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🚨New working paper: Based on a conjoint experiment from 32 countries, citizens - quite uniformly - value what the typical electoral autocrat claims to provide: elected leaders & (economic) safety, while commitment to executive constraints is much weaker. osf.io/preprints/osf/…

And yet still the narratives of an inevitable Russian victory…endless manpower…etc persist. This Russian mob can be beaten in the field. If enough people around the world accepted that, next year’s map by Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️ would look very different.

New Publication Alert in Democratization in collaboration with the great Anja Neundorf "Our children will be free" - this picture taken during the Romanian Revolution of 1989 captures the essence of our article: democratic transitions create hopes about the future and ...

Jeg har på forespørsel anmeldt Terje Tvedt sin nye bok om «Norske Tenkemåter» for Morgenbladet. Jeg er ganske kritisk til metodene som brukes i bok, og egentlig til hele det «Tvedtianske» prosjektet. morgenbladet.no/boker/anmeldel…

Pretty cool that our department's (SV-fakultetet UiO ) Sirianne Dahlum and Carl Henrik Knutsen are cited *several times* in the report justifying the Nobel Prize in economics to Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson. Oslo political science representing!! nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/1…

North Korea is at war with a major European country. This is an astonishing development, met with equally astonishing silence from Europe’s leaders. Jonathan Fink 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 Silicon Curtain Podcast

Fun to present at Government @ Essex yesterday, on "Elites as Democratic Gatekeepers" (co-authored with Sirianne Dahlum , Kaja Sparre Bakke and Daniel A. N. Goldstein), (sadly) increasingly relevant topic.. Thanks to Diane Bolet and Kristian Gleditsch for organizing.

Ironisk at NBIM Nicolai Tangen investerer i aktør som truer de samme strukturene som holder Norge fritt, demokratisk og rikt. Vanskelig å kvantifisere kroneverdien av et demokratisk USA + fritt Ukraina, men mindre enn inntekten fra Tesla-posten? Tviler. nrk.no/norge/nicolai-…

Our household has a first! Sam van Noort’s research is solicited and gets cited in a The New York Times opinion piece (which he only mentions to me today in passing). More proud of his excellent paper published recently in World Politics on which the citation is based 👇

Ukraina 🇺🇦 kjemper for sin egen og vår frihet mot en brutal russisk krigsmaskin som stadig rykker framover. Ukrainske soldater mangler våpen og ammunisjon og Norge bør øke støtten kraftig. Vi har invitert de andre partiene om å gjøre nettopp dette: aftenposten.no/norge/politikk…

Terje Tvedt svarer på min metodekritikk av "Norske tenkemåter". Lesere får dømme selv, men i mine øyne gir dette uttrykk for dyp forskningsmetodologisk forvirring. morgenbladet.no/ideer/debatt/2…

Hør, hør! «Hvis Norge og Vesten unnlater å handle nå, sender vi et signal om at vi tolererer at totalitære regimer styrker sitt jerngrep. Det vil være en fatal feil som historien vil dømme oss for.» nrk.no/ytring/tid-for…

Harris or Trump? Some claim that the future of Europe depends on the American elections, while it depends first and foremost on us. On condition Europe finally grows up and believes in its own strength. Whatever the outcome, the era of geopolitical outsourcing is over.

The Europeans tonight

LOL

What the left needs now is a real Resistance. One that takes on and defeats identity politics, declinism, race-baiting, censorship and anti-Americanism. One that embraces Western values of liberty, growth, free speech, and celebrates the greatness of our civilisation.

If Trump wins, the right response for Europe is not to cry publicly, but to take a deep breath and return with a wise plan for rebalancing in NATO to save it. And boost European support for Ukraine like now.

Seems like a good time to re-read this paper

My take on the 2024 presidential election: The Democratic Party has shown a remarkable lack of strategy by missing the chance to replace Biden with a new refreshing candidate; instead choosing to put forward Biden’ Vice President Harris. (1/18)

eva grinde Peter Frølich Jeg hadde en lengre tråd på Facebook om denne gode kronikken, forfattet av blant annet Tore Wig. vg.no/nyheter/i/KMG0…