Residence Norway Spouse Helene Adriansen Alma mater University of Bergen | Fields political science Citizenship Norwegian Name Johan Olsen | |
Born August 14, 1939
Tromso, Norway ( 1939-08-14 ) | ||
Poesi af Frank Axelsen m. Johan Olsen
Johan Peder Olsen (born August 14, 1939) is a Norwegian political scientist, and Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of Bergen, known for his work on new institutionalism.
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Life and work
Olsen obtained his MA om Political Science, with a minor in economics and political history, at the University of Oslo in l967. In 1971 he obtained his PhD at the University of Bergen. He obtained an Honorary Doctorate from the Åbo Akademi, Finland in, 1988, and from the University of Copenhagen in 1990.
Olsen has started his career as journalist and reporter for various Norwegian newspapers from l958 to 1963. He started his academic career as research assistant at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Oslo in l965. In 1969 he was appointed Assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Bergen, in 1970 Associate professor, and in 1973 Professor in Public Administration and Organization Theory until 1993.
Olsen was also member of the Norwegian Research Council, and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He established ARENA (Advanced Research on the Europeanization of the Nation State) in 1994. He was Research Director at ARENA for many years, and is now.
Olsen is one of the developers of the systemic-anarchic perspective of organizational decision-making known as the Garbage Can Model.
Selected publications
Articles, a selection