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I am Michaël Tatham, Professor in Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, Norway. You can find my Bergen webpage here.
I am also:
Director of the BA programme in European Studies (University of Bergen, August 2015-present)
Principal Investigator of "The Politics of Contestation in Europe and the US" project (CONTEST, 2022-2026, 4.5 million NOK)
Principal Investigator of "The Structure-Acceptance Nexus in Climate Politics" project (SANE-Clim, 2020-2024, 5 million NOK)
Work-Package Leader of the "Designing a Refined Legal Framework for Offshore Wind in the North Sea Basin" project (DeWindSea, 2020-2024, 800k NOK for WP2)
Prizes:
2023: Winner of the University-wide Teaching Award (Ugleprisen) for SAMPOL223 "Democratic Transformations in Europe: Trends and Implications" [link]
2023: Winner of the Faculty-wide Teaching Award (Studiekvalitetsprisen) for SAMPOL223 "Democratic Transformations in Europe: Trends and Implications" [link]
2020: Winner of the Faculty-wide Teaching Award (Studiekvalitetsprisen) for EUR105 "European Union Institutions, Politics, and Policies" at the University of Bergen, together with Raimondas Ibsenskas and Georg Picot [link]
2017: Winner of the Best Book Award in contemporary European studies by the UACES [link]
2017: Winner of the Best Publication Award by the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bergen [link]
2016: Winner of the interdisciplinary Meltzer Prize for Young Researchers [link: media coverage] [link: Meltzer Prize 2016] [link]
Latest publications:
Tatham, M. (2023) 'Farewell note: a decade as RFS Editor', Regional & Federal Studies 33(5): 569-576. [link]
Jikiun, S. P., Tatham, M., and Otledal , V.M. (2023) 'Saved by Hydrogen? The Public Acceptance of Onshore Wind in Norway', Journal of Cleaner Production: 136956. [link]
Boasson, E. L. and Tatham, M. (2023) 'Climate policy: from complexity to consensus?', Journal of European Public Policy 30(3): 401-424. [link]
Tatham, M. and Peters, Y. (2023) 'Fueling opposition? Yellow vests, urban elites, and fuel taxation', Journal of European Public Policy 30(3) 574-598. [link]
Tatham M (2022) 'Multilevel governance and the transformation of the state', in Graziano P. R. and Tosun J. (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of European Union Public Policy, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 71-80. [link]
Myksvoll, T., Tatham, M. and Fimreite, A. L. (2022) 'Understanding bureaucratic support for coerced institutional change', Governance 35(4): 1119-1138. [link]
Tatham, M. and Bauer, M. W. (2021) 'Hungry for power? Regional elites and the architecture of government', Governance 34(3): 621-642. [link]
Tatham, M., Hooghe, L. and Marks, G. (2021) 'The territorial architecture of government', Governance 34(3): 607-620. [link]
Harbers I., Tatham M., Tillin L. and Zuber C.I. (2021) 'Thirty years of Regional and Federal Studies'. Regional & Federal Studies 31(1): 1-23. [link]
Tatham, M. (2021) 'Subnational Entities and Cities in Multilevel Governance', in A. Benz, J. Broschek and M. Lederer (eds), A Research Agenda for Multilevel Governance, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 153-169. [link]
Callanan, M. and Tatham, M. (2021) 'Regional and local government and the European Union', in M. Callanan and J. Loughlin (eds), A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 97-109. [link]
Tatham, M. (2020) 'Regions and Immigration in Advanced Democracies'. Regional Studies 54(11): 1558-1563. [link]
Tatham, M. (2019). 'Regions as Lobbyists'. In G. Abels and J. Battke (eds.), Regional Governance in the EU: Regions and the Future of Europe. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 211-230. [link]
Tatham, M. (2018) 'The Rise of Regional Influence in the EU – From Soft Policy Lobbying to Hard Vetoing'. Journal of Common Market Studies 56(3):672-686. [link]
Tatham, M. and Mbaye, H.A.D. (2018) 'Regionalisation and the Transformation of Policies, Politics, and Polities in Europe'. Journal of Common Market Studies 56(3): 656-671. [link]
López, F. A. S. and Tatham, M. (2018) 'Regionalisation with Europeanisation? The rescaling of interest groups in multi-level systems', Journal of European Public Policy 25(5): 764-786. [link]
Huwyler, O., Tatham, M. and Blatter, J. (2018) 'Party Politics, Institutions, and Identity: The Dynamics of Regional Venue-Shopping in the EU', West European Politics 41(3): 754-778. [link]
Tatham, M. (2018) 'Regions Beyond the State: External Relations and Paradiplomacy', in E. Hepburn and K. Detterbeck (eds), Handbook of Territorial Politics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 278-292 [link]