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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.
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- Stein Rokkan’s perspectives are needed to understand Norwegian politics (27.08.2014)
To grasp developments in Norwegian politics, Stein Rokkan’s perspectives are needed, PhD student Olav Elgvin of the Department of Comparative Politics writes in newspaper Klassekampen. Rokkan’s political-sociological perspectives are not sufficiently present, according to Elgvin.
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Far right-expert Herbert Kitschelt gives 2014 Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture (22.08.2014)
September 10th Herbert Kitschelt visits the Department of Comparative Politics to give the annual Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture.
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Interpretations and critiques of modernity (19.08.2014)
Professor Atle Møen har publiched an article titled "Interpretations and critiques of modernity - A review of Peter Wagner: Modernity: understanding the present".
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Teije Hidde Donker new post-doc at Department of Comparative Politics (18.08.2014)
Mobilized Islam and state-society relations in Muslim majority countries with a special focus on Syria, Tunisia and Turkey are Dutch Teije Hidde Donker’s research interests.
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New comparative politics students greeted by department (18.08.2014)
New students at the Department of Comparative Politics and European Studies were welcomed by the department leadership Friday August 15th , and given a presentation of both the discipline and faculty.
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We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism (15.08.2014)
Alf Gunvald Nilsen, associate professor at the Department of Sociology, has co-authored the book We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism (Pluto Press, August 2014), with Laurence Cox, a sociologist based at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.
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Andrea Castagnola new post-doc at Department of Comparative Politics (10.08.2014)
Judicial politics, democracy, political institutions in Latin America are Argentinian Andrea Castagnola’s research interests.
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Geographical Contexts of Innovation (06.08.2014)
A special issue of the journal Growth and Change addressing the relationship between innovations and geographical contexts has been based on a session at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in Seattle, Washington in 2011.
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Henrik Litleré Bentsen new research fellow at Department of Comparative Politics (04.08.2014)
Why justices dissent in the Norwegian Supreme Court and the potential impact of such dissents on the court’s development is the topic of Henrik Litleré Bentsen’s PhD project.
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Annual meeting in Khartoum (23.06.2014)
The Department of Social Anthropology in Bergen continues its exciting collaboration projects. Read more about them here!
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Stein Kuhnle co-editor of new book on Chinese and Nordic welfare policy (16.06.2014)
Professor Stein Kuhnle and co-editors Pauli Kettunen og Yuan Ren presented the new Chinese-language book «Reshaping Welfare Institutions in China and the Nordic Countries» at the Nordic Centre, Fudan, on June 6th.

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