#2 Economic sustainability & crisis management:
Did multi-level institutions shape the size of Covid-19 socioeconomic measures? Ana Herrero Alcalde, Javier Martin-Roman UNED delved into this question through an econometric analysis and come to some important, differentiated results

#1 Economic sustainability and crisis management: Does intergovernmental coordination improve crisis management? Marius Guderjan Freie Universität, Mario Kölling UNED and Johanna Schnabel Johanna Schnabel answered this issue by comparing France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK.

Rule of law, dem participation and crisis management: during a crisis, separation of powers is challenged in favor of the executive. Yet, parliaments have not been inactive. Edina Szöcsik Institute of Federalism looks at ex post committees #LEGITIMULT #midtermconference Institute for Ethnic Studies (IES)

💜Our Greta #Klotz presented the concepts of the e-learning course and the citizens' juries at the LEGITIMULT #midtermconference hosted by Institute for Ethnic Studies (IES) in Ljubljana🇸🇮

More on our Horizon Europe🇪🇺 project on legitimate crisis governance here: legitimult.eu

European Research Executive Agency

Human rights and non-discrimination: what are the perceptions and attitudes of persons belonging to diverse minorities on the legitimacy of crisis management during Covid-19? Mitja Žagar Institute for Ethnic Studies (IES) #LEGITIMULT #midtermconference

Political #Trust in times of crisis: UAntwerpen team is looking at trust in their research. Their survey analysis shows how the national level becomes more important in terms of trust during a crisis for citizens, and particularly in unitary systems #LEGITIMULT

Legitimate crisis governance: does multi-level government matter? The team Universiteit Leiden compares pairs of unitary and federal states (Netherlands/Belgium, France/Germany). Their aim is the uncover governance patterns that are specifically related to different MLG modes.

Mapping multilevel government during a crisis: 32 policies, 2 main categories (containment and closure policies + health system policies), based on @OxCRGT with new insights from a multilevel perspective. Arjan H. Schakel presented the coding scheme with Bilal Hassan. #LEGITIMULT

💬Words of the project #3 Another central concept: democratic governance and its trade-offs during a crisis. #LEGITIMULT

🙃Over 20 people, 11 partner institutions, 7 presentations and countless exchanges. We are at the halfway point, and it's time to discuss the first results together! #LEGITIMULT #midtermconference
with Institute for Ethnic Studies (IES)

Come join us Department of Comparative Politics, UiB!

Two PhD positions in the ERC project 'Contested frontiers of settler states', PI Aaron Spitzer.

Deadline 5th August 2024.

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Want to be part of Norway's ESS team? We have just announced a four-year postdoctoral research fellow position in political science at the University of Bergen: 
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📢 We are hiring! Please share 🌟
👉 Postdoc 4 years
🔎  Project: Representing the Future in an Aging Europe: The Politics of Demographic Change
PI: Jana Birke Belschner
🇳🇴 Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen
⏳ 3 May 2024
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Arjan H. Schakel & Alexander Verdoes analyse 41,603 vote share swings in 2,665 regional elections in Western Europe.

👉executive autonomy reduces second-order election effects when regional authority is high, but increases SOE-effects when authority is low.

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We have an opening for a postdoc position in the ERC project Contested Frontiers: Understanding the constitutional politics of settler-state peripheries, PI Aaron Spitzer.

Deadline: 29th February 2024.

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What a pleasure to award an honorary doctorate to Prof. Hooghe and Prof. Marks on behalf of FASoS! FASoS Maastricht #diesnatalis #maastrichtuniversity

We are hiring Department of Comparative Politics, UiB. Associate professor with a focus on the Arctic/Arctic politics. jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

🇮🇪 ECPR SG Federalism & Regionalism endorsed #ecprgc24 Section ⤵️
💡 Seeks Papers & Panels on Comparative Territorial Politics in Multilevel States: Citizens, Voters, and Political Actors
🪑 Chairs Martin Gross & Arjan H. Schakel
⌛ 18 Jan 2024
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🚨 Publication alert 🚨

My first dissertation paper has just been published in JEPP 🎉🎉

In the paper I investigate the relationship between place-based resentment and political trust in local and national institutions.

Link: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Job opening Department of Comparative Politics, UiB as postdoctoral research fellow (4 years) in the ERC project 'Contested frontiers of settler states' (ConFront). Good benefits, marvelous working environment and great project led by Aaron Spitzer. jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…