I’m a Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, where I lead the Comparative Institutions and Regimes (CIR) research group. I also hold a secondary position as Research Professor at PRIO and am a PI of Varieties of Democracy. My research interests include regime change and stability, the economic effects of institutions, […]
Read MoreThe Emergence, Life, and Demise of Autocratic Regimes (ELDAR) is a large ongoing project that I am leading. ELDAR is funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant (2 million Euro). The project team will study processes of autocratization, policy-making in autocracies (education, pensions, infrastructure, media), and how and why autocratic regimes break down. In ELDAR, we […]
Read MoreVarieties of Democracy, or V-Dem, is a large network of democracy scholars, worldwide. The most important output of V-Dem (in addition to tons of research) is the V-Dem dataset, which covers more than 400 democracy-relevant variables. Extending from 1789 to the present and covering more than 200 countries, it is a primary resource for social […]
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