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Adriana Bunea

@adrianabuneauib.bsky.social
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Professor, Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen. PI on ERC StG CONSULTATIONEFFECTS. Former Marie Curie, Max Weber, Fulbright-Schuman Fellow. EU enthusiast.

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
@adrianabuneauib.bsky.social, @ibenskasr.bsky.social & Florian Weiler: Power, policy and national background: understanding interest groups-legislators ties on social media in the European Parliament 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Governance Journal @govjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New Article: Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text-as-Data Approach From: @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social, @sergiulipcean.bsky.social, @chrauh.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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....
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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...
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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...
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No Further Comment: The Erosion of Public Comment in the EU and US | Regulatory Studies Center | Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | T...
Governments on both sides of the Atlantic have recently taken steps to limit opportunities for public comment during the policymaking process.
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Christian R. - the wizard of bootstrapping! 🙌👏👏👏🫶
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/01/2026
Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT: When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
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Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This week was really great at work! SAMPOL hosted not one but two Zurich-based scholars!👏
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
It was great to host Silvana Tarlea (a fellow Transylvanian 😇) at our IPA research group! 🙌
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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Institutions, Policies, and Actors (IPA) research group meeting today: Silvana Târlea, ZHAW, presenting the paper “From presence to participation – What explains parties’ active participation in UN climate negotiations?”
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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
📣 New chapter 🌟 👥 Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social & Idunn Nørbech @norbidunn.bsky.social 📘 Public Policymaking and Stakeholder Consultations in Norway 📚 The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics, eds Kolltveit, Allern, Braut-Hegghammer & Rasch 🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Our article on how government invitations impact the levels and diversity of participation in online public consultations is now out with an issue number! Data from our favourite country: awesome Norway! 😇
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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🌟 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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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....
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Delighted to see our paper on how government invitations shape stakeholder participation in public consultations published in EJPR! Part of my @erc.europa.eu project CONSULTATIONEFFECTS. Co-authored with @norbidunn.bsky.social . 🙌 Open access!😇 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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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....
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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
📢 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...
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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...
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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/...
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<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...
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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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!
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Great day at SAMPOL: enjoying the visit and presentation of Professor Jonas Tallberg! Thank you for your inspiring presence @jonastallberg.bsky.social !
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Jonas Tallberg @jonastallberg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A real treat to visit Bergen and @sampol.bsky.social for a talk and great conversations about democracy, autocracy, and international cooperation!
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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
American media in particular need to stop equivocating and speaking in euphemism and tell Americans that they are aligned with Russia now. They owe the people that honesty.
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Our 2024 article now with a 2025 JEPP volume and issue number! A story about mapping the policy space of public consultations organised by the European Commission!
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Delighted to see our paper out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social! As always, it was great to work again with Florian and Raimondas!
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Big congrats to Il Biondo Fantastico @ibenskasr.bsky.social and the American Viking @jonathanpolk.bsky.social for their new @jeppjournal.bsky.social article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Bravo bravissimo! #On behalf of Porte-parole of the Bunea-Ibenskas house! :)
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Party responsiveness to public opinion in a multi-dimensional policy space
Party responsiveness to public opinion is a key question in the study of democratic representation. While numerous studies have examined party responsiveness on broad ideological dimensions, there ...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/12/2024
A massive, coordinated expensive Tik-Tok promotion campaign helped a pro- Russian candidate in Romanian presidential elections. He declared he spent no money on the campaign... www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Romania hit by major election influence campaign, amid Russian cyber-attacks
Romania's intelligence service reveals details of what it says is an attempt from abroad to meddle in the country's presidential election.
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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
SAMPOL seminar today with Professor John Boswell, University of Southampton, talking about Whitehall’s response to the Brexit vote and how the experience of individual and collective emotions coloured the work of British government in delivering Brexit. Thanks for an interesting presentation!
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
The Call for Papers for EPSA XV, June 26-28 June, Madrid is now open! Proposal Submission Deadline: December 18, 2024 Proposals can be submitted via coms.app/epsa2025/wel...
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15th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
The blessings of having two social media accounts: you get to celebrate published articles twice! 😇
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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Come join us! We currently have 3 vacant positions: • Postdoc ConFront project ⏳ 7 February tinyurl.com/y2hfd2zf • Associate Professor all fields/methodological approaches in comparative politics ⏳ 28 February tinyurl.com/2f8v5sh3 • Associate Professor Arctic Politics ⏳ 20 March tinyurl.com/2b8jry5s
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Raimondas Ibenskas @ibenskasr.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
@sonagolder.bsky.social and I are organising a workshop on conflict in parliamentary parties at the June 2024 Nordic PolSci conf. in Bergen. Submit proposals to @sonagolder.bsky.social and @ibenskasr.bsky.social by January 12th! More info: www.nopsa2024.no
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Sona Golder @sonagolder.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Deadline extension to Jan 12! Also, there are travel grants for PhD students affiliated with Nordic universities (more info at www.nopsa2024.no.)
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
How interesting...
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Sona Golder @sonagolder.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Attn polisky scholars of parties, parliaments & political behavior: Raimondas Ibenskas & I are organizing a workshop on conflict in parliamentary parties @ the June 2024 Nordic PolSci conf. in Bergen. Submit proposals to @ibenskasr.bsky.social & @sonagolder.bsky.social by 15 Dec! www.nopsa2024.no
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
The sweetest of the sweetest R-lovers & departmental colleagues!
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
What a fantastic line-up of international guests!
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Fun day at SAMPOL!
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Big day at UiB & SAMPOL!
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European News @eunews.social · 12/10/2023
Romania outperforms Hungary on one of the most important economic indicators Over the last ten years, Romania has been catching up with the EU average 2.5 times faster than Hungary.
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Romania outperforms Hungary on one of the most important economic indicators
Over the last ten years, Romania has been catching up with the EU average 2.5 times faster than Hungary.
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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Sampol Seminar today with Ken Benoit, LSE, giving a talk entitled “Predicting Left-Right Positions from Hand-Coded Content Analysis Using Machine Learning”.
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Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
Great company to keep at Leiden!
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