News

Here, we publish articles about the Centre and its activities, and interviews with our scholars about their time at CAS and the progress and results of their research.

Cathrine Holst and her co-PI Jakob Elster.

01 December 2022

Cathrine Holst: Alumna of the Month

Our alumna of the month is Cathrine Holst. Holst is a professor of sociology at the University of Oslo (UiO) and led the CAS project ‘What is Good Policy? Political Morality, Feasibility, and Democracy (GOODPOL)’ together with fellow UiO faculty member Jakob Elster back in 2020/2021.

Good policies: morality, democracy and experts

What is good policy, and what is the role of morality, democracy and experts in policymaking? Scholars at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) have pursued these and other important questions as part of a multidisciplinary research project.

Johan Christensen and Cathrine Holst.

28 January 2021

CAS scholars receive funding to study experts’ political power in the Nordic countries

Experts are seemingly everywhere during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, standing side by side with ministers during press briefings. But in the end, how much influence do these experts actually have?

23 October 2020

The policies that affect us all: are they well-founded?

This question deserves a lot more attention, CAS scholars argue, as social scientists and political philosophers join forces.

What is good policy?

Vice-Rector at the University of Oslo, Åse Gornitzka, says that the CAS project leaders Cathrine Holst and Jakob Elster are ‘brave’ to ask the simple, but complex and crucial question: what is good policy?