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New Research Project: 芦Fairness, personal responsibility and the welfare state禄 (21.11.2014)
The project seeks to ascertain how much personal responsibility citizens believe they have for their own income. Professors Stein Kuhnle, Siri Gloppen, and post-doc Cornelius Cappelen represent the Department of Comparative Politics in the project.
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SERVICES AND THE GREEN ECONOMY (17.11.2014)
The Green Economies Network held an international workshop with invited researchers and PhD-students at Bj酶rnefjorden Guesthouse nearby Bergen on the 13th and 14th of November 2014.
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Why democratic discontent? (14.11.2014)
Jonas Linde and Stefan Dahlberg find in a new article that political representation and government performance matter for satisfaction with democracy. The former is most significant in established democracies, the latter in new democracies. The article is written together with S枚ren Holmberg.
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Cultural paticipation in Norway (12.11.2014)
In a new volume titled "The Routledge Companion to Bourdieu鈥檚 'Distinction" three researchers from the Department of Sociology contributes with the chapter "Cultural Distinctions in an Egalitarian Society".
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- Limited independence for breakaway states (10.11.2014)
Associate Professor Micha毛l Tatham says to Norwegian newspaper Klar Tale that even if certain regions in Europe were to become independent, close relations to the parent state and the EU would be maintained.
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Survey experts meet for the 2014 Norwegian Citizen Panel Conference (07.11.2014)
World-leading experts on survey-based research methods were among the participants at the 2014 Norwegian Citizen Panel Conference in Bergen, November 6th and 7th. Researchers met to share and discuss experiences with the use of survey-based research methods.
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Professor Frank Aarebrot wins the Norwegian Research Council鈥檚 Science Communication Award (03.11.2014)
Professor Frank Aarebrot of the Department of Comparative Politics has won the Norwegian Research Council鈥檚 2014 Award for Excellence in Communication of Science. It comprises a cash prize of NOK 250 000.
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Linde and colleagues receive multi-million research grant to study language effects in surveys (31.10.2014)
Professor Jonas Linde of the Department of Comparative Politics and colleagues have received a 9,2 million SEK research grant from The Swedish Research Council to study language effects in surveys.
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脜se Gilje 脴stensen new Associate Professor II at Department of Comparative Politics (28.10.2014)
脴stensen will teach the 200-level course 芦The Commercialization of Security in Peace and Conflict禄 at the Department of Comparative Politics in the spring of 2015.
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Approaches to Representative Worker Participation during the 20th Century (28.10.2014)
PhD candidate Katharina Sass has published an article on representative worker participation in Norway and Sweeden.
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"Sideways and upwards" - dispersement of political competence (20.10.2014)
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Vegard Furust酶l Vibe new research fellow at Department of Comparative Politics (16.10.2014)
What are the consequences of the judicialization of controversial and moral political questions? This is the main research question of Vegard Furust酶l Vibe鈥檚 PhD project.
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Protests against the Norwegian parliament: who, what, how? (15.10.2014)
Professors Kristin Str酶msnes and Per Selle discuss 50 years of protests against the Norwegian parliament in a chapter in a new book on the parliament's recent history.
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Economist wins Nobel Prize for his research on market power and regulation (14.10.2014)
鈥� This proves that competition economics is a highly important field of research, says Professor Tommy S. Gabrielsen, general manager at BECCLE.
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Jon K氓re Skiple new research fellow at Department of Comparative Politics (13.10.2014)
How has the internationalization of Norwegian law affected the Supreme Court's influence on Norwegian society? This is the researh question Jon K氓re Skiple addresses in his PhD studies.
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Op-ed: The 25th anniversary of the Sami parliament (09.10.2014)
Professor Per Selle argues in an op-ed in newspaper Nordlys that the Sami parliament has developed into an important actor in Norwegian politics and government. The op-ed is written together with Torvald Falch, senior advisor to the Sami parliament.
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Stefan Dahlberg new visiting scholar at Department of Comparative Politics (06.10.2014)
Stefan Dahlberg (University of Gothenburg) visits the Department of Comparative Politics as a guest researcher this Fall. His research areas include representative democracy, democratic legitimacy, political parties and voting behavior.
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Many want to hear Frank Aarebrot鈥檚 USA lectures (01.10.2014)
As Frank Aarebrot prepares to give four lectures on US history at Rad酶y near Bergen, locals are a signing up on a waiting list to hear the popular professor speak.

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