News archive for Department of Comparative Politics

CORE Lecture Series (07.05.2021)

The CORE Lecture Series invites leading international scholars to present their ongoing research.

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.

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten ERC Consolidator Grant Citicen lab

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.

Politics as profession (01.10.2020)

Professor Ragnhild Muriaas at the University of Bergen started her working career as a DJ. Now she investigates what strings must be played in politics to make a footprint.

BSRS 2021: Science and Society towards the Sustainable Development Goals (29.09.2020)

Digital summer research school.

Who is (un)protected by the law? (21.08.2020)

– Migration is an important field of law because legal status makes an enormous difference. If you have status as ‘citizen’ you are protected by the law in a completely different way than refugees and migrants.

Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funds 2020 (29.04.2020)

Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions. Deadline 20 June, 2020.

A vital moment to study international refugee protection (23.03.2020)

UiB professor Hakan G. Sicakkan’s newly launched project Protect will study refugees’ rights to international protection. A vital moment for projects like Protect, UN Refugee Agency says.

Money Talks Professor Ragnhild Muriaas in Malawi during political campaign

Patriarchal structures an obstacle to women in politics in many countries (27.01.2020)

– Most often the priviliged are the winners in politics, and who is priviliged depends on gender, says professor Ragnhild Muriaas, who has lead the research project Money Talks.

Digsscore granted national responsibility for European Social Survey ESS (22.10.2019)

– We are very happy to mark our position as a national competence centre on survey data and development of the survey method, says deputy dean Ragnhild Muriaas.

Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funds 2019 (13.05.2019)

A New Economic Era: The Gig Economy (26.10.2018)

Professor Kathleen Thelen from MIT held the 2018 Rokkan Memorial Lecture, and presented the American precariat in a true Rokkanian, comparative tradition.

Methods workshop: “Bayesian Measurement in R/JAGS” with Dr. Xavier Fernández-i-Marín (24.10.2018)

The department's internal workshop on measurements and concepts proved to be both challenging and rewarding.

Political economy on the agenda for the 2018 Rokkan Memorial Lecture (11.10.2018)

The Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture of 2018 will be held by Professor Kathleen Thelen, whose research on historical institutionalism and comparative historical analysis connects her to the work of Stein Rokkan.

Gyda Sindre launches new research network on post-conflict studies (02.10.2018)

Researcher and Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Comparative Politics and University of Cambridge, Gyda Sindre, has launched an ambitious research network and website which will bring thorough attention to several themes connected to post-conflict studies.

Stefan Dahlberg gains promotion to professor (28.09.2018)

Stefan Dahlberg, who has been an associate professor at the department over the last years specializing in themes such as voter behavior and experimental research, has gained his promotion to professor.

Workshop at Harvard University on ‘Political Inequality, and How Representative Democracy Functions’ (20.08.2018)

This summer, the opening workshop of the research project ‘The Politics of Inequality’ was held at Harvard University. During the workshop the first findings of the project were presented, and scholars from 7 different institutions shared their knowledge and expertise.

Internal UiB workshop on ‘The Politics of Inequality’ (13.07.2018)

January 17th 2018, the researchers connected to the project "The Politics of Inequality" in Bergen arranged a workshop to learn about each other's research and expertise.

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