Research projects at the Department

On this page you find information about research projects at the Department of Government

Projects

NORHED

Decolonizing Epistemologies: Disciplines and the University in Relation to the Society and the World (NORHED II)

This project is a collaboration project on capacity building in higher education between the Department of Government, UiB and Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) at Makerere University, Uganda. The objective of the project is twofold; to build and sustain the intellectual and...

POLCAP

Policy Capacity of Interest Groups (POLCAP)

The POLCAP project focuses on interest groups representing professions, users and providers of education services in Norway, and compares them to their counterparts in a similar education system (Finland) and in a contrasting one (Germany). It is a comparative mixed-method multi-level analysis,...

Norsk politi 1916

The Legal History of the Norwegian Police and Policing 1686 - 2016

Large project on the legal history of the Norwegian police and policing from the year 1686 until 2016.

SUCCESS

The European Research Council (ERC) funded research project “Gender-Gap in Political Endurance: a novel political inclusion theory” (SUCCESS) provides a comprehensive analysis of why, how and if structural factors affect the endurance of political careers and why endurance matter for political impact.

WarEffects

Does violence in civil wars affect women’s empowerment and gender relations? This question is at the heart of WarEffects, a research project (2022-2027) funded by the European Research Council and led by Associate Professor Carlo Koos at the Department of Government at the University of Bergen.

STATECORP

STATECORP analyses the relevance of structural choice politics and historical legacies for corporatisation patterns in Norway and Sweden (1950–2020) as well as their consequences for organisational legitimation.

Autocratization Dynamics: Innovations in Research-Embedded Learning

"Autocratization Dynamics" aims to further strengthen UiB-CMI LawTransform as a global hub for research at the intersection of law and politics, and as a leading centre for innovations in horizontal research-embedded education, by forging long-term partnerships with leading research and educational...

Child Protection Systems Across the World

CPS-WORLD aims to conduct groundbreaking research by examining the empirical foundation of an emerging, global typology of child protection systems – systems imbued with the legal authority and responsibility to intervene into the private sphere of the family.

Children's Right to Participation

PARTICIPATION is a collaborative knowledge project with ambitions to make groundbreaking steps in the understanding and implementation of children’s participatory rights. It is a partnership between researchers at the University of Bergen, DIPA-Centre, and four partners from the child protection...

Discretion and the Child's Best Interests in Child Protection

The DISCRETION-project conducts the most comprehensive cross-country comparison of child protection systems to date, funded by the European Research Council. The research project aims to unlock the black box of discretionary decision-making in child protection cases by doing a comparative empirical...

Legitimacy Challenges

"Legitimacy Challenges" is a major international project looking at legitimacy challenges, and is led by professor Marit Skivenes. The project will conduct an analysis of mistrust in core institutions and the normative foundation of the welfare state in several European countries.

Cosmopolitan Turn and Democratic Sentiments: The Case of Child Protection Services

The project aims to develop a comprehensive expression and conceptualization of the protection of the child according to the CRC, and will focus on the rights of non-discrimination, the best interests of the child, participation, and family life. The CONSENT-project will study the children’s rights...

Openings to the Inclusion of Muslim Minorities in Today's Democracies

In the INCLUDE project, we expand the scope of inquiry beyond drivers of exclusion to investigate the openness of non-Muslim majorities to the inclusion of Muslim minorities. We ask, under what conditions—on what terms—are they open to inclusion? This research question brings conceptual and...

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