Kulturdebatt. Professorer i statsvetenskap: Missvisande larm om demokratin riskerar att skapa en kris som inte finns Forskare ifrågasätter larm om svensk demokrati och betonar stabilitet.

Skriver med @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social på DN Kulturdebatt: www.dn.se/kultur/profe...

Massive interest in Norwegian political-institutional trust right now. Here is the overview @jonaslinde.bsky.social and I published recently on what we know, and don't know, about this topic.

IPSA Companion to Political Science This open access companion is a comprehensive reference work for political science, detailing the 200 most central concepts of the discipline.

Nice to see "Democratic discontent in old and new democracies" (Dahlberg, Linde & Holmberg) is among the 20 most cited articles on both "Democracy" and "Government" in the last 10 years. At least according to the new IPSA Companion to Political Science (open access) link.springer.com/referencewor...

PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com PhD Programme - PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

🚨We have a set of very nice PhD scholarships available at King’s College London’s Department of Political Economy 👨‍🎓 👩‍🏫

Candidates free to develop their own proposal within political science, communication, Econ etc.

⁉️Questions welcome

Happy if you have the option to share the call 🙏

Abstract of the book chapter

📢 New book chapter
👥 Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social (ISV) & Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social
🔎 Political Trust in Norway; A Large But Lopsided Research Field
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

This analysis reveals that the positive net effect of PRR inclusion stems from rising satisfaction not only among PRR voters but also among conservative and Christian democrat voters. Interestingly, we find no significant negative impact on most left-leaning voters.

The analysis shows that PRR inclusion in government has a positive effect on satisfaction with democracy (parliamentary representation has no significant effect). To examine potential mechanisms that can explain the positive aggregate-level effects we conduct individual-level analyses using the ESS.

To examine the effects of PRR representation we apply recent panel-data methods (panel matching and generalized synthetic control, as well as time-series cross-section regression) to a dataset on PRR representation and satisfaction with democracy in Europe spanning five decades.

Earlier research provides conflicting expectations: Some studies view PRR parties as vehicles of discontent, others as correctives to the waning representational function of mainstream parties.

Populist radical right party representation and satisfaction with democracy in Europe This paper examines how political representation of the populist radical right (PRR) in Europe affects citizens’ satisfaction with democracy. Earlier research provides conflicting expectations: Som...

In this "new" article published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social, Atle Haugsgjerd, @rubenmathisen.bsky.social and I examine how political representation of the populist radical right (PRR) in Europe affects citizens’ satisfaction with democracy.

‼️ Two weeks left to apply for the postdoc in Political Text Analysis in the MULTIREP project 👇.

Førsteamanuensis i statsvitenskap (290803) | Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge Stillingstittel: Førsteamanuensis i statsvitenskap (290803), Arbeidsgiver: Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge, Søknadsfrist: søndag 1. februar 2026

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Asymmetric Influence: Politicians Can Fuel but Not Dampen Conflict Research from the deeply polarized United States suggests that the impact of elite communication is asymmetrical: antagonistic messages often heighten divisions, while positive appeals fail to dampen...

New article with @draege.bsky.social out in Scandinavian Political Studies: “Asymmetric Influence: Politicians Can Fuel but Not Dampen Conflict.” We test whether politicians in one of the world’s least polarized democracies, Norway, can calm conflict as effectively as they can inflame it. #polisky

Come join us at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social !

New chapter on political trust in Norway, co-authored with @staffankumlin.bsky.social.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1 Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why. Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excel...

3-year, full-time post-doc position with my ‪@griffith.edu.au‬ friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma.

Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia.

Please apply, share, etc.

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Interested in political trust, and participating in the ECPR GC 2025?
Next week, the nascent network of political trust scholars will host 8 panels and nearly 40 papers at the #ecprgc25. Visit our panels in the section 'New venues in political trust research'. And join us for drinks on Wednesday!

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Does cohabitation weaken presidents? Our global study (1850–2022), now out in International Political Science Review, finds it does – but only in semi-presidential systems and under a broader definition of cohabitation. P
Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Trustees, Delegates, and Direct Democracy: Exploring Mass‐Elite Incongruence in Perceptions of Advisory Referendums Previous research has demonstrated that the legitimacy of a majority-rule procedure, as perceived by the general population, is dependent on turnout, the size of the majority, and the favourability o...

New article with @ts-broderstad.bsky.social, @sveinunga.bsky.social and Mikael Johannesson in @scandpolstud.bsky.social. Open access.

Who supports free speech, and how consistent is the support? Together with @suthank.bsky.social, I’ve conducted a survey of citizens in 33 countries for The Future of Free Speech. A lot of interesting findings (see 🧵 + link): futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/u...

The power of pop vol. 106 Playlist · Jonas Linde · 22 items

Enjoy your power pop weekend!

Do you want to know how anti-immigrant attitudes are related to different forms of participation and how this relationship is conditioned by the “traditional” economic conflict dimension?

Call for Nominations: Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research Submit your nomination by 24 April 2025

📚 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

Great postdoc opportunity in very promising project!

Adding economic insult to chauvinistic injury? Attitudes toward immigration in Germany, Sweden and the UK In this study we show that on different dimensions of social security (compensation level, maximum duration and eligibility criteria), respondents in Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom prefer the...

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.

The power of pop vol 104 Playlist · Jonas Linde · 22 items

Happy holidays!
The power of pop volume 104.

Maybe less "pure" power pop than the usual year but, hey, aren't we all old punks by now?

(2/2)

Nada Surf - Moon Mirror
Daniel Markham - Just Like a Dream
Faulty Cognitions - Somehow, We Are Here
Motorists - Touched by the Stuff
Nick Piunti - Up and Out of It
Teenage Frames - Everything Has Led to This

2024 has been a great year of music. Every year is a great music year. You just have to spend some time to find the nuggets of gold. Great albums from this year (1/2)

Evening Standards - The Shining
Reflectors - Going out of Fasion
Gentlemen Rogues - Surface Noise
The Second Summer - Undertow

Stockholm University's Political Science department is hiring two PhD students: one open position and one project position with an orientation towards International Relations and Comparative Politics.

The deadline is February 6th! Join us!

Open position:

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