Department of Political Science, University of Oslo

The State of Norwegian Democracy AbstractNorway is a high-quality democracy, almost regardless of how democracy is conceptualized or operationalized. Yet, Norwegian democracy is far from p

📢 New book chapter 🌟
👥 Sirianne Dahlum @sirianned.bsky.social & Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social
🔎 The State of Norwegian Democracy
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Norway and the European Union AbstractNorway’s relationship with the European Union (EU) is not just about foreign policy. Norway is not a member of the EU, but over time, an extensive

📢 New book chapter 🌟
👥 Guri Rosen (ISV) & Ulf Sverdrup
🔎 Norway and the European Union
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

📢 New article 🌟
👥 @anjaneundorf.bsky.social , @sirianned.bsky.social (ISV), @kristianvsf.bsky.social, @aykutozturk.bsky.social
👉 Elections Without Constraints? The Appeal of Electoral Autocracy Across the World
📗 Open Access in British Journal of Political Science
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

📢 New article 🌟
👥 Davis D.E. Andersen, Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social (ISV) & Svend-Erik Skaaning @skaaning.bsky.social
👉 Dimensions of State Capacity and Modes of Democratic Breakdown
📗 Published in Political Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0032...

📢 New article
👥 @adridelrio.bsky.social, Woseeok Kim, @chknutsen.bsky.social @anjaneundorf.bsky.social & 2 others
👉 Enhancing Transparency and Replicability in Data
Collection: Lessons from the Construction of Three Education Datasets
📖 Published in Perspectives on Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/s153...

📢 New article 🌟
👥 Do Young Lee (ISV) @doyoung-lee.bsky.social
👉 Growing Divergence: North Korea’s Evolving Nuclear Strategy and the US–South Korea Alliance.
📗 Texas National Security Review
🔗 doi.org/10.1353/tns....

📢 New book chapter
👥 Bernt Olav Aardal (ISV) & Jørgen Bølstad (ISV) @boelstad.bsky.social
🔎 The Electoral System: Representing Voters and Territory
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/https:/globa...

📢 New book chapter
👥 Nikolai Brandal & Øivind Bratberg (ISV)
🔎 Conclusion: A return to revisionism
📗 Published in Social Democracy and Urban Politics: Party Responses to the Diversifying Left in European Cities
🔗 doi.org/10.7765/9781...

Disputation Anna Eriksen Rio - Department of Political Science Master of Science in International Relations Anna Eriksen Rio will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science:Zones of Ambiguity: Special Economic Zones and the Politics of P...

On February 26, 2026, Anna Eriksen Rio @annaerio.bsky.social will defend her PhD thesis “Zones of Ambiguity: Special Economic Zones and the Politics of Productive Ambiguity in Ethiopia”. For time and place, see 👇
www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...

📢 New book chapter
👥 Nikolai Brandal & Øivind Bratberg (ISV)
🔎 A social democratic holding strategy? Managing the greening and radicalisation of the left in Oslo
📗 Published in Social Democracy and Urban Politics: Party Responses to the Diversifying Left in European Cities
🔗 doi.org/10.7765/9781...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (295112) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (295112), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, March 16, 2026

📣CfA for a Postdoctoral Fellow Position in political science (3-4 years) as part of the ERC project “Waging of War” (WOW) - PI Scott Gates. The application deadline is March 16th, 2026.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

📢 New book chapter
👥 Nikolai Brandal & Øivind Bratberg (ISV)
🔎 Introduction: The urban dilemmas of the European centre-left
📗Published in Social Democracy and Urban Politics: Party Responses to the Diversifying Left in European Cities
🔗 doi.org/10.7765/9781...

The Party Organizations AbstractIn an era where parties are allegedly failing to represent their members and voters, this chapter outlines how Norwegian party organizations persev

📢 New book chapter
👥 Maiken Røed (ISV) & Torill Stavenes
🔎 The Party Organizations
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

📢 New article🌟
👤 Do Young Lee (ISV) @doyoung-lee.bsky.social
👉 Why reassuring allies is harder than deterring adversaries in extended deterrence: Evidence from US extended deterrence for South Korea
📖 Published in British Journal of Politics & International Relations.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1369...

Feasibility: Superfluous or Moralized* | Ethics: Vol 136, No 1 Recent analytical political theory has sought to develop a conceptual analysis of feasibility for the purpose of specifying the “ought implies can” principle. Two central premises of this debate are (...

📢 New article 🌟
👤 Hallvard Hodne Sandven (ISV)
👉 Feasibility: Superfluous or Moralized
📗 Published in Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1086/736744

📢 New book chapter
👥 Guri Rosen, Espen D. H. Olsen @espendholsen.bsky.social & Alexander Lars Dannerhäll
🔎 Sweden and the Limits of Euro-Optimism: Pragmatic Integration or Political Reluctance?
📗Published in Political Actors’ Narratives on the Reforms of the European Union
🔗 doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Political Actors’ Narratives on the Reforms of the European Union | Fu This book provides essential insights into contemporary political actors’ narratives of European integration. Focusing on the Future of Europe debate in

📢 New book chapter
👥 Espen D. H. Olsen @espendholsen.bsky.social & Guri Rosen (ISV)
🔎 Norway as Europe's Closest Outsider: Views of European Integration from a Non-Member
📗 Published in Political Actors’ Narratives on the Reforms of the European Union
🔗 doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Immigration and Integration Policy AbstractWhile Norway is highly dependent on migrant workers, immigration has also been portrayed as a threat to social cohesion and the fiscal sustainabili

📢 New book chapter
👥 Vilde Hernes (ISV) & Anne Balke Staver @anneavelo.bsky.social
🔎Immigration and Integration Policy
📗Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Special Voting Arrangements AbstractSpecial voting arrangements intended to increase the convenience of voting—such as early voting, mobile ballot boxes, postal voting, remote online

📢 New article 🌟
👤 Miroslav Nemčok (ISV) @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social
👉 Special Voting Arrangements
📗 Published in Oxford Handbook of Electoral Integrity
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Does local context matter for individual level turnout? Analysing the effect of the social context in the neighbourhood, in Norwegian elections The purpose of this paper is to study how the social composition of a neighbourhood affects an individual’s propensity to vote. Numerous studies have looked at aggregate level contextual effects on...

📢 New article🌟
👥 Sofi Granö (ISV) & Johannes Bergh @johannesbergh.bsky.social
👉 Does local context matter for individual level turnout? Analysing the effect of the social context in the neighbourhood, in Norwegian elections
📖 Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1745...

Origins of societal anger: the interplay between perceived personal economic decline and anti-immigration attitudes Emotions, particularly anger, play a central role in contemporary politics. This paper explores the link between anger toward societal development, perceived personal economic decline, and anti-imm...

📢 New article
👤 Tor Gaute Syrstad (ISV)
👉 Origins of societal anger: the interplay between perceived personal economic decline and anti-immigration attitudes
📗 Open Access in Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1745...

Who Rules? Support Coalitions and Regime Survival, 1789–2020 - Carl Henrik Knutsen, Sirianne Dahlum, Magnus Bergli Rasmussen, Tore Wig, 2025 All political regimes rely on coalitions of supporters to govern and remain in power. We discuss, specify, and test arguments pertaining to how the numerical si...

📢 New article
👥 Carl Henrik Knutsen (ISV), Sirianne Dahlum (ISV), Magnus Bergli Rasmussen & Tore Wig (ISV)
👉 Who Rules? Support Coalitions and Regime Survival
📗 Open Access in Comparative Political Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Strategic disruptions: The subnational targeting of internet shutdowns in India Abstract. Since 2016, governments in 77 countries have implemented 1,118 internet shutdowns, revealing a growing trend in the use of ‘digital repression’.

📢 New article
👤 Marika Miner (ISV)
👉 Strategic disruptions: The subnational targeting of internet shutdowns in India
📗 Published in Journal of Peace Research
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Future Challenges of Public Administration This article addresses the future theoretical, thematical, empirical, and normative challenges for public administration as a research field. Theoretically, it argues for combining organizational a...

📢 New article
👥 Tom Christensen (ISV) & Per Lægreid
👉 Future Challenges of Public Administration
📗 Open Access in Public Performance and Management Review
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1530...

Book cover of Energy Politics in a Turbulent Era

📢 New book chapter
👤 Dag Harald Claes (ISV)
🔎 Energy turbulence between politics and markets
📖 Published in Energy Politics in a Turbulent Era
🔗 doi.org/10.4337/9781...

Energy Policy: Resource Abundance and External Challenges AbstractNorway is a country rich in energy resources. Most domestic energy consumption is based on hydroelectricity, with low production costs. Since the b

📢 New book chapter
👤 Dag Harald Claes (ISV)
🔎 Energy Policy - Resource Abundance and External Challenges
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Abstract of the book chapter

📢 New book chapter
👥 Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social (ISV) & Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social
🔎 Political Trust in Norway; A Large But Lopsided Research Field
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

How Group Appeals Shape Group-Party Linkages in Two Political Systems | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

📢 New article
👥 Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social (ISV) & three others
👉 How Group Appeals Shape Group-Party Linkages in Two Political Systems
📗 Published in Journal of Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1086/735505

Executive–Legislative Relations: Negative Parliamentarism and Its Consequences for Governing Norway AbstractThe most salient feature of negative parliamentarism is that the confidence relationship between the legislative and executive branches is weak. In

📢 New book chapter
👥 Jonas Stein & Bjørn Erik Rasch (ISV)
🔎 Executive – Legislative Relations: Negative Parliamentarism and Its Consequences for Governing Norway
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Abstract of the article

📢 New article
👥 Jacob Nyrup, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Peter Egge Langsæther, & Ina Lyftingsmo Kristiansen
👉 Paths to Power: A New Dataset on the Social Profile of Governments
📗 Open Access in the British Journal of Political Science
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/s000...