Rune Ervik

Rune Ervik is a political scientist with a doctoral degree in comparative politics from the University of Bergen in 2000. He has worked at the Uni Research Rokkan Centre and the previous SEFOS (Centre for Social Science Research), since 1991. His dissertation studied tax expenditures and social policy in eight countries representing different welfare models. Research interests include social- and welfare policy in comparative and historical perspective, institutional and ideational perspectives on policy formation, normative questions and redistributive policies, civil society and the voluntary sector, the role of international organizations in social policy, health- and care services and pension reform policy. Recent publications include e.g. collaboration between public and the voluntary sector, user perspective on local services promoting labour market participation for the chronically ill, and new provider categories through the Norwegian free treatment reform.