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The Nordic Policy Studies Centre is a specialist unit within the School of Social Sciences, which produces high-quality research on topics that are integral to the politics and international relations of the Nordic and Baltic countries. Its approach is principally comparative and thematic and involves cross-national collaboration with partner institutions and individual academics north and south of the Baltic. Typically, a recent series of workshops staged in Oslo, Gothenburg and Aberdeen, which was funded by the ESRC and the national research councils of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, set out to examine ‘The State of Democracy in Scandinavia and Post-Devolution Scotland’. The ‘small democracy’ focus of the Centre’s work provides the potential for developing comparative research that applies some of the theoretical models developed in Scandinavia to states outside northern Europe.
