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Stillinger som koordinatorer for studentdrevet emne og konferanse (23.10.2020)
Er du student og vil arbeide med en konferanse eller studentdrevet emne i Bærekraftig innovasjon ved UiB?
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Digital platforms hold the key to collaborative policymaking (23.10.2020)
CORDIS interview Lise H. Rykkja about the TROPICO-project
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CET Master Student Network (09.10.2020)
The ongoing situation with COVID-19 has forced us to think differently about the master's students connected to CET. We are excited to announce the launch of the CET Master Student Network.
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New Sub-Population Panel: The Panel of Public Administrators (05.10.2020)
DIGSSCORE is now running a new panel in a sub-population of importance for the structure of democratic governance.
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Understanding Felt Accountability (02.10.2020)
Kristin Rubecksen, Lise H. Rykkja and Per Lægreid are co-author on new article in Governance.
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Politics as profession (01.10.2020)
Professor Ragnhild Muriaas at the University of Bergen started her working career as a DJ. Now she investigates what strings must be played in politics to make a footprint.
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BSRS 2021: Science and Society towards the Sustainable Development Goals (29.09.2020)
Six parallel courses with cross-cutting keynotes and virtual social events — BSRS 2021 will be a fully digital PhD research school.
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Growing Inequality in the Levels of Political Trust (29.09.2020)
Using a combination of data from the Norwegian Citizen Panel and other sources, researchers at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) have analyzed the development of Norwegian citizens’ levels of trust in politicians since 2000. The key findings of the project, which was ordered by the Ministry of Local Government and Modernization, were presented by ISR’s Jo Saglie and Signe Bock Segaard in... Read more
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Gender differences in urban mobility in the context of Accra (23.09.2020)
The working title of my thesis is: How can knowledge about gender specific mobilities inform in the planning processes for sustainable transportation systems in Accra, Ghana?
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Food security and the COVID-19 crisis: the importance of cross-border fish trade (17.09.2020)
In her master's thesis, Maïlys Rouillé studies the important contribution of cross-border fishtraders to food security in Ghana and its surrounding countries during the COVID-19 crisis.
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How Elite Politicization of Terror Impacts Sympathies for Partisans: Radical Right versus Social Democrats (09.09.2020)
Using a survey experimental approach, relying on panel data from the Norwegian Citizen Panel, Lars Erik Berntzen's recent article was published as part of the Politics and Governance issue “Populism and Polarization: A Dual Threat to Europe’s Liberal Democracies?”.
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Covid-19 and reputation management (03.09.2020)
Per Lægreid and Tom Christensen with new article that analyse the Norwegian governments handeling of the Corona pandemic
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Ivarsflaten and Bjånesøy in The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Persuasion (31.08.2020)
This handbook bring together accomplished scholars who study one or more aspect of electoral persuasion. Elisabeth Ivarsflaten and Lise Bjånesøy contribute with the chapter "How and Why the Populist Radical Right Persuades Citizens" written jointly with Scott Blinder.
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It Pays to be Nice: The Benefits of Cooperating in Markets (31.08.2020)
A recent article in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, using data from the Citizen Lab, finds that mutual partner choice enables cooperators to outperform free riders.
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Disentangling the Influence of Recommender Attributes and News-Story Attributes (31.08.2020)
A new publication by Erik Knudsen and Mikael Poul Johannesson used data collected through the Norwegian Citizen Panel to explore what lies behind our decisions to read and share news stories on social media.
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Tuesday lunch seminars are back as webinars (28.08.2020)
DIGSSCORE's weekly lunch seminars will be held as webinars this fall. You are welcome to attend the first one on Tuesday September 1.
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Representative and responsive bureaucracy in Nepal? (26.08.2020)
Ishtiaq Jamil and Hasan Muhammad Baniamin asks if this a mismatch or a realistic assumption in new publication.
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Who is (un)protected by the law? (21.08.2020)
– Migration is an important field of law because legal status makes an enormous difference. If you have status as ‘citizen’ you are protected by the law in a completely different way than refugees and migrants.

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