Researching autocratic politics, ministers & international cooperation at the University of Oslo.
Happy to be back in Oslo and to join this great company!
The WhoGov ProjectWe are happy to announce that our team has been strengthened by four new members who will code many, many ministers with us in the years to come! Welcome to our new PhD @gelonn99.bsky.social and our new Postdocs @javierpadilla.bsky.social, @andreinathoma.bsky.social & @jonaswschmid.bsky.social!
How will the rise of autocracies in international relations reshape global governance and what can democratic policy-makers do to counter this? I wrote a blogpost on this based on a policy brief with @jonastallberg.bsky.social and @faradj.bsky.social: www.democracywithoutborders.org/43349/how-th...
How the rise of autocracies is reshaping global governanceThis article explains how autocracies are reshaping global governance through institutional drift, informal cooperation and domestic backlash, and how democracies can react to defend liberal norms and...www.democracywithoutborders.orgAre top public officials rewarded for good performance? In our new paper "Governing for growth?" (doi.org/10.1177/1065...). @jacobnyrup.bsky.social and I study how economic performance affects the political survival of finance ministers to show that this depends on the regime they work in. Thread ⬇️
Sage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.doi.orgVery happy that my article "Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?" won the Frank Cass Prize for the best young scholar article in @democratization.bsky.social in 2025! Read it here or check the thread below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Jonas W. SchmidEver felt uneasy about how concepts & measures of "grey zone" autocracies are used interchangeably across the literature? Then check out my 🚨new paper🚨 in @democratization.bsky.social and get some substance to back up your gut feeling: tinyurl.com/ypdm2kna Or at least read the main points below ⬇️
Join us for the 3rd(!) round of our workshop/mini-conference! We promise great research, fun people, and rumor has it that you will also get a chance to eat the best Chinese food in all of Norway if you attend!
𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥We are happy to announce the call for papers for the third WhoGov Mini-Conference on Political Elites! It will be held on August 20-21st, 2026 in Oslo. We welcome research on political elites broadly understood and not just papers using WhoGov. You can find the call here: bit.ly/whogovminico...