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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.
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The Research Programme on Democracy is pleased to announce its third international conference on Democracy as Idea and Practice in Oslo. The conference is inter-disciplinary, aimed primarily at researchers from the humanities, social sciences and law. The venue is at the University of Oslo Blindern campus.
Professor Kaare Strøm (University of California, San Diego) presents the main ideas in his and Torbjörn Bergman's newly published volume on parliamentarism in the Nordic region.
Venue: The Norwegian Institute in Rome, Viale Trenta Aprile 33 (Trastevere).
The Program on Democracy at Yale University and the Research Programme on Democracy at University of Oslo are organizing an international workshop on "Epistemic Democracy in Practice" to be held at Yale University in October 2011.
What role does rethoric play in contemporary democracy? How do rethorical elements impact political situations in elections or crisis situations? And how does rethoric create and influence interpretations of world views, and in turn, determine processes and outcomes of political conflicts and crises, important political decissions in national and international politics, or individual political careers?
About a hundred years ago Norway got universal suffrage and women gained the right to vote on the same condition as men. At University of Oslo we will have a research project on the struggle for and the implementation of women’s political rights. We hope students from many disciplines will write bachelor- and master thesis on this subject about Norway as well as on other countries. Students and researchers are warmly welcomed to the seminar. There will be lecture from different disciplines: political science, history and legal studies.
Seminar with professor of economics Roger D. Congleton (George Mason University, USA) on topics from his important new book "Perfecting Parliament: Constitutional Reform, Liberalism, and the Rise of Western Democracy ".
The Comparative Democratic Politics research seminars take place on selected Thursdays and are open to all. The venue is room 830 at the Department of Political Science, Eilert Sundt's building, 8th floor. To join the Comparative Democratic Politics mailing list, send a message to Elin H. Allern or Rune Karlsen.
Professor Simon Hix (London School of Economics) visits University of Oslo in late May 2011. He will give a public lecture on challenges faced by the European Union (Monday 30 May at 14:15-16:00), and participate in a research seminar on electoral politics in the lab and in the field (Tuesday 31 May at 13:15-16:30).
Professor Simon Hix (London School of Economics) visits University of Oslo in late May 2011. He will give a public lecture on challenges faced by the European Union (Monday 30 May at 14:15-16:00), and participate in a research seminar on electoral politics in the lab and in the field (Tuesday 31 May at 13:15-16:30).
Paper proposals are invited to a workshop on Democracy as an Idea in Practice. The Methodological Relevance of Reconstruction in Democratic Theory. The workshop will be held at ARENA – Centre for European Studies, Oslo, May 26-27, 2011. Proposals via email to the organisers Dr. Daniel Gaus (daniel.gaus@arena.uio.no) or Prof. Dr. Christoph Humrich (christoph.humrich@iniis.uni-bremen.de). The deadline for paper proposals is March 31.
Seminar with Dr. Yusuf Bangura, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
COMMENTATORS:
Kalle Moene (ESOP), Desmond McNeill (SUM), Ingrid Fiskaa (State Secretary for Environment and International Development), and Ragnhild Dybdahl (Director, Education and Research, NORAD) – followed by a general discussion.
The Research Programme on Democracy is pleased to announce its second international conference on Democracy as Idea and Practice in Oslo. The conference is inter-disciplinary, aimed primarily at researchers from the humanities, social sciences and law. The venue is at the University of Oslo Blindern campus.
The Research Programme on Democracy and the Comparative Democratic Politics Seminar are pleased to invite you to a seminar with Mads Qvortrup on political leadership and the case of Britain's ex-prime minister Tony Blair.
The Research Programme on Democracy and the Comparative Democratic Politics Seminar invites you to a seminar with Sheri Berman, Barnard College, Columbia University on The Primacy of Politics.
Under are listed the participants that will attend Democracy as Idea and Practise`s Workshop in Paris October 18.-21, 2010.
The Comparative Democratic Politics research seminars are open for all and take place on the first (or second/third) thursday of each month at 16:30-18:00 hrs. The venue is room 830 at the Department of Political Science, Eilert Sundt’s Building, 8th floor. Welcome! To join the Comparative Democratic Politics mailing list, send a message to the convenor (e.h.allern@stv.uio.no).
Seminar with professor Yash Ghai (University of Warwick/University of Hong Kong). The seminar is chaired by professor Eivind Smith (Department of Public and International Law). Comments by Professor Øyvind Østerud (Head of Department of Political Science and Vice-President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters).
Seminar with professor Yash Ghai (University of Warwick/University of Hong Kong). The seminar is chaired by professor Eivind Smith (Department of Public and International Law). Comments by Professor Øyvind Østerud (Head of Department of Political Science and Vice-President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters).
Seminar/workshop with professor of sociology Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex), partly based on his recent book The Cosmopolitan Imagination The Renewal of Critical Social Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Eivind Smith presenterer sin nye bok "Konstitusjonelt demokrati". Kommentarer: Njål Høstmælingen og Malcolm Langford. Møteleder: Jan Helgesen
The conference will take place January 14-15, 2010, with plenary sessions and workshops at the University of Oslo Blindern campus.