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.
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| Institute for Social Research The Institute for Social Research (ISF) was established as an independent foundation in 1950. Ever since its foundation the institute has been multidisciplinary in its orientation, today comprising research within all of the social sciences, as well as history. Today ISF provides one of the few social science fora outside the universities in Norway which has not limited itself to the study of one single sector of society. |
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Civil Society in Comparative Perspective
This book presents a collection of comparative studies of civil society around two main issues: the comparison and analysis of civil society regimes in relation to different constructions of citizenship and welfare states and the role of civil society in governance and active participation of citizens.