Democracy as Idea and Practice
Democracy as Idea and Practice is an interfacultary research programme at the University of Oslo. The programme has participants from several areas of research at The Faculty of Social Sciences, The Faculty of Humanities, The Faculty of Law and other faculties at the University of Oslo. Presently, about 50 researchers at the University of Oslo are associated with the programme. Their research covers a wide range of topics in the field of democracy research, and deals with normative as well as empirical problems.
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In many countries, incoming governments need to secure the support of a parliamentary majority in a formal vote of investiture in order to take office. In practice, investiture requirements vary significantly. In some cases the entire government (or each government minister separately) must win a confidence vote after the government platform has been presented.
The Research Programme on Democracy invites you to an international workshop in Athens in early November 2012. We meet for three days from 9.30 am on Thursday 8 November. The workshop is intended as an arena for presentation of ongoing research. Our aim is to bring together researchers from the humanities, law and social sciences, and the workshop provides an excellent opportunity to develop new research networks across disciplines and faculty borders.
