2022
Seminar with Øyvind Skorge (Oslo New University College)
Time and place: Dec. 9, 2022 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Gullhaug Torg 1 & Zoom
Title of the presentation: "Partiaization: How National Parties Took Hold of Local Politics"
Seminar with Jessica Fortin-Rittberger (University of Salzburg)
Time and place: Nov. 25, 2022 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Gullhaug Torg 1 & Zoom
Title of the presentation: "Disentangling different types of sexist attitudes and vote choice in Germany"
Seminar with Anastasia Shesterinina (University of Sheffield)
Time and place: Nov. 18, 2022 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Zoom only
Title of the presentation: "Armed Group Origins and Transformation in Civil War"
Seminar with Matthew Bergman (University of Vienna)
Time and place: Nov. 11, 2022 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Gullhaug Torg 1 & Zoom
Title of the presentation: "Small Party Legislative Strategies: Committee Placement in Mixed Member Proportional Systems"
Seminar with Sirus Dehdari (Stockholm University)
Time and place: Nov. 4, 2022 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Gullhaug Torg 1 & Zoom
Title of the presentation: "Emigration and Radical Right Populism"
Seminar with Anne Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen)
Time and place: Oct. 21, 2022 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Gullhaug Torg 1 & Zoom
Title of the presentation: "The Gendered Effects of Incivility toward Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens"
Seminar with Kyle Marquardt (University of Bergen)
Time and place: Oct. 14, 2022 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Gullhaug Torg 1 & Zoom
Title of the presentation: "Measuring politically-relevant identity, with and without groups"
Seminar with Jana Krause (University of Oslo)
Time and place: Oct. 7, 2022 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Gullhaug Torg 1 & Zoom
Title of the presentation: "Communal Conflicts and Barriers to Sustainable Peace - Survey Evidence from Kenya"
Seminar with David Stasavage (NYU)
Time and place: June 10, 2022 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Gullhaug Torg 1 & Zoom
Title of the presentation: "The Great Democratic Divergence: How Some Societies Sustain Collective Rule"
Seminar with Simon Chauchard (University Carlos III)
Time and place: May 13, 2022 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Gullhaug Torg 1 & Zoom
Title of the presentation: "When Losing the State Drives Opposition to Redistribution: An Experiment in India", co-authored with Pavithra Suryanarayan
Seminar with Johannes Gerschewski (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)
Time and place: May 6, 2022 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Gullhaug Torg 1 & Zoom
Title of the presentation: "The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule"
Seminar with Martin Vinæs Larsen (Aarhus University)
Time and place: Apr. 22, 2022 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Gullhaug Torg 1 & Zoom
Title of the presentation: "How Jurisdiction Size Affects the Politics of Land Use"
Seminar with Bjørn Høyland (University of Oslo)
Time and place: Apr. 8, 2022 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Gullhaug Torg 1 & Zoom
Title of the presentation: "Strategic roll call vote requests". Co-authored with Fang-Yi Chiou & Simon Hug
Seminar with Palina Kolvani (University of Oslo)
Time and place: Mar. 25, 2022 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Gullhaug Torg 1 & Zoom
Title of the presentation: "Fighting the Disease or Manipulating the Data? Democracy, State Capacity, and the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Seminar with Carina Schmitt & Bastian Becker (University of Bremen)
Time and place: Mar. 18, 2022 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Zoom
Title of the presentation: "License to Educate: The Role of National Networks in Colonial Empires"
Seminar with Joan Ricart-Huguet (Loyola University Maryland)
Time and place: Mar. 11, 2022 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM, Zoom
Title of the presentation: "Colonial Education, Political Elites, and Regional Political Inequality in Africa"
Seminar with Francesca Jensenius (UiO)
Time and place: Feb. 4, 2022 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Gullhaug Torg 1 & Zoom
Title of the presentation: "Privileging one's own? Voting patterns and politicized spending in India"
2021
Seminar with Paul Staniland (The University of Chicago)
Time and place: Dec. 10, 2021 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM, Zoom
Title of the presentation "Great Power Competition and the Domestic Politics of 'Swing' States: Southern Asia since 1945"
Seminar with Ruth Carlitz (Tulane University)
Time and place: Dec. 3, 2021 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Gullhaug Torg 1
Title of the presentation "The Politics of COVID-19 Containment: The Curious Case of Tanzania"
Seminar with Andre Walter (University of St. Gallen)
Time and place: Nov. 26, 2021 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Zoom
Title of the presentation "Vox Populi. Public Support for the Popular Initiative"
Seminar with Adam Scharpf (GIGA)
Time and place: Nov. 5, 2021 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Zoom
Title of the presentation "International Sports Events, Media Attention, and Repression: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup"
Seminar with Lasse Leipziger (Aarhus University)
Time and place: Oct. 22, 2021 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Gullhaug Torg 1
Title of the presentation "Ethnic Inequality and Regime Change: Investigating an Asymmetric Relationship"
Seminar with Jonas Meckling (University of California, Berkeley)
Time and place: Oct. 15, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Zoom
Title: The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Energy Policy from the Oil Crises to Climate Change
Seminar with Marina Nistotksaya (University of Gothenburg)
Time and place: Sep. 24, 2021 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM, Gullhaug Torg 1
Title of the presentation "Land Property Rights, Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Panel 1000-2015 CE”
Seminar with Mai Hassan
Time and place: Sep. 10, 2021 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM, Zoom
Title of the presentation "Regime Threats and State Solutions”
Seminar with Sidney Tarrow (Cornell University)
Time and place: Mar. 5, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, CET, Zoom
Title of the presentation "The Phantom at the Opera: How Social Movements Intersect with Institutional Politics; Reflections from A Study of American Political Development”
Seminar with Sirianne Dahlum - CANCELLED
Time and place: Feb. 26, 2021 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, CET, Zoom
Title: Mass attitudes in Difficult times: Natural Disasters and Authoritarianism
Seminar with Peter Langsæther - CANCELLED
Time and place: Feb. 19, 2021 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, CET, Zoom
Title: Explaining the Relationship Between Class Position and Political Preferences: A Long-Term Panel Analysis of Intra-Generational Class Mobility
Seminar with Felix Haass
Time and place: Feb. 12, 2021 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, CET, Zoom
Title: Decentralized networks and bureaucratic careers in autocracies (Alexander De Juan, Felix Haass, Jan Pierskalla)
Seminar with Lise Rødland
Time and place: Feb. 5, 2021 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM, CET, Zoom
Title: “Negotiating Policy Support: Explaining Bias in Interest Group Influence on Legislative Party Groups”.
2020
Seminar with Petrus Olander (Lund University)
Time and place: Feb. 14, 2020 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilerts Sundts hus, rom 830
Title: "Legislators and building state capacity - Evidence from the American states"
Seminar with Øyvind Skorge (Institute for Social Research)
Time and place: Jan. 31, 2020 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
Title of presentation: Does high-speed internet erode democracy? Evidence on turnout and polarization from a Norwegian broadband reform (a paper co-authored with Sebastian Ellingsen and Øystein Hernæs).
Seminar with Morten Jerven (NTNU) and Marvin Suesse (Trinity College Dublin)
Time and place: Jan. 17, 2020 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 824
They will present a paper "Taxation, Fiscal Capacity and Economic Development in Africa, 1900 -2015: Lessons from a new dataset." The paper is co-authored with Thilo Albers, Humboldt University of Berlin.
2019
Seminar with Bjørn Høyland
Time and place: Dec. 13, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
A "State of Fever": Civil-Military Relations and the Nuclear Revolution in the USSR
Time and place: Dec. 11, 2019 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
Oslo Nuclear Project and Comparative Institutions and Regimes Seminar with Joseph Torigian (American University and Council on Foreign Relations)
Seminar with Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford)
Time and place: Dec. 6, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
Title of the presentation: "Assembly dissolution powers, coalition bargaining and government policy".
Seminar with Neil Ketchley
Time and place: Nov. 29, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
Title of presentation: "Anti-Austerity Riots in Late Developing States: Evidence from the 1977 Egyptian Bread Intifada" ( a joint work with Ferdinand Eibl and Jeroen Gunning, both Department of Political Economy, King's College London).
Seminar with Adriana Bunea (University of Bergen)
Time and place: Nov. 22, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
The title of the presentation: "Explaining interest groups' information networks in the European Union.
Seminar with Henning Finseraas (Institute for Social Research)
Time and place: Nov. 15, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
Title of presentation "Local Immigration and Support for Anti-Immigration Parties: A Meta-Analysis" (a paper co-authored with Sara Cools and Ole Røgeberg).
Seminar with Ursula Daxecker (University of Amsterdam)
Time and place: Oct. 25, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
Seminar with Annekatrin Deglow and Hanne Fjelde (Uppsala University)
Time and place: Oct. 11, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
The title of the paper " Threats of Electoral Violence and Support for Democracy in Nigeria ".
Seminar with Sabine Carey (Universität Mannheim)
Time and place: Sep. 27, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
The title of presentation: "Shades of peace: Perceptions of security in Sri Lanka"
Seminar with Thomas Hegghammer (FFI and University of Oslo) og Petter Nesser (FFI)
Time and place: Sep. 20, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
Title of presentation: "Losing the plot: The limits of attack data in terrorism research"
Seminar with Yuko Kasuya (Keio University)
Time and place: Sep. 13, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
Title of the presentation: The Historical Origins of Long-Surviving Military Regimes: The Mode of Decolonization, Legitimacy Advantage, and Path Dependency.
Seminar with Charles Crabtree (Dartmouth College)
Time and place: June 14, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
Title of the presentation "Directing Attention during Sensitive Times: Agenda-setting on Russian state-controlled television, 2003-2018".
Seminar with Dr Pavithra Suryanarayan (Johns Hopkins University)
Time and place: May 31, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
Dr Pavithra Suryanarayan will present her book project "Social-Status and Redistributive Politics".
Seminar with Professor Simon Hug (University of Geneva)
Time and place: May 24, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
Title of the presenation " Changing Places in Parliament" (a paper co-authored with Stefanie Bailer and Sarah Bütikofer)
Seminar with Anja Neundorf (University of Nottingham)
Time and place: May 20, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
The title of presentation: "Political Habit Formation under Democratic and Authoritarian Elections"
Seminar with Associate Professor Francesca Refsum Jensenius
Time and place: May 3, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
Title of the presentation: "Party institutionalization and economic voting: Evidence from India" (co-authored paper with Pavithra Suryanarayan)
Seminar with Valeriya Mechkova (Gothenburg University)
Time and place: Apr. 26, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, rom 830
The title of the presentation: "Does Political Inclusion and Civil Rights Protection Promote Economic Development"
Seminar with David Hope (Kings College London)
Time and place: Apr. 12, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
The title of the presentation: "The transition to the knowledge economy, labor market institutions, and income inequality in advanced democracies" (a paper co-authored with Angelo Martelli)
Seminar with Jacob Gerner Hariri (University of Copenhagen)
Time and place: Mar. 29, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
The title of presentation: "The Coercive Imbalance: Modern Arms Technology in Premodern Societies".
Seminar with Associate Professor Anders Sundell (University of Gothenburg)
Time and place: Mar. 22, 2019 8:45 AM – 10:00 AM, Eilert Sundts hus, room 830
The title of presentation: Blood is Thicker than Water: Family Assets and Leader Deposition in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (co-authored with Andrej Kokkonen, Suthan Krishnarajan, and Jørgen Møller)
Seminar with Sebastian Schutte, senior researcher at PRIO
Time and place: Feb. 8, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Harriet Holters hus, room 301
Title of presentation: How indiscriminate violence fuels religious conflict: Evidence from Kenya (a paper co-authored with Constantin Ruhe and Andrew Linke)
2018
Seminar with Assistant Professor Matthew Wilson (West Virginia University)
Time and place: Nov. 30, 2018 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Room 830, Eilert Sundts hus
Title of the presentation: Trends in Political Science Research and the Progress of Comparative Politics
Matthew will take his published (2017) article from PS: Political Science & Politics as point of departure for talking about the broad trends in Comparative Politics research over the last century. He will, however, also present a new tool that he has developed for identifying various trends in CP research and discuss some more nuanced patterns.
Seminar with Assistant Professor Lucas Leeman (University of Zürich)
Time and place: Nov. 16, 2018 9:15 AM – 10:30 AM, Room 830, Eilert Sundts hus
The title of the presentation: "Direct Democracy and Political Conflict: Institutional Evolution in the 19th Century".
Seminar with Assistant Professor Alisha Holland (Princeton University)
Time and place: Oct. 26, 2018 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Room 830, Eilert Sundts hus
Title of presentation: "Private Property Against Public Works: How Rights Affect Development in Ecuador and Colombia".
Seminar with Dr. Felix Haaß (GIGA Institute of International Affairs)
Time and place: Oct. 12, 2018 9:15 AM – 10:30 AM, Room 830, Eilert Sundts hus
The title of the presentation: " How to Make a Career in an Autocratic State--Evidence from the German Democratic Republic (GDR)".
Seminar with Lee Morgenbesser (Griffith University)
Time and place: Oct. 2, 2018 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM, Room 830, Eilert Sundts hus
Seminar with Professor Macartan Humphreys (Colombia University)
Time and place: Sep. 28, 2018 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Room 830, Eilert Sundts hus
Seminar with Professor Markus Wagner (Universität Wien)
Time and place: Sep. 21, 2018 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Room 830, Eilert Sundts hus
Title of the presentation: Closer to the elites? How emotions and information influence populist attitudes.
Seminar with Professor Kristin Bakke (University College London)
Time and place: Sep. 14, 2018 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Room 830, Eilert Sundts hus
Title: "Legacies of Wartime Order: Vigilantism and the State in Northern Ireland" (co-authored with Kit Rickard)
Seminar with Jørgen Bølstad (ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo)
Time and place: June 15, 2018 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Room 830, Eilert Sundts hus
Seminar with Niels Goet (Data Scientist at Inspera, and Phd in Political Science from the University of Oxford)
Time and place: June 8, 2018 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Room 830, Eilert Sundt hus
Title of the presentation: Procedural Change in the UK House of Commons, 1811-1945: A New Dataset (co-authored with Thomas G. Fleming, & Radoslaw Zubek)
Seminar with Dr. Nick Vivyan (Durham University)
Time and place: June 1, 2018 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Room 830, Eilert Sundts hus
The title of the presentation "Measuring Issue Importance"
Seminar with Dr. Pablo Fernandes Vasquez (Instituto Carlos III-Juan March)
Time and place: May 11, 2018 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Room 820, Eilert Sundts hus
Seminar with Dr. Livia Schubiger (London School of Economics)
Time and place: May 4, 2018 10:15 AM – 11:39 AM, Room 830, Eilert Sundts hus
The title of the presentation "Attitudes towards Killing in War"
Seminar with Dr. Alexandra Cirone (London School of Economics)
Time and place: Apr. 27, 2018 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Room 830, Eilert Sundts hus
The title of the presentation "Bridging the Gap: Lottery-based Procedures in Early Parliamentarization"
Seminar with John Gerring, University of Texas at Austin
Time and place: Feb. 2, 2018 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Room 830, Eilert Sundts hus
He will present the paper "Harbors and Democracy". The paper is co-authored with Tore Wig (UiO), Andreas Tollefsen (PRIO), and Brendan Apfield (University of Texas at Austin).
2017
Seminar with Torill Stavenes, University of Exeter
Time and place: Dec. 8, 2017 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, room 830, Eilert Sundts hus
The title of the presentation: "A Devil in Disguise? State Funding Regulation and Patterns of Professionalisation in New Minor Parties in Italy"
Seminar with Luca J. Uberti, University of Oslo
Time and place: Nov. 24, 2017 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, room 830, Eilert Sundt hus
The title of the presentation: Political Business Cycles and Construction Licensing: Evidence from Post-Socialist Tirana, Albania (1994-2015)
Seminar with Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca, University of Gothenburg
Time and place: Nov. 10, 2017 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Eilert Sunds hus, Room 830
The title of the presentation: "Are women MPs more concerned about corruption than men? A comparative analysis of the written parliamentary questions in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom".
The paper is co-authored with Amy C. Alexander and Andreas Bågenholm.