Trym Nohr Fjørtoft

Postdoctoral Fellow
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Academic interests

Fjørtoft is a postdoctoral researcher with the SINGLEMARKETS project. His academic interests include single-market governance, democracy, the legitimacy of unelected bodies, and border control and migration. 

Background

Trym Nohr Fjørtoft holds a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo. He was a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence in 2020 and at UC Berkeley's Institute of European Studies in 2022-23.

Funding

Fjørtoft is part of the project "The Politics of European and American Single-Market Governance" (SINGLEMARKETS), funded by the Norwegian research council. 

See his personal website for more information. 

Tags: Democracy, Expertise, Legitimacy, European Union, USA

Publications

  • Fjørtoft, Trym Nohr (2023). Inductive Risk and the Legitimacy of Non-Majoritarian Institutions. British Journal of Political Science. ISSN 0007-1234. doi: 10.1017/S0007123423000200. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fjørtoft, Trym Nohr & Sandven, Hallvard Hodne (2022). Symmetry in the Delegation of Power as a Legitimacy Criterion. Journal of Common Market Studies. ISSN 0021-9886. 61(4), p. 900–916. doi: 10.1111/jcms.13429. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fjørtoft, Trym Nohr & Michailidou, Asimina (2021). Beyond expertise: the public construction of legitimacy for EU agencies. Political Research Exchange (PRX). 3(1), p. 1–27. doi: 10.1080/2474736X.2021.2018266. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fjørtoft, Trym Nohr (2020). More power, more control: The legitimizing role of expertise in Frontex after the refugee crisis. Regulation & Governance. ISSN 1748-5983. 16(2), p. 557–571. doi: 10.1111/rego.12373. Full text in Research Archive

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