Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli & Carl Henrik Knutsen (2023). Reforming to Survive:The Bolshevik Origins of Social Policies. Cambridge University Press (order here)
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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
Wig, Tore ; Sirianne Dahlum; Carl Henrik Knutsen, Magnus B. Rasmussen (2025). Cui Bono? Business Elites and Interstate Conflict. European Journal of International Relations. link
Carl Henrik Knutsen, Sirianne Dahlum, Magnus Bergli Rasmussen, Tore Wig (2025). Behind the throne Regime support coalitions around the world, 1789-2020 .British Journal of Political Science. pre-print Journal Article
Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli (2024): The Great Standardization: Working Hours around the World since 1789 . Labor History, 65(4), 563–591. Paper and pre-print
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.
Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli., & Knutsen, C.H. (2024). Laying Down The Principles: How Local Socialist Achievements Spurred National Bourgeois Support for Noncontributory Pensions. World Politics 76(1), 172-217. Article link and Pre-print
Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli (2024). The Politics of Time: The Political Origins of Working-Time Regulation. Social Science History. 48(1):65-91. Article link and Pre-print
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. 45: 202-226 Link to preprint Link to paper
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Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli; Haakon Gjerløw (2022). Revolution, elite fear, and electoral institutions. Comparative Politics, 54(4), 595-619. Download here
Skorge, Ø. S., & Rasmussen, M. B. (2022). Volte-face on the welfare state: Social partners, knowledge economies, and the expansion of work-family policies. Politics & Society, 50(2), 222-254. 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, 45(4), 863-886. 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. 35: 24-51. Download here
Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli (2019). Majoritarian systems, rural groups, and (arrested) welfare state development. International Political Science Review, 41(2), 238-254. . International Political Science Review. Download here
Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2019). Party Institutionalization and Welfare State Development. British Journal of Political Science.51(3):1203-1229. Article here and Pre-print here
Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Rasmussen, Magnus (2018). The Autocratic Welfare State: Old-Age Pensions, Credible Commitments, and Regime Survival. Comparative Political Studies. 51(5), 659-695. Download here
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Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli (2018). Electoral Rules, Labor Market Coordination and Macroeconomic Performance. Scandinavian Political Studies.41(3), 367-378. 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.51(6), 793-828. Download here
Download my Union Density dataset on the dataset page.
Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli (Forthcoming). "The Norwegian Welfare state". Chapter 39 in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics. Oxford University Press. Link
Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli & Carl Henrik Knutsen (Forthcoming). "Political regimes and welfare state development" . Chapter XX in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics. Oxford University Press. Link
Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli & Øyvind S. Skorge (2019). “The business of change: Employers and work-family policy reforms”. Chapter 10 in Dennie Oude Nijhuis (ed.) “Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State” Routledge: New York.
Rasmussen, M., & Rasmussen, P. (2010). Makt i psykisk helse. Tidsskrift for psykisk helsearbeid, 7(2), 142-152.
The Solidaristic Class? Urban Working Classes, Regime Coalitions, and Welfare State Expansion. With Sirianne Dahlum; Carl Henrik Knutsen & Wig, Tore. Link (Revise and Resubmit World Politics)
Who Rules? Support Coalitions and Regime Survival, 1789-2020. With Knutsen, Carl Henrik Wig; Tore Wig ; Sirianne Dahlum. Link (Revise and Resubmitt Comparative Political Studies).
Strikes and Machines: Investment decisions in the inter-war period. With Andreas Kotsadam, Kalle Moene, Anders Kjelsrud, &Haakon Gjerløv. Link (Reject and Revise The Journal of Economic History)
Welfare before the Welfare State: Worker Mobilization and Poor Relief Provisions in Norwegian Municipalities 1900-1922. With Haakon Gjerløw (Revise and Resubmitt Labour History)
Partiaization: How National Parties Took Hold of Local Politics. with Øyvind S. Skorge: Contact for latest version. (Abstract)
Norwegian Local Assembly Election dataset to be published on publication (1901-1937).
To Nip it in the Bud: Democratization and Institutional Safeguards against Redistribution. Link (Under review). (note, this is a combination of two previously separate papers)
Imperial Labor Standards: Working Time Regulation in a World Dominated by Empires. (under review). With Carl Henrik Knutsen.
Institutions (still) Rule: Labor Market Centralization and Trade Union Organization. under review
The Right to Vote by Mail: The Politics of Absentee voting. (Under Construction) (Abstract)
Organization Works: Hours of Work and the International Labor Organization. Link
Industrialization and Democratization: Historical evidence from Norway and Switzerland. Noort, Sam van & Tore Wig: (Under Construction)
Election fraud in Norway, 1860-1900: A preliminary investigation. (Under Construction)
Reformism or Radicalism: Revisiting the Sources of Working-Class Politics. (Under Construction)
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.
Rasmussen, Bergli Rasmussen. The Origin of the Segmented Welfare State.
Educated to Democratize? Education and Elite support for Universal suffrage. With Dahlum, Sirianne; (Abstract)
Finseraas, Henning & Magnus Bergli Rasmussen. Immigration, Policy Bundles, and Welfare State Generosity