Kjetil Evjen

Rokkan Memorial Lecture 2025. Professor Catherine De Vries: Public Service Deprivation and the Geography of Far-Right Support in Europe.

What could go wrong?

Fantastisk :-)

Hva får partiene som på målingene havner i kategorien andre i valgkampbidrag? Ikke så mye, bortsett fra ett parti: FOR har mottatt millionbeløp.

Erna Solberg: – Ikke alle kan være humanister

Fakta liker ikkje billege, retoriske poeng.

Ukrainians watching this big beautiful beef unfold:⚡️ Zelensky promised to end the war between Trump and Musk within 24 hours.

Etter å ha lidd meg gjennom Leraand og Diesen på TV er to ting klart: 1) Disse folkene står hverken for fred eller rettferdighet, de undergraver begge deler. 2) Dette partiet kommer til å fortsette å ha ganske nøyaktig null folkelig oppslutning i Norge. Takk og pris for det. 🇺🇦

Itineraries of 25 Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, 919 to 1519

Itinerant rule, rule exercised through traveling, was a common, yet insufficiently researched pre-modern form of governance. Studying the determinants of ruler itineraries in the Holy Roman Empire AD 919-1519, we argue that rulers focused on monitoring `marginal' elites. Powerful rulers could count on family members and thus targeted unrelated local elites. Weak emperors had to monitor their less loyal relatives and left unrelated nobles unvisited. We reconstruct emperors' itineraries from 72'665 dated and geolocated documents and measure territorial control by their relatives. Exploiting the weakening of imperial power through the Great Interregnum (1250-1273), we find that strong, pre-1250 emperors frequented areas controlled by their relatives relatively less. In contrast, family control increased visits post-1273. Causal identification rests on the discontinuous reduction of emperors' power through the Great Interregnum and differences in family relations between subsequent emperors. The results show strategic itinerant rule as an important but understudied form of governance.

🚨 Very excited that our paper on *Rulers on the Road* has been cond. accepted at the AJPS @ajpseditor.bsky.social. We analyze emperors' strategies of itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire 919-1519. Fun working with @claranw.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & Jørgen Møller shorturl.at/Spm7z

Astonishing new data on healthy life expectancy around the world. The United States ranks #71 (!)

The US has fallen gradually on the global ranking over the past two decades. See thread🧵👇

30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything in March 2020 It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.

Decades from now, the Covid-19 pandemic will be visible in the data of nearly anything measurable today: an unmistakable spike, dip or jolt that officially began for Americans five years ago this week. These charts capture that break — across the economy, health care, education, work and more.

You first.

Det skifter fort...

Dette er alvorlig og skammelig

Donald Trump's approval rating slide "significant"—Republican strategist

Less than half of Americans polled approve of the president, with Elon Musk's ratings are even lower, amid a week of angry town halls.

Level of partisan hostility varies substantially between democracies. Showcase: How many think that threatening outparty supporters online is acceptable?

🇧🇷Brazil & 🇺🇸USA top the list at ~26%.

🇸🇪Sweden is lowest at ~6%.

Source: CONAP dataset (2022).

Polisky

Hopefully the AfD result will also put an end to all the "Trump/Musk/Vance will boost the far right in Europe" bullshit that has been going around.

EU preparing military aid package for Kyiv worth $20.9 billion, Bloomberg reports The additional military support would supply Kyiv with air defense systems, artillery ammunition, long-range missiles, and drones.

⚡️EU preparing military aid package for Kyiv worth $20.9 billion, Bloomberg reports.

The additional military support would supply Kyiv with air defense systems, artillery ammunition, long-range missiles, and drones.

Det har vært litt sånn siste måneden...

Ein irrelevant og grådig lang tråd om Grønland, som ikkje har noko med Trump og den dagsaktuelle situasjonen å gjera, men der eg, på litt overraskande vis, endar opp med å seia meg einig i dei norske argumenta for at ein del av Aust-Grønland, "Eirik Raudes land", skulle bli norsk på 1930-talet: 1/*

Belarus presidential election: Who’s taking on Lukashenko, does it matter? President Alexander Lukashenko will be running to secure a seventh term, hoping to extend his 30-year rule over Belarus.

Belarusians are voting in a presidential election on Sunday as President Alexander Lukashenko seeks to secure a seventh term and extend his 30-year rule over the country.

Here's all you need to know ⤵️

Farvel til grevje og allonge – nye ord har kommet inn i ordbøkene I dag kommer Bokmålsordboka og Nynorskordboka i oppdaterte versjoner. Et ord fra småbarnsforeldres dagligtale har kommet inn, mens andre har måttet vike.

Ordbokslanseringsintervju! med @nina-kristiansen.bsky.social

(Og nei, dei forsvinn ikkje av norma, så de kan fortsett grevje og allongere alt de vil, men gje meg gjerne ein lyd så eg kan få sjå med sjølvsyn.)

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Grieg in 200 minutes with Professor of Chamber Music Are Sandbakken. Celebrating the Lecture. 7th lecture in memory of comparative politics Professor Frank Aarebrot.

The association between defence spending and distance from Moscow among EU countries (The Economist)

Russian threat pushes Norway to build bomb shelters for ‘worst-case scenario’ The Kremlin’s aggression is making neighboring countries nervous.

Norway plans to reintroduce an obligation to build bomb shelters in new buildings, a practice halted in 1998, the Norwegian government announced today.

Ikke apropos noget særligt: En dansk repræsentant illustrerer størrelsen på Grønland under den internationale retssag mellem Danmark og Norge i 1933 om hvem af de to lande, der havde suveræniteten over Østgrønland.

Jealous Trump Throws Own State Funeral To Upstage Carter’s

Jealous Trump Throws Own State Funeral To Upstage Carter’s
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Ser Musk blander seg inn i både tysk og britisk politikk, og gjør det han kan for å polarisere så mye som mulig. Ser frem til han oppdager bergenspolitikken, og bybanekrangling!

Når Frp vil kutte byråkrati og "effektivisere" offentlig sektor, så inkluderer det de byråkratene som skriver svar på slike spørsmål fra Frp-representanter.

Ny islandsk regjering er på plass: flertallskoalisjon med Sosialdemokratene, Folkepartiet og Reformpartiet, ledet av den nye statsministeren Kristrún Frostadóttir(sosialdemokrat). Blant sakene på den nye regjeringens agenda er en folkeavstemning om EU-medlemsskap, muligens innen 2027.