Join us all for the last Authoritarian Political Systems Group for this term 👇

The Routledge Books Handbook of Autocratization (Eds. Aurel Croissant & Luca Tomini) will be out later this month:

40 chapters on autocratization, including one (Ch. 6) on economic development and autocratization by Svend-Erik Skaaning and myself:

routledge.com/The-Routledge-…

Since its the first of May its probably fitting to present the latest working paper 'Smothering Socialism'.

It documents how Norwegian elites responded to democratization by substantially limiting local governments power to set taxes and granting elites a veto over tax-increases

📢 Next Tuesday (8am PST, 11am EST, 4pm UKT)

Palina Kolvani (Oslo) will present her work 'Who Counts? Electoral Fraud and Bureaucratic Careers'.

Inga A.-L. Saikkonen (@AboAkademi) & Cole Harvey (Oklahoma State) will discuss.

As part of our research on itinerant rule, we have an open 2/3-year postdoc position with Swedish working conditions! Please spread and get in touch if interested! Deadline 29 May.
web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/…

New article: “The Language of Responsibility in the United Nations Security Council, 1946–2020” with Felix Haass & Holger Niemann in International Studies Quarterly
Article: doi.org/10.1093/isq/sq…
Preprint: felixhaass.de/www/manuscript…
Data/Code: t.ly/ChKOG

New WP out with Sirianne Dahlum and Tore Wig. Even in Norway, voters' willingness to punish politicians' democratic norm violations is limited. Especially among the young. But some good news: Voters punish 'their own' politicians as much as they punish others.
researchgate.net/publication/38…

Dette er et flott og viktig initiativ, som jeg er glad for å ha blitt invitert til. Norge må gjøre mer for Ukraina. Det gjelder demokratiet og vi har ekstrainntekter på kanskje 1500 milliarder pga Russlands energikrig vg.no/nyheter/mening…

Meninger: Den norske Ukraina-støtten må økes kraftig! Jeg stiller meg bak dette oppropet i VG i dag. vg.no/nyheter/mening…

An absolutely damning thread of evidence. China's government is 100% censoring and suppressing Americans' videos on TikTok.

The issue in PS: Political Science & Politics on democracy measurement & democratic backsliding containing this article came out today!

Open access: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Hurra! Med ei økning i antall søkere på hele 18 prosent over de siste to årene, befester fakultetet sin posisjon som attraktiv studieplass.
sv.uio.no/studier/aktuel…

#GraphOfTheWeek : 50 years of the Carnation Revolution
Today we join in when Portugal celebrates its 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution! This week’s graph shows the changes in the Liberal Democracy Index in Portugal, Greece, and Spain in the past 50
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Maternal deaths have halved in the last 35 years.

I've actually noticed this trend on TikTok with our videos - they do relatively well on YouTube, Instagram and X, but fail miserably on CCP's spying app. In the second photo you can see views for our videos, on other platforms these ranged from 500 to 120 000.

'TikTok is more…

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Join us at the Norwegian launch of UN Development's Human Development Report 2023/2024, exploring the growing threat of #polarization and its impact on global development🌍 #HDR2024

✍️Registration: norad.no/en/front/event…

📗Report: hdr.undp.org/content/human-…

New publication (open access) in Policy Sciences with Pierre_Squevin Sonja Blum & Valerie Pattyn
Using survey data from over 2000 political scientists in Europe we study which political scientists are more likely to provide policy advice.
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We just updated our data on electrical vehicles:
ourworldindata.org/electric-car-s…

Here is one datapoint: 93% of all new vehicles sold in Norway last year were electric.

Very happy to see 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 out in the wild in Democratization co-authored with Laure Bokobza. We explore and try to explain why dictatorships have multiparty governments. Short 🧵

Read it here doi.org/10.1080/135103…

Skriver et lite kamprop sammen med Tom Røseth i dagens DN om behovet for en europeisk Ukraina-strategi og at Norge nå kan ta en mer offensiv rolle.

Kronikken han leses her 👇