News archive for Department of Comparative Politics

Exchange to Chapel Hill (20.01.2026)

My name is Eline Snøfugl, I am 22 years old and from Trondheim. I study Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, and in the fall of 2025, I went on exchange to UNC Chapel Hill in the USA. UNC Chapel Hill is in North Carolina, in the southeastern USA. It is a public university with around 30,000 students and is the oldest public university in the USA. Because of this, the place has long... Read more

My Bergen experience (06.01.2026)

An exchange semester at the University of Bergen was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I had wanted to study abroad since the start of university and the partnership between UNC and UiB made this possible. When I was offered the opportunity to study in Norway, I was beyond excited. Norway seemed like the ideal country to combine my passions for environmental policy, international... Read more

Bilde av utenriksminister Espen Barth Eide og Andrea Mevold Zakariassen

“Understanding European security policy is now essential for everyone.” (16.12.2025)

This autumn’s course, SAMPOL612 European Security Transformation, has been far more than just another academic subject - it has served as an important gateway to understanding Europe’s evolving security landscape. Offered by the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, the course was launched in autumn 2025 as part of the continued education master’s Democratic Development,

Bilde av Kvinnenettverket og Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe

Professor Ulltveit-Moe visits the Women's network at Sampol (20.11.2025)

Professor and Head of Department of Economics at the University of Oslo, Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe visited the Department and Women's network to talk about challenges women face in academia.

Bilde av Robert Jenkins med representanter for Eurokratene og Kabinettet

Visit from UNC Chapel Hill (11.11.2025)

The Department of Comparative Politics has just had a visit from Robert (Bob) Jenkins, professor of political science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). During his visit he held a lunch seminar on transatlantic security and he met incoming and outgoing students on CONTEST exchange program.

SAMPOL research project holds kickoff workshop with esteemed scholars (05.06.2025)

The research project ConFront, based in the Department of Comparative Politics, successfully held its inaugural workshop last month, launching an international collaboration on the study of “contested frontiers.”

Studenter foran musikkpaviljongen i Bergen

From Chapel Hill to Bergen (19.02.2025)

In the spring semester of 2024, Charles Haines stepped out of his comfort zone in Chapel Hill to study comparative politics at the University of Bergen. Read about his exchange experience here.

Anja, Ragnhild and Andrew join Sampol and the ERC ConFront project (05.02.2025)

PhD candidates Anja Tucker, Andrew Newman and Postdoctoral fellow Ragnhild Nilsson have recently taken up their positions at the department and are all part of Aaron Spitzers ERC Starting Grant project "Contested frontiers: Understanding the metapolitics of settler-state peripheries" (ConFront)

COST Action Projects at Sampol (17.01.2025)

COST Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and beyond. Sampol's Linn Sandberg and Arjan Schakel are both involved in their respective Cost Action Project.

Global Scholars Unite in Pioneering Judicial Behavior Handbook (08.01.2025)

Scholars from the Department of Comparative Politics contributed to the recently published Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour.

Anu Bradford wins the 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize (25.10.2024)

Professor Anu Bradford, at Columbia Law School wins he prestigious 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize for the book Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology.

An encounter with Norwegian Culture and Nature (04.10.2024)

Lili Katharina visited Bergen and Sampol for a semester: – Norway is a very inclusive and diverse country, and it was wonderful to see how everyone is included in its national holiday.

High demand for business and human rights training (30.09.2024)

A diverse and large group of students participated the first weekend of the “Business and Human Rights Course.”

Portrettbilde av Michael Tatham og Yvette Peters sammen.

Study Reveals Key to Successful Climate Policies: Addressing Economic Inequality (08.07.2024)

«If climate policies want to be successful, they must be about more than climate,» professor Michaël Tatham says.

This Argument Makes Young People Supportive of Gender Quotas (03.06.2024)

Some Norwegian politicians that are skeptical about gender quotas in politics are positive about gender quotas in the leadership of religious organizations, according to new research.

Came to Bergen and Norway to examine the private education market (31.05.2024)

Itay is taking a PhD at UNC Chapel Hill. This semester he is visiting Sampol.

Jana Belschner’s TMF project has begun (31.05.2024)

– I want to understand very specifically which electoral reforms can contribute to making democracy in aging societies more generationally equitable.

Setting out to build a new research field (13.05.2024)

Aaron Spitzer’s ERC project, CONFRONT, has started. Over a period of five years, the project will explore arising conflicts between settlers and indigenous peoples.

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