Speakers


LISTHAUG, Ola


Curriculum

Ola Listhaug, mag.art. and dr.philos., The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, is professor of political science at NTNU. He has published extensively in the fields of political behavior, comparative politics and comparative sociology in such journals as Acta Sociologica, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Journal of Politics, and Scandinavian Political Studies He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, the University of Iowa, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His involvement in international research projects includes participation in the European Values Study and the Beliefs of Government study of the European Science Foundation. With professors Stuart Elaine Macdonald and George Rabinowitz, Listhaug received both the Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award and the Heinz Eulau Award of the American Political Science Association. He is an elected member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.

Current research includes studies of economic voting, the directional theory of issue voting, impact of institutions on political support, and support of democracy in new and old democracies.


References

http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/statistics/country_det.asp?cc=18
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ECPR/events/jointsessions/edinburgh/papers/ws8/ListhaugGronflaten.pdf