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About

Lars Erik Berntzen is Associate Professor at Department of Government, University of Bergen (2024 -), and affiliated with the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo.

Berntzen's research deals with topics such as: 

• Affective polarization and its potential consequences for democracy and how citizens view and engage with one another (social segregation, intolerance, pro-violence).
• The emergence and growth of the anti-Islamic far right from the turn of the century and onwards; scale, causes and consequences.
• Extreme right terrorism and adjacent phenomena such as school shootings with a particular emphasis on the July 22, 2011 case.
• Consequences of conflict among political elites for citizens beliefs and preferences.
• Peoples' attitudes to political violence and perpetrators of violence.

Education

2013-2018       PhD in Political and Social Science, Faculty of Political and Social Science, European University Institute, Italy

2013-2014       Master of Research (M.Res), Faculty of Political and Social Science, European University Institute, Italy

2009-2011       Master in Sociology, Faculty of Social Science, Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway

Previous positions

2023-2024       Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL)

2019-2023       Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen (���ϳԹ���Դ) 

2017-2019       Researcher, Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo (UiO)

Politikk og Røvere, social science podcast in collaboration with Jonas Bergan Dræge (Norwegian):

49 episodes, available where you listen to podcasts - https://soundcloud.com/user-121156373 

Newspaper Op-Eds and blog pieces:

- VG (14.07.2021).

- UiO blog Right Now! (11.11.2019).

– Bergens Tidende (22.11.2015). 

– Aftenposten (10.11.2015).

–  forskning.no (15.07.15).

– Vox Publica (26.06.15). 

– LSE European Politics and Policy (17.06.15).

How anti-Islamic Pegida spreads across Western Europe – EUI Times (07.04.2015)    

– Morgenbladet (04.07.14). 

– NRK Ytring (20.06.14). 

– NRK Ytring (17.07.13).

- Bergens Tidene (30.07.11), Stavanger Aftenblad (16.08.11).

 

Television, radio and podcast appearances (2019 - )

- NRK Nyhetsmorgen (10.08.2021).

- NRK Nyhetsmorgen (28.06.2021).

- NRK Debatten, television interview (03.09.2020). 

- Conversation with Dr. Ismail Patel for UK ReOrient Podcast, The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies (2020).

- Aftenposten Forklart, podcast interview (31.08.2020). 

- Aftenposten Forklart, podcast interview (15.08.19).

- Aftenposten Forklart, podcast interview (21.03.19).

– Studio 2, NRK P2, radio interview (25.02.2019).

 

Newspaper interviews and references to research (2019 - )

– CNN (23.07.2021).

– Aftenposten (06.07. 2021).

– Nettavisen (23.06.2021).

- forskning.no (29.06.2021).

– nrk.no (17.07.2021).

– The National (17.07.2021).

– Stavanger Aftenblad (31.07.2021).

– Universitetet i Bergen Aktuelt (07.07.2021).

Stavanger Aftenblad (18.08.2021).

– Dagbladet (20.07.2021).

, Dagbladet (19.07.2021).

, - Anne Bitsch (op-ed), Morgenbladet (11.07.2021).

- Sylvi Listhaug, Ketil Solvik-Olsen og Terje Søviknes (op-ed), Aftenposten (11.07.2021).

- Anne Bitsch (op-ed), Aftenposten (15.07.2021).

-  Universitetet i Oslo.

- Helsingin Sanomat. (31.08.2020).  

- forskning.no (16.01.2020). 

- Vårt Land (04.08.2020).

Slik er gruppa som gjør folk rasende - Klar Tale (29.08.2020). 

- Aftenposten (28.08.2020). 

– TV2.no (24.08.2019).

- VG (16.03.19). 

– NRK (21.03.19).  

-Vårt land (25.03.19). 

(Dagen,

12.08.19). 

- NRK (12.08.19). 

– Nettavisen (14.08.19).

- Aftenposten (14.08.19). 

– Nettavisen (14.08.19). 

- Dagbladet (20.08.19). 

– Nettavisen (15.08.19).

 -VG (15.08.19).  

– Aftenposten (15.08.19).

 

Research report

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Conference lecture

Popular science article

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Encyclopedia entry

Lecture

Academic monograph

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

Berntzen, L. E., Kelsall, H., & Harteveld, E. (2023). Consequences of Affective Polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the UK & Norway. European Journal of Political Research, First View.

Bjånesøy, L., Ivarsflaten, E., & Berntzen, L. E. (2023). Public political tolerance of the far right in contemporary Western Europe. West European Politics, 1-24.

Harteveld, E., Berntzen, L. E., Kokkonen, A., Kelsall, H., Linde, J., & Dahlberg, S. (2022). The (Alleged) Consequences of Affective Polarization: Individual-Level Evidence & a Survey Experiment in 9 Countries. OSF Preprints. Retrieved from osf.io/64uwd

Berntzen, L.E. (2022). Pegida. In The Wiley‐Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. URL:

Berntzen, L. E., & Ravndal, J. A. (2021). Monster or Hero? Far-right Responses to Anders Behring Breivik and the July 22, 2011 Terrorist Attacks. Perspectives on Terrorism, 15(3), 37-59.

Berntzen, L. E., & Bjørgo, T. (2021). The Term ‘Lone Wolf’ and its Alternatives. Perspectives on Terrorism, 15(3), 132-141.

Berntzen, L. E. (2020). Liberal Roots of Far Right Activism: The Anti-Islamic Movement in the 21st Century. Routledge.

Berntzen, L. E. (2020). How elite politicization of terror impacts sympathies for partisans: Radical right versus social democrats. Politics and Governance, 8(3), 19-31.

Weisskircher, M., & Berntzen, L. E. (2019). Remaining on the streets: Anti-Islamic PEGIDA mobilization and its relationship to far-right party politics. In Radical right movement parties in Europe (pp. 114-130). Routledge.

Berntzen, L. E. (2018). The anti-Islamic movement: far right and liberal? (Doctoral dissertation). European University Institute, Italy.

Berntzen, L. E. (2018). Ytre høyre: Ideologier, grupper, vold og rekruttering. Radikalisering—fenomen og forebygging.

Berntzen, L. E., Bjånesøy, L., & Ivarsflaten, E. (2017). Patterns of legitimacy on the far right. DIGSSCORE working paper.

Berntzen, L. E., & Weisskircher, M. (2016). Anti-Islamic PEGIDA beyond Germany: Explaining differences in mobilisation. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 37(6), 556-573.

Berntzen, L. E., & Sandberg, S. (2014). The collective nature of lone wolf terrorism: Anders Behring Breivik and the anti-Islamic social movement. Terrorism and Political Violence, 26(5), 759-779.

Sandberg, S., Oksanen, A., Berntzen, L. E., & Kiilakoski, T. (2014). Stories in action: The cultural influences of school shootings on the terrorist attacks in Norway. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 7(2), 277-296.

Berntzen, L. E. (2011). Den eksistensielle trusselen, en sosiologisk studie av politisk motstand mot islam, muslimsk kultur og innvandring til Norge (Master's thesis, The University of Bergen).