Stein Ringen is a Norwegian sociologist and political scientist. He is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

, and a Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford

Green Templeton College, Oxford

Green Templeton College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is the university's newest college having come into existence on 1 October 2008 from the merger of Green College and Templeton College...

 (formerly Green College, Oxford

Green College, Oxford

Green College was a graduate college of the University of Oxford in England. It was centred around an architecturally appealing 18th century building: the Radcliffe Observatory, which is modelled after the ancient "Tower of the Winds" in Athens....

). Ringen holds a magister degree in political science (a 7-year degree including 3 years of research) from the University of Oslo

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

 (1972) and a dr. philos. degree from the University of Oslo (1987).

He has been a Visiting Professor at Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne (1995, 1996), École Normale Supérieure de Cachan

École Normale Supérieure de Cachan

The École Normale Supérieure de Cachan is one of the most prestigious French Grandes Écoles. Like all the other Grandes Écoles, this higher education institution is not included in the mainstream framework of the French public universities...

 (1996-1997), Masaryk University

Masaryk University

Masaryk University is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno as the third Czech university , it now consists of nine faculties and 42,182 students...

 (2003), Charles University (2003), University of the West Indies

University of the West Indies

The University of the West Indies , is an autonomous regional institution supported by and serving 17 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica,...

 (2004, 2006) and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (2006).

He has written several books in Norwegian and English. He is also a regular contributor to Norwegian public debate.

Books

• 2009: The Economic Consequences of Mr Brown
• 2007: What Democracy Is For
• 2006: The Possibility of Politics (new edition)
• 2005: Citizens, Families, and Reform (new edition)
• 2004: Norges nye befolkning
• 2000: Veien til det gode liv
• 1999: Ordet som er (co-author)
• 1998: The Family in Question
• 1997: Reformdemokratiet

External links

• http://users.ox.ac.uk/~gree0074/

ARTICLES
Faith in freedom (2011): http://www.sgiquarterly.org/feature2011Jly-2.html