Øyvind Stiansen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. His research interests include judicial politics, the appointment of judges, judicial impact, compliance with judicial decisions, and applied quantitative methods. He is also interested in the European Court of Human Rights and international courts and tribunals, and has researched judges’ career incentives and ideology, and how judge behavior is affected by changes in the political context. Among other research projects, Stiansen is affiliated with the ENROL project at UiO, studying democratic backsliding and diminishing respect for the rule of law in EU member states such as Poland, and the ELITE project on elite political dynamics in electoral autocracies at PRIO, where Stiansen is Senior Researcher. https://www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/people/aca/oyvinsti/index.html

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