Arjan H. Schakel

Political scientist at the University of Bergen who studies elections, parties, voters, and governments to improve regional democracy.

[Arjan H. Schakel @AHSchakel]

@Schiphol: Please open more security check points. A real pity, you did so well the past few months and now you make us wait for more than 1 hour and then merge our queue with another very long queue. What is this kind of organazation? Pleae open up security check points asap.

[Cambridge University Press - Politics @CUP_PoliSci]

#OpenAccess from @JPublicPolicy -

Does multilevel government increase legitimacy? Citizens’ preferences for subnational authority and acceptance of governmental decisions - https://t.co/0Wwa08yaV5

- Berkay Alıca & @AHSchakel (both @UiB)

#FirstView

[Regional & Federal Studies @RegFedSt]

❗This introduction to the Annual Review of Regional Elections by Romanova & @AHSchakel provides a literature review of no less than 324 regional election articles published in our journal, distilling the contributions of seven Reviews published since 2018
https://t.co/KJSyqT2eFu

[UiB Samfunn @UiBsamfunn]

Professor @AHSchakel på @UiB_sampol har avsluttet sitt forskningsprosjekt støttet av Trond Mohn forskningsstiftelse (TMF). Les sluttrapporten her! https://t.co/tCZYJRSQ5b @tmf

[LEGITIMULT @legitimult]

#2 Economic sustainability & crisis management:
Did multi-level institutions shape the size of Covid-19 socioeconomic measures? @AHerreroAlcalde, Javier Martin-Roman @UNED delved into this question through an econometric analysis and come to some important, differentiated results

[LEGITIMULT @legitimult]

#1 Economic sustainability and crisis management: Does intergovernmental coordination improve crisis management? Marius Guderjan @FU_Berlin, Mario Kölling @UNED and Johanna Schnabel @JoSchnabel38 answered this issue by comparing France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK.

[LEGITIMULT @legitimult]

Rule of law, dem participation and crisis management: during a crisis, separation of powers is challenged in favor of the executive. Yet, parliaments have not been inactive. Edina Szöcsik @InstituteOfFed looks at ex post committees #LEGITIMULT #midtermconference @InEthnicStudies

[Comparative Federalism - Eurac Research @EuracFederalism]

💜Our Greta #Klotz presented the concepts of the e-learning course and the citizens' juries at the @legitimult #midtermconference hosted by @InEthnicStudies in Ljubljana🇸🇮

More on our @HorizonEU project on legitimate crisis governance here: https://t.co/LQVcVUmhCz

@REA_research

[LEGITIMULT @legitimult]

Human rights and non-discrimination: what are the perceptions and attitudes of persons belonging to diverse minorities on the legitimacy of crisis management during Covid-19? Mitja Žagar @InEthnicStudies #LEGITIMULT #midtermconference

[LEGITIMULT @legitimult]

Political #Trust in times of crisis: @UAntwerpen team is looking at trust in their research. Their survey analysis shows how the national level becomes more important in terms of trust during a crisis for citizens, and particularly in unitary systems #LEGITIMULT

[LEGITIMULT @legitimult]

Legitimate crisis governance: does multi-level government matter? The team @UniLeiden compares pairs of unitary and federal states (Netherlands/Belgium, France/Germany). Their aim is the uncover governance patterns that are specifically related to different MLG modes.

[LEGITIMULT @legitimult]

Mapping multilevel government during a crisis: 32 policies, 2 main categories (containment and closure policies + health system policies), based on @OxCRGT with new insights from a multilevel perspective. @AHSchakel presented the coding scheme with Bilal Hassan. #LEGITIMULT

[LEGITIMULT @legitimult]

💬Words of the project #3 Another central concept: democratic governance and its trade-offs during a crisis. #LEGITIMULT

[LEGITIMULT @legitimult]

🙃Over 20 people, 11 partner institutions, 7 presentations and countless exchanges. We are at the halfway point, and it's time to discuss the first results together! #LEGITIMULT #midtermconference
with @InEthnicStudies

[Christine Neuhold @C_Neuhold1]

What a pleasure to award an honorary doctorate to Prof. Hooghe and Prof. Marks on behalf of FASoS! @FasosMaastricht #diesnatalis #maastrichtuniversity

[European Consortium for Political Research @ECPR]

🇮🇪 @ECPR_Federalism endorsed #ecprgc24 Section ⤵️
💡 Seeks Papers & Panels on Comparative Territorial Politics in Multilevel States: Citizens, Voters, and Political Actors
🪑 Chairs @MartinRGross & @AHSchakel
⌛ 18 Jan 2024
https://t.co/78ew8S4BBD

[Sven Hegewald @svenhegewald]

🚨 Publication alert 🚨

My first dissertation paper has just been published in @jepp_journal 🎉🎉

In the paper I investigate the relationship between place-based resentment and political trust in local and national institutions.

Link: https://t.co/7sdgdJHlB4
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[Local Government Studies @LGStudies]

New in LGS: in 'Avoiding a natural resource curse? The impact of administrative efficiency on Colombian municipalities’ fiscal effort' Maria Antonieta Collazos& @AHSchakel find it is higher when producer municipalities have more-efficient administrations https://t.co/YBMLNz0XVz

[Arjan H. Schakel @AHSchakel]

@JanaBelschner @BerkayAlica @MaDanielsen @MOkolikj @UiB_sampol @ECPR_Federalism You are more than welcome to join the team!