News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

Exporting the Public Value Test (20.02.2015)

The Regulation of Public Broadcasters’ New Media Services Across Europe

Money Talks: Media, Markets, Crisis (20.02.2015)

Part of the Changing Media, Changing Europe series

The Media Welfare State (20.02.2015)

The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era comprehensively addresses the central dynamics of the digitalization of the media industry in the Nordic countries.

Maurice Bloch asked us to address the Big Questions.

Thinking Big: Maurice Bloch on 'An evolutionary approach to the beginnings of "religion" and the collapse of states' (17.02.2015)

Youngest female Professor in Economics in Norway (17.02.2015)

Katrine Vellesen Løken (31) from the Department of Economics at the University of Bergen is now the youngest female Professor in Economics in Norway ever.

NORD+ 2015 Nordic-Baltic Field Course (12.02.2015)

We have been invited to take part in NORD+15 field course in Estonia-Latvia 3rd-16th May. The field course is based in Pärnu, Estonia with excursion and field work in Western Estonia and Latvia.

Michaël Robert Tatham/International Studies Quarterly

New Article: The Matthew Effect in the EU (09.02.2015)

In a new article, Michaël Tatham finds that the influence of demographically heavier and supranationally well-networked regions is greater than that of smaller regions. This is, however, conditioned by an indirect effect of the level of decentralisation.

Syriza’s victory and the twilight of Neoliberalism (03.02.2015)

Last week's Greek electoral earthquake has left in its wake a wave of hope that an alternative to neoliberalist orthodoxy is possible. Laurence Cox and Alf Gunvald Nilsen examine the prospects of further breakthroughs elsewhere in Europe.