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Meet our two new PhD candidates (06.04.2022)
Lena Weltrich and José Zurita-Tapia are newly appointed PhD candidates at the Department of Comparative Politics.
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Quantitative Methods in focus at Sampol (06.04.2022)
On March 28-29, the CORE research group at the Department of Comparative Politics organised a successful two-day course on advanced quantitative text analysis with Dr. Nicole Baerg (University of Essex and Bank of England).
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Arjan Schakel participates in a new Horizon Europe project (03.03.2022)
The research project, LEGITIMULT, has recently received funding from Horizon Europe to investigate the measures taken during the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe. Arjan Schakel, at the Department of Comparative Politics will lead one of the work packages based on the data from his research project funded by the Trond Mohn foundation. We stopped by his office to hear some more about this new and... Read more
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Wouter Veenendaal: Population and Politics: The Impact of Scale (20.01.2022)
Wouter Veenendaal, associate professor at Leiden University, gave a short lecture on Population and Politics: The Impact of Scale. The presentation builds on Veendenaal’s book (co-authored with John Gerring, professor at the University of Texas at Austin) by the same name.
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Aksel Sundström: Youth without representation (13.01.2022)
Aksel Sundström, Associate professor (docent) and senior lecturer at the University of Gothenburg, gave a short lecture on Youth without representation.
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Lena Wängnerud: Cleaners from Venus? Gender and anticorruption stereotypes across European regions (13.01.2022)
Lena Wängnerud, professor at the University of Gothenburg, gave a short lecture on Cleaners from Venus? Gender and anticorruption stereotypes across European regions The presentation builds on a paper with colleagues Monika Bauhr og Nicholas Charron.
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Bo Rothstein: Controlling Corruption - The Social Contract Approach (13.01.2022)
Bo Rothstein, professor at the University of Gothenburg, gave a short lecture on Controlling Corruption: The Social Contract Approach. The presentation builds on Rothstein's new book by the same name.
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Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz: Interest groups across different political arenas (13.01.2022)
Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz, professor at Aarhus University, gave a short lecture on Interest groups across different political arenas: the role of group type, resources and context. The presentation was based on work from the INTERARENA project - Interest Groups across Political Arenas, including the paper From Policy Interest to Media Appearance: Interest Group Activity and Media Bias, co-... Read more
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Stein Rokkan’s Legacy: The Past and Future of Comparative Politics (13.01.2022)
Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture Symposium “Stein Rokkan’s Legacy: The Past and Future of Comparative Politics” was held on Friday, October 29th. The symposium follows the 2021 Stein Rokkan memorial lecture on Thursday and commemorates the 100th birthday of Stein Rokkan The symposium re-evaluated Rokkan’s work on nation-building, citizenship, democratisation, mobilisation and comparative politics... Read more
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The formula for political endurance (30.08.2021)
With her ERC Consolidator Grant for the project "SUCCESS", Professor Ragnhild Muriaas will shed light on what makes women leave politics faster than men, and what makes them stay. With the project, she will launch a completely new way of understanding gender balance in politics.
High-level summit at the University of Bergen: Global counter-terrorism after 22 July (20.08.2021)
What can society and global organizations do better to stop right-wing extremist radicalization and terrorist content online?
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A world in refuge (17.06.2021)
Global displacement has reached an all time high in 2021. The world has never needed the UN Refugee Convention more than in its 70th anniversary year.
Sami activist and artist Andy Somby, Aaron John Spitzer and Per Selle, UiB
Arctic research comes in from the cold (14.06.2021)
How SAMPOL is on the frontier of polar political science
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Stein Rokkan 100 years (08.06.2021)
Stein Rokkan would have been 100 years old on 4 July 2021. He was one of the world’s leading political sociologists during the first decades after the Second World War and he played a core role in the development of the social sciences at the University of Bergen in the late 1960s. He established the subject ‘comparative politics’.
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Syrian civil war at 10: 5,6 million Syrians have fled the country (07.05.2021)
Still, a handful of neighboring states continue to host the majority of Syrian refugees.
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CORE Lecture Series (07.05.2021)
The CORE Lecture Series invites leading international scholars to present their ongoing research.
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China’s role in Africa: What now? (05.03.2021)
Over the past decade, China has emerged as a large actor on the African continent – primarily through trade, investment and as provider of development finance. But China is increasingly also playing a more direct political role.
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The Politics of Inclusion (09.12.2020)
Professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten receives the ERC Consolidator Grant for the project "INCLUDE". The project addresses one of the most fundamental challenges of our time; how to live peacefully together as diverse societies.

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