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Research

Introduction

Areas

Research

The research taking place at the centre has its base in various programs and projects. The following areas of research are the most central at the Rokkan Centre.

Welfare
Research on welfare legislation, services in geriatric care, family research, and research on the
normative foundations of the welfare state.

Democracy and municipal research
Research on how changes in municipal institutions affect various aspects of local politics and administration. The conditions of local politics and local democracy are an especially important field of research. Research on democracy and voluntary organisations relating to the Norwegian government's Power and Democracy project.

Organization, leadership and working life

Health and health care services
Research on health and illness in a cultural perspective, research on reproduction and research on prophylactic policies. The research groups include participants from many disciplines, including political scientists, sociologists, and historians.

Administration and management
Research is concentrated on studies of administrative reforms in a comparative perspective and studies of Norwegian administrative history.

The centre has also to major research programmes:

Globalisation
The Rokkan Centre organises and coordinates a strategic programme for globalisation research relating to studies of changes in welfare and labour institutions. The research programme is financed from the Research Council of Norway and last for a period of five years (2001-2005).

Programme for Health Economics in Bergen
The programme is a co-operation between The University of Bergen and Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. The research programme is financed from the Research Council of Norway. It is at the outset organised as a project intended to last for a period of 5 years (1998-2003) but with possibilities for permanent finance after the end of the five-year period.

The scientific activity is centred at Department of Economics at the University of Bergen, in co-operation with Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care at the University of Bergen and Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. The administrative responsibility is located at the Rokkan Centre.