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The dept of Economic History in Lund is hiring a new Senior Lecturer! Ad is here, deadline 17 May:

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2026 Senedd election - Wikipedia

The Welsh Senedd has a new electoral system; replacing MMP with low-magnitude closed list PR (with DM=6), ie. bang in the middle of the Carey-Hix “sweet spot” 😉
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Viktor Orbán created a new state foundation that forced independent media owners to transfer ownership, changed the state media into a propaganda mouthpiece, and hounded the remaining few free media with tax audits, raids, and surveillance.

Over 80% of the media in Hungary is now in his hands.

Arsenikkmysteriet - Historier fra virkeligheten - NRK Radio Historier fra virkeligheten - Arsenikkmysteriet

Har laget podkast. En fascinerende og godt over middels spinnvill historie fra virkeligheten. radio.nrk.no/podkast/radi...

Gratulerer, gutta!

Very happy and proud to have co-authored this paper in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, with @plutscher.bsky.social & @chknutsen.bsky.social 😊

doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Please see Philipp's 🧵 below for the main findings 😊

Master in Institutions and Political Economy | UB The Master in Institutions and Political Economy (MIPE) is a Social Science research program that combines Political Science, Economics, Economic History.

We are launching the dual degree between our Master in Institutions and Political Economy at the University of Barcelona @ubmipe.bsky.social and King's College London www.ub.edu/mipe/#dual @ub.edu

It was an immense honor to contribute to the 30th anniversary issue of Party Politics. Richard Katz and I advocate for the continued relevance of studying party organization, both to understand how politics in democracies actually works and to articulate how it should work.

doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Tomorrow I’ll outline a new project on electoral malfeasance in Norwegian history, arguing that fraud was widespread—especially amid heightened polarization and certain electoral rules—despite the “high trust, low corruption” narrative.

Happy to head to bed after getting an acceptance from @worldpolitics.bsky.social .

In what is sadly still a relevant and timely piece, @drjennings.bsky.social, Gerry Stoker and I spoke to those who have served at the ehart of UK governments to understand how they reconcile with low political trust, depressingly finding little motivation to take action to remedy it

Only in Norway m.

Abstract: The transition from political rivalry between loosely organized individuals to competition between political parties is a hallmark of modern democratic politics. We concentrate on a neglected aspect of this development: how national programmatic parties entered local politics—what we label “partiaization.” In our argument, parties seek to enter local politics to achieve local policy gains and mobilize voters. Their opportunities for partiaization, however, hinge on the local electoral system. A proportional representation system’s weight on pre-arranged lists, rather than personalities, gives national parties the advantage of collective organization and party brand. We test our argument using a Norwegian 1919 electoral reform requiring municipalities to switch from plurality to PR, and previously lost data on Norwegian local elections. Difference-in-difference estimates show that introducing PR in local elections led national parties to gain representation in new municipalities. Our study helps to explain how national parties became a central feature of local

Our paper "Partiaization: How National Programmatic Parties Took Hold of Local Politics" using our reconstructed local election dataset (1904-1937) is finally out in draft form in a link below! (with @oskorge.bsky.social )

(PDF) Partiaization: How National Programmatic Parties Took Hold of Local Politics PDF | The transition from political rivalry between loosely organized individuals to competition between political parties is a hallmark of modern... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

Read the paper here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Abstract: The transition from political rivalry between loosely organized individuals to competition between political parties is a hallmark of modern democratic politics. We concentrate on a neglected aspect of this development: how national programmatic parties entered local politics—what we label “partiaization.” In our argument, parties seek to enter local politics to achieve local policy gains and mobilize voters. Their opportunities for partiaization, however, hinge on the local electoral system. A proportional representation system’s weight on pre-arranged lists, rather than personalities, gives national parties the advantage of collective organization and party brand. We test our argument using a Norwegian 1919 electoral reform requiring municipalities to switch from plurality to PR, and previously lost data on Norwegian local elections. Difference-in-difference estimates show that introducing PR in local elections led national parties to gain representation in new municipalities. Our study helps to explain how national parties became a central feature of local

Our paper "Partiaization: How National Programmatic Parties Took Hold of Local Politics" using our reconstructed local election dataset (1904-1937) is finally out in draft form in a link below! (with @oskorge.bsky.social )

Gratulerer til deg og ikke minst til ISF!

Det er dejligt at være præsident. Trump vil overføre prisen for en Femern forbindelse til sig selv. Og han er derudover igang med at sagsøge det amerikanske skattevæsen for prisen for en til Femern forbindelse.

Forsker | FINN.no Nasjonalbiblioteket søker forsker i middelalderhistorie.Til avdeling for Fag og forskning, seksjon for lokalhistorie, søker vi en fast medarbeider med

Er du middelalderhistoriker og har lyst til å bli kollegaen min?

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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN POLITICAL SCIENCE (294884) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Job title: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN POLITICAL SCIENCE (294884), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Wednesday, April 29, 2026

We have a vacant position as Associate Professor in Political Science (International Relations). Deadline April 29. Please apply or distribute. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Do open lists increase turnout? Probably not, but they increase rates of voter error: New evidence from Spain Leonardo Carella Abstract This article challenges the claim that open-list systems are beneficial for electoral participation, by reassessing and extending the analysis in a notable empirical paper that advances this argument. The paper (Carlos Sanz, “The effect of electoral systems on voter turnout: Evidence from a natural experiment”, PSRM, 2017) leverages a population-based discontinuity in Spanish municipal elections (1979–2011), where towns with fewer than 250 residents employ open lists whereas larger towns employ closed lists. Through a series of statistical tests and the inspection of alternative data sources, I show that the positive effect of open lists on turnout estimated in the paper is dubious, for two reasons: (1) non-random missing data, due to inconsistencies in how non-valid votes were recorded above and below the threshold, and (2) compound treatment issues, due to changes in list-length requirements at the threshold. I then proceed to show that, rather than improving turnout, the more complex open-list ballot actually hinders voters’ ability to express their preferences, by increasing the incidence of voter errors relative to closed lists (reflected in higher rates of ‘null’ voting). To support a causal interpretation of this relationship, I present evidence from the analysis of heterogeneous treatment effects, and show that a similar pattern obtains in Spanish general elections, where open and closed lists are used concurrently for the election of the country’s bicameral parliament. I conclude by discussing the implications of the analysis for implementing population-based regression discontinuities and evaluating electoral system effects.

New paper out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

I show that - contrary to claims that personalised electoral systems are good for participation - Open Lists have no effect on turnout relative to Closed Lists; in fact, they increase rates of voter error. 🗳️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Norwegian special forces ready for deployment to the Greenland front.

What People Really Think About Taxing the Rich – the surprising beliefs behind progressive taxation « Political Science and International Relations# « Cambridge Core Blog For decades, political leaders, economists, and business elites have repeated a familiar warning: tax the rich too much, and everyone will suffer. Higher taxes on the wealthy, they argue, might reduce...

Here's a short write-up of our recently published study:

📰"What People Really Think About Taxing the Rich – the surprising beliefs behind progressive taxation"

TLDR: Most believe taxing the rich brings equality & growth! Elite fears are not shared.

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PhD Fellowship position in Economics at Oslo Business School, OsloMet Oslo Metropolitan University is Norway's third largest university with 23,000 students and over 2,600 employees. We have campuses in central Oslo and at Romerike. OsloMet educates students and conduct...

Fully funded Ph.D. position in economics open - please apply and/or inform your promising students! Application deadline 28 February.
www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-...
This is an open-topic fellowship, with research proposals aligned with the economics group's research interests being given priority.

We are happy to announce the call for papers for the third WhoGov Mini-Conference on Political Elites!

It will be held on August 20-21st, 2026 in Oslo. We welcome research on political elites broadly understood and not just papers using WhoGov.

You can find the call here: bit.ly/whogovminico...

🚨Job alert! 🚨

I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills.

⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26

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Can state-building disrupt rather than stabilize society? In a new @apsrjournal.bsky.social article, @victorgayeco.bsky.social and I show that the expansion of state communication networks spurred rebellion for decades in France before the Revolution

👉 Article: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Coffee roasted at soon to be Trump or Putin occupied Svalbard.

Interesting to see how economics as a discipline has now fully embraced papers that are _exclusively_ political science (not some or other variation on “political economy”), but squarely political science.

Now the question becomes, should we expect a pay rise, or should they expect a pay cut?

Senior Researcher in Historical Sciences at NTNU Norway |HigherJobz Apply for Senior Researcher positions in Historical Sciences at NTNU, Norway. Full-time two-year roles for PhD holders. Deadline 15 Mar 2026.

Senior Researcher Positions – NTNU, Norway 🇳🇴
Full-time research roles in Historical Sciences & Cultural History.
Eligibility: PhD in History, Economics or related discipline.
Deadline: 15 March 2026.
Apply: higherjobz.com/senior-resea...

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