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Research Groups

The Department has four research groups. These groups organise research seminars, student seminars, guest lectures and other activities within their thematic fields:

 

 

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Reforming the welfare state

The project Reforming the welfare state: Accountability, democracy and management will run from 2011 and throughout 2014, and is located at the Uni Rokkan Centre in Bergen. The project is financed by the Norwegian Research Council through the VAM programme, and it is headed by Professor Per Lægreid.

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COCOPS

The COCOPS project (Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future) seeks to comparatively and quantitatively assess the impact of New Public Management-style reforms in European countries, drawing on a team of European public administration scholars from 11 universities in 10 countries.

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Politics-Administration-Organization

Administration and Organization Theory is the comparative analysis of politics, administration, and organization. The field is political science and it is founded on political and social theories. Emphasis is placed on developing insight and knowledge in a) the relationship between organization and individual, and b) the relationship between organization and environment.