Hilmar Rommetvedt (Norway)

Hilmar Rommetvedt

Biography

Hilmar Rommetvedt is Research Professor at NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Stavanger. He is member of the Executive Committee of IPSA, and member of the Board of the Division of Science of the Research Council of Norway. He has been vice chair of the Board of the National Institute for Consumer Research, and chair of Sola Municipal Board for Cultural Affairs. He has work experience from the Ministry of Education, the Norwegian Parliament, the Norwegian Research Centre in Organization and Management, and IRIS - International Research Institute of Stavanger (now a part of NORCE). His research focuses on parliament, government and organized interests, and policy-making and implementation in various policy areas such as the environment, agriculture, culture, sport, international trade and health care services.

Rommetvedt is the (co-)author/(co-)editor of forty books including Parliamentary Change in the Nordic Countries, The Rise of the Norwegian Parliament, Sport Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Stability and Change (also published in Korean: 스포츠정책론: 안정과 변화의 비교분석), The Value of Arts and Culture in Regional Development, Practices of Inter-Parliamentary Coordination in International Politics, International Trade Negotiations and Domestic Politics, The Nordic Models in Political Science, and several books in Norwegian. He has published articles in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, European Political Science, Government and Opposition, International Journal of Cultural Policy, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Politics in Central Europe, Public Management Review, Scandinavian Political Studies, The Journal of Legislative Studies, Theorija in Praksa, Voluntas, West European Politics, and World Trade Review. He has served as reviewer for various international and Norwegian journals.