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Hakan G. Sicakkan
Funding for migration research (29.01.2016)
Hakan G. Sicakkan member of international research group that receives funding for research initiative on hidden migration in the context of global economic, social and political transformations.
Peters awarded prize for article published in West European Politics
Peters: Prize and newly published article (12.01.2016)
As Yvette Peters and Sander Ensink were awarded the Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright memorial prize for yesteryears article on differential responsiveness, a new article by Peters on party membership was published in the European Journal of Political Research.
FRIPRO-midlar til Muriaas
Research Council funding for research on gendered electoral financing (04.12.2015)
The research project «MONEY TALKS: Gendered Electoral Financing in Democratic and Democratizing States» recieves funding from The Norwegian Research Council
Yvette Peters has contributed chapter 13 of the recently published book "Party Politics and Democracy in Europe", honouring Peter Mair. Peters' essay is named "Hollower Democracy? Studying the Consequences of a Changing Demos".
Hollower Democracy? Consequences of a Changing Demos (25.09.2015)
Political parties in Western Europe have changed. Yvette Peters analyses the consequences of a changing demos in a chapter of a book honouring Peter Mair.
Professor Lee Epstein frå Washington University i St. Louis heldt årets Rokkanførelesing. Temaet for førelesinga var «The Study of Judicial Behavior».
Full University Aula for the Rokkan Lecture (22.09.2015)
Students, academics and - not so common - justices of the Supreme Court of Norway filled the brand new University Aula when prof. Lee Epstein held this years Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture.
Hovudtalaren hadde sjølvsagt bachelorgrad i samanliknande politikk: Lars-Henrik Paarup Michelsen, dagleg leiar i Norsk klimastiftelse
Diploma ceremony for BA candidates (17.09.2015)
26 BA candidates of Comparative Politics and European Studies were handed their diplomas by vice dean Knut Hidle and head of department Gunnar Grendstad.
China Social Welfare, nr. 7, 2015
Nordic Welfare Research in China (04.09.2015)
The last edition of China Social Welfare is dedicated to the welfare politics conference organised by the Sino-Nordic Welfare Research Network (SNOW) in Beijing in June.
Georg Picot
Freshly employed: Georg Picot (21.08.2015)
Welfare states, labour markets, political parties and comparative political economy is the focus for Georg Picot, as the Department of Comparative Politics welcomes him to the academic staff as associate professor.
Michael Tatham og Gyda Marås Sindre represents the Department of Compartive Politics on the chart of highest publishing scores in 2014.
Post-doc. and fresh professor tops publishing chart (21.08.2015)
A post-doc. and a freshly appointed professor has yesteryears highest publishing scores at the Department of Comparative Politics. One of them was the seventh most publishing academic at the University of Bergen.
Lise Rakner
Grant awarded Berkely-Bergen cooperation (12.06.2015)
Peder Sæther grant awarded cooperation between The University of Bergen and UC Berkeley on political parties in the developing world.
Tom Leschine outside the Dep. of Comparative Politics
US and Norwegian Approaches to Risks of Hydrocarbon Development (27.05.2015)
Please join us for a special seminar presentation by Tom Leschine, Visiting Scholar from the University of Washington. Tom will be speaking on the research that has brought him to the Department of Comparative Politics this spring.
Tom Leschine outside the Dep. of Comparative Politics
Thomas M. Leschine at Comparative Politics (21.05.2015)
Thom Leschine, a life-long student of marine environmental decision making, is pursuing his interest in the far north while visiting the Dept. of Comparative Politics.
Franklin Furlong at one of The University of Washington (UW) Men's Basketball team's matches. The accompanying husky dog is the school mascot of UW.
Franklin Furlong at Comparative Politics (06.05.2015)
A project of audio podcasts brought Franklin Furlong to the Dep. of Comparative Politics as visiting scholar.
Prof. Alan T. Wood outside the Department of Comparative Politics
Alan T. Wood at Comparative Politics (06.05.2015)
The history of China and the world and the natural evolution of Democracy are in prof. Alan T. Wood’s focus while visiting the Dep. of Comparative Politics.
Noregs Høgsterett
Diversity just for show? (14.04.2015)
The level of diversification among justices of the Norwegian Supreme Court has been mapped by professors William Shaffer, Erik Waltenburg (Purdue University) and Gunnar Grendstad, professor at The Department of Comparative Politics.
Ny artikkel av Jonas Linde
Corruption and Political Support in Iceland (07.04.2015)
How did the banking crisis affect Icelanders’ political support and perception of corruption? Gissur Erlingsson, Richard Öhrvall (Linkøping U.) og Jonas Linde (Sampol) gives you the answers in a recently published paper.
Michaël Robert Tatham/International Studies Quarterly
New Article: The Matthew Effect in the EU (09.02.2015)
In a new article, Michaël Tatham finds that the influence of demographically heavier and supranationally well-networked regions is greater than that of smaller regions. This is, however, conditioned by an indirect effect of the level of decentralisation.
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Cappelen in new article: inheritance taxation has low legitimacy within the Norwegian population (19.12.2014)
Post-doctor Cornelius Cappelen finds in a new article in Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning that inheritance taxation has low legitimacy within the Norwegian population. Nonetheless, he and co-author Jørgen Pedersen conclude, an increase of the tax is principally defensible in light of egalitarian ideals.

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