• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli & Carl Henrik Knutsen (2023). Reforming to Survive:The Bolshevik Origins of Social Policies. Cambridge University Press  (order here) 

  • • • • Featured at Broadstreet: Bolshevik Origins of Social Policies – Broadstreet 

        • Featured in VG: Debatt: Lenin og den moderne velferdsstatens gjennombrudd - VG (Norwegian)

        • Featured in Apollon:   Frykten for revolusjon førte til store reformer - Apollon (uio.no) (Norwegian)

        • Featured at forskning.no:  Da ledere i Høyre og Venstre trodde de kunne bli drept av Arbeiderpartiet (forskning.no)  (Norwegian)

        • Working paper version (not updated): (PDF) Reforming to Survive:The Bolshevik Origins of Social Policies (researchgate.net)  

        • Updated dataset (working hours) see below or dataset section. 

• Dahlum, Sirianne ; Carl Henrik Knutsen; Magnus Bergli Rasmussen & Tore Wig (Under Contract). Å studere Statsvitenskap [How to study Political Science]. Fagbokforlaget

• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli (2024): The Great Standardization: Working Hours around the World since 1789 . Forthcoming in Labor History  Link  

  • Dataset: Working Time Regulation in 203 Independent and dependent states from 1789 to 2014. download (STATA). Please read this paper before using

  • Appendix B: Download. 

• Magnus B. Rasmussen; Carl Henrik Knutsen (2024): Laying Down the Principles: How Local Socialist Achievements Spurred National Bourgeoise Support for Public Pensions. Forthcoming in  World Politics. 76(1)172-217. (article link. Pre-print)

  • Dataset: 

• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli (2023). The Politics of Time:The Political Origins of Working-Time Regulation.  Social Science History. Download pre-print here

• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli (2022).Farmers and the Origin of the Welfare State: Evidence from 308 roll call votes between 1882 and 1940 Scandinavian Political Studies. Link to preprint Link to paper

  • Featured at forskning.no:  Senterpartiet støttet ikke Arbeiderpartiet da velferdsstaten skulle bygges før krigen (forskning.no)  (Norwegian)

• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli; Haakon Gjerløw (2022). Revolution, Elite Fear, and Electoral Institutions.  Journal of Comparative Politics.Download here 

• Skorge, Øyvind S. ; Magnus B. Rasmussen (2021). Volte-Face on the Welfare State: Social Partners, Knowledge Economies, and the Expansion of Work-Family Policies . Politics and Society. main paper. online appendix (with additional case-studies)

• Andersen, David; Carsten Jensen & Magnus Bergli Rasmussen (2021) Suffering from Suffrage: Welfare State Development and the Politics of Citizenship Disqualification. Social Science History. Download here. 

• Cools, Sara ;Henning Finseraas & Magnus Bergli Rasmussen  (2020). Organizing Immigrants: Organized Labor in the Age of Migration. LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations .Download here 

• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli & Skorge, Øyvind Søraas (2020). The business of change: Employers and work-family policy reforms, In Dennie Oude Nijhuis (ed.),  Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State . Routledge. Download here

• Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli (2019). Majoritarian systems, rural groups, and (arrested) welfare state development. International Political Science Review.  Download here

• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2019). Party Institutionalization and Welfare State Development. British Journal of Political Science.  Download here

• Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Rasmussen, Magnus (2018). The Autocratic Welfare State: Old-Age Pensions, Credible Commitments, and Regime Survival. Comparative Political Studies.  Download here

  • Featured in Dagens Næringsliv (newspaper) : Velferd stabiliserer diktaturer (+) | DN (Norwegian)

  • Featured in MonkeyCage  (Washington Post) :Offering pensions can help autocrats stay in power longer - The Washington Post 

• Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli (2018). Electoral Rules, Labor Market Coordination and Macroeconomic Performance. Scandinavian Political Studies.  Download here 

• Rasmussen, Magnus & Pontusson, Jonas (2018). Working-Class Strength by Institutional Design? Unionization, Partisan Politics, and Unemployment Insurance Systems, 1870 to 2010. Comparative Political Studies. Download here

Under Review, Revise and Resubmitt 

• Rasmussen, B. Magnus. To Nip it in the Bud: Democratization and Institutional Safeguards against Redistribution.  Link (Under review).

• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli and Carl Henrik Knutsen: Imperial Labor Standards:  Working Time Regulation in a World Dominated by Empires. (under review)

• Wig, Tore ; Sirianne Dahlum; Carl Henrik Knutsen & Magnus Bergli Rasmussen. Cui Bono? Business Elites and Interstate Conflict.  link  (Revise and Resubmitt, Journal of Conflict Resolution)

• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli; Sirianne Dahlum; Carl Henrik Knutsen & Wig, Tore. The Solidaristic Class? Urban Working Classes, Regime Coalitions, and Welfare State Expansion . Link (under review) 

• Dahlum, Sirianne; Magnus B. Rasmussen: Educated to Democratize? Education and Elite support for Universal suffrage. Under review.  (Abstract)

• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli; Institutions (still) Rule: Labor Market Centralization and Trade Union Organization. under review

• Rasmussen, Magnus & Haakon Gjerløw. Welfare before the Welfare State: Worker Mobilization and Poor Relief Provisions in Norwegian Municipalities 1900-1922. (Revise and Resubmitt Labour History)

• Dahlum, Sirianne; Carl Henrik Knutsen; Magnus Bergli Rasmussen & Tore Wig. Who rules? Support Coalitions and Regime Survival, 1789-2019. Link Under review

Working Papers

• Rasmussen, B. Magnus ; Øyvind S. Skorge: Partiaization: How National Parties Took Hold of Local Politics. Contact for latest version. (Abstract)

• Rasmussen, B. Magnus ; Øyvind S. Skorge: Mayor by Flip-of-a-Coin: Political and Policy Effects from Randomizing Political Power. Contact for latest version. (Abstract)

• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli: The Right to Vote by Mail: The Politics of Absentee voting. (Under Construction) (Abstract)

• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli: Organization Works: Hours of Work and the International Labor Organization. Link

•  Noort, Sam van; Magnus Bergli Rasmussen & Tore Wig: Industrialization and Democratization: Historical evidence from Norway and Switzerland. (Under Construction)

• Rasmussen, B. Magnus; Mia Sandviiken: Election fraud in Norway, 1860-1900: A preliminary investigation. (Under Construction)

• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli; Peter Langsæther & Haakon Gjerløw: Reformism or Radicalism: Revisiting the Sources of Working-Class Politics. (Under Construction) 

Planned projects

• Magnus B. Rasmussen; Marina Povitkina & Øyvind S. Skorge. The Green Contagion? Investigating the causal effect of green-party entry on mainstream parties environmental position. 

• Magnus B. Rasmussen; Andreas Kotsadam; Jo Thore Lind: Becoming a Nazi: Explaining Membership in Facist and National Socialist Organizations using individual level data, 1920-1940. 

Resting Papers 

• Rasmussen, Bergli Rasmussen. The Origin of the Segmented Welfare State. 

• Finseraas, Henning & Magnus Bergli Rasmussen. Immigration, Policy Bundles, and Welfare State Generosity