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Michael Alvarez
Michael Alvarez among Norway's best lecturers (27.05.2016)
Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics, Michael Alvarez, is one of three finalists from the University of Bergen in a competition to find Norway's best lecturers by the newspaper Morgenbladet.
Disputas
The evangelical church in Guatemalan politics (24.05.2016)
Maren Christensen Bjune defended her ph.d. thesis "Religious change and political continuity. The evangelical church in Guatemalan politics" on Friday 20th May.
Lars Skov Henriksen
Engaging Scandinavian civil society (21.04.2016)
Lars Skov Henriksen, professor at Aalborg University, visited the Department of Comparative Politics on Wednesday. His talk about Scandinavian civil society was very popular and well attended by the academic staff.
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Films rather than written essays (15.04.2016)
Given the opportunity, students exchanged the traditional written essay with lectures on the Boer's of South Africa, radio casts on LGBT rights and a road movie on political participation in the small island municipality of Utsira.
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Large crowd for EU ambassador Campbell (13.04.2016)
One million children of Erasmus couples and the Oslo embassy's trainee programme were among the subjects of EU ambassador Helen Campbell's guest lecture on Wednesday.
Professor Michaël Tatham
Political Comparativist Michaël Tatham Receives Meltzer Award for Young Researchers (08.03.2016)
The Meltzer Research Fund has awarded Professor Michaël Tatham the Meltzer prize for young researchers.
Kuhnle in China Daily
Professor Stein Kuhnle with a comment in China Daily (02.03.2016)
Professor Stein Kuhnle has a comment titled "The dilemma of more taxes for better welfare" on print in China Daily's edition on March 2nd.
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Economic Behaviour in the Supreme Court (19.02.2016)
In an article published in the latest edition of Scandinavian Political Studies, Jon Kåre Skiple and Gunnar Grenstad et al. analyze the behaviour of Norwegian Supreme Court Justices in economic cases in the period 1963 - 2012.
Siri Gloppen - Centre on Law and Social Transformation (CLST)
Political determinants on sexual and reproductive health (12.02.2016)
Safe and legal abortion, access to health services for non-heterosexuals, HIV transmission. Focusing on political determinants on sexual and reproductive health, professor Siri Gloppen is getting ready to hire a new post-doc to the Department of Comparative Politics.
Georg Picot
Picot: Globalization and healthcare policy (03.02.2016)
In the latest edition of Journal of European Public Policy, read Georg Picot’s latest published article on «Globalization and healthcare policy: a constraint on growing expenditures»
Hakan G. Sicakkan
Funding for migration research (29.01.2016)
Hakan G. Sicakkan member of international research group that receives funding for research initiative on hidden migration in the context of global economic, social and political transformations.
Peters awarded prize for article published in West European Politics
Peters: Prize and newly published article (12.01.2016)
As Yvette Peters and Sander Ensink were awarded the Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright memorial prize for yesteryears article on differential responsiveness, a new article by Peters on party membership was published in the European Journal of Political Research.
FRIPRO-midlar til Muriaas
Research Council funding for research on gendered electoral financing (04.12.2015)
The research project «MONEY TALKS: Gendered Electoral Financing in Democratic and Democratizing States» recieves funding from The Norwegian Research Council
Yvette Peters has contributed chapter 13 of the recently published book "Party Politics and Democracy in Europe", honouring Peter Mair. Peters' essay is named "Hollower Democracy? Studying the Consequences of a Changing Demos".
Hollower Democracy? Consequences of a Changing Demos (25.09.2015)
Political parties in Western Europe have changed. Yvette Peters analyses the consequences of a changing demos in a chapter of a book honouring Peter Mair.
Professor Lee Epstein frå Washington University i St. Louis heldt årets Rokkanførelesing. Temaet for førelesinga var «The Study of Judicial Behavior».
Full University Aula for the Rokkan Lecture (22.09.2015)
Students, academics and - not so common - justices of the Supreme Court of Norway filled the brand new University Aula when prof. Lee Epstein held this years Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture.
Hovudtalaren hadde sjølvsagt bachelorgrad i samanliknande politikk: Lars-Henrik Paarup Michelsen, dagleg leiar i Norsk klimastiftelse
Diploma ceremony for BA candidates (17.09.2015)
26 BA candidates of Comparative Politics and European Studies were handed their diplomas by vice dean Knut Hidle and head of department Gunnar Grendstad.
China Social Welfare, nr. 7, 2015
Nordic Welfare Research in China (04.09.2015)
The last edition of China Social Welfare is dedicated to the welfare politics conference organised by the Sino-Nordic Welfare Research Network (SNOW) in Beijing in June.
Georg Picot
Freshly employed: Georg Picot (21.08.2015)
Welfare states, labour markets, political parties and comparative political economy is the focus for Georg Picot, as the Department of Comparative Politics welcomes him to the academic staff as associate professor.

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