News archive for Department of Government

In a paper recently published in Asian Politics & Policy, Esther Song explains the evolution of NGO policies in China by drawing attention to central-level directives and the variegated origins of non-governmental organizations in China. The key is the adaptiveness of the party-state.

New "Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence" (lead editor Regine Paul) tackles burning questions in digital era.

Congratulations to our postdoctoral researcher, Hege Stein Helland, who has been elected as a delegate for the UiB Momentum program for 2024-25.

PhD Fellow Andrea Kronstad Felde published her article on institutional work and intra-organisational conflicts in student governments in authoritarian contexts in the prestigious journal Higher Education.

On 3 May, the Department of Government hosted the first GOV-Day in the University Aula. With approximately 120 registered attendees, both staff members and students participated in a panel debate, speed-dating with research groups, and master-student presentations. Both students and staff concluded that the event was indeed successful!

We are immensely happy to announce that our PhD-fellow Barbara Ruiken successfully defended her dissertation “Discretionary Decision-Making in Child Protection Care Order Cases” and has therefore acquired a PhD at the University of Bergen. The defense took place on 16.4.2024.

This year’s theme for International Women's Day focuses on Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress and the crucial role of inclusion in achieving gender equality. For this occasion we re-visit Professor Ragnhild Muriaas' research on gendered electoral financing, delving into global initiatives shaping women's political participation in different countries.

Head of the course Lise Rykkja and Jill Loga welcomed the first cohort of leaders from the ministries and affiliated units to Bergen and to the political science course on wicked problems, collaboration, and coordination in the public sector.