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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This figure shows that representation gaps are smaller and shrink faster in rich countries and democracies.

Line chart of the average gap between cabinets and populations, 1991–2021. The overall gap falls slowly from about 37 to 33. Rich countries and democracies have the smallest gaps, and theirs fall the most. Poor countries and autocracies stay around 40 throughout.

Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The ideal of descriptive representation is far from being achieved anywhere. Representation gaps are large, particularly for education and class. The class inequalities found in Western parliaments (e.g. by @carnes.bsky.social & @noamlupu.bsky.social) are a global feature of executive power.

Chart with one line per country showing the gap between each group's share of the cabinet and its share of the population, overall and for five groups: men, people over 64, the highly educated, people without working-class jobs, and people from the capital. Gaps are largest for education and class background, moderate for gender, and smallest for age and geographic origin.

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New WP with brilliant co-author @jacobnyrup.bsky.social! Which governments are most representative? We match the backgrounds of tens of thousands of cabinet ministers to population data in 136 countries (1991-2021) and measure the representation gap on gender, age, education, class and geography.

World map shading each country by the average gap between its cabinet and its population on gender, age, education, class and capital origin, 2001–2021. Gaps are smallest in Scandinavia, followed by North America, Australia, and much of Western Europe. They are largest in Asia and (much of) Africa.

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The main paper found that women are more "progressive" than men across 14 West European democracies on all five dimensions we look at: economic left-right, immigration, moral traditionalism, the environment, and gender equality. Paper here: doi.org/10.1177/0192...

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For some reason the (rather long) appendix to @chknutsen.bsky.social and my paper on gender and political attitudes was never published by the journal, but following popular demand (that is, two e-mails...) I've now uploaded it. Available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1nBEp...

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I'm very excited to see our paper on group appeals finally formatted and published online with the JoP! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Contrary to death-of-class perspectives, class identities are as relevant socially today as they were 50-70 years ago.

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Very happy to see this out in CPS! We study class identities and their social and political relevance over several decades in Britain, Denmark, Norway, and the US. A small thread: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SIRW4...

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Mens observasjonsstudier finner en effekt, er det liten effekt når man studerer det skikkelig med eksperimenter, se f.eks. metastudien fra Munzert & Ramirez-Ruiz (2021)

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Aps dramatiske opptur skjedde nesten utelukkende i et kort 1-2 måneders intervall akkurat der Sp forlot regjeringen, Stoltenberg returnerte, Ap lanserte Norgespris og Trump skapte masse uro internasjonalt. 2/3

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Norwegian Conservatives down from around 25 to 16pp over the last year. Now promising massive tax cuts in bid to bring back support. Will be interesting to see whether it works. Elections coming up early September.

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The Norwegian Labour party (Ap) has kept their newfound popularity for 3 months now, while the pop. right Progress Party (Frp) is down ~5pp. Elections coming up early September.

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

"Et utall", ifølge kronikkforfatterne.

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Very happy to share our new article in JoP @thejop.bsky.social, where we explore how parties forge links with social groups (here: social classes) through different appeals and how citizens respond to such appeals. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Prognosene antyder at radikale venstre og radikale høyre styrker seg kraftig i Tyskland. Den upopulære regjeringen ser ut til å straffes hardt, spesielt sosialdemokratene i SPD, men også øk. liberale FDP som gikk ut før jul.

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Norwegian politics has been thrown upside-down in a couple of weeks. After 3,5 years, the unpopular Labour and rural party government broke down. The social democrats continued alone and now enjoy a massive and sudden boost of 6-10 percentage points. [1/4]

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Norge er blant landene med flest arbeiderministre i verden! Vi er ikke helt ferdig med å fikse klassevariabelen og har funnet noen feilkodinger, så denne er ikke endelig og overdriver antallet noe (ta den med en klype salt), men foreløpig figur:

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

But one indication that this is not just about changing class structure in society is that the decline mirrors ideological or political developments. E.g. see this figure from the Sovet Union/Russia.

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

And here's the share without higher education!

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Workers were never well-represented among cabinet ministers globally, but things have deteriorated over time. From our Paths to Power project where we have collected biographical data on almost 45,000 ministers from 137 countries in the period 1966-2021.

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Yeah, that's a good example! Here's another one:

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Ad debatten om midlertidig ansettelser/innleie i #dax18 i går, her er det forskningen sier om helseeffektene av jobbusikkerhet. Noe akademia også bør reflektere over, som i alt for stor grad hviler på midlertidighet, med alle de negative konsekvensene det har for både den enkelte og systemet.

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

In line with conclusions of @linerenn.bsky.social, but unlike many claims elsewhere, there is no evidence that SD support has become a middle-class phenomenon anywhere but perhaps in Italy.

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

In most countries, the highly educated and those without higher education support SD parties at similar rates. But unlike Piketty's brahmanisation thesis, the highly educated are not overrepresented in a single SD electorate. In several countries, the opposite is the case.

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Despite some variation, this generally holds for attitudes to economic left-right, immigration, moral traditionalism, environmentalism, and gender equality. The clearest exception to the pattern is Italian women who are, on average, more skeptical of immigration than Italian men.

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

@dagw.bsky.social oppsummerer logikken i Støres "argument" mot avkriminalisering

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

På plass på Rusreformkonferansen. Dette blir bra! @tryggere.bsky.social

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

@annanhelgoy.bsky.social defending her excellent PhD dissertation on gender divisions in labor and politics today!

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