News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

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.

Åse Gilje Østensen new Associate Professor II at Department of Comparative Politics (28.10.2014)

Østensen will teach the 200-level course «The Commercialization of Security in Peace and Conflict» at the Department of Comparative Politics in the spring of 2015.

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.

"Sideways and upwards" - dispersement of political competence (20.10.2014)

Vegard Furustøl 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 Furustøl Vibe’s PhD project.

Protests against the Norwegian parliament: who, what, how? (15.10.2014)

Professors Kristin Strømsnes 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.

Economist wins Nobel Prize for his research on market power and regulation (14.10.2014)

– This proves that competition economics is a highly important field of research, says Professor Tommy S. Gabrielsen, general manager at BECCLE.

Jon Kåre 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 Kåre Skiple addresses in his PhD studies.

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.

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.

Many want to hear Frank Aarebrot’s USA lectures (01.10.2014)

As Frank Aarebrot prepares to give four lectures on US history at Radøy near Bergen, locals are a signing up on a waiting list to hear the popular professor speak.