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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.

In a new ISF report Inés Hardoy and Pål Schøne discusses the relationship between wage, gender and having small children. The results from their analyses indicate that women earn less than men, and that children are an important explanation.

In his new article, "Elite Integration and Institutional Trust in Norway", Trygve Gulbrandsen investigates the importance of trust between various elite groups and their respective institutions.

In a new ISF report Jan-Paul Brekke and Vigdis Vevstad take a closer look at the new EU-directive on reception conditions for asylum seekers, and compares EUs legislation and practice with the practice in Norway.

2006 was a good year for Institute for Social Research. There where 74 ongoing research projects at the institute in 2006, and the publication rate was high.

The latest volume of Comparative Social Research focuses on capitalist systems, and compares the specificities of these different systems. The contributions ranges from an analysis of Chinese capitalism, to how innovative enterprises responds to different varieties of capitalisms.

The annual EALE Conference will be held on September 20th-22nd at the University of Oslo.The Conference will be organized by the Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Institute for social reseach, and the Frisch Centre. The conference has almost 400 participants from all over the world.

The editors of Comparative Social Research invites scholars to submit papers to the 2009 edition of CSR. This volume has the theme "Comparative studies of Civil Society".

Norway sent out more missionaries per capita than any other country in Europe. Over the years, the Norwegian missionaries published vast amounts of photographs, films and stories of "the poor heathen". Marianne Gullstads study of missonary images is now available for an international audience.

A large number of the Norwegian interest organizations took part in the electoral process in 2005, according to a new article by Elin H. Allern and Jo Saglie.

Along with the other Nordic countries, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway are often perceived as gender equality pioneers with comprehensive gender equality policies. But how does the governmental gender equality policy of today reflect that their populations have become more culturally diverse during the last decades, Trude Langvasbråten asks in a new article.

The gender gap in voting can mainly be explained by income and differences in "feminist consciousness", according to Johannes Bergh. He has studied the importance of gender and gender relations in the political arena. In his dissertation, he compares change and development in modern democracies like Norway, the USA and The Netherlands.

Social services are undergoing important changes in European Member States. They adapt to demographic challenges and the need to improve quality and to become better targeted. Bernard Enjolras (ISF) is one of the contributors to a report on social and health services of general interest in the European Union.

Academically, 2007 proved a successful year for the Institute. The annual report shows that there where 65 ongoing research projects at the institute in 2007, and the publication rate was high.

The latest volume of Comparative Social Research traces demographic and societal changes, and analyzes in comparative perspective how they affect the contexts of childhood and the experience of being children.

EU policy-making and governance are likely to foster a post-national European civil society with multi-level citizenship participation, Bernard Enjolas writes in the latest issue of Citizenship studies.