ABOUT
Åse B. Grødeland is a specialist on post-communist states. She holds an M.A. (Oslo University), an M.Phil. in Soviet and East European Studies and a PhD (University of Glasgow). Her PhD focused on the emergence and development of the Green Movement in Ukraine. Grødeland has previously held research positions at University of Glasgow, NIBR and CMI. She has directed several international research projects on low-level corruption, informal practice, and legal culture in several post-communist states – including Ukraine. Grødeland’s research is methodologically innovative: it combines qualitative and quantitative methods in an unusually integrated manner. She also has non-academic work-experience from Ukraine and other countries of the Former Soviet Union – incl. as international expert on long-term media monitoring missions. More recently, she spent a year in Central Asia working as Senior Analyst for The International Crisis Group (ICG). Grødeland has published extensively. She speaks fluent Russian and reads/understands Ukrainian.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Corruption, informal practice, legal culture, legal transfers, civil society, NGOs.
WEB-PAGE
https://www.fafo.no/en/staff/ase-berit-grodeland
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON UKRAINE
- Grødeland, Åse B. & William L. Miller. 2015. “European Legal Cultures in Transition“. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Grødeland, Åse B. 2009. “Culture, Corruption and the Orange Revolution”. In Ukraine on its Way to Europe? Interim Results of the Orange Revolution, Juliane Besters-Dilger (ed.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 79-102. [Published in Ukrainian as: ‘Kulturni zasady, korruptsia ta Pomarancheva revoliutsia’, ]
- Miller, William L., Åse B. Grødeland & Tatyana Y. Koshechkina. 2001. “A Culture of Corruption? Coping with Government in Postcommunist Europe“. Budapest: Central European University Press. [Published in Ukrainian as: Zvychayeva Koruptsiya?]