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On the formalization and institutionalisation of democratic innovations

Lecturers: Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) and Lisa Zanotti (Diego Portales University)

Title of the presentation: "Willing to Pay? A Reasonable Choice Approach"

This year’s SCANCOR Workshop on Institutional Analysis will be hosted by the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo in collaboration with BI Norwegian Business School and Oslo Metropolitan University. The workshop is supported through funding from the NFR INPART- project SCANCOR-NEWORG. Join the event for a one-week intense PhD workshop on institutional analysis. In the public morning lectures leading international as well as local faculty present and discuss recent research within the field of institutional theory. Afternoon workshop sessions with leading international faculty are limited to PhD students who successfully apply to the workshop.

The study of online violent extremism is an emerging and growing field in academia – one that can, however, expose researchers to risk of harm online and offline. 

University of Oslo and EITM Europe are inviting PhD-students and junior faculty to our 2023 Summer Institute «Testing Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models of Parliamentary Politics and Populism».

Title of the presentation: Does a democracy respond to international revolutions? Danish politics, response strategies and revolutionary threats.

When do municipal mergers occur? Drivers for territorial consolidation across 40 European countries and three decades

Title of the presentation: "The Great Democratic Divergence: How Some Societies Sustain Collective Rule"

This Seminar is part of the seminar series of  Consortium for Research on Terrorism and International Crime 

Jens Jungblut will present his co-edited book “Comparative Higher Education Politics - Policymaking in North America and Western Europe” which will be published in May 2023. Bjørn Stensaker and Mari Elken will also join the presentation as authors of chapters in the book.

Title: Leadership and Power: A Comprehensive Survey through the Prism of Leader Tenure

Origins and consequences of policy complexity in the European Union

Lecturer: Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, University College Dublin.

Title: Why get involved? Investigating stakeholder rationales for participating in collaborative interactions at the policy-science nexus

Title of the presentation: "Guilt No More: Emotion Dynamics and Protest (De)Mobilization"

This workshop focus on foreign fighters, i.e. military volunteers fighting in a theatre of war in one country while citizens of another. 

with Associate professor Judith Keene, University of Sydney, and Associate professor David Malet, American University Washington DC

Dr. Susan Colbourn will present her new book, Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO.

Title: The Ambition Trap: Why Overpromising on Climate Action Could Undermine Progress