معرفی
Peter Egge Langsæther is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Oslo (2019) and has held positions including Postdoctoral Fellow at NTNU and Visiting Researcher at Nuffield College, Oxford. His research focuses on political and electoral behavior, particularly the impact of social class, globalization, climate attitudes, and media effects. He has authored the book Party Families in Western Europe (2023) and contributed to journals like British Journal of Political Science and European Journal of Political Research.
Langsæther teaches courses on political behavior, methodology, and comparative politics at both undergraduate and graduate levels. His work explores topics such as left-right ideology, class identity validity, and the social backgrounds of political elites. He serves on the Editorial Board of Electoral Studies and has reviewed for numerous top-tier journals.
His research trends emphasize the evolving role of social class in politics, the intersection of gender and progressive attitudes, and the methodological rigor in analyzing political preferences. He has pioneered datasets on government elites’ social profiles and advanced frameworks for categorizing political parties into families across Western Europe.
Langsæther’s projects include investigating voter defense of democracy, the relevance of class identity, and global automation’s electoral impacts. He actively engages in academic service, including roles on faculty boards and early-career researcher support committees.
