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.

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Knowledge, politics and organization (KPO)

The research group's aim is to study and explain the relations between knowledge, politics, and organization. We study these connections at various levels, from the local to the global.

Political Organization and Multi Level Governance

Political Organization and Multi Level Governance is a research group at the Department of Government. Research areas include administrative reforms and politics, and institutional change in a multi level perspective.

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Law, Politics and Welfare

Law, Politics and Welfare is a research group at the Department of Government which is lead by Professor Marit Skivenes. Two research centres are associated to the group: Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, and Centre on Law and Social Transform.

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Citizens and democracy

For the research group Citizens and democracy at the Department of Government, studies of opinion and society is a main interest.

26.04.2023