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This year’s theme for International Women's Day focuses on Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress and the crucial role of inclusion in achieving gender equality. For this occasion we re-visit Professor Ragnhild Muriaas' research on gendered electoral financing, delving into global initiatives shaping women's political participation in different countries.
Postdoctoral Fellow Juliana Tappe Ortiz and Associate Professor Corentin Poyet participated to the "6th international week" of the Catholic University of Lille.
Head of the course Lise Rykkja and Jill Loga welcomed the first cohort of leaders from the ministries and affiliated units to Bergen and to the political science course on wicked problems, collaboration, and coordination in the public sector.
The Department of Government has the pleasure to present the annual March / Olsen Honorary Lecture, featuring Professor Kerstin Sahlin as our distinguished speaker with a lecture on "The Institutional Ambiguity of Universities".
The article Value Conflicts Revisited: Muslims, Gender Equality, and Gestures of Respect published in British Journal of Political Science, is based on the study of the inclusion of Muslims in liberal democracies in the presence of value conflict.
As part of the Breaking Bad Understanding Backlash to Democracy in Africa, Lise Rakner with Marja Hinfelaar , Sishuwa Sishuwa and Nic van de Walle (2023) published the following article in a special issue of Journal of Eastern African ´óÏó´«Ã½ focusing on Zambia's most recent elections.
Lise Rakner, with Odd Helge Fjeldstad (CMI) have published a book chapter in a recent new publication from Oxford University Press.
Kjetil Børhaug and Hanne Kvilhaugsvik are contributors of a recent book on the framework plan for kindergartens.
What are the key drivers behind the European Union's groundbreaking regulation of artificial intelligence?
On Friday, August 25th 2023, the Department of Government was pleased to host this year's March / Olsen Honorary Lecture with Professor Walter W. (Woody) Powell as the distinguished speaker. The title of the lecture by Professor Powell was called "The Iron Cage Redux - Looking Back and Forward".
Who are the key actors in interest intermediation in higher education in Western Europe?
Carlo Koos from the Department of Government is one of the authors of this new article published in American Political Science Review.
This handbook, edited by Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert and Marit Skivenes, is the largest to date overview of child protection systems across the world. The book describes and analyzes the ways in which 50 countries from every continent, except Antarctica, have developed measures for the protection of children in need of protection against maltreatment prescribed in the UNCRC.
This autumn we offer a new and redesigned English master’s programme in Politics and Governance of Global Challenges
At Centre for climate and energy transformation (CET) we are looking for a full time research assistant for one year. Deadline March 5th!
Why have most African countries not achieved greater political liberalization? What explains the lack of progress toward the ideals of liberal democracy across the region?
We mark European Social Survey’s (ESS) 20th anniversary by holding a seminar at Hotel Norge, Wednesday 25 January, from 0930 to 1700. Department of Government has been national coordinator for the ESS since 2019, and wishes to invite all interested parties to participate at the seminar. Everyone are also invited to a competition on making the best ESS data visualization.
Exciting academic positions at the Department of Government

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