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Norway was the first country to introduce a quota for women on company boards. Since its introduction in 2003, the numbe rof “women on board” has reached 40 per cent as required by law.

Chinese translations of articles by Karl Henrik Sivesind, Grete Brochmann and others are included in an anthology on the Nordic welfare state, recently published by Fudan University Press.

- Asylum seekers waiting for a decision in their case describe the waiting as ‘directionless’. The time spent waiting is particularly challenging for young asylum seekers in a phase of defining their own identity, says Jan-Paul Brekke.

Bernard Enjolras has won the 2010 Academy of Management Public and Nonprofit (PNP) Best Article Award for his paper paper entitled ”A Governance-Structure Approach to Voluntary Organizations”.

The often paradoxical character of public policy evaluation of social economy organizations will appear as a result of this confrontation, according to a new article by Bernard Enjolras.

Thomas Janoski has won the Emerald Outstanding Author Contribution Award 2010 for the article "The Spirit of the Civil Sphere: Activating Static Conceptions of Volunteerism and Citizenship" published in Comparative Social Research vol. 26, Civil Society in Comparative Perspective

In his contribution to a recently published anthology on economic elites in Europe, Trygve Gulbrandsen presents an analysis of lobbying activities by Norwegian business leaders.

Why do asylum seekers end up in one particular country? In a recently published report ISF researchers Jan-Paul Brekke and Monica Five Aarset present and analyse factors affecting the arrival of asylum seekers to Norway.

A new book edited by Bernard Enjolras and Karl Henrik Sivesind compares different civil society regimes and discusses the democratic role of civil society in activating citizens’ participation.

On November 24 2009, the Institute for Social Research hosted a seminar on asylum policies, irregular migration and integration in the EU.

In his doctoral thesis, Rune Karlsen examines the effect of new media technology on Norwegian election campaigns. - The introduction of new media does not lead to convergence on the American campaign style. National elections still differ on contextual, historical and cultural terms, and these specificities shape the way in which new media is adopted, he says.

Erling Barth has coedited the anthology Education and Inequality Across Europe, recently published by Edward Elgar Publishing.

Bernard Enjolras, Research Director at the Institute for Social Research (ISF) in Oslo and Director of Centre for Research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector, has recently been appointed as the new editor of Voluntas, effective as of 1 January 2010.

Strong leadership and a strategic shift in focus from tax protest to xenophobia. That's how FrP and Danish People's party has managed to consolidate their positions as acceptable, non-extremist parties on the far right.

The Centre for Research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector is a three year research programme which aims at increasing and developing knowledge about the role the voluntary sector plays in society and at strengthening the sector through research driven knowledge.

Globalization is changing the way we argue about justice, Professor Nancy Fraser claims. Last week she gave the lecture ”Reframing justice in a globalizing world" at ISF. The lecture was part of this year’s Vilhelm Aubert Memorial Lecture.

Fostering Caring Masculinities (FOCUS) is a European project involving five countries; Germany, Iceland, Norway, Slovenia and Spain. This new report is based on national reports from studies conducted in each of the partner countries, and brings together central findings from these studies.

How can the existence of elites be compatible with democratic governance? The latest volume of Comparative Social Research focuses on changes in elite composition and functioning in Europe.

Is it true that firms operating in an international competitive arena invest more in training for their workers compared to firms not operating in an international competitive arena? Evidence from representative firm-level data suggests that the answer is yes, Pål Schøne writes in a new article.

Through a comparative analysis of data from 57 countries, Johannes Bergh seeks, in his new article "Gender Attitudes and Modernization Processes", to explain why attitudes toward gender equality and gender relations in society vary both between individuals and countries.