A fantastic validation of historical political economy!

I know there’s no political science Nobel but I couldn’t be happier that Daron, Jim and Simon have won the Nobel in Economics. Congrats guys! www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

Prize in economic sciences

Prize in economic sciences

PUBLISHED! I’m thrilled to see “On the Move: Autocratic Leaders, Security, and Capital Relocations” published in Political Geography 🤓 Co-authored with @chknutsen.bsky.social@torewig.bsky.socialwww.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social@lmorgenbesser.bsky.social@torewig.bsky.socialwww.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On the move: Autocratic leaders, security, and capital relocations

Why do some countries make the costly decision to relocate their capital city? Existing research offers four general explanations for this momentous a…

Despite some variation, this generally holds for attitudes to economic left-right, immigration, moral traditionalism, environmentalism, and gender equality. The clearest exception to the pattern is Italian women who are, on average, more skeptical of immigration than Italian men.

New paper alert! @chknutsen.bsky.socialjournals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Are women more progressive than men? Attitudinal gender gaps in West European democracies - Peter Egge Langsæther, Carl Henrik Knutsen, 2024

We assess gender gaps in attitudes to several important and distinct policy areas, including economic left–right issues, gender equality, immigration, environme...

Education plays key roles in the lives of people & states.Yet, we need systematic & extensive data to study the development and effects of education. @chknutsen.bsky.social@plutscher.bsky.social#OpenAccessjournals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Education Policies and Systems Across Modern History: A Global Dataset - Adrián del Río, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Philipp M. Lutscher, 2024

We introduce a global dataset on education policies and systems across modern history (EPSM), which includes measures on compulsory education, ideological guida...

Here’s a blogpost we wrote for the article back in 2017: www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-...@havardmn.bsky.social

Analysis | You’d think dictators would avoid elections. Here’s why they don’t.

Elections can be risky, but there are real benefits for autocratic regimes.

Exciting to be on CNN yesterday, talking about insights from earlier work on elections in autocracies with Håvard Mokleiv Nygård and @torewig.bsky.socialwww.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We are planning the first WhoGov Workshop to be held in Oslo on the 29-30th of August 2024. We welcome all research using WhoGov in some capacity and we have funding to cover travel expenses for participants. Find the call for papers through the link or use the QR code: bit.ly/WhoGov_Workshop