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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.