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Øyvind Stiansen

@oyvindstiansen.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo.

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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
✌️ Next week, this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced in Oslo ✍️ Thanks to The Guardian for inviting me to share my thoughts on potential awardees and why I believe the more war there is, the more the Nobel Peace Prize matters www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget the famous names. Here is who actually deserves this year’s Nobel peace prize | Haakon Gjerløw
The betting markets favour the US president and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. But the most vital work to secure peace is being done by those far from the spotlight, says Haakon Gjerløw, acting director of the ...
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Congratulations to @hasiniliyanage.bsky.social who defended her PhD thesis “Braving the Storms under the Nuclear Umbrella: Allied Ambitions, Expectations, and Demands" on Friday! 👩‍🎓👏💐
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UiO - Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Om September 25th Master of Social Science in Peace and Conflict Studies Hasini Liyanage will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social: “Braving the Storms under the Nuclear Umbrella: Allied Ambitions, Expectations, and Demands"
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Disputation: Hasini Liyanage - Department of Political Science
Master of Social Science in Peace and Conflict Studies Hasini Liyanage will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science: “Braving the Storms under the Nuclear Umbrella: Allied...
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Øyvind Stiansen @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
📢 The Call for Papers for EPSS 2027 (@epssnet.bsky.social) is now open! The conference will be held in June 2027 in amazing Copenhagen! @jamayoral.bsky.social and I will be co-chairing the Judicial Politics section! ⏰ Send us your paper by 13 November 2026! epssnet.org/2027-copenha...
Judicial Politics: The judicialization of politics has made courts central political actors. Courts shape public policy and place limits on majoritarian politics. However, they also face increasing public scrutiny and attempts to curb their authority. Understanding judicial politics is therefore more important than ever. We welcome theoretically grounded and empirically rigorous proposals on any aspect of judicial politics, including judicial behavior, judicial impact, legal mobilization, and public opinion on courts and their rulings. Proposals on domestic and international courts are equally welcome.
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ECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@oyvindstiansen.bsky.social on the relationship between support from third parties and judicial decision making in the @echr.coe.int #ecprgc26
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Louisa Boulaziz @louisabo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Yesterday I successfully defended my PhD thesis! Really proud and thankful!
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Elin Haugsgjerd Allern @allernelin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
📣Publication alert! New article just published online in @ejprjournal.bsky.social: “Organizational ties to political parties and interest groups’ news coverage”👇 cup.org/4cx2WOM Ahead-of-print and Open Access! 🧵[1/12]
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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗨 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴? Yesterday's #election in #Hungary forces us to grapple w/ the politics of "𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨." In @jeppjournal.bsky.social, @chrishillion.bsky.social, @ascherz.bsky.social & I have an argument- and warning- from Poland 👇thread
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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Together with @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social and Lise Rakner, I've prepared a short brief on Zambia's upcoming general elections, and three key challenges for the resilience of its democracy. www.prio.org/publications...
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Zambia’s 2026 general elections: Democratic progress amid persistent challenges – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
PRIO Policy Brief
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Øyvind Stiansen @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Make excommunications great again!
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Vlad Makszimov @vmakszimov.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
1/ Many were wondering whether Fidesz would actually concede if it lost. High turnout today is encouraging — but there are now clear signals the government is preparing the ground to contest the legitimacy of the result, at least if it’s close.
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Øyvind Stiansen @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
www.nrk.no/sorlandet/_d...
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ECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
🚨Post-doc opportunity at @unioslo-jus.bsky.social 🚨 ⚖️ Study how the rule of law is perceived, observed and applied in Norway! ⚖️3 years without teaching or 4 years with 25% teaching ⚖️ Socio-legal research and qualitative methods www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline: 27th April 2026
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for the project "PublicJustice" (295684) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for the project "PublicJustice" (295684), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, April 27, 2026
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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
V-Dem v.16 is now released, w. updated scores for 2025. Most countries remain stable from 2024, but some clear improvements (on diff’t democracy indices), incl. S. Korea, Sri Lanka & Mauritius. Largest declines came, by far, in the US. This figure shows 10-yr changes on the Liberal Dem. index.
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ECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🚨Publication alert🚨 New paper by @jonkskiple.bsky.social & @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy: "Bringing Rights Back Home? How Judges Handle Multilayered Constitutional and International Human Rights Laws on the Supreme Court of Norway" publicera.kb.se/ejels/articl.... Read it; share it; cite it!
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Bringing Rights Back Home? How Judges Handle Multilayered Constitutional and International Human Rights Laws on the Supreme Court of Norway | European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
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Øyvind Stiansen @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
My villain origin story
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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 23/01/2026
🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...
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Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”
Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
📢 New book chapter 👤 Øyvind Stiansen (ISV) @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social 🔎 The Courts 📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
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The Courts
AbstractCourts frequently decide politically important cases in Norway. Yet, despite voicing concerns about the consequences of judicialization for represe
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Fantastic opportunity to join @felixhaass.bsky.social for a PhD position on contentious politics, political violence, or authoritarian politics at HU Berlin: www.hu-berlin.de/universitaet...
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Research fellow (m/f/d) in the field of “contentious politics/political violence/autocratic politics” - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
well, well, well if it isn't the book I started working on in 2017: academic.oup.com/book/61769
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Contested Competences in the European Union: The Law and Politics of Institutional Choice
Abstract. What role do rules really play in shaping the behaviour of legislative actors? In theory, competences and procedures provide a framework within w
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Cordula Tibi Weber @tibi-weber.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
So happy to see our article on "Courts and Social Participation in Latin America: The Use of Public Hearings and Amici Curiae" published! Many thanks to @millanos.bsky.social and Pedro Martins da Costa for the great collaboration! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Courts and Social Participation in Latin America: The Use of Public Hearings and Amici Curiae
Under what conditions do courts implement mechanisms of social participation in judicial decision-making? Over the last two decades, Latin American constitutional and supreme courts have been opening...
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Fredrick Mortvedt @feskehau.eurosky.social · 25/11/2025
E24s pushvarselansvarlig doing the lords work🙏
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ECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We are very excited about our #ecprgc26 Section on "Judicial Politics in an Age of Democratic Contestation" chaired by @thaliagerzso.bsky.social and @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... and hope to see you all in Kraków (8-11 September 2026)!
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Judicial Politics in an Age of Democratic Contestation
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Øyvind Stiansen @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Når en gruppe norske akademikere etter 27 desk rejects endelig får manuset sitt sendt ut til vurdering:
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Fredrick Mortvedt @feskehau.eurosky.social · 14/11/2025
Er jo litt pinlig at den norske regjeringen må ringe Viktor Orbans regjering og pent be om hjelp. Interessant fellesskap vi er i her!
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Ivar Kolbeinsvik @ivark.no · 12/11/2025
Næringsminister Cecilie Myrseth i Arbeiderpartiet mener vi må forholde oss til retten, men nekter å svare på om regjeringen vil respektere dom i Høyesterett. Førdefjorden. @trulsgulowsen.bsky.social #dax18 tv.nrk.no/se?v=NNFA561...
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Helene Onshuus @heleneonshuus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Jeg har skrevet om sløseridebatt, offentlig pengebruk og om å prioritere velferd. Det er ikke sløsing å bruke penger på velferd, det er en prioritering. Og skal vi beholde velferdsstaten i fremtiden må vi sannsynligvis regne med at den blir dyrere. Les hvorfor her:
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(+) Hvis vi vil beholde velferdsstaten, må vi regne med å bruke mer penger på den
At offentlig sektor er blitt dyr i drift, skyldes ikke at vi bruker for mye penger eller er uproduktive. Grunnen er at vi er ekstremt produktive. Det bør både sløserikritikerne og velferdsstatsforkjem...
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Christine Bangum @christinebangum.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Very happy to share my first publication! 🥳 It's published in @jpube.bsky.social (w/ Benny Geys & Rune Sørensen) and tackles a classic question: Why do people vote in large elections, when the probability of casting a pivotal vote is virtually zero? 🗳️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... [1/7]
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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Better get your paper submissions in for the @epssnet.bsky.social conference in June 2026, as the deadline is 7 November, and we have no intention of extended that (given the submission numbers)! epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
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ECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🚨🚨🚨@thaliagerzso.bsky.social and @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy are organizing our Standing Group's section proposal for #ecprgc26! Send them your panel abstract by the end of this week to be included in the section proposal!🚨🚨🚨
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Thalia Gerzso @thaliagerzso.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🚨🚨 Final call! Propose a panel for the Law & Courts section at ECPR 2026 (Kraków 🇵🇱, 8–11 Sept). Submit by 31 Oct: 👉 Short title 👉 ≤80-word abstract 👉 1–2 co-chairs + ECPR emails 📧 Send your proposal to: thalia.gerzso@york.ac.uk & j.k.schaffer@gu.se @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social
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Elin Haugsgjerd Allern @allernelin.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I am thrilled to announce the publication of the Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics! Over 70 scholars from various institutions in Norway and abroad have contributed their expertise and insights to 48 chapters on different aspects of Norwegian politics. A short🧵 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Martin Søyland @martigso.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Dette er fantastiske nyheter for det norske demokratiet! Det blir ikke avstemning over alternativ (forslaget fra AP og H) i statsbudsjettvoteringer likevel. Ville skjøvet mye makt fra storting til regjering om det gikk gjennom.
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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Happy and thankful that our WP "Debating threats to authoritarian rule: Inclusion and Discrimination in the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia" has won the David Olson Award 2025! rc08.ipsa.org/post/2025/09... 1/4
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Magnus B Rasmussen @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Utrolig spennende og å få 12 millioner kroner til å forske på partienes rolle i å etablere den norske velferdsstaten ved hjelp av omfattende historisk datamatrialet og naturlig eksperimenter. Les mer her: www.usn.no/forskning/fo...
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Får 12 millioner til forskning på politiske partier og velferdsstaten - Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge
USN-statsviter er med i eksklusivt selskap av erfarne forskere som får penger fra Forskningsrådets FRIPRO-ordning.
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Øyvind Stiansen @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Dette framstår som helt håpløst. Vi bruker masse tid hvert år på å finne eksterne sensorer til masterstudentene våre og så skal noen av dem som gjør en innsats for fellesskapet miste retten til opphold i landet? www.khrono.no/har-jobba-i-...
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Har jobba i Noreg i ni år — nekta opphald etter sensuroppdrag
Professor Justin Parks har fått avslag på søknad om å få bli i landet. Grunnen er at han har vore sensor ved andre universitet enn sitt eige.
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Michael Nelson @mjnelson.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Penn State is searching in Comparative Politics or International Relations for someone with a focus on non-democratic politics who can offer undergraduate and graduate courses in political methodology.
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Assistant Professor, Political Science
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I'm not on the search committee but happy to chat to anyone interested about this line, Tulane, or New Orleans!
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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV). It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more. #ERCStG
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Jacob Nyrup awarded EU funds to research political elites - Department of Political Science
Jacob Nyrup from the Department of Political Science has been granted a substantial 18 million Norwegian kroner by the EU's research council to examine political elites in countries before and after d...
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Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Jeg skriver metodebok 📖 📈: Laget for å gjøre kvantitativ metode tilgjengelig, relevant og gøy for alle—uten krav til forkunnskaper i statistikk eller programmering. Boka bruker R👨‍💻, og gir deg alt du trenger å vite om statistikk, databehandling og formidling for å begynne å forske på samfunnet. 👉🧵
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Johan K Sch @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2025
The ECPR Standing Group on the Politics of Law & Courts Bluesky account is now bridged to the Fediverse. Follow it for updates and browse posts on talks at the just concluded ECPR-GC in Thessaloniki: @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social #ecprgc25 #ecprgc2025 #ecpr2025 #ecpr
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ECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Having heard about this possible competition, @benjaminengst.bsky.social is bringing his discussant artwork to even greater heights 🎨
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ECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
👏 👏 👏 Congratulations to @ripplingeralina.bsky.social, who won the best paper award for last year's conference and was handed the 🏆 and diploma by @benjaminengst.bsky.social at the business meeting 👏 👏 👏
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ECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Is there a best art work by a discussant award at #ecprgc25? @benjaminengst.bsky.social wants to enter the competition.
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ECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
#ecprgc25 is just days away! We are looking forward to seeing you in Thessaloniki and to the excellent papers in the section “The Politics of Law and Courts” which this year is chaired by @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social and Urszula Jaremba! Make sure to add these 12 excellent panels to your itinerary 👇
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Ruben Mathisen @rubenmathisen.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Pengegavene i årets stortingsvalg kommer fra både privatpersoner, bedrifter og organisasjoner. Høyresiden får mest fra bedrifter mens venstresiden får mest fra fagbevegelsen. (Tall per 15. august, 2024+2025)
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
📣1 PhD fellow position open at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. 👉We invite applications from excellent candidates in all sub-fields of political science. 📅Deadline: September 1st, 2025 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479) | University of Oslo
Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (4 years) (282479), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, September 1, 2025
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Siv Cheruvu @sivcheruvu.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The Junior Law and Politics Research Community is accepting proposals for its fall seminar series on zoom! Submit by August 25 for full consideration. To apply to present or to get on our email list to attend our seminars see 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #psworkshop
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Junior Law and Politics community sign-up
The Junior Law and Politics research community and seminar series is a vibrant network of junior researchers (graduate students, post-docs, assistant professors, other non-tenured faculty) in the fiel...
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Anton Kronborg @antonkronborg.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Zambian politics have been quite dramatic in the last 20 years (timeline below). With that kind of competition, you’d expect MPs to fight to gain an edge in every arena, especially MPs elected on a thin margin. However, I find the opposite in Zambia’s parliament: doi.org/10.1080/1357...
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