Jana Birke Belschner
Position
Researcher, TMF Starting Grant Fellow
Affiliation
- jana.belschner@uib.no
- Phone number
- +47 55589673
- +47 94 98 50 98
- Visitor address
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Christies gate 15
5007 Bergen - Postal address
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P.O. Box 7802NO-5020 BergenNorway
Jana Birke Belschner
Position
Researcher, TMF Starting Grant Fellow
Affiliation
Research
I am a 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.
working papers
Belschner, Jana, Jacob Aars and Jo Saglie (under review): Does Enfranchisement Increase Descriptive Representation? The Case of Voting Age Reforms. SSRN working paper: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4540073
Belschner, Jana and Linn Sandberg (under review): Corrective or Exclusion? Citizen-Elite Toxicity and Political Equality Online. SSRN working paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4540106
Recent Publications:
Belschner, Jana, Raimondas Ibenskas, and Florian Weiler (2024): When do voters reveal candidate gender preferences? Evidence from individual-level ballot data. European Journal of Political Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12679
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
Publications
Conference lecture
- Jana Birke Belschner (2025). What Explains Variation in Gendered Political Violence? A Cross-Regional Comparison. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2017). Barriers to political recruitment at the intersection of age and gender. (external link)
- Ragnhild Louise Muriaas; Jana Birke Belschner; Lise Lund Bjånesøy et al. (2023). Violence within Parties: Why young men and women react differently. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2022). The Cost of Doing Politics Online: Gender Aspects of Political Violence. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2017). The intersectional impact of gender and youth quotas. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2018). “Political recruitment of young men and women. The importance of resources”. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2023). Critique or Exclusion? Exploring Group Inequality in Exposure to Online Political Toxicity. (external link)
- Vibeke Wang; Ragnhild Louise Muriaas; Jana Birke Belschner et al. (2023). Project workshop Cost of Politics. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2017). Les quotas des jeunes en Afrique. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2018). "The adoption of electoral quotas after the Arab uprisings" (paper presentation). (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner; Jacob Aars; Jo Saglie (2023). Does suffrage increase representation? Voting age reforms and the recruitment of young politicians. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2024). What Explains Variation in Gendered Political Violence? A Cross-Regional Comparison. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2018). “Political recruitment of young people. The importance of resources”. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2017). The adoption of electoral quotas after the Arab spring. (external link)
- Vibeke Wang; Jana Birke Belschner; Lise Lund Bjånesøy et al. (2023). Who cares? The acceptability of aggressive behavior in politics. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2023). The Cost of Doing Politics Online: Sources, Types, and Consequences of Online Political Violence. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2022). The Cost of Doing Politics Online: Gender Aspects of Political Toxicity. (external link)
- Vibeke Wang; Jana Birke Belschner; Elin Bjarnegård et al. (2022). Project workshop Cost of Politics. (external link)
Lecture
- Jana Birke Belschner (2021). Politiker*innen als Ziel von Online Hate Speech. Umfang, Folgen, mögliche Gegenmassnahmen. (external link)
- Ragnhild Louise Muriaas; Jana Birke Belschner (2018). Democracy, gender equality, and economic development. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2018). "The effect of quotas enforced by financial sanctioning mechanisms". (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2021). Junge Frauen in die Politik - Barrieren und Chancen für generations- und geschlechtergerechte politische Repräsentation. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2018). the determinants for youth’s participation in politics. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2018). "Gender quota regulations in Europe". (external link)
Academic article
- Jana Birke Belschner; de Paredes Marta Garcia (2020). Hierarchies of Representation: The Re-distributive Effects of Gender and Youth Quotas. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2024). Too young to win? Exploring the sources of age-related electoral disadvantage. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2022). Youth Advantage Versus Gender Penalty: Selecting and Electing Young Candidates. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2018). The adoption of youth quotas after the Arab uprisings. (external link)
- Josefina Sipinen; Jana Birke Belschner; Brittany Anlar (2024). Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner (2021). Electoral Engineering in New Democracies: Strong Quotas and Weak Parties in Tunisia. (external link)
- Jana Birke Belschner; Raimondas Ibenskas; Florian Weiler (2024). When do voters reveal candidate gender preferences? Evidence from individual-level ballot data. (external link)