A joint £1 million research grant from the Norwegian Research Council

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Allan Sikk, Associate Professor in Comparative Politics at the UCL SSEES, with Dr Raimondas Ibenskas, Associate Professor at the University of Bergen (Principal Investigator), and Prof Sona Golder, Professor of Political Science at The Pennsylvania State University, have been awarded a joint £1 million research grant from the Norwegian Research Council for a project on Party Instability in Parliaments. The international research team will examine parliamentary party instability in eight established and young democracies over several last decades. The overarching aim of the project is to bring together the currently fragmented work on party instability to provide a unified conceptual, theoretical and empirical framework to understand this phenomenon. The project will develop institutional relationships between the three universities, run outreach activities involving parliaments, political parties, IGOs and NGOs and create an online Observatory of Parliamentary Switches (OOPS).