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Jana Birke Belschner

Postdoctoral Fellow, Trond-Mohn-Grantee 2023
  • E-mailjana.belschner@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 96 73+47 94 98 50 98
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    Christies gate 15
    5007 Bergen
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    Postboks 7802
    5020 Bergen

I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Comparative Politics. My research is positioned at the nexus of political behavior, political representation, and political economy. Generally, I am interested in how demography affects elections and policy, with a focus on youth's political participation and the political
representation of young and future generations' interests. I have specific expertise in the empirical analysis of the causes and effects of electoral reforms, such as electoral quotas and youth enfranchisement, and have researched these topics across Western Europe and North Africa.

In 2023, I was awarded a Trond Mohn Starting Grant for my project "Representing the Future in an Aging Europe. The Politics of Demographic Change". The project will run from June 2024 to May 2028.

 

Recent Publications:

Belschner, Jana, Raimondas Ibenskas, and Florian Weiler (forthcoming): When do voters reveal candidate gender preferences? Evidence from individual-level ballot data. European Journal of Political Research. Accepted for publication.

Belschner, Jana (2024): Too Young to Win? Exploring the sources of age-related electoral disadvantage. Electoral Studies. Vol. 88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2024.102748.

Sipinen Josefina, Jana Belschner, and Brit Anlar (2024): Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections. Electoral Studies. Vol.88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2024.102763.

Belschner, Jana (2023) Youth Advantage Versus Gender Penalty: Selecting and Electing Young Candidates. Political Research Quarterly, 76(1), 90-106. https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129211072559.

Belschner, Jana. (2022) Electoral Engineering in New Democracies. Strong Quotas and Weak Parties in Tunisia. Government & Opposition,57(1), 108-125. https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2020.34 

Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2024). Too young to win? Exploring the sources of age-related electoral disadvantage. Electoral Studies: an international journal on voting and electoral systems and strategy.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Youth Advantage Versus Gender Penalty: Selecting and Electing Young Candidates. Political research quarterly. 90-106.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Electoral Engineering in New Democracies: Strong Quotas and Weak Parties in Tunisia. Government and Opposition.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Hierarchies of Representation: The Re-distributive Effects of Gender and Youth Quotas. Representation.
  • Show author(s) (2018). The adoption of youth quotas after the Arab uprisings. Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Lecture
  • Show author(s) (2021). Politiker*innen als Ziel von Online Hate Speech. Umfang, Folgen, mögliche Gegenmassnahmen.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Junge Frauen in die Politik - Barrieren und Chancen für generations- und geschlechtergerechte politische Repräsentation.
  • Show author(s) (2018). the determinants for youth’s participation in politics.
  • Show author(s) (2018). "The effect of quotas enforced by financial sanctioning mechanisms".
  • Show author(s) (2018). "Gender quota regulations in Europe".
Popular scientific lecture
  • Show author(s) (2018). Democracy, gender equality, and economic development.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2023). Who cares? The acceptability of aggressive behavior in politics.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Violence within Parties: Why young men and women react differently .
  • Show author(s) (2023). The Cost of Doing Politics Online: Sources, Types, and Consequences of Online Political Violence.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Project workshop Cost of Politics.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Does suffrage increase representation? Voting age reforms and the recruitment of young politicians.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Critique or Exclusion? Exploring Group Inequality in Exposure to Online Political Toxicity.
  • Show author(s) (2022). The Cost of Doing Politics Online: Gender Aspects of Political Violence.
  • Show author(s) (2022). The Cost of Doing Politics Online: Gender Aspects of Political Toxicity.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Project workshop Cost of Politics.
  • Show author(s) (2018). “Political recruitment of young people. The importance of resources”.
  • Show author(s) (2018). “Political recruitment of young men and women. The importance of resources”.
  • Show author(s) (2018). "The adoption of electoral quotas after the Arab uprisings" (paper presentation).
  • Show author(s) (2017). The intersectional impact of gender and youth quotas.
  • Show author(s) (2017). The adoption of electoral quotas after the Arab spring.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Les quotas des jeunes en Afrique.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Barriers to political recruitment at the intersection of age and gender.
Book review
  • Show author(s) (2020). [Book Review] Petra Ahrens, Katja Chmilewski, Sabine Lang, Birgit Sauer: Gender Equality in Politics. Implementing Party Quotas in Germany and Austria. Femina Politica. 163-165.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Show author(s) (2020). Empowering Young Women? Gender and Youth Quotas in Tunisia. 22 pages.
Briefs
  • Show author(s) (2023). Stortingskandidaters møter med vold: Er norsk politikk et trygt rom? .

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)