CV
cv_torewig.pdf
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Faglige interesser
Væpnet konflikt, politisk vold, politisk utvikling, borgerkrig, mellomstatlig konflikt, demokratisering, forskningsmetode, internasjonal politikk, kvantitativ metode, prediksjon av politisk vold, kausal inferens, institusjonell teori, massemobilisering og protest i diktaturer, regimeustabilitet, politikk i diktaturer.
Undervisning
Current:
PECOS4025 - Analytic Perspectives on Peace and conflict
STV4232 - Causes of war in international politics
STV2350 - Autocratic politics
STV1020 – Politisk analyse 2 - Forskningsdesign og kvantitativ metode
Past:
STV4027 - Quantitative causal analysis and prediction
STV1020 - Politisk analyse 2: Forskningsdesign og kvantitative metoder
STV4232B - Causes of war
STV4325B - Causes of political violence
STV4027 - Causal inference
Tidligere stillinger
2024-2025 - Visiting fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
2019 - Visiting Researcher, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
2018-2021 - Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Oslo
2016-2017 Seniorforsker, Institutt for Fredsforskning, PRIO
2015 - 2016 Postdoktor, Institutt for statsvitenskap, UIO
2012-2015 Forsker, Institutt for Fredsforskning, PRIO
2012-2015 Phd stipendiat, Institutt for Statsvitenskap, UIO
2015 - Visiting PhD fellow, Columbia University
Utdanning
Phd i Statsvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo (2015)
Master i Statsvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo (2011)
Bachelor i Statsvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo (2009)
Priser og tildelinger
2026. ERC Consolidator Grant, 2 Million Euro, for the project "Authoritarian Threats to Scientific Knowledge (AUTOKNOW)"
2024. Fridtjof Nansen award for young researchers in the social sciences and the humanities.
2021. APSA Best paper award, American Political Science Association's "Democracy and Autocracy" section, for the paper "Patterns of Regime Breakdown Since the French Revolution" (with Vilde Lunnan Djuve and Carl Henrik Knutsen).
2016. Hans Majestet Kongen's gullmedalje for beste Phd avhandling levert ved SV-fakultetet.
2018. NEPS medal for best publication in Peace Science, for the article "Autocratic Elections: Stabilizing tool or force for change?" (with Håvard Mokleiv Nygård and Carl Henrik Knutsen)
Formidling
Fast skribent i Morgenbladet (min temaside)
Washington Post's Monkey Cage:
- "This may be the largest wave of nonviolent mass movements in world history. What comes next?" (with Erica Chenoweth, Christopher Shay, Sirianne Dahlum, Zoe Marks and Sooyeon Kang, link)
- "We checked 100 years of protests in 150 countries. Here’s what we learned about the working class and democracy." (with Sirianne Dahlum and Carl Henrik Knutsen, link).
- "You’d think dictators would avoid elections. Here’s why they don’t." (with Håvard Nygård and Carl Henrik Knutsen, link).
Jevnlige bidrag i Aftenposten, Dagens Næringsliv, Klassekampen, VG.
Verv
- Programleder, Peace and Conflict Studies Masters Programme, Institutt for Statsvitenskap, 2025-
- Associate Editor, Journal of Peace Research, 2026-
- Styremedlem, Holbergprisen, 2024-2026
- Medlem i Svenska Vetenskapsrådet for Statsvitenskap
- Seksjonsleder for Internasjonal Politikk, Institutt for Statsvitenskap, 2021-2024
- Redaksjonsrådsmedlem, Journal of Peace Research, 2020-2026
- Redaksjonsrådsmedlem, Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift. 2022-
Emneord:
Konflikt,
krig,
revolusjon,
protest,
demokrati,
diktatur,
Borgerkrig,
politiske institusjoner,
Internasjonal politikk
Publikasjoner
Work in Progress:
"Who Holds the Gun? Evidence from Nigeria on the Legitimacy of (Non-)State Armed Security Provision", with Hanne Fjelde, Kristen Kao and Megan Turnbull
"Using AI to evaluate the evidence support for Grand Theories of Politics", with Mitchell Bosley
"The Political Origins of Critical Social Science", with Frederik Hjorth, Martin Søyland and Eli Baltzersen
"Moral Norms and Anti-System political Behavior", with Daniel Goldstein
"Objections to democracy", with Carl Henrik Knutsen, Kristian Frederiksen, Peter Egge Langsæther og Sirianne Dahlum
"Moral Norms and Public Support for Interstate War", with Daniel Goldstein and Eric Gabo Ekeberg Nilsen
"Political elites as democratic gatekeepers: Evidence from Norway", with Sirianne Dahlum, Kaja Sparre Bakke og Daniel Goldstein, revise and resubmit in American Journal of Political Science.
"The Autocratic Threat to Science: Evidence from Millions of research Publications", with Sirianne Dahlum, Haakon Gjerløw and Eric Gabo Ekeberg Nilsen.
Books:
2022. "The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy", med John Gerring, Andreas Forø Tollefsen og Brendan Apfeld, Cambridge University Press.
2022. "Årsaker til krig: Introduksjon til freds- og konfliktvitenskap", Fagbokforlaget.
2021. "One Road to Riches? How state building and democratization affect economic development", med Haakon Gjerløw, Matt Wilson og Carl Henrik Knutsen, Cambridge University Press.
Articles:
2026. "Scientific Collaboration and Protests in Autocracies", with Nils Weidmann and Mina Rulis, Journal of Peace Research, online first: https://doi.org/10.1093/jopres/xjag073
2026. ""The Solidaristic Class: Urban Workers and Welfare State Development, 1860-1954", with Magnus Rasmussen, Carl Henrik Knutsen, and Sirianne Dahlum,forthcoming, World Politics.
2025. "Who Rules: Support coalitions and regime survival", with Magnus Rasmussen, Carl Henrik Knutsen and Sirianne Dahlum, forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies.
2025. "New evidence on citizens’ reactions to democratic norm violations in an advanced democracy", with Sirianne Dahlum and Peter Langsæther, online first, Electoral Studies.
2025 "Mass Mobilization in the Modern Era: Introducing the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) dataset, 1789-2019", with Marianne Dahl, Sirianne Dahlum, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Haakon Gjerløw, Hanne Fjelde, Carina Strøm Sedwick Dahl, forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies.
2025 "Cui Bono: Business elites and interstate conflict", with Sirianne Dahlum, Magnus Rasmussen and Carl Henrik Knutsen, online first in European Journal of International Relations, https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1177/13540661251327
2025 "Behind the throne: Regime support coalitions around the world, 1789-2020", with Carl Henrik Knutsen, Sirianne Dahlum and Magnus Rasmussen,online first British Journal of Political Science, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123424000656
2024. "On the Move: Autocratic Leaders, Security, and Capital Relocations ", with Lee Morgenbesser and Carl Henrik Knutsen, online first in Political Geography, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103154.
2023. "Moral logics of support for nonviolent civil resistance: Evidence from a cross-national survey experiment", with Sirianne Dahlum and Jonathan Pinckney, Comparative Political Studies 56.3 (2023): 326-362.
2021. "Why Monarchy? The Rise and Demise of a Regime Type.", with John Gerring, Jan Teorell, Wouter Veenendaal and Kyosuke Kikota, Comparative Political Studies, 54.3-4 (2021): 585-622
2021. "Chaos on Campus: Universities and Mass Political Protest", with Sirianne Dahlum, Comparative Political Studies, 54.1 (2021): 3-32.
2020. "Peace above the glass ceiling: The historical relationship between female political empowerment and civil conflict.", with Sirianne Dahlum, International Studies Quarterly 64.4 (2020): 879-893.
2019. "Who Revolts? Empirically Revisiting the Social Origins of Democracy", with Sirianne Dahlum and Carl Henrik Knutsen, forthcoming in Journal of Politics, Online first, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/704699.
2019. “Patterns of Regime Breakdown since the French Revolution”, with Vilde Lunnan Djuve and Carl Henrik Knutsen, Comparative Political Studies, 53(6): 923-958..
2019. "“Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset: Political Institutions in the Long 19th Century”, with Carl Henrik Knutsen, Jan Teorell, Agnes Cornell, John Gerring, Haakon Gjerløw, Svend Erik Skaaning, Daniel Ziblatt, Kyle Marquardt, Dan Pemstein, and Brigitte Seim, Journal of Peace Research, 56(3): 440–451.
2019. “Educating Demonstrators: Education and Mass Protest in Africa”, with Sirianne Dahlum, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 63(1): 3-30.
2018. “Which Groups Fight: Customary Institutions and Communal Conflicts in Africa”, with Daniela Kromrey, forthcoming in Journal of Peace Research. DOI: 10.1177/0022343317740416. (online first version here).
2017. “Autocratic Elections: Stabilizing Tool or Force for Change?” , with Carl Henrik Knutsen and Håvard M. Nygård, World Politics, 69(1): 98-143 (link, and monkeycage bloggpost).
2017. “Mining and Local Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa”, with Andreas Kotsadam, Eivind Hammersmark Olsen and Carl Henrik Knutsen, American Journal of Political Science, 61(2): 320-334 (link, replication files).
2016. “Peace from the Past: Pre-colonial Political Institutions and Civil War in Africa”, Journal of Peace Research, 53(4): 509-524 (link, replication files).
2016. “Local Institutional Quality and Conflict Violence in Africa”, with Andreas Forø Tollefsen, Political Geography, 53(7): 30-42. (link, replication files ).
2016. “Cues to Coup Plotters: Elections as Coup Triggers in Dictatorships” , with Espen Geelmuyden Rød, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 60(5): 787-812. (link, replication files).
2015. “Updated Data on Institutions and Elections 1960-2012: Presenting the IAEP dataset version 2.0”, Research & Politics 2(2), DOI: 10.1177/2053168015579120 (link, data).
2015. “Government Turnover and the Effects of Regime Type: How Requiring Alternation in Power Biases Against the Estimated Economic Benefits of Democracy”, with Carl Henrik Knutsen, Comparative Political Studies 48(7), 882-914.
Doktorgradsvhandling:
2015. Beyond the Civil Peace: Subnational Political Institutions and Internal Armed Conflict (handed in: april 2015, defense: September 2015)
Andre publikasjoner (ikke fagfellevurdert):
2021. "Strukturell rasisme: Et statsvitenskapelig perspektiv", Tidsskrift for Samfunnsforskning, 2021 (1): 121-127.
2018. Children Affected by Armed Conflict, 1990–2016, (with Karim Bahgat, Kendra Dupuy, Gudrun Østby, Siri Aas Rustad, Håvard Strand and Tore Wig). PRIO report. Oslo: PRIO. (short summary for policymakers here).
2016. "Democratization and Civil War", (with Håvard Hegre, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Baris Ari). Comparative Democratization Newsletter, June 2016.
2014. "Et Kritisk Blikk på Holbergprisen". Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 2014 (3): 255 - 265.
Publisert
12. mars 2012 13:47
- Sist endret
18. sep. 2026 09:38
