Kristin Strømsnes

Professor

E-mailKristin.Stromsnes@uib.no
Phone+47 55 58 31 14+47 901 18 906
Visitor Address
Christies gate 15

5007 Bergen
Postal Address
Postboks 7802

5020 Bergen

Kristin Strømsnes is a Professor and Deputy Head of Department at the Department of Comparative Politics. Her most important research interests are political participation and mobilization, voluntary organizations and social capital, environmentalism, as well as Sámi citizenship. Currently she serves as the Director of Research at the department. She has authored or co-authored/co-edited 8 books and around 50 journal articles and book chapters. Until 2021 she was coordinator of the CORE Research group (Citizens, Opinion, Representation, and Elections), which achieved the highest score and was rated Excellent in the evaluation of the social sciences in Norway in 2018. The group was also rewarded network funds from the Norwegian Research Council for the period 2020-2024. Among the groups' activities are the CORE Lecture Series and the Rokkan Symposium

Kristin Strømsnes is currently teaching courses in Political Mobilization at the Bachelor level (sampol107) and is responsible for for the Master’s seminar in Comparative Politics (sampol306). For eight years Strømsnes was director of the PhD program at the Department of Comparative Politics (2013-2021), and she has also served as faculty at the PhD-seminar arranged by the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR, 2022).

During the 2018-19 academic year, Kristin Strømsnes was a Visiting Democracy Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, Ash center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. She has also had shorter research stays at Uppsala University, Aalborg University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Kristin Strømsnes has held a full-time position at the University of Bergen since 2008. In addition, she has long experience from various research institutes (LOS Centre, Stein Rokkan Centre, Uni Research, Norce).

Strømsnes is a co-founder of the Centre for Research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector in cooperation with the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, and she headed the Bergen branch of the center during the first five years (2008-2013). She was involved in the establishment of the Citizen Panel in Bergen and has been a member of the scientific committee of Panel of Elected Representatives. She was also one of the research leaders in the proposed Visions of the Arctic Centre of Excellence, and she is part of the research project Indigenous people and governance in the Arctic. In 2023 she was a member of the programme committee for the annual SDG Conferense in Bergen.

In 2013, Strømsnes was the leader of the Women’s suffrage centenary at the University of Bergen, and she has also led the gender equality committee at the Department of Comparative Politics. She was the 1^st deputy to the Board at the Faculty of Social Sciences for two periods (2013-2021), and is currently a representative on the Department Council at the Department of Comparative Politics, a representative for the local branch of The Norwegian Association of Researchers in Bergen, member of the Stein Rokkan Prize jury, member of the Management Committee for the European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network (ENTAN), and deputy representative to the board of the Norwegian University Center in Paris.

Teaching

Masters seminar in comparartive politics (Sampol306) - course director (fall).

Politisk mobilisering (Sampol107) - course director (spring).

Former teaching responsibillities:

Masterseminar i samanliknande politikk (Sampol306) (2020-2022)

Masteroppgaven (Sampol350) (2019-2021)

Politisk mobilisering (Sampol107) (2014-2022)

Arctic Politics (Sampol371) (2022)

Politisk engasjement: Praktisk, empirisk forsking (Sampol324) (2017-2020)

Bacheloroppgave i sammenliknende politikk (Sampol260) (2016)

Politisk engasjement: Endringer og utfordringer (Sampol324) (2015-2016)

Samfunnsvitenskapelig metode (Met102) (2008-2014)

Changes and Challenges in Political Engagement (Sampol341) (2013)

Velferd og demokrati: Sametinget og den nye samiske offentligheten (Sampol345) (2012)

Velferd og demokrati: Sivilsamfunnets rolle (Sampol322) (2009-2010)

Rettigheter og representasjon i den skandinaviske velferdsmodellen (Sampol322) (2008)

Prosjektarbeid (Sampol303) (2006)

Forprøven i samfunnsvitenskapelig metode (Mesaf) (1993-1996)

Single lectures:

"Norsk og skandinavisk frivillighet i et internasjonalt perspektiv" - Politikk, styring og endring i helse- og velferdssektoren (SA6-409), Politikk, styring og endring i utdanningssektoren (SA6-410), Politikk, styring og endring i offentlig sektor (SA6-411)

"Politikk i Norden" - Examen facultatum: Innføring i sammenliknende politikk (Sampol100)

"Alternative forms of civil society participation" - Political Mobilization: Social Movements, Organizations and Political Parties (Sampol212)

"Social Capital in Scandinavia", "Ethnic minorities", "Social capital and gender equality" - Scandinavian Politics and Government (Sampol120)

"Sosial kapital og regional utvikling" - Region og regionalisering (GEO327)

"Universelt demokrati: Likestilling" - Stats- og nasjonsbygging: Institusjoner og aktører (Sampol110)

PhD-disertations supervised:

Diaspora Mobilization for Justice During Conflict. The Case of Syria - Espen Ringkjøb Stokke, 2021

Consistent Citizens? Exploring and Explaining Mechanisms of Opinion Change - Åsta Dyrnes Nordø, 2019

Creating Democratic Citizens? An analysis of Mock Elections as Political Education in School - Julie Ane Ødegaard Borge, 2016

Climate Change: Challenging democracies, challenging parties - Sondre Båtstrand, 2015

Non-governmental participation within authoritarian constraints. Twenty years of organizational growth and institutional development around AIDS in China - Hans Jørgen Gåsemyr, 2015

PhD-coordinator (2014-2021)

Master-theses supervised:

Makt og innflytelse eller resultat av symbolpolitikk? En studie av kommunale ungdomsråd og deres følelse av innflytelse - Benjamin Jakobsen, 2022

The Norwegian labour market, a gender equality paradox? A qualitative case study of Norway from the 1970s until today - Kaja Eriksrød, 2021

Bompengeopprøret i Rogaland. Hets, truslar og bompengar - Agnes Hoshovde Bernes, 2020

Skandalepolitikk og medienes rolle. En emnemodellering av mediedekningen av metoo-kampanjen - Vilde Smedsvik, 2020

Climate and Conflict: A logistic multilevel analysis of the relationship between climate variability and violent conflict - Ola Nestvold Grendal, 2020

Kjønnsperspektiv i norsk asylforvaltning. En casestudie av UDIs tolkning av kjønnsperspektivet i asylvurderingen - Lena Aastrøm, 2019

Mange politiske mål på få mål jord – ein analyse av partipolitikkens rolle i forvaltninga av norske jordressursar - Lina Hamre, 2017

Bosetting av flyktninger: Kommunene i et krysspress? - Hege Gotteberg Eide, 2017

Changing narratives? An analysis of the Effects of the European Debt Crisis on the European Integration Narratives of the SPD and the CDU/CSU - Marte Utgård Malones, 2016

Miljøpartiet de Grønne på Stortinget: En studie av et partipolitisk gjennomslag - Bjørn Siem Knudsen, 2016

"Balansekunstnerne" - Utforskende casestudie av ideologiske tankesmier i Norge - Maria Dyrhol Sandvik, 2015

Veien til økt kvalitet. Internasjonalisering av norsk høyere utdanning - Belinda Gloppen Helle, 2015

Motiv for fiskeribistand. En kvalitativ analyse av to norske bistandsprosjekt til fiskerisektoren - Amalie Statland Fantoft, 2015

Hva skyldes forskjellene? – En vekstkurveanalyse av politisk representasjon av kvinner i 20 demokratier over tidsperioden 1970-2013 - John Martin Roaldset, 2014

To sider av same sak. Ein kvantitativ casestudie av kommunesamanslåingar og politisk legitimitet - Marius Myklebust, 2013

Det regionale nivåets framtid. En komparativ studie av holdninger til forvaltningsordningen blant fylkestingspolitikere på Vestlandet - Torben Tøsse Blindheim, 2013

The Development of Political trust. A multilevel analysis of cross-curtain differences in State-citizen relationships - Fredrik Herdlevær Sagafos, 2011

The Norwegian Voluntary Sector in Change. The Impact of Changes in Organizational Type, Structure, and Membership on Local Voluntary Associations' Political Involvement - Karoline Garshol, 2011

Explaining Compliance: What makes the polluter turn green? An event history analysis of member state compliance with the Montreal Protocol - Åsta Dyrnes Nordø, 2010

Norske nasjonale ekspertar – ein kanal for innverknad eller gratis arbeidskraft til Brussel? - Marte Nes, 2009

”Om ikke akkurat grasrot, så nesten litt” Miljøverndepartementets bruk av ’sivilsamfunnsinitiativer’ som virkemidler for økt folkelig miljøengasjement - Ingrid Sælensminde, 2008

Sivilsamfunns demokratiske rolle. Er Norge og Danmark så ulike? - Marit Jacobsen, 2007

Grøn politisk ideologi og den norske miljøvernrørsla - Heidi Kristin Reppen, 1998

Most recent book:

Civic Engagement in Scandinavia. Volunteering, Informal Help and Giving in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. (Henriksen, Strømsnes & Svedberg (Eds.), Springer 2019)

About Civic Engagement in Scandinavia:

"Civic Engagement in Scandinavia offers a solid, data-driven, fascinating, and valuable discussion of the commonly applied theories of volunteering and civic engagement by emphasizing the need to contextualize our knowledge." Liv Egholm in Acta Sociologica.

"To those with a keen interest in the interaction between voluntarism and social democratic governance, this is essential reading." Lawrence Cumming in Voluntas.

Show author(s) (2022). Scenarios for Civil Society Impact in Norway. 16 pages.
Show author(s) (2022). Organisasjonenes kontakt og påvirkning sett fra myndighetenes og medienes synsvinkel. 14 pages.

Show author(s) (2021). Volunteering in Scandinavia.
Show author(s) (2021). Rokkan, Stein (1921 - 1979).
Show author(s) (2021). Det samiske sivilsamfunnet i Sametinget og i samepolitikken . 38 pages.

Show author(s) (2020). Urbanization of the Sámi electorate: An emerging dividing line within modern Sámi politics? Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning. 101-123.

Show author(s) (2019). Understanding Civic Engagement in the Scandinavian Context. 31 pages.
Show author(s) (2019). The Scandinavian Organizational Landscape: Extensive and Different. 34 pages.
Show author(s) (2019). The Challenging Position of Civil Society Service Production within the Norwegian Welfare State. 19 pages.
Show author(s) (2019). Sterk velferdsstat fremmer frivillig arbeid. Dagens næringsliv. 30-30.
Show author(s) (2019). Forskere: En omfattende stat giver et omfattende civilsamfund. Altinget.
Show author(s) (2019). Comparative and Theoretical Lessons from the Scandinavian Case. 9 pages.
Show author(s) (2019). Civic Engagement in Scandinavia: Volunteering, Informal help and Giving in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Springer Nature.

Show author(s) (2018). The Transformation of the Scandinavian Voluntary Sector. 24 pages.
Show author(s) (2018). The Reconfiguration of the Norwegian Voluntary Sector. 21 pages.
Show author(s) (2018). State and Civil Society: A Regime Change? 47 pages.
Show author(s) (2018). Scandinavian Civil Society and Social Transformations : The Case of Norway. Springer.
Show author(s) (2018). Politiske aksjoner i Norge: Hvilken rolle spiller organisasjonene? 32 pages.
Show author(s) (2018). Omfattende stat, omfattende sivilsamfunn. Saktuelt.
Show author(s) (2018). Mange hindre for amerikanske velgere. Bergens Tidende.
Show author(s) (2018). Lite forpliktende klimastøtte. Saktuelt.
Show author(s) (2018). Aktivisme før og nå. Saktuelt.

Show author(s) (2017). The Sámi: 25 Years of Indigenous Authority in Norway.
Show author(s) (2017). A broad alliance of civil society organizations on climate change mitigation: political Strength or legitimizing support? Journal of Civil Society. 20-40.

Show author(s) (2016). The Sámi: 25 Years of indigenous authority in Norway. Ethnopolitics. 125-143.

Show author(s) (2015). Sivilsamfunnet og Sametinget som 'støvsuger'. 35 pages.
Show author(s) (2015). Hovedfunn: Frivillig innsats i Noreg 1998-2014.
Show author(s) (2015). Frivillig innsats i Noreg 1998-2014 : Kva kjenneteikner dei frivillige og kva har endra seg? 2015-4. 2015-4. .
Show author(s) (2015). Den samiske medborgeren.
Show author(s) (2015). Betydelsen av kyrkobesök och medlemskap i religiösa frivilligorganisationer för skapandet av socialt kapital. Ideelt forums skriftserie. 6-15.

Show author(s) (2014). En arena for gateslag og sultestreik. Bergens Tidende.
Show author(s) (2014). Christian Albrekt Larsen: The Rise & Fall of Social Cohesion. Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning. 59-61.
Show author(s) (2014). Associations online: barriers for using web-based communication in voluntary associations. VOLUNTAS - International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 730-753.
Show author(s) (2014). Aksjoner i det representative demokrati. 26 pages.

Show author(s) (2013). Norsk frivillighetspolitikk - ny och enhetlig? 13 pages.
Show author(s) (2013). Medlemmene mindre viktige. Bergens Tidende. 17-17.
Show author(s) (2013). Inequality, Diversity and Social Trust in Norwegian Communities. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 322-342.
Show author(s) (2013). Frivillighet i Norge : Senterets sluttrapport etter 5 år. 2013. 2013. .
Show author(s) (2013). Frivillig arbeid. Bergens Tidende. 16-17.
Show author(s) (2013). Citizenship identity among Norwegian Sami in core Sami areas. Citizenship Studies. 712-727.

Show author(s) (2012). Sápmelaččat bellodagain ja válggain. 31 pages.
Show author(s) (2012). Sosial kapital og frivillighet. Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning. 122-133.
Show author(s) (2012). Samer i parti og valg. 32 pages.
Show author(s) (2012). Organisasjonene og det offentlige : Har vi fått en ny frivillighetspolitikk? 2012-6. 2012-6. .
Show author(s) (2012). Klemt mellom staten og markedet. Bergens Tidende.
Show author(s) (2012). Innledning. 5-7.
Show author(s) (2012). En ny og helhetlig frivillighetspolitikk? 16 pages.

Show author(s) (2011). Sosial kapital blant norske samer. 28 pages.
Show author(s) (2011). Pendling og sosial kapital innenfor norske storbyregioner. 19 pages.
Show author(s) (2011). Organisasjonslivet i Hordaland under lupen. Lokalhistorisk magasin. 14-18.
Show author(s) (2011). Organisasjonene i Hordaland 1999-2009. 2011-3. 2011-3. .
Show author(s) (2011). Etnisk mangfold, økonomisk ulikhet og sosial kapital. 20 pages.

Show author(s) (2010). The Strange Coexistence of Passive Memberships and High Social Capital in Scandinavia. 18 pages.
Show author(s) (2010). Sámi citizenship marginalisation or integration? Acta Borealia. 66-90.
Show author(s) (2010). Sami Citizenship: Marginalisation or Integration? Acta Borealia. 66-90.
Show author(s) (2010). Online Political Activism: The Use of new information and communication technology during phases of political mobilization. 6. 6. .
Show author(s) (2010). Is commuting bad for civil life? Evidence from three Norwegian cities. VII. VII. .
Show author(s) (2010). Democracy or Do-ocracy: The Activist Group "Byen Vår" and the Mobilisation against Clear Channel in Bergen. 14 pages.

Show author(s) (2009). The Activist Group ‘Byen Vår’ and the use of ICT in the Mobilization against Advertisement-Financed Public Furnishings in Bergen. VI. VI. .
Show author(s) (2009). Political Consumerism - A Substitute for or Supplement to Conventional Political Participation? Journal of Civil Society. 303-314.
Show author(s) (2009). Environmentalism between state and local community: why Greenpeace has failed in Norway. Environmental Politics. 391-407.

Show author(s) (2008). Voluntary associations, trust, and civic engagement: A multilevel approach. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 249-263.
Show author(s) (2008). The Importance of Church Attendance and Membership of Religious Voluntary Organizations for the Formation of Social Capital. Social Compass. 478-496.
Show author(s) (2008). Marginalisering eller integrering? Samisk politisk interesse og deltakelse. 32 pages.
Show author(s) (2008). Introduction: European Identities. Perspectives on European Politics and Society. 378-380.
Show author(s) (2008). Endringsprosesser i norsk frivillighet: En kunnskapsoversikt. 6. 6. .

Show author(s) (2007). Politisk forbruk - et alternativ til konvensjonell politisk deltakelse? 28 pages.
Show author(s) (2007). Norwegian Environmentalism Between State and Local Community: Why Greenpeace Failed in Norway. 5. 5. .
Show author(s) (2007). Mapping Voluntarism – Scandinavia in Comparison. 5. 5. .
Show author(s) (2007). IKT i aktivistnettverk. Aksjonsgruppen Byen Vår og mobiliseringen mot reklamefinansiering av bymøbler i Bergen. 32 pages.
Show author(s) (2007). Contacting as a channel of political involvement: Collectively motivated, individually enacted. West European Politics. 93-120.

Show author(s) (2006). Unique Environmentalism. A Comparative Perspective.
Show author(s) (2006). Citizenship: The History of an Idea, by Paul Magnette. West European Politics. 614-615.

Show author(s) (2005). Political Consumption in Norway: Who, why - and does it have any effect? 17 pages.

Show author(s) (2004). Kirkegang og medlemskap i religiøse organisasjoner: Den brede vei til sosial kapital? 26 pages.

Show author(s) (2003). Miljøvern uten grenser. Bergens Tidende.
Show author(s) (2003). Folkets makt. Medborgerskap, demokrati, deltakelse. Gyldendal Akademisk.
Show author(s) (2003). Det vanskelige dyrevernet. Stavanger Aftenblad.
Show author(s) (2003). "Politikk i aksjonsform". Bergens Tidende.

Show author(s) (2002). Samspillet mellom frivillig organisering og demokrati: Teoretiske argument og empirisk dokumentasjon. 9. 9. .
Show author(s) (2002). Miljøvern uten grenser?

Show author(s) (2001). Norsk miljøvernorganisering mellom stat og lokalsamfunn.
Show author(s) (2001). Membership and Democracy. 14 pages.

Show author(s) (1999). 組織メンバーシップと民主主義 : 受動的なメンバーを深刻に考えなければならないか? Chiba Journal of Law and Politics. 143-166.

Show author(s) (1998). Organized Environmentalists: Democracy as a Key Value? VOLUNTAS - International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 319-343.

Show author(s) (1997). Medlemskap og demokrati: Må vi ta passivt medlemskap på alvor? Politica - Tidsskrift for politisk videnskab. 31-48.

Show author(s) (1996). Voter turnout in Norway: Time, Space and Causality. Scandinavian Political Studies. 379-400.
Show author(s) (1996). Preferansedanning og rasjonalitet. 19 pages.
Show author(s) (1996). Norske miljøvernorganisasjoner: En demokratisk folkebevegelse? 28 pages.
Show author(s) (1996). Natur og kultur. 17 pages.
Show author(s) (1996). Miljøvernundersøkelsen 1995. Dokumentasjonsrapport. .
Show author(s) (1996). Miljøvernpolitikk og miljøvernorganisering mot år 2000. Aschehoug & Co.
Show author(s) (1996). Miljøvernpolitikk og miljøvernorganisering. 17 pages.
Show author(s) (1996). Mario Dianis Green Networks. A Structural Analysis of the Italian Environmental Movement. Acta Sociologica. 332-335.

Show author(s) (1995). Kjønn og politisk kunnskap. 32 pages.
Show author(s) (1995). En bedre organisert offentlig sektor. Forskning ved LOS-senteret i perioden 1987 - 1994 innen området 'En bedre organisert offentlig sektor'. .

Show author(s) (1994). Rettferdighet som det rasjonelle? En diskusjon av forutsetningenen bak Rawls' teori om rettferdighet. Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift. 113-131.