Workshops, NOPSA-Conference 2014 in Gothenburg Number of Workshops: 31 Number of Participants: 374 No. Title Chair(s) Vice-Chair(s) 1 Political Science Research in the Arctic Maria Ackrén University of Greenland Merete Watt Boolsen 2 Konsolidering, konkurranse og institusjonalisering: Den politiske utviklingen i Sentral- og Øst- Europa 25 år etter Berlinmurens fall Elisabeth Bakke Thomas Sedelius Högskolan Dalarna Consolidation, competition and institutionalization: Political development in Central and Eastern Europe 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall 3 Political elites and representation: individual actors in context 4 New insights in the study of electoral behavior and turnout 5 Contested governance in divided cities: conflict resolution, democracy and the everyday Åsa Bengtsson Åbo Akademi University Hanna Wass University of Helsinki Annika Björkdahl Lund University Eva Heida Onnudottir University of Mannheim Yosef Bhatti Elisabeth Gidengil McGill University Annika Agger Roskilde University
7 The Rise of Anti-Establishment Parties in Nordic Countries: Causes and Consequences Andrej Kokkonen Stefan Dahlberg Anders Ravik Jupskås 8 Political communication: antecedents, contents and effects of political information Arjen van Dalen Syddansk Universitet Bengt Johansson 9/35 Joint session: Modeller som sviktar? Nordiska socialdemokratiska partier och nordiska välfärdsstater under press Marie Demker Siv Sandberg Åbo Akademi University Ylva Norén Bretzer Failing models? Nordic social democratic parties and Nordic welfare states under pressure 11 Power and the political Charlotte Fridolfsson University of Linköping Emilia Palonen University of Helsinki 12 Was Plato Right? Should the Experts Rule? Cathrine Holst ARENA, Allan Dreyer Hansen University of Roskilde Bo Rothstein
13 Innovative research on public opinion and political behavior Elisabeth Ivarsflaten University of Bergen Johan Martinsson Rune Stubager 14/15 Joint session: Citizenship, participation, political parties and learning 16 Forvaltningspolitikk og reformer i offentlig sector: Ansvar, samordning og kvaliteten til offentlige myndigheter Administration policy and reform in the public sector: Responsibility, coordination and the quality of public authorities 17 Urfolk: deltakelse, representasjon, internasjonalisering Indigenous peoples: Participation, representation, internationalization 18 Experiments in Decision-Making and Governance Institutions Niels N. Kristensen University of Aalborg Karina Kosiara-Pedersen Per Lægreid University of Bergen Ulf Mörkenstam University of Stockholm Julie Hassing Nielsen Rune Karlsen Institute for Social Research, Oslo Trond Solhaug Norwegian University of Science and Technology Karsten Vrangbæk Jon Pierre Jo Saglie Institute for Social Research, Oslo Peter Esaiasson
20 Nordisk helsepolitikk Nordic Health Policy Hilmar Rommetvedt International Research Institute of Stavanger Karsten Vrangbæk 21 The European Union in the world Professor Ben Rosamond Fredrik Söderbaum 22 Regional politikk i Norden Utvikling, tendenser og framtid Regional policies in the Nordic countries Development, tendencies and the future 23 Theorising advisers and their relation to politicians and bureaucrats 24 International courts and domestic politics 26 Causal effects in political science: The promise and pitfalls of experimental methods Asbjørn Røiseland University of Nordland Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen University of Aalborg Johan Karlsson Schaffer Søren Serritzlew Eva Sørensen University of Roskilde Anders Lidström University of Umeå Thurid Hustedt University of Potsdam Birgitta Niklasson Marlene Wind Jostein Askim Jens Blom-Hansen
27 Managing Migration: Contemporary Nordic Experiences Andrea Spehar Cornelius Cappelen University of Bergen Gregg Bucken-Knapp 28 Marknadisering i offentlig förvaltning utmaningar för demokratin och välfärdsstaten Commersialization in public administration challenges to the democracy and the welfare state 29 Varieties of Democracy and Autocracy Disentangling Patterns and Relationships 30 Transnational Gender Politics: Transversing the International and Domestic 31 Kommunale reformer og organisatoriske tilpasninger utfordringer for lokalpolitikken Municipal reforms and organizational adjustments challenges for local policies Urban Strandberg Jakob Tolstrup Ann Towns Högskolan Väst Signy Irene Vabo Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Science David Feltenius University of Umeå Karl Henrik Sivesind Institute for Social Science, Oslo Agnes Cornell Staffan I. Lindberg Petrice Flowers University of Hawaii Stig Montin
32 Parlament och regjeringar Parliaments and cabinets Matti Wiberg University of Turku Asbjørn Skjæveland 33 The production of crisis knowledge: the role of international think tanks and NGOs 34 Valg og politisk atferd Elections and political behavior 36 The Nordic Welfare Model in Transition Morten Bøås NUPI, Oslo Bernt Aardal Anders Lindbom University of Uppsala Roland Kostic University of Uppsala Maria Bäck Åbo Akademi University Joakim Palme University of Uppsala 37 International Political Theory Göran Duus-Otterström Robert Huseby The numbers refer to the numbers in the official program. Some original workshops were collapsed or were omitted.