News archive for Department of Comparative Politics

Challenging to link development aid and humanitarian assistance with peace negotiations (30.09.2014)

Post-doc Gyda Marås Sindre examines in a new article attempts to link development aid and humanitarian assistance with peace negotiations in Aceh and Sri Lanka. The main finding is that such a link may have positive effects, but also divert attention away from core conflict issues.

Constitutional reform can undermine courts’ independence (18.09.2014)

Constitutional reform intended to modernize the judiciary and promote judicial independence can have the opposite effect, Andrea Castagnola and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán find in a new article published in the British Journal of Political Science.

Professors Linde and Ivarsflaten engaged as expert commentators for TV2 (16.09.2014)

Professor Jonas Linde and Associate Professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten of the Department of Comparative Politics provided expertise analysis for TV2 during the Swedish parliamentary election last Sunday.

Ivarsflaten: - The Progress Party and the Sweden Democrats are not fully comparable (16.09.2014)

Associate Professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten says to Newspaper Aftenposten that the two parties’ different origins render them not fully comparable.

Muslims – our society’s X-Men (12.09.2014)

Increasing the pressure on mosques can contribute to further radicalization of Muslims, PhD student Olav Elgvin writes in an op-ed in newspaper Aftenposten.

Rokkan-lecturer Herbert Kitschelt speaks to full auditorium (10.09.2014)

How parties are able to reward their own voters was the topic of the 2014 Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture. Students and faculty at the Department of Comparative Politics filled the auditorium to hear the prominent professor speak.

Can earmarked electoral financing increase the share of women in parliaments? (08.09.2014)

Associate Professor Ragnhild L. Muriaas and Happy M. Kayuni find in a new study of Malawi that even though earmarked electoral financing can improve the prospects of female candidates in intra-party nomination battles, such strategies also have unintended negative consequences.

Olav Elgvin new PhD scholar at Department of Comparative Politics (03.09.2014)

How do Muslim religious leaders in Europe understand the relationship between Islam and politics? This will be answered in Olav Elgvin’s PhD proejct.