Are politicians gatekeepers of democracy? Will they reject candidates for party leadership or coalitions to protect it? We ran pre-registered experiments on 2,000 Norwegian politicians. They do gatekeep, but it’s conditional.

osf.io/preprints/so...

Excited to see this paper from my PhD published in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social

Drawing on original experimental evidence from Poland, I examine whether protests over a deeply entrenched issue, namely abortion, induce polarization, not only ideologically but also affectively
doi.org/10.1093/jopr...

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On June 15th, Master of Political Science Amalie Nilsen will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social :

"The Protest Paradox: The Role of Mass Mobilization in Promoting and Challenging Liberal Democracy"

📢 New article 🌟
👤 Amalie Nilsen @amalienilsen.bsky.social
👉 From the streets to the ballots: protests, polls and polarization in Hong Kong
📗Open Access in: Democratization
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1351...

I’m very happy to share that the first paper of my PhD, «From the streets to the ballots: Protests, polls and Polarization in Hong Kong» has been published online in @democratization.bsky.social

It is open access, and you can read it here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....