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Challenging to link development aid and humanitarian assistance with peace negotiations (30.09.2014)
Post-doc Gyda Marås Sindre examines in a new article attempts to link development aid and humanitarian assistance with peace negotiations in Aceh and Sri Lanka. The main finding is that such a link may have positive effects, but also divert attention away from core conflict issues.
En mor med to barn oppholder seg på kjøkkenet. Mor jobber på datamaskinen mens hun holder minstemann.
– Kutt fødselspermisjonen (30.09.2014)
For å øke likestillingen er det trolig bedre å legge til rette for at kvinner kan jobbe mens de har barn enn å betale dem stadig mer for å la være, skriver førsteamanuensis Katrine V. Løken i fredagskronikken i Dagens Næringsliv.
Learning Economics with Dynamic Modelling (29.09.2014)
Professor David Wheat and his co-coordinator in Ukraine have received seven grants administered by the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU) to support a project for “Learning Economics with Dynamic Modeling.” The grants are funded by SIU’s Eurasia Program and the ErasmusPlus Program.
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Kjetil Bjorvatn (NHH) - Ruka Juu: “Edutainment” for entrepreneurship in Tanzania (18.09.2014)
The Global Development is an annual lecture organised by the programme for development studies. This year prof. Kjetil Bjorvatn is invited from NHH. The title of the lecture is "Ruka Juu: “Edutainment” for entrepreneurship in Tanzania" All interested are welcome!
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Constitutional reform can undermine courts’ independence (18.09.2014)
Constitutional reform intended to modernize the judiciary and promote judicial independence can have the opposite effect, Andrea Castagnola and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán find in a new article published in the British Journal of Political Science.
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Professors Linde and Ivarsflaten engaged as expert commentators for TV2 (16.09.2014)
Professor Jonas Linde and Associate Professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten of the Department of Comparative Politics provided expertise analysis for TV2 during the Swedish parliamentary election last Sunday.
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Ivarsflaten: - The Progress Party and the Sweden Democrats are not fully comparable (16.09.2014)
Associate Professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten says to Newspaper Aftenposten that the two parties’ different origins render them not fully comparable.
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Muslims – our society’s X-Men (12.09.2014)
Increasing the pressure on mosques can contribute to further radicalization of Muslims, PhD student Olav Elgvin writes in an op-ed in newspaper Aftenposten.
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Rokkan-lecturer Herbert Kitschelt speaks to full auditorium (10.09.2014)
How parties are able to reward their own voters was the topic of the 2014 Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture. Students and faculty at the Department of Comparative Politics filled the auditorium to hear the prominent professor speak.
PhD Candidate Austin Dziwornu Ablo.
Resources, praxis and local entrepreneurial activities in Ghana’s oil and gas sector (10.09.2014)
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Can earmarked electoral financing increase the share of women in parliaments? (08.09.2014)
Associate Professor Ragnhild L. Muriaas and Happy M. Kayuni find in a new study of Malawi that even though earmarked electoral financing can improve the prospects of female candidates in intra-party nomination battles, such strategies also have unintended negative consequences.
PhD Candidate Madan Krishna Suwal.
Current climatically potential area for distribution of plants and their fate in projected changed scenario of climate (04.09.2014)
The distribution of a species is an inherent part of its ecology. Species distribution is essential for a successful species’ management.
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Renmin University of China’s School of Economics visits the Department of Economics (03.09.2014)
The Department of Economics and the Faculty of Social Sciences have hosted a meeting with delegates from Renmin University of China, School of Economics, to explore opportunities of student and staff exchange between the two universities.
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Olav Elgvin new PhD scholar at Department of Comparative Politics (03.09.2014)
How do Muslim religious leaders in Europe understand the relationship between Islam and politics? This will be answered in Olav Elgvin’s PhD proejct.
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Analysis of the current crises of neoliberalism (02.09.2014)
Alf Gunvald Nilsen, associate professor at the Department of Sociology, and the Irish sociologist Laurence Cox have published an excerpt from their new book, We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism (Pluto Press),
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Social influence and the Matthew mechanism (02.09.2014)
In this article Post. Doc Miia Bask and her co-writer Mikael Bask (Uppsala University) examins if the Matthew effect, or Matthew mechanism, was present in the artificial cultural market Music Lab when social influence between individuals was allowed, and contrary, if this was not the case when social influence was not allowed.