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National Political Science Conference

The Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo (UiO) welcomes you to the National Political Science Conference 2022.

Image: Anders Lien/UiO

This conference is an annual meeting place for political scientists at Norwegian universities, university colleges, and research institutions. Uploading and presentation of a paper is required of participants. An important purpose of the conference is to allow young and senior scholars to present, and receive feedback on, scholarly works intended for publication in journals or as book chapters, in Norwegian or English.

Programme

15 June

12.00-13.00        

13.00-14.00

14.00-15.45

16.15-18.00

19.00-23.00

Arrival and registration

Lunch

Plenary session: Parliamentary election 2021

Working groups

Festive dinner, Sentralen, Øvre Slottsgate 3

Aperitif from 19.00, dinner from 20.00.

16 June

09.00-13.00

13.00-14.00

14.00-18.00

Working groups

Lunch

Working groups

17 June

09.00-11.30

11.30-12.30

Working groups

Lunch

Plenary session

This year’s Plenary session is about the parliamentary elections 2021, with presentations by Associate professor Jørgen Bølstad (UiO), Professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten (University of Bergen) and Professor Anders Todal Jenssen (NTNU). Chair of the plenary discussion is Professor Bjørn Erik Rasch (UiO).

Working groups

The conference is organized in four working groups, divided by section and chaired as indicated below. Prospective participants indicate their preferred group, as well as the title of their paper and a short abstract (up to 250 words) when signing up for the conference. Papers may be written in Norwegian or English, but presentation and discussion will be in English if one or more participant has insufficient command of Norwegian as working language. Every participant will be tasked with the opponent role for at least one paper. Links for sign-up and uploading/downloading of papers are given below.

1. International Politics

The group invite submissions of both theoretical and empirical work that address broad questions in international relations, focusing on the functions and output of international organizations, processes of internationalization and globalization, issues of security policy and international conflicts, as well as other related topics.

Group leaders: James Cameron and Kristin Ven Bruusgaard

2. Comparative Politics

The group invites submissions to the field of comparative politics, broadly understood. This includes but is not limited to topics such as political behavior (e.g. public opinion, media, parties, voters and their interactions), institutions and regimes (e.g. governance, democratization, autocratic politics), and contentious politics (e.g. civil wars, protests, social movements).

Group leaders: Felix Haass, Peter Egge Langsæther and Martin Søyland

3. Public Policy and Administration

The group invites submissions of both theoretical and empirical work on all aspects of public policy and public administration. This includes (but is not limited to) the functioning of national, regional or local political and administrative institutions as well as attitudes towards, design of, or consequences of public policies.

Group leaders: Jens Jungblut and Kristoffer Kolltveit

4. Political Theory

The group welcomes paper submissions in the fields of normative political theory/political philosophy, the history of political thought, and the philosophy of the social sciences. We welcome papers from a variety of methodological perspectives.

Group leader: Fredrik D. Hjorten

Registration and deadlines

Deadline for registration, with paper title and abstract: 4 April 2022.

Deadline for uploading paper: 1 June 2022. You will receive a link to upload in Teams on 1 June at the very latest.

Registration is now closed

No conference fee – participation, lunches and festive dinner are free.  

Accommodation

Participants order their own accommodation. 

Organizing committee

Professor Tora Skodvin (leader), Advisor Ilze Gehe, Advisor Linda Gulli, and Professor Olav Schram Stokke (all at UiO).

Published Oct. 21, 2021 12:11 PM - Last modified Jan. 5, 2024 3:23 PM