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).

​The most relevant PRIO researchers to comment on aspects relevant to the Russia-Ukraine War are listed here.

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.

Security Dialogue (SD) and the Journal of Peace Research (JPR) remain in the top quartile of journal rankings.

Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (previously Web of Science/Thomson Reuter's) show the journals' two-year Impact Factor (IF). This is the most commonly used metric of journal influence measuring the average number of citations to articles published in the last two volumes.

​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!