Stein Kuhnle#
| Membership Number: | 3266 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www4.uib.no/en/find-employees/Stein.Kuhnle |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor Emeritus, Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Norway
- Professor Emeritus of Comparative Social Policy, Hertie School, The University of Governance in Berlin, Germany
- 1982,08 Professor, Comparative Politics, University of Bergen (leave of absence 2006 - 2008)
- 2006 Professor, Comparative Social Policy, Hertie School of Governance (on reduced contract since 2009)
- 1998,07 - 1999,02 Jean Monnet Fellow, European Forum, European University Institute, Florence
- 1988,01 - 1994,12 Research Director, Programme on Welfare State Research, Norwegian Res. Council for Applied Social Sciences
- 1987,03 - 1987,09 Professor, Stiftungsgastprofessur "West-Europa, University of Mannheim
- 1979,01 - 1982,07 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Bergen
- 1977 Post-Doctoral Ford Fellow, Ford Foundation
- 1977,07 - 1977,12 Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Public Policy
- 1977,01 - 1977,06 Visiting Scholar, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
- 1976 - 1978 University Research Fellow, Comparative Politics, University of Bergen
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative studies of welfare state development (Scandinavia, Europe, East Asia)
- Comparative public policy
- Development of the discipline of political science
- Comparative politics
- Political sociology
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Elected member of The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and the Letters
- 2011 (-2014): Honorary Professor, School of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
- 2005 (-2016): Honorary Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Center for Welfare State Research;
- 2004 Elected member of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters;
- 1993 Honorary member of the Slovenian Political Science Association;
- 1975 Scientific Prize, A/S Norsk Varekrigsforsikringsfond Prize, awarded by the Norwegian
- Academy of Science and Letters, for "excellent scientific work" for dissertation in Comparative Politics on "Social Mobilization and Political Participation: The Nordic Countries c. 1850-1970"
