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

Zambia’s 2026 general elections: Democratic progress amid persistent challenges – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) PRIO Policy Brief

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...

Make excommunications great again!

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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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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

🚨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

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.

🚨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!

My villain origin story

Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET

🚨 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...

The Courts AbstractCourts frequently decide politically important cases in Norway. Yet, despite voicing concerns about the consequences of judicialization for represe

📢 New book chapter
👤 Øyvind Stiansen (ISV) @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social
🔎 The Courts
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

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...

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

well, well, well if it isn't the book I started working on in 2017:

academic.oup.com/book/61769

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...

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/...

E24s pushvarselansvarlig doing the lords work🙏

Judicial Politics in an Age of Democratic Contestation European Consortium for Political Research

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)!

Når en gruppe norske akademikere etter 27 desk rejects endelig får manuset sitt sendt ut til vurdering:

Er jo litt pinlig at den norske regjeringen må ringe Viktor Orbans regjering og pent be om hjelp. Interessant fellesskap vi er i her!

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...

(+) 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...

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:

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? 🗳️

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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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...

🚨🚨🚨@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!🚨🚨🚨

🚨🚨 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

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🧵

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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.

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!

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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.

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...

Poenget med denne loven må vel være å sikre at arbeidstakere har heltidsarbeid hos én arbeidsgiver og ikke å hindre dem som tilfredsstiller dette kravet fra og å gjøre småoppdrag for andre institusjoner i tillegg sånn at hjulene i høyere utdanning går rundt.