitimacy beliefs – we find that they are more opinionated than we'd expected!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Thanks to the editors for putting this together! Also thanks to everyone who has provided input throughout the process, particularly to AMIS and the Saxo Institute at @ucph.bsky.social, who hosted me for a very rewarding research stay in the spring of 2022! 5/5
The referendum highlighted complexities in Danish relations to EU migration policy. This made the campaign a complicated affair, with a lot of debates about what the referendum was really about. The case thus illustrates some of the democratic challenges that come with the complexities of DI. 4/5
Migration has been linked to contestation of the EU in several recent referendums. This was also the case here, particularly with the Danish People's Party making such linkages. However, there was overall considerable debates about how and whether this was relevant for the referendum. 3/5
My chapter looks at the Danish referendum on the Justice and Home Affairs opt-out in 2015, asking what role migration played in the referendum campaign. The political majority tried to take migration off the agenda, but they were not successful in doing so. 2/5
Just received this in the mail! This edited volume looks into various cases of differentiated integration (DI) in the Nordic countries, and I contributed with a chapter based on my PhD project about discursive linkages of migration and European integration. 1/5
www.routledge.com/Differentiat...
Lise Rye and I have made a database of political documents on Norwegian European policies in the period 1987-2022. It's available here: doi.org/10.18712/NSD...
I hope this can contribute to more studies on Norway-EU relations (which hasn't become any less relevant these last weeks).
On this note, here is a thread with recent research on what normalization is and how it happens.
It includes links to references, from my work and that of others.
I tried to tag the authors whenever they are on here, in case you are interested in following their work.
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Seems like a good day to reshare this recent study that shows how mainstream parties can fuel the success of the radical right by opening the door to them
Thanks for sharing!
We are hiring! 5-year postdoc position in International Relations at the Department of Political Science of @unisalzburg.bsky.social.
Deadline for applications: 12 February 2025.
Full information: tinyurl.com/postdocIP
#Polisky #AcademicJobs
A favourite thing about living in Berlin: Discovering amazing music and getting tickets for a show next month in the same evening.
youtu.be/WETpPlbdb3c
“We find that fact-checks are successful in debunking misperceptions. Moreover, this debunking effect is consistent across countries”
Posting this key finding from our recent 16 country study.
For no particular reason today.
doi.org/10.1080/1520...
Could anyone inform me what this "range of domestic issues" refer to? Curious!
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Oh, really excited to read this! Congrats!
Just a reminder that there were people claiming Syrian refugees were 'economic migrants' and it was perfectly safe for them to go back... www.bbc.com/news/article...
A friend of mine very rightly pointed out that I fit the target group for this joke perfectly. Now decorates my office door. If there are any other fellow Narnia-Brexit geeks on here, enjoy:
m.xkcd.com/2218/
Took a crack at the Political Communication starter pack. Sorry for all the great folks I undoubtedly missed
go.bsky.app/J1U6jVe
Post a perfect album from the '90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.
The Dutch government has decided to introduce border checks at its internal #Schengen borders with Germany, Belgium, as well as at airports. These will start in December and will initially last until June 2025.
Why is this such an interesting development? 👇
