News archive for Department of Government

Two GOV staff members visited our new Erasmus partner (22.02.2024)

Postdoctoral Fellow Juliana Tappe Ortiz and Associate Professor Corentin Poyet participated to the "6th international week" of the Catholic University of Lille.

First Session in Bergen for the new Executive Master in Public Administration (21.02.2024)

Head of the course Lise Rykkja and Jill Loga welcomed the first cohort of leaders from the ministries and affiliated units to Bergen and to the political science course on wicked problems, collaboration, and coordination in the public sector.

March/Olsen Honorary Lecture 2024: Professor Kerstin Sahlin (14.02.2024)

The Department of Government has the pleasure to present the annual March / Olsen Honorary Lecture, featuring Professor Kerstin Sahlin as our distinguished speaker with a lecture on "The Institutional Ambiguity of Universities".

New article by Elisabeth Ivarsflaten: How are Muslim minorities to be included in liberal democracies? (13.02.2024)

The article Value Conflicts Revisited: Muslims, Gender Equality, and Gestures of Respect published in British Journal of Political Science, is based on the study of the inclusion of Muslims in liberal democracies in the presence of value conflict.

Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections (09.02.2024)

As part of the Breaking Bad Understanding Backlash to Democracy in Africa, Lise Rakner with Marja Hinfelaar , Sishuwa Sishuwa and Nic van de Walle (2023) published the following article in a special issue of Journal of Eastern African Studies focusing on Zambia's most recent elections.

The Politics of Revenue Bargaining in Africa Triggers, Processes, and Outcomes (2023) (09.02.2024)

Lise Rakner, with Odd Helge Fjeldstad (CMI) have published a book chapter in a recent new publication from Oxford University Press.