I am associate professor at University of South Eastern Norway and Oslo New University College. Prior to this, I was a postdoc at University of Oslo and Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Social Research.

My research is concerned the development of social policy, political institutions, parties and trade unions through extensive historical data collection.

I have an book with Cambridge University Press in press on my work on revolutionary threat and social policy development.

My work is featured in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Comparative Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Politics and Society, Social Science History, Scandinavian Political Studies, and news outlets such as the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage Blog and Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.

On the second of february I became father to Bernhard "Bernie" Bergli Stuvøy.