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The collaborative project ECOBUDGETS will explore ways to integrate climate and nature budgets into administrative and political decisions at the municipal and county levels.
KODEM receives grant from the Ministry of Education and the Norwegian Research Council - a joyful day for democracy research.
Our post-doc Martin Stangborli Time, together with Frode Veggeland, have a new exiting publication on the politics, governance and administration of the work against antimicrobial resistance in the European Union!
Esther Song and co-author Sung Eun Kim examines how China balances nationalist sentiments at home with diplomatic signals abroad during territorial conflicts in the South China Sea and East China Sea.
A groundbreaking study published in the American Journal of Political Science reveals the unexpected social resilience of sexual violence survivors in conflict zones.
The Conservative Party's (H酶yre) municipal council group in B忙rum went on a study trip to Bergen and visited the Department of Government.
In a paper recently published in Asian Politics & Policy, Esther Song explains the evolution of NGO policies in China by drawing attention to central-level directives and the variegated origins of non-governmental organizations in China. The key is the adaptiveness of the party-state.
Congratulations to Carlo Koos and Richard Traunm眉ller on their publication of their research in the recognised journal American Political Science Review.
New "Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence" (lead editor Regine Paul) tackles burning questions in digital era.
Congratulations to our postdoctoral researcher, Hege Stein Helland, who has been elected as a delegate for the UiB Momentum program for 2024-25.
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.

PhD Fellow Andrea Kronstad Felde published her article on institutional work and intra-organisational conflicts in student governments in authoritarian contexts in the prestigious journal Higher Education.
More than 10,000 interviews and a new method show that survivors of conflict-related sexual violence are actually more engaged in their communities afterwards.
On 3 May, the Department of Government hosted the first GOV-Day in the University Aula. With approximately 120 registered attendees, both staff members and students participated in a panel debate, speed-dating with research groups, and master-student presentations. Both students and staff concluded that the event was indeed successful!
PhD Fellow Fr酶ydis L酶nborg Haarberg published a scoping review on children鈥檚 representation in child protection decisions in the prestigious journal Children and Youth Services Review.
We are immensely happy to announce that our PhD-fellow Barbara Ruiken successfully defended her dissertation 鈥淒iscretionary Decision-Making in Child Protection Care Order Cases鈥 and has therefore acquired a PhD at the University of Bergen. The defense took place on 16.4.2024.
Juliana Tappe Ortiz proposes to extend research on rebel leader characteristics and peace negotiations.
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