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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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Stein Kuhnle co-editor of new book on Chinese and Nordic welfare policy (16.06.2014)
Professor Stein Kuhnle and co-editors Pauli Kettunen og Yuan Ren presented the new Chinese-language book «Reshaping Welfare Institutions in China and the Nordic Countries» at the Nordic Centre, Fudan, on June 6th.
- Many authoritarian regimes try to give the impression that decisions are made through thorough democratic processes, says PhD student Svein-Erik Hansen Helle.
- Authoritarian regimes pretend to be democratic (16.06.2014)
PhD student Svein-Erik Hansen Helle says to newspaper Trønder-Avisa that authoritarian regimes try to give the impression that decisions are made through thorough democratic processes.
it shocking when EU sceptics become the largerst parties in the UK, France and Denmark».
- EU sceptics of all hues did well in the EU elections (27.05.2014)
Associate Professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten says to newspaper Klassekampen that EU sceptics of all hues did well in the EU elections, with a few exceptions.

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