Allocation of Codecision Reports in the Fifth European Parliament
Bjørn Høyland (2006)."Allocation of Codecision Reports in the Fifth European Parliament."European Union Politics 7 (1) 30 - 50.
CV
Education
- PhD in Political Science 2005
- Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom
- MRes in Political Science (with Distinction) 2003
- Department of Government, LSE
- Visiting Student 2001
- Economics and Management, Aix-Marseille, France
- MSc in European Political Economy: Integration 2000
- European Institute, LSE
- Cand.Mag in Political Science and Economics 1999
- University of Bergen, Norway
Current and Previous Positions
- Professor of Political Science (since 2011)
- Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway
- Associate Professor of Political Science (2011)
- Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway
- Senior Researcher (2010-2011)
- CICERO - Centre for International Climate and Environment Research Oslo, Norway
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2006 - 2010)
- Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway
- ESCR Postdoctoral fellow (2005 - 2006)
- Department of Political Science / School of Public Policy, University College London, UK
- Temporary Lecturer (2005)
- Department of Political Science / School of Public Policy, University College London, UK
- Research assistant and seminar leader (2002 - 2004)
- Department of Government / Methodology Institute, LSE, UK
Fellowships and Awards
- Researcher project, Research Council of Norway, 2020 - 2024
- Anna Lindh Fellow and Visiting Professor, Europe Center, Stanford University, USA 2013 - 2014
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Award received from Economic and Social Research Council, UK 2005 - 2006
- Research Studentship, LSE, UK 2003 - 2004
- Lise and Arnfinn’s Heie Award for academic achievements, 1999
Visiting Professor
- Europe Center, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University 2013 - 2014
- Anna Lindh visting fellow
Publications
The EU Annual Budgetary Procedure: The Existing Rules and Proposed Reforms of the Convention and Intergovernmental Conference 2002–04
Giacomo Benedetto and Bjørn Høyland (2007)."The EU Annual Budgetary Procedure: The Existing Rules and Proposed Reforms of the Convention and Intergovernmental Conference 2002–04."Journal of Common Market Studies 45 (3) 565 - 587.
Parties in the Council?
Sara Hagemann and Bjørn Høyland (2008)."Parties in the Council?."Journal of European Public Policy 15 (8) 1205 - 1221.
An automated database of the european parliament
Bjørn Høyland, Indraneel Sircar and Simon Hix (2010)."An automated database of the european parliament."European Union Politics 10 (1) 143 - 152.
Legislative Involvement in Parliamentary Systems: Opportunities, Conflict, and Institutional Constraints
Fabio Franchino and Bjørn Høyland (2010)."Legislative Involvement in Parliamentary Systems: Opportunities, Conflict, and Institutional Constraints."American Political Science Review 103 (4) 607 - 621.
Get the Party Started: Development of Political Party Legislative Dynamics in the Irish Free State Seanad (1922—36)
Indraneel Sircar and Bjørn Høyland (2010)."Get the Party Started: Development of Political Party Legislative Dynamics in the Irish Free State Seanad (1922—36)."Party Politics 19 (1) 89 - 110.
Bicameral Politics in the European Union
Sara Hagemann and Bjørn Høyland (2010)."Bicameral Politics in the European Union."Journal of Common Market Studies 48 (4) 811 - 833.
From doves to hawks: A spatial analysis of voting in the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England
Simon Hix, Bjørn Høyland, and Nick Vivyan (2010)."From doves to hawks: A spatial analysis of voting in the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England." European Journal of Political Research 49 (6) 731 - 758.
Simplifying the parallelization of scientific codes by a function-centric approach in Python
Jon K. Nilsen, Xiang Cai, Bjørn Høyland, and Hans Petter Langtangen (2010)."Simplifying the parallelization of scientific codes by a function-centric approach in Python."Computational Science & Discovery 3 (1) 1 - 25.
Procedural and party effects in European Parliament roll-call votes
Bjørn Høyland (2010)."Procedural and party effects in European Parliament roll-call votes." European Union Politics 1 (4) 597 - 613.
Selection and Sanctioning in European Parliamentary Elections
Sara B. Hobolt and Bjørn Høyland (2011)."Selection and Sanctioning in European Parliamentary Elections." British Journal of Political Science 41 (3) 477 - 498.
Legislative Voting in the Canadian Parliament
Jean-François Godbout and Bjørn Høyland (2011)."Legislative Voting in the Canadian Parliament." Canadian Journal of Political Science 44 (2) 367 - 388.
Coalition voting and minority governments in Canada
Jean-François Godbout and Bjørn Høyland (2011)."Coalition voting and minority governments in Canada." Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 49 (4) 457 - 485.
The tyranny of international index rankings
Bjørn Høyland, Karl Moene and Fredrik Wilumsen (2012)."Tyranny of international index rankings." Journal of Development Economics 97 (1) 1 - 14.
Peace on quicksand? Challenging the conventional wisdom about economic growth and post-conflict risks
Marianne Dahl and Bjørn Høyland (2012)."Peace on quicksand? Challenging the conventional wisdom about economic growth and post-conflict risks." Journal of Peace Research 49 (3) 423 - 429.
Empowerment of the European Parliament
Simon Hix and Bjørn Høyland (2013)."Empowerment of the European Parliament." Annual Review of Political Science 16 171 - 189.
The emergence of parties in the Canadian House of Commons (1867–1908)
Jean-François Godbout and Bjørn Høyland (2013)."The Emergence of Parties in the Canadian House of Commons (1867–1908)." Canadian Journal of Political Science 46 (4) 773 - 797.
Issue-specific policy-positions and voting in the Council
Bjørn Høyland and Vibeke Wøien Hansen (2014)."The budgetary procedure in the European Union and the implications of the Treaty of Lisbon." European Union Politics 15 (1) 59 - 81.
Political behaviour in the European Parliament
Simon Hix and Bjørn Høyland (2014)."Political Behaviour in the European Parliament."The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies Eds Shane Martin, Thomas Saalfeld, and Kaare W. Strøm.
Predicting party affiliations from european parliament debates
Bjørn Høyland, Jean-François Godbout, Emanuele Lapponi, and Erik Velldal (2014)."Predicting party affiliations from european parliament debates."Proceedings of the acl 2014 workshop on language technologies and computational social science.
The budgetary procedure in the European Union and the implications of the Treaty of Lisbon
Christophe Crombez and Bjørn Høyland (2015)."The budgetary procedure in the European Union and the implications of the Treaty of Lisbon." European Union Politics 16 (1) 67 - 89.
Parliaments
Bjørn Høyland (2016)."Parliaments."The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations Eds Jacob Katz Cogan; Ian Hurd & Ian Johnstone.
Unity in Diversity? The Development of Political Parties in the Parliament of Canada, 1867 - 2011
Jean-François Godbout and Bjørn Høyland (2017)."Unity in Diversity? The Development of Political Parties in the Parliament of Canada, 1867–2011." British Journal of Political Science 47 (3) 545 - 569.
Electoral Reform and Parliamentary Debates
Bjørn Høyland and Martin G. Søyland (2019)."Electoral Reform and Parliamentary Debates." Legislative Studies Quarterly 44 (4) 593 - 615.
Career ambitions and legislative participation: the moderating effect of electoral institutions
Bjørn Høyland, Sara B. Hobolt & Simon Hix (2019)."Career Ambitions and Legislative Participation: The Moderating Effect of Electoral Institutions ."British Journal of Political Science. 49 (2) 491 - 512.
Delegation of committee reports in the European Parliament
Fang-Yi Chiou, Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen and Bjørn Høyland(2020)."Delegation of committee reports in the European Parliament." European Union Politics 21 (2) 233 - 254.
Climate Politics in Hard Times: How Local Economic Shocks Influence MPs Attention to Climate Change
Henning Finseraas, Bjørn Høyland and Martin G. Søyland (forthcoming)." Climate Politics in Hard Times: How Local Economic Shocks Influence MPs Attention to Climate Change " European Journal of Political Research .
Teaching
Service and leadership
- Director of Studies 2020 -
- Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
- External Evaluator - ERC 2020
- Starting Grant
- Editorial board member 2011 -
- Editorial board member 2011 - 2017
- Elected Faculty Representative 2012 - 2019
- Board of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo
- External Evaluator – Postdoctoral fellowships 2016 & 2017
- Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium
- Evaluator – Postdoctoral fellowship 2017
- Research Council of the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
- Member Promotion Committee 2016
- Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan