Faglige interesser
- EU med særlig vekt på Europaparlamentet
- komparativ politikk med særlig vekt på lovgivende forsamlinger
- datascience og kvantitativ metode.
Undervisning
Bakgrunn
- Professor, Statsvitenskap UiO 2011 -
- Forsker I, CICERO, 2010 - 2011
- Postdoktor, Statsvitenskap UiO, 2006 - 2010
- Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, University College London, 2005 - 2006
- PhD London School of Economics and Political Science, 2005
Verv
Medlem av redaksjonsrådet til European Union Politics
Medlem av fagrådet i dScience
More info
Emneord:
Komparativ politikk,
Kvantitativ metode,
EU,
Europaparlamentet,
Parlamentarisme
Publikasjoner
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Søyland, Martin & Høyland, Bjørn
(2021).
The Politics of Legislative Debates.
I Bäck, Hanna; Debus, Marc & Fernandes, Jorge (Red.),
The politics of legislative debates.
Oxford University Press.
ISSN 9780198849063.
s. 633–650.
doi:
10.1093/oso/9780198849063.003.0031.
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In this chapter, we describe the institutional setting of parliamentary debate in Stortinget and identify correlates of speech participation, drawing on a dataset of more than a quarter of a million speeches from 1998 to 2016. The key correlate of speech participation is committee membership in the committee responsible for preparing the report for the topic under discussion. However, that is not the whole story. Party elites speak more than backbenchers. As speaking time is allocated proportional to party size, MPs from the smaller parties speak more often than their counterparts in the larger parties. While we uncover a gender difference in the overall allocation of speeches, this is only present amongst parties on the right of the political spectrum. We do not find a similar difference in length of speech or allocation of speeches amongst members within the same committee. Hence, we ascribe the gender difference in speeches to gender differences in committee composition.
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Finseraas, Henning; Høyland, Bjørn & Søyland, Martin G.
(2020).
Climate politics in hard times: How local economic shocks influence MPs attention to climate change.
European Journal of Political Research.
ISSN 0304-4130.
doi:
10.1111/1475-6765.12415.
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Most countries struggle to implement CO2 reducing policies. Implementation is politically difficult since it typically forces politicians to trade‐off different concerns. The literature on how parties and members of parliament (MPs) handle these trade‐offs is sparse. We use structural topic models to study how MPs in an oil dependent environment responded to a shock in the oil price that created spatially concentrated costs of climate policies. We leverage the rapid oil price drop between parliamentary sessions and MPs’ constituency adherence in a difference‐in‐differences framework to identify if MPs respond differently to variation in the salience of trade‐offs. We find that MPs facing high political costs of climate policies tried to avoid environmental topics, while less affected MPs talked more about investments in green energy when the oil price declined. Our results suggest that the oil price bust created a ‘window of opportunity’ for advocates of the ‘ green shift’.
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Chiou, Fang-Yi; Hermansen, Silje Synnøve Lyder & Høyland, Bjørn
(2019).
Delegation of committee reports in the European Parliament .
European Union Politics.
ISSN 1465-1165.
21(2),
s. 233–254.
doi:
10.1177/1465116519894059.
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Committee coordinators face a classic delegation problem when assigning reports to their committee members. Although a few theoretical developments have focused on the effects of expertise on delegation, empirical studies have commonly assumed monotonic effects. Based on existing informational models, we argue that a more loyal committee member, everything else being equal, is more likely to be appointed as a rapporteur and that more expertise, holding preference divergence constant, has anon-monotonic effect because of informational credibility. Employing accumulated committee service as an expertise measure, these theoretical expectations are tested on all committee report delegations in the European Parliament from 1979 to 2014. Our empirical analysis with non-parametric and parametric hierarchical conditional logit models renders strong support for these expectations. The results hold across member states, political groups, procedures, committees and over time.
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Søyland, Martin G. & Høyland, Bjørn
(2019).
Electoral Reform and Parliamentary Debates.
Legislative Studies Quarterly.
ISSN 0362-9805.
44(4),
s. 593–615.
doi:
10.1111/lsq.12237.
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The early twentieth century saw many democracies adopt proportional representative systems. The textbook explanation, pioneered by Rokkan, emphasize between-party electoral competition; the rise of the Socialist vote share made Bourgeois parties prefer PR systems to maximize their seat share. While appealing, this account is not entirely compelling. Consequently, scholars are investigating within-party explanations of support for such reforms. Particularly, Cox, Fiva, and Smith show how list PR enable party leaders to discipline members and build cohesive parties. Relying on roll-call votes across the Norwegian 1919 electoral reform from two-round single-member plurality to closed-list PR, they show that the internal party cohesion increased following the reform. We investigate how the Norwegian electoral reform changed the content of parliamentary speeches. Comparing speeches from MPs present both before and after the reform, we show how parties become more cohesive in parliamentary debates under list PR than they were under the single-member-district system
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Høyland, Bjørn
(2016).
Parliaments.
I Katz Cogan, Jacob; Hurd, Ian & Johnstone, Ian (Red.),
The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations.
Oxford University Press.
ISSN 9780199672202.
s. 782–801.
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Hix, Simon & Høyland, Bjørn
(2013).
Empowerment of the European Parliament.
Annual review of political science (Palo Alto, Calif. Print).
ISSN 1094-2939.
16,
s. 171–189.
doi:
10.1146/annurev-polisci-032311-110735.
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Høyland, Bjørn; Moene, Karl Ove & Willumsen, Fredrik
(2012).
The tyranny of international index rankings.
Journal of Development Economics.
ISSN 0304-3878.
97(1),
s. 1–14.
doi:
10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.01.007.
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International index rankings are popular, but perhaps too persuasive. They emphasize country differences where similarity is the dominant feature. Rankings based on Doing Business, the Human Development Index and Freedom House can be misleading, not because of wrong indicators, but because the estimation of the scores ignores inherent uncertainty. Re-estimated with a method that captures this uncertainty, it becomes clear that ranking every adjacent country is a rather courageous activity.
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Godbout, Jean-François & Høyland, Bjørn
(2011).
Coalition Voting and Minority Governments in Canada.
Commonwealth and Comparative Politics.
ISSN 1466-2043.
49(4),
s. 458–485.
doi:
10.1080/14662043.2011.615168.
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Høyland, Bjørn
(2010).
Procedural and party effects in European Parliament roll-call votes.
European Union Politics.
ISSN 1465-1165.
11(4),
s. 597–613.
doi:
10.1177/1465116510379925.
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I extend the standard spatial model of legislative voting to account for vote-specific party inducements and procedural differences. Focusing on voting in the 1999—2004 European Parliament, I find evidence of vote-specific party inducements in a large share of the roll call votes. Furthermore, MEPs position themselves differently across procedures. As most roll call votes are taken on non-legislative votes, these estimates may overemphasize voting pattern on these votes and downplay voting pattern on legislative votes. As such, these estimates may be a poorly suited for studying within party heterogeneity on legislative votes.
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Nilsen, Jon Kerr; Cai, Xing; Høyland, Bjørn & Langtangen, Hans Petter
(2010).
Simplifying the parallelization of scientific codes by a function-centric approach in Python.
Computational Science & Discovery.
ISSN 1749-4680.
3.
doi:
10.1088/1749-4699/3/1/015003.
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Narud, Hanne Marthe; Hveem, Helge & Høyland, Bjørn
(2010).
Old Conflicts - New Issues? Foreign and Security Policy Attitudes of Norwegian Voters.
Internasjonal Politikk.
ISSN 0020-577X.
68(3),
s. 335–+.
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Sircar, Indraneel & Høyland, Bjørn
(2010).
GET THE PARTY STARTED Development of Political Party Legislative Dynamics in the Irish Free State Seanad (1922-36).
Party Politics.
ISSN 1354-0688.
16(1),
s. 89–110.
doi:
10.1177/1354068809341056.
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Høyland, Bjørn & Hagemann, Sara
(2009).
Parties in the Council,
The Role of Political Parties in the European Union.
Routledge.
ISSN 978-0-415-49928-6.
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Høyland, Bjørn; Hix, Simon & Sircar, Indraneel
(2009).
An Automatic Database of the European Parliament.
European Union Politics.
ISSN 1465-1165.
10(1),
s. 143–152.
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Høyland, Bjørn & Hoyland, B
(2007).
The EU annual budgetary procedure: The existing rules and proposed reforms of the convention and intergovernmental conference 2002-04.
Journal of Common Market Studies.
ISSN 0021-9886.
45.
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Høyland, Bjørn
(2006).
Allocation of Codecision Reports in the Fifth European Parliament.
European Union Politics.
ISSN 1465-1165.
7(1),
s. 30–50.
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Helland, Leif; Asheim, Geir; Hovi, Jon & Høyland, Bjørn
(2008).
Self-serving dictators.
Department of economics, UiO.
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Publisert
3. juni 2011 14:43
- Sist endret
9. feb. 2024 14:27