🤔 Do you know of an outstanding 📖 published work in comparative social science research?
✍️ Don't forget to nominate for the 2026 🏆 Stein Rokkan Prize!
💰 £4,300 fund
🎙️ Presented with @sciencecouncil.bsky.social, @sampol.bsky.social
🛎️ Nominations close Fri 1 May buff.ly/e1QnUDb
New Article: Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text-as-Data Approach
From: @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social, @sergiulipcean.bsky.social, @chrauh.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
⏪ 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗙𝗦…
🇪🇸 @javiermcanto.bsky.social & @julitudo.bsky.social examined the similarities, differences, and dynamics of competition between #Vox and #AliançaCatalana in #Catalonia.
🗳️ What factors influence voters to choose between them?
🔓 Article in #openaccess here 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1359...
📣 New article 🌟
👥 Adriana Bunea, Sergiu Lipcean & Christian Rauh
👉 Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text-as-Data Approach
📗 Open access in: Governance
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove...
"Rett24 er, etter at Grendstads kronikk ble publisert søndag, blitt kontaktet av personer som sier de ville søkt om de visste at de var tre stillinger, og ikke to. Ingen av dem vil stå frem med navn eller stilling, av frykt for å ødelegge egne sjanser i en eventuell prosess."
Sampol-professor Gunnar Grendstad retter kritikk mot rekrutteringen av nye dommere til Høyesterett. Fra 2 til 3 ledige stillinger i løpet av få dager.
📣 New article 🌟
👥 Lars Erik Berntzen, Cornelius Cappelen, Lilliana Mason & Tor Midtbø
👉 Mind the Gap: Partisan Bias in Justifying Political Violence in the United States
📗 Open Access in: Public Opinion Quarterly @poqjournal.bsky.social
🔗https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfag010
Skriver i ABC nyheter i dag om misvisende bruk statistikk i innvandringsdebatten. www.abcnyheter.no/stemmer/misv...
📚 Do you know of an outstanding published work in comparative #SocialSciences research?
🌟 Nominations are now OPEN for the 2026 Stein Rokkan Prize
🏆 Presented by @sciencecouncil.bsky.social, @sampol.bsky.social & ECPR
💰 £4,300 prize fund
⏰ Fri 1 May buff.ly/PFwkwVx
#ECPRPrizes #ComparativeResearch
In the new issue of MAD css.ethz.ch/en/publicati..., I have a brief analysis of campaign financing in Moldova's 2025 parliamentary elections, looking at broad patterns of income and spending, including a very superficial analysis of the relationship between campaign spending and electoral returns.
🌟 New article 🇲🇩
👤 Sergiu Lipcean @sergiulipcean.bsky.social
👉 Campaign Financing in Moldova’s 2025 Parliamentary Elections
📗 Open access in: Moldovan Analytical Digest
🔗 css.ethz.ch/en/publicati...
Our article is out in @thejop.bsky.social with @marchooghe.bsky.social and Michael Lewis-Beck
Using 2019 Belgian election data, we show that economic voting is multidimensional-and that different dimensions vary across regional economic context!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
🏆Nominations are open for the £4,300 Stein Rokkan Prize
✨ Mark this #InternationalWomensDay by nominating outstanding work by women in comparative social sciences 📚️
🎙️ Presented with @sciencecouncil.bsky.social & @sampol.bsky.social
⏳ Nominate by Fri 1 May
#IWD2026
Delighted to see our article out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social! Right on time to make a contribution to the debate on the @ec.europa.eu's new initiative to reform its Better Regulation policy. Open access & part of @erc.europa.eu ERC project CONSULTATIONEFFECTS.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📢 New article 🌟
👤 Alexander Verdoes
👉 District expectations and strategic defection in two-tiered proportional systems: The case of the 2021 Norwegian election
📗 Electoral Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
❓ @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social and @sergiulipcean.bsky.social ask: If the European Commission consults more stakeholders, are its proposals less likely to be changed by legislators?
✅ Bottom line: Yes, but it depends
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations to Yvette Peters and Jana Belschner on receiving funding from the Research Council of Norway for the project Beyond Discrimination: Addressing Structural Challenges to Gender Equality in the Social Sciences!
I am extremely honored, and equally perplexed, that my book has received the Stein Rokkan Prize.
Thank you so much to everyone who helped out with this project along the way. So much of the book is the result of feedback by kind people who took the time to listen and read. Thank you.
In light of the European Commission's decision to reform (again!) its Better Regulation and public participation procedures, Steve Balla and I wrote a short piece on the erosion of public comment in the EU and the US. @regstudies.bsky.social
regulatorystudies.columbian.gwu.edu/no-further-c...
🏆 Warm congratulations to @valentimvicente on receiving the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research for his book "The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand".
council.science/news/vicente-valentim-wi...
Sampol seminar today with Professor Paul Marx, Universität Bonn, presenting on “Conservatives in conversations. A focus-group study on polarization, cultural backlash, and pluralistic ignorance in political talk”. Thanks for visiting and for an interesting presentation!
Thanks to funding from the European Commission, Professor Arjan H. Schakel and Researcher Berkay Alıca will update the Regional Authority Index (RAI).
www.uib.no/en/sampol/18...
🌟 New article
👥 Adriana Bunea @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social & Sergiu Lipcean @sergiulipcean.bsky.social
👉 Does public participation in supranational policymaking enhance the European Commission’s legislative agenda-setting success?
📗 Journal of European Public Policy
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
📣 New article 🌟
👥 Andrea Ceron & Linn Sandberg @linnsandberg.bsky.social
👉 Preaching to the Unconverted: How Politicians Attacking the Media Influence Citizens' Evaluation of News Credibility
📗 Scandinavian Political Studies @scandpolstud.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1467...
Semester programme, seminars in Comparative Political Economy, University of Bergen
This semesters's programme of the interdisciplinary seminars in Comparative Political Economy @unibergen.bsky.social
@sampol.bsky.social
Exit, loyalty, voice og fotball-VM i USA. Dere som tar #sampol106 tar vel #sampol107 samtidig. Les hva @kstroemsnes.bsky.social har å si om saken.
When making asylum decisions, is it worse to deny protection to someone who needs it or to grant it to someone who does not?
✍ Cornelius Cappelen, Hakan G. Sicakkan & Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem @sampol.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Stemningen er satt. Klar for Aarebrotforelesningen 2026.