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Svein Michelsen og Ivar Bleiklie
The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Norway (22.03.2022)
Together professor emeritus Ivar Bleiklie and professor Svein Michelsen have written a chapter in The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Europe. The chapter investigates the position of academic policy advice in Norway, and in particular the role played by political scientists in policy advice.
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A Central Concept in Institutional Theory (13.10.2021)
Per Lægreid and Tom Christensen write about "The Logic of Appropriateness" in new book celebrating the work of James G. March
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Political (Over)Representation and the Double-Motive Hypothesis (14.09.2021)
Zuzana Murdoch uses evidence from Norwegian Register Data in new publication on Public Sector Employees in JPART.
High-level summit at the University of Bergen: Global counter-terrorism after 22 July (20.08.2021)
What can society and global organizations do better to stop right-wing extremist radicalization and terrorist content online?
Migration
Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration (11.05.2021)
Associate Professor Regine Paul at the department has just published the Edward Elgar Handbook on "the Governance and Politics of Migration"
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Experiences and challenges of performance management (10.05.2021)
Per Lægreid and Tom Christensen with new chapter in Handbook of Public Administration
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Global Health and Public Administration most popular with international applicants (07.05.2021)
Four of the five most popular master programmes among international applicants directly tackle global challenges. 
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Bridging higher education and the world of work? (02.03.2021)
Hanne Kvilhaugsvik examines employer panels in Nordic university governance.
Språk
Language as a feature of representative bureaucracy in regional and international organizations? (02.02.2021)
Zuzana Murdoch
How does changes in leadership positions affect staff attitudes? (20.01.2021)
Zuzana Murdoch co-authors a new article looking at how staff attitudes are affected by changes in top leadership positions.
Per Lægreid
ICT use in Central Government (19.01.2021)
Per Lægreid co-authors in a newly published article in the International Journal of Public Administration about the use of ICT tools in the central government.
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Good Public Governance in a Global Pandemic (16.12.2020)
Per Lægreid with chapter in special IIAS-report on the public governance of the COVID-19 pandemic
Rykkja og Lægreid
Rediscovering Nordic Cooperation (08.11.2020)
Lise Rykkja and Per Lægreid with new article on Nordic Administrative Collaboration
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Digsscore granted national responsibility for European Social Survey ESS (22.10.2019)
– We are very happy to mark our position as a national competence centre on survey data and development of the survey method, says deputy dean Ragnhild Muriaas.
Hjellum and Lægreid
From master thesis to scientific publication (19.02.2019)
Magnus Sirnes Hjellum and Per Lægreid with new publication in Safety Science.
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The Ethics of Medical Data Donation (22.01.2019)
Postdoc Jenny Krutzinna addresses the state's obligation to facilitate ethical medical data donation.
Course coordinator Marit Skivenes lecturing.
Challenges of the modern welfare state (29.11.2018)
The course “Discretion and Paternalism” is a unique opportunity for students interested in research on power, the welfare state and decision-making, says Professor Marit Skivenes.
March / Olsen Honorary Lecture 2018
The first Honorary Lecture for James G. March and Johan P. Olsen (26.11.2018)
On May 23, 2018 the first March / Olsen Honorary Lecture was held in the University Aula at the University of Bergen.

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