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The public's health is intimately linked to politics and policy. But political science has yet to make a major contribution to understanding the political economy of health (as distinct from medical care). In order to advance understanding of the drivers of health in an era of emerging infectious disease and global pandemics, more political scientists must begin to do what we are uniquely well situated to do: analyze in a contextualized way the pathways and mechanisms through which power configurations cause illness and inequity. This article reviews key findings from recent literature about the policy, political, and structural contributors to population health and health equity and sketches what a political economy of health more deeply rooted in political science could look like.

This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural theory', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science. The authors argue that three elements - social relations, cultural bias and behavioural strategy - illuminate political questions at a level of analysis on any scale: from the household to the state; the international regime to the political party.

Political science has traditions in Finland and Sweden, but is a new academic discipline in Denmark, Iceland and Norway where it was introduced only after World War II. The differences in development, however, have not produced differences in style and outlook. Nordic political science has been and still is strongly dependent on basic influences from the US, and descriptions of problem areas and research approaches in the Nordic countries may well be carried out in terms of similarities rather than dissimilarities. Recent discussions about the state of the art have expressed concern about tendencies towards scientific disintegration, manifest in the institutionalization of political-science subfields and in the growth of so-called sector research based on short-term political priorities.

On the February 28, 1947, by way of royal decree, the University of
Oslo (UiO) was allowed to grant a degree in political science;
Norway's first department of political science was established at
the same university in 1957. Today, 60 years later, political
science departments can be found on each of Norway's largest
university campuses; their graduates are active and evident locally,
nationally, and internationally—with jobs in both the public and
private sectors. While it is difficult to provide an accurate survey
of the breadth and depth of contemporary Norwegian political
science, this short article aims to supply a brief historical and
institutional map for American political scientists interested in
working in Norway or with Norwegian political scientists. I would like to thank Nils Petter
Gleditsch, Torbjørn Knutsen, Ola Listhaug, Willy Martinusen, and
Knut Erik Solem for their helpful advice and comments. Any
errors and omissions are obviously the sole responsibility of
the author.

In 2011, the Fulbright Scholar Program celebrates its 65th anniversary as America's preeminant international educational exchange program. In recognition of its international impact, this is a timely occasion to recall the program's history and note the roles of political scientists who have taught and conducted research around the globe as Fulbright Scholars. Adapted from the source document.