Great opportunity: Two open PhD positions available at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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...
Taking a stand ✋️🧍
These authors 🧵 use survey data across 9 countries to assess the downstreams consequences of #AffectivePolarization & intervene to successfully reduce participants #AffectivePolarization in 6 of the 9, improving interpersonal relations and social norms
buff.ly/tHRWa65
Had a very similar experience a few years ago with Frontiers in Pol Sci:
- reviewers automatically invited, incl over Xmas, in mass
- very aggressive policy of fast turnaround - unrealistic & damaging quality
- absurd amount of reminders
- quantity over quality mindset
I now refuse to review for F
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.
#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -
The (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies - https://cup.org/43vEJV0
- @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social, @leberntzen.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social, @hayleekelsall.bsky.social, et al
#FirstView
📢 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...
🚨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 🙏
Skriver med @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social på DN Kulturdebatt: www.dn.se/kultur/profe...
Job title: Two PhD positions at the Department of Comparative Politics (302783), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
📢 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...
Anne Rasmussen
Mikael Persson
Staffan Kumlin
Does affective polarization itself actually threaten democracy?
Recent experiments from the US suggest maybe not. In our new @ejprjournal.bsky.social paper, we revisit this question comparatively with a survey experiment in 9 democracies (18,000 respondents).
#polisky
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
