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Sampol • Institutt for sammenliknende politikk • UiB Comparative Politics • Political Science • University of Bergen, Norway https://www.uib.no/sampol
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With #Trump in office, it is a critical time for #Canada 's #asylum policy. How do #Canadians feel about asylum policy? My latest article in @JRefugeeStudies on public attitudes to resettlement vs. spontaneous applications 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/jrs/...

NRK har snakka med Sampols @janabelschner.bsky.social om uformell politisk deltaking mellom unge – framfor partiengasjement og valdeltaking.

📢 New article 🌟 👤 Bilal Hassan 👉 Procedural and Functional Sources of Trust in Police in Pakistan 📗 Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s118...

📢 Ny bok 🌟 👥 @janabelschner.bsky.social & @rmuriaas.bsky.social 📒 Å studere kjønn og politikk 📚 Fagbokforlaget 🔗 fagbokforlaget.no/products/978...

📢 New article 🌟 👥 @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 📗 Journal of European Public Policy 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Martin Okolikj @mokolikj.bsky.social & Lisa-Christine Girard 👉 Longitudinal co-occurrence of adolescent mental health difficulties and democratic citizenship in early adulthood 📗 Political Psychology 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/pops...

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Mintao Nie, Gunnar Grendstad, William R. Shaffer & Eric N. Waltenburg 👉 Time After Time: The Effects of Small Group Forces and Institutional Features on the Pace of Adjudication 📗 European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.62355/eje...

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Høyrebølgen blant unge gutter har kommet for å bli sier Sampols @janabelschner.bsky.social til TV 2. Utviklingen er viktig, fordi de politiske grunnholdningene vi utvikler sent i tenårene, ofte varer livet ut. Høyredreiningen kan derfor få varig effekt for norsk politikk. www.tv2.no/.../dette-er...

Hvilke rettsformenn former veien til enighet eller uenighet? Sampols Gunnar Grendstad og Henrik L. Bentsen og Jon Kåre Skiple, NORCE, fant at kvinnelige dommere, når de er rettsformenn, har betydelig høyere sannsynlighet til å oppnå enighet blant dommerne i avdeling. rett24.no/articles/hvi...

📚 Do you know of an outstanding published work in comparative social sciences? 🌟 Nominations are now OPEN for the 2025 Stein Rokkan Prize! 🏆 Presented with @sciencecouncil.bsky.social & @sampol.bsky.social 💰 €5,000 prize fund ⏰ 24 April #AcademicSky #ComparativeSky #PolSci #ECPRPrizes

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Valentyna Romanova & Arjan H. Schakel 👉 The contribution of seven Annual Reviews of Regional Elections 📘 Regional & Federal Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1359...

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

Yesterday, the assigned Advocate General at the EU Court of Justice recommended that the EU directive on adequate minimum wages should be annulled in full. This would be a major blow to the social pillar of the EU. 1/5 curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

Interview with Morgenbladet (@morgenbladet.bsky.social) about my new working paper on ideological polarization between teenage boys and girls (in Norwegian). morgenbladet.no/aktuelt/2025... Read the full paper here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Vi minner om Aarebrotforelesningen på søndag: Edvard Grieg på 200 minutter med professor Are Sandbakken! I Universitetsaulaen og på nett. Opptak blir tilgjengelig på VitenTV. Forelesningen blir streamet på denne siden 👇 www.uib.no/ka/173965/aa...

New Graph📈 I found this pretty interesting: The US has a big generational divide on willingness to fight for their country if it came to a war. The young are considerably less willing to do so than the old. This is different from most other countries.

Happy to see this research note published in EJPR. This has been a fun little project with great colleagues at the @sampol.bsky.social that took off in a hotel lobby in Rome 2022.

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Henrik Litleré Bentsen, Jon Kåre Skiple @jonkskiple.bsky.social, Mark Jonathan McKenzie & Gunnar Grendstad 👉 The Impact of Judicial Leadership on Consensus Formation: Evidence From the Supreme Court of Norway 📗 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jels...

New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈 Read: osf.io/preprints/os... Findings 🧵👇

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Cornelius Cappelen, Stein Kuhnle, Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social & Tor Midtbø 👉 Adding economic insult to chauvinistic injury? Attitudes toward immigration in Germany, Sweden and the UK 📗 European Journal of Political Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1475...

📢 New chapter 🌟 👥 Lee Epstein, Gunnar Grendstad, Urška Šadl & Keren Weinshall 👉 Introduction to the Study of Comparative Judicial Behaviour 📘 In Epstein, Grendstad, Šadl & Weinshall (eds): The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

🌟 New article 📢 👥 Sergiu Lipcean @sergiulipcean.bsky.social & Fernando Casal Bértoa 👉 Do political finance reforms really reduce corruption? A replication study 📗 Open access in: Research & Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2053...

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Raimondas Ibenskas @ibenskasr.bsky.social & Jonathan Polk 👉 Party responsiveness to public opinion in a multi-dimensional policy space 📗 Journal of European Public Policy 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

📢 New chapter 👥 Lars Skov Henriksen & Kristin Strømsnes @kstroemsnes.bsky.social 👉 Skandinavien - Merkmale zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements und Folgen der Covid-19-Pandemie 📘 Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement und Freiwilligendienste, Nomos 🔗 www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/zivilge...

Fin sak om to dyktige studenter ved Europastudier og Sampol som er i praksis ved UiBs Brusselkontor. Med praksis i begge programmene får vi interessante, nyttige og arbeidslivsrettede studier. @sampol.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social www.khrono.no/rekordmange-...

On Thursday @sampol.bsky.social organizes a panel discussion on the consequences of Trump's re-election. Everyone interested is welcome. With @kailmarkvart.bsky.social, Fay Farstad, Gunnar Grendstad, Tor Ivar Strømmen, and myself as chair. Details: www.uib.no/sampol/17427...

Thrilled to have this #openaccess article, co-authored with seven colleagues including @danpemstein.com and @silindberg.bsky.social, published in IPSR! Shockingly long🧵follows. doi.org/10.1177/0192...

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!

Thanks to Kristen Kao, University of Gothenburg, for the CORE Lecture today: The Effects of Post-Conflict Injustice Gaps on Local Leaders’ Legitimacy: Empirical Evidence from Iraq.

Our master’s student Sara Matea Sundquist has written this analysis for @icds-tallinn.bsky.social: High Noon for the High North? Norway, Russia, and the Svalbard Stronghold 👇 icds.ee/en/high-noon...

🌟 New article 👥 Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem @piervanwoll.bsky.social & Hakan G. Sicakkan @hakangs.bsky.social 👉 Recognizing international protection how institutional arrangements affect asylum decisions 📗 Open access in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...

SAMPOL Seminar today with Professor Eva Anduiza Perea, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, on how people in Spain perceive feminism and its implications. Thanks for visiting sunny winter Bergen!

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Very excited to have a new memo, "Language Revitalization and Recentralization in Russia," published in the new PONARS eBook alongside other valuable contributions from colleagues including @profklstewart.bsky.social! www.ponarseurasia.org/wp-content/u...

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...

Aarebrotforelesningen 2025 går for full musikk! Det er professor ved Norges musikkhøgskole Are Sandbakken som skal holde forelesningen. Tema: Edvard Grieg på 200 minutter. Vi gleder oss til forelesningen i Universitetsaulaen 19. januar!

📣 New article 🌟 👥 Anamaria Dutceac Segesten @anamariads.bsky.social & Linn Sandberg @linnsandberg.bsky.social 👉 Data-Driven Campaigning in Data-Dense Small Multiparty Systems: A Party-Level Analysis 📗 Media and Communication 🔗 doi.org/10.17645/mac...

Congratulations to Alexander Verdoes who today defended his PhD thesis Going Regional: Regional and Multilevel Electoral Democracy in Western Europe in Times of Decentralization (1945-2019). 👏 👨🏻‍🎓 🤝 🥂 The thesis is available here bora.uib.no/bora-xmlui/h... 📸 Magnus Buseth Danielsen

📣 New chapter 🌟 👥 Arjan Schakel & Alexander Verdoes 👉 Regional political institutions 📘 Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions, eds Adrian Vatter & Rahel Freiburghaus 🔗 www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

Excited to have an article in the American Political Science Review! 😊 Christian Schemmel and I investigate the best way to justify minimum wages. doi.org/10.1017/S000... @sampol.bsky.social #MinimumWage 🧵1/11

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Christian Schemmel & Georg Picot @gpicot.bsky.social 👉 Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship 📗 American Political Science Review 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

📢 New article 👥 Piotr Zagórski, Juan Roch @juanroch.bsky.social, Julià Tudó-Cisquella, Alberto López-Yagüe & Guillermo Cordero 👉 Generation Z: pessimistic and populist? A conjoint experiment on the determinants of populist voting in Spain 📗 European Political Science Review 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S175...

Today @sampol.bsky.social was lucky enough to host V-Dem Data Manager Linnea Fox and @demscore.bsky.social Data Manager Melina Liethmann to discuss “Using Demscore and V-Dem for Research Projects: A User’s Guide.”

Congratulations to Anu Bradford, Columbia Law School, on the 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize for the book Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology (OUP)! Path-breaking book addressing a major challenge of our time: the regulation of the digital economy. 👏👏👏 council.science/news/anu-bra...

Congratulations to our colleague @kailmarkvart.bsky.social on promotion to full Professor! 🤝👏👏👏