Email: haagje@prio.org
Mobile phone: (+47) 995 99 128
Twitter: @HaakonGjerlw
Website: www.haakongjerlow.com
My research focuses on political institutions, domestic politics, mass-mobilization, and human development. I also have an interest in data collection and discovering new empirical evidence to test existing theories in comparative politics and political economy.
I am always interested in cooperation with practitioners of development programmes and humanitarian aid. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like to explore options for combining practice with science.
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PRIO invites applications for this course, which will be taught in person in Oslo on 5-7 June 2023. The application deadline is 28 February.
Anton Kronborg has successfully completed his master's thesis, titled On the Edge of their Seats: Incentives for Constituency Service in the National Assembly of Zambia, at the University of Copenhagen (Department of Political Science).
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How can we better understand the rank-and-file of political elites in electoral autocracies, and how their strategic interaction affects the overall political system and societal outcomes?
Haakon Gjerløw has received funding from the Research Council of Norway for the three-year project
Elite Political Dynamics in Electoral Autocracies (ELITE).
Congratulations to Haakon and his team! Other project members will be Lise Rakner at the University of Bergen and Øyvind Stiansen, as well as a collaboration with SAIPAR (South African Institute for Policy and Research). The project plans to start up during August 2021.
In May, a new PRIO Middle East Centre project started. The project, entitled 'Reacting to COVID-19 Across the MENA region', aims to explore how Middle East states reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic and what these varied reactions say about the regimes in question, combining statistical analysis of regional patterns with five case studies: Jordan, Turkey, Iran, Israel, and Palestine. The case studies are published in the MidEast Policy Brief series, with an accompanying PRIO Paper presenting the statistical analysis.
Security Dialogue (SD) and the Journal of Peace Research (JPR) remain in the top quartile of journal rankings.
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PRIO congratulates Haakon Gjerløw, who has sucessfully defended his doctoral thesis in political science at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo. His thesis "Political institutions, leaders, and public spending" examines how political leaders use public investment to maintain their political power. In particular, he finds that that industrialization is accelerating under autocratic leaders, but also that countries with such governance build more skyscrapers. Democratic countries, on the other hand, provide better quality public services.
Congratulations Haakon!