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A new study shows that job seekers with Norwegian names are 25 per cent more likely to receive a call-back for a job interview than applicants with foreign-sounding names.

Processes of increased commercialisation and individualisation in the Norwegian civil society may lead to a decline in volunteering and weakened democratic governance.

Young people between the ages 16 and 24 have become more engaged after the terror attacks on 22 July. – The current mobilisation may lead to increased political participation in the future, says Guro Ødegård at the Institute for social research.

The Age of Social Democracy: Norway and Sweden in the Twentieth Century, written by Francis Sejersted, presents the history of Norway and Sweden from the dissolution of the union in 1905 through to the end of the century. The book has recently been published by Princeton University Press.

The Centre for Research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector invites researchers to the conference The voluntary sector in the Nordic countries - Change agents and contract partners? on 18-20 May 2011 in Bergen.

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.