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Cultural vs Economic Capital: Symbolic Boundaries within the Middle Class (26.08.2015)
Post. Doc. Vegard Jarness' article on the link between class-structured lifestyle differences and social closure, will be published in the forthcomming issue of Sociology.
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.
Michael Tatham og Gyda Marås Sindre represents the Department of Compartive Politics on the chart of highest publishing scores in 2014.
Post-doc. and fresh professor tops publishing chart (21.08.2015)
A post-doc. and a freshly appointed professor has yesteryears highest publishing scores at the Department of Comparative Politics. One of them was the seventh most publishing academic at the University of Bergen.
David Collste and Therese Bennich accept the Barry Richmond Scholarship Award 2015
Barry Richmond Scholarship Award to master students (12.08.2015)
Three of our master students in system dynamics received a prestigious award at the 2015 International System Dynamics Conference in Boston, USA.
Nilsen og Nielsen
Kenneth Bo Nielsen has co-edited a special issue of Journal of Contemporary Asia (03.08.2015)
Together with Uday Chandra from Max Planck in Germany, Nielsen has co-edited the special issue ‘Rethinking Resistance: Subaltern Politics and the State in Contemporary India
Bo Nielsen book review
Kenneth Bo Nielsen reviews two monographs on the politics of land acquisition and industrialisation in India (22.06.2015)
Kenneth Bo Nielsen has just reviewed two monographs on the politics of land acquisition and industrialisation in India, in "Contemporary South Asia" and "South Asia" respectively.
Andrea Bassi on the green economy (19.06.2015)
Dr. Andrea Bassi, Founder and CEO of KnowlEdge Srl, discusses ideas, indicators and practices surrounding the concept of "green economy", explaining how it would work in practice and barriers to change.
Bo Nielsen
Kenneth Bo Nielsen about the political fallouts of constructing a new airport in Goa (17.06.2015)
Nielsen writes about the political fallouts of constructing a new airport in Goa, in the Indian journal Economic and Political Weekly,
Alf G. Nilsen
Alf G. Nilsen with blog about post state-society relations in colonial and contemporary India (16.06.2015)
Nilsen continues his series of posts on the blog Progress in Political Economy.
Social Media and Election Campaigns
Social Media and Election Campaigns (15.06.2015)
Professor Hallvard Moe is co-editor of a book on social media and election campaigns
Lise Rakner
Grant awarded Berkely-Bergen cooperation (12.06.2015)
Peder Sæther grant awarded cooperation between The University of Bergen and UC Berkeley on political parties in the developing world.
Nilsen Bokslipp
Alf Gunvald Nilsen has been awarded 100.000 kroners from UiB Global's SPIRE-funds (08.06.2015)
UiB Global's SPIRE-funds are intended to promote international collaboration in the field of development research at the University of Bergen.
Tom Leschine outside the Dep. of Comparative Politics
US and Norwegian Approaches to Risks of Hydrocarbon Development (27.05.2015)
Please join us for a special seminar presentation by Tom Leschine, Visiting Scholar from the University of Washington. Tom will be speaking on the research that has brought him to the Department of Comparative Politics this spring.
Tom Leschine outside the Dep. of Comparative Politics
Thomas M. Leschine at Comparative Politics (21.05.2015)
Thom Leschine, a life-long student of marine environmental decision making, is pursuing his interest in the far north while visiting the Dept. of Comparative Politics.
Nilsen India
Alf G. Nilsen on welfare research in the world's largest democracy (18.05.2015)
In the new issue of Sosiolognytt, Alf Gunvald Nilsen writes about welfare research in the world's largest democracy - in other words India.
Madhab Prasad Bhusal
Obituary Madhab Prasad Bhusal (13.05.2015)
We are deeply sad to announce the loss of Madhab Prasad Bhusal, who took his M.Phil. degree at Department of Geography from 2005-2007.
Franklin Furlong at one of The University of Washington (UW) Men's Basketball team's matches. The accompanying husky dog is the school mascot of UW.
Franklin Furlong at Comparative Politics (06.05.2015)
A project of audio podcasts brought Franklin Furlong to the Dep. of Comparative Politics as visiting scholar.
Prof. Alan T. Wood outside the Department of Comparative Politics
Alan T. Wood at Comparative Politics (06.05.2015)
The history of China and the world and the natural evolution of Democracy are in prof. Alan T. Wood’s focus while visiting the Dep. of Comparative Politics.

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