Kristin Strømsnes

Melder overgang til Bluesky: @kstroemsnes.bsky.social

New charts📈📊: Who has the most generous welfare states? You're probably thinking Sweden, Denmark, and Norway? Not true anymore for Sweden and Denmark (according to data from CWEP). Here's a short thread 🧵 on the decline of the Swedish and Danish welfare states. #dataviz

This wonderful book on Stein Rokkan, the man and his work, is finally out in print.👇 Rokkan was a pioneer of macro-historical comparative research. And, as David Collier writes in his blurb, he was "a giant in the social sciences." For information: ecpr.eu/Shop/ShopProdu…

🎓 Eminent comparativist Stein Rokkan, 1921–1979, formulated the idea that ‘votes count but resources decide’ in elections 📑 This #ECPRPress biography, translated from Arild Stubhaug's original Norwegian by @LucyTranslator, offers an intimate portrait bit.ly/3VS9cu6

PhD Positions #ECPRMemberJobs 🌄 ERC project: Contested frontiers of settler states 📚 Explore and understand efforts to (re)constitute frontier jurisdictions 🇳🇴 University of Bergen ⌛ Monday 5 August ow.ly/p8xf50RneM0

@PierrVW @UiBsamfunn @UiB_sampol Congratulations, Pierre!

Postdoctoral position #ECPRMemberJobs ⚡ The politics of demographic change and representative democracy 💬 Political behaviour, political economy, and/or political representation 🇳🇴 University of Bergen ⌛ Friday 3 May ow.ly/nMcU50RncZ4

Associate Professor #ECPRMemberJobs 🐻‍❄️ Politics with studies focused on the Arctic, including Nordic polar policy, and indigenous governance ❄️ Permanent position 🇳🇴 Universitetet i Bergen ⌛Wednesday 20 March ow.ly/3nBI50QwNLL

Maktbalansen i verden er i endring og demokrati og menneskeretter er under press i mange land. Hva betyr en endret global orden for oss i Norge? Meld deg på Respons-konferansen til UiB og @Utenriksdept 13. februar: @margarethhagen_ @EspenBarthEide lnkd.in/dVzKTYG5

📚 Do you know of an outstanding published work in comparative #SocialSciences research? 🌟 Nominations are now OPEN for the 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize 🏆 Presented by @ISC, @UiB_sampol & ECPR 💰 €5,000 prize fund ⏰ 30 April ecpr.eu/Prizes/PrizeDe… #ECPRPrizes #ComparativeResearch

Hadde en interessant samtale med Magnus Marsdal på podcasten Mímir & Marsdal, om offentlig opinion, skatt på de rike, og hvem som har politisk innflytelse i Norge og USA. Hør podkasten her: podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/mag… Forskningen min som vi diskuterer kan leses gratis under (🧵).

❇️Fascinating ❇️ Highly impressive 🙌 Delighted to congratulate Elisabeth Anderson (@nyuabudhabi) on winning the 🏆 2023 Stein Rokkan Prize for 📗 Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State (@PrincetonUPress, 2022) 🔗ecpr.eu/News/News/Deta… #ECPRPrizes

Årets Uglepris ved @UiB går til @UiB_sampol og emnet «SAMPOL223 Democratic Transformations in Europe: Trends and Implications». Gratulerer! Les mer i lenken under 👇uib.no/svf/166876/uib…

Ny rapport om frivillige organisasjoners påvirkningsarbeid innenfor klima- og miljøfeltet og velferdsfeltet samfunnsforskning.no/sivilsamfunn/a…

For 50 år siden ble Berit Ås (SVf) Norges første kvinnelige parlamentariske leder. Nå er alle de parlamentariske lederne på Stortinget kvinner. m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

Da er første del av Sampolkonferansen 2023 i havn! Imponerende innsats av programkomite og styre. Vel blåst!

Rokkan Symposium 2023 is held on October 26, the day after the Rokkan Memorial Lecture. The title of this years’ symposium is Populist and Technocratic Challenges to Representative Democracy. See the program here: uib.no/nb/sampol/1651…

@G_Katsambekis @UiB_sampol Unfortunately not

Global Cleavages: Political Conflict across World Regions in Historical Perspective - The 2023 Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture, 25. October by Daniele Caramani uib.no/nb/sampol/1557…

Nobel Peace Prize 2023. VG