Stein Kuhnle#
| Membership Number: | 3266 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uib.no/persons/Stein.Kuhnle |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1982, 08 - present: Professor, Comparative Politics, University of Bergen (leave of absence 2006-2008)
- 2006 - present: 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".
