Research

The Department of Government offers a variety of research interests and research groups. Get to know each one via the links below.

Research groups

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Governing Global Challenges

Governing Global Challenges is a research group that explores the governance of global challenges – from migration and food security to pandemics and climate change – as a matter of policy coordination between local, national and international, public and private actors.

Knowledge, politics and organization

The research groups' aim is to study and explain how the relations between knowledge and politics shape organizations, community interests and political behavior. We study these connections at various levels and in interactions from the local to the global.

Political Organization and Multi Level Governance

This research group analyses the political administrative system and processes in the intersection of political and organizational theories. One of the aims of this research group is to study administrative policies, administrative reforms and institutional change in a multi-level governance...

Law, Politics and Welfare

Law, Politics and Welfare is one of the research groups at the Department of Government, and part of the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism and the Centre on Law and Social Transformation.

Citizens and democracy

Citizens and democracy is a research group at the Department of Government.

18.01.2023