In a new article in the Swiss Political Science Review, Resul Umit, together with Lena Maria Schaffer, explores potential causes of opposition to wind turbines and its electoral effects.
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Protective security management aims at protecting against malicious acts. It has, in a relatively short period, undergone substantial changes. One such change is the introduction of risk management. This article by Anne Heyerdahl investigates a debate about a standard for security risk assessment (SRA) in Norway. Published in European Security.
In a new article in Nordisk Administrativ Tidsskrift, Jarle Trondal and Dag Ole Teigen investigate perceptions of Norwegian county administrators.
Jarle Trondal has co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Differentiation in the European Union with additional contributions by Erik Oddvar Eriksen, John Erik Fossum and Guri Rosén.
Simulation games are increasingly popular tools for opening up future imaginaries, especially in the arena of sustainability policy-making and decision support. However, there is a lack of understanding regarding the potential power of games in anticipatory governance. Manjana Milkoreit and co-writers explore this in new article in Geoforum.
By Anders Ravik Jupskås and Maik Fielitz
By Cora Alexa Døving and Terje Emberland
Jarle Trondal has co-edited the book Governing complexity in times of turbulence.
This article by Michael Gentile and Martin Kragh contributes to the growing literature on how authoritarian regimes deploy disinformation and conspiracy theories to achieve foreign policy goals. While the effectiveness of these measures is disputed, their study—which is based on a rarely occurring natural experiment—makes an empirical contribution in this direction. Published in International Affairs.
Morten Egeberg has published a chapter on the European Commission in the new book European Union Politics.
In a new article in Policy and Politics, Jarle Trondal outlines an organisation theory approach to meta-governance.
Christopher Lord and Jarle Trondal have co-edited the book The Politics of Legitimation in the European Union: Legitimacy Recovered? with additional contributions from ARENA's PLATO early stage researchers Claire Godet and Joris Melman.
In this paper, Flanagan, Uyarra, and Wanzenböck, explore the place-based roles of agency, institutions, networks and values in discursive processes of problem-framing and market creation.
Silje Tellmann and Magnus Gulbrandsen look at boundary work in science-policy relations from the policy side and find that it has many of the same characteristics as the boundary work of scientists, and that it seems to follow certain cycles where boundaries are either defended or challenged. They conclude that boundary work is a constructive part of productive interactions that enables users to balance the diverse relations they engage in and create a strategic room for maneuvering.
This paper, by Jakob Edler, Maria Karaulova and Katharine Barker, presents a framework to understand the impact of scientific knowledge on the policy-making process, focusing on the conceptual impact.
Silje Tellmann analyses the interrelations between academic disciplines and society beyond academia by the case of sociology in Norway.
In this report, Julien Bois examines the legitimacy of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and advocates the recoupling of normative and sociological legitimacy to fully understand the CJEU’s ‘right to rule’.
The effects of socioeconomic position (SEP) across life course accumulate and produce visible health inequalities between different socioeconomic groups. Yet, it is not well-understood how the experience of intergenerational income mobility between origin and destination SEP, per se, affects health outcomes. This is what Alexi Gugushvili and co-writer explores in this article in PNAS Nexus.
In this report, Jose Piquer Martinez examines how partisanship shapes policy choices and legitimising discourses through a comparative case study of the UK and Spain following the global financial crisis.
In a new article in European Security, Tine Elisabeth Brøgger proposes that it is possible for states to agree on mutually binding commitments also in the field of security and defence.
By Cas Mudde
We are honoured to serve as the Editors of European Societies, the flagship journal of the European Sociological Association (ESA), for 2021–2026, says Alexi Gugushvili and colleagues in the latest issue of the journal.
by Anna-Sophie Heinze and Manès Weisskircher
Askill H. Halse, Karen E. Hauge, Elisabeth T. Isaksen, Bjørn G. Johansen and Oddbjørn Raaum
Memo 01/2022
In this article published in International Migration Review Are Skeie Hermansen, Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund and colleague study whether neighborhood equalization contributes to intergenerational persistence in neighborhood contexts among descendants of immigrants in Norway.