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Michael Alvarez
Michael Alvarez among Norway's best lecturers (27.05.2016)
Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics, Michael Alvarez, is one of three finalists from the University of Bergen in a competition to find Norway's best lecturers by the newspaper Morgenbladet.
Disputas
The evangelical church in Guatemalan politics (24.05.2016)
Maren Christensen Bjune defended her ph.d. thesis "Religious change and political continuity. The evangelical church in Guatemalan politics" on Friday 20th May.
Indian Parliament
Development Deadlocks of the New Indian State (29.04.2016)
Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Patrik Oskarsson wrote an article on the development deadlocks of the Indian state in Economic and Political Weekly.
Lars Skov Henriksen
Engaging Scandinavian civil society (21.04.2016)
Lars Skov Henriksen, professor at Aalborg University, visited the Department of Comparative Politics on Wednesday. His talk about Scandinavian civil society was very popular and well attended by the academic staff.
film
Films rather than written essays (15.04.2016)
Given the opportunity, students exchanged the traditional written essay with lectures on the Boer's of South Africa, radio casts on LGBT rights and a road movie on political participation in the small island municipality of Utsira.
eu
Large crowd for EU ambassador Campbell (13.04.2016)
One million children of Erasmus couples and the Oslo embassy's trainee programme were among the subjects of EU ambassador Helen Campbell's guest lecture on Wednesday.
Professor Michaël Tatham
Political Comparativist Michaël Tatham Receives Meltzer Award for Young Researchers (08.03.2016)
The Meltzer Research Fund has awarded Professor Michaël Tatham the Meltzer prize for young researchers.
Kuhnle in China Daily
Professor Stein Kuhnle with a comment in China Daily (02.03.2016)
Professor Stein Kuhnle has a comment titled "The dilemma of more taxes for better welfare" on print in China Daily's edition on March 2nd.
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Economic Behaviour in the Supreme Court (19.02.2016)
In an article published in the latest edition of Scandinavian Political Studies, Jon Kåre Skiple and Gunnar Grenstad et al. analyze the behaviour of Norwegian Supreme Court Justices in economic cases in the period 1963 - 2012.
Siri Gloppen - Centre on Law and Social Transformation (CLST)
Political determinants on sexual and reproductive health (12.02.2016)
Safe and legal abortion, access to health services for non-heterosexuals, HIV transmission. Focusing on political determinants on sexual and reproductive health, professor Siri Gloppen is getting ready to hire a new post-doc to the Department of Comparative Politics.
Georg Picot
Picot: Globalization and healthcare policy (03.02.2016)
In the latest edition of Journal of European Public Policy, read Georg Picot’s latest published article on «Globalization and healthcare policy: a constraint on growing expenditures»
Hakan G. Sicakkan
Funding for migration research (29.01.2016)
Hakan G. Sicakkan member of international research group that receives funding for research initiative on hidden migration in the context of global economic, social and political transformations.
Vegard Jarness
Award for best article in english in 2015 (25.01.2016)
Vegard Jarness, postdoctor at Dept. of Sociology, was awarded best article in english in 2015 by the Norwegian Sociology Assosiation for the article ”Cultural vs Economic Capital: Symbolic Boundaries Within the Middle Class”.
Peters awarded prize for article published in West European Politics
Peters: Prize and newly published article (12.01.2016)
As Yvette Peters and Sander Ensink were awarded the Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright memorial prize for yesteryears article on differential responsiveness, a new article by Peters on party membership was published in the European Journal of Political Research.
Collage pictures life courses
Life courses in a Scandinavian welfare state (11.01.2016)
The Department of Sociology offers a new course on "Life courses in a Scandinavian Welfare State" from spring 2016. This course focuses on the provision of welfare in in different phases of life.
Pressebildene til Marry-Anne Karlsen og Thomas Sajan
Disputations at the Department of Social Anthropology (17.12.2015)
In December this year three PhD scholars from the Department of Social Anthropology defended their thesis.
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Alf Nilsen on Marxisme og Postkolonialisme (11.12.2015)
Alf Gunvald Nilsen has recently published an article in the journal Critical Sociology that addresses the relationship between Marxist and postcolonial theory.
FRIPRO-midlar til Muriaas
Research Council funding for research on gendered electoral financing (04.12.2015)
The research project «MONEY TALKS: Gendered Electoral Financing in Democratic and Democratizing States» recieves funding from The Norwegian Research Council

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