Oddbjørn Knutsen (23 July 1953 – 11 August 2019) was a Norwegian political scientist.[1]

He was born in Hadsel Municipality. After taking the dr.philos. degree in 1985 with the thesis Politiske verdier, konfliktlinjer og ideologi – den norske politiske kulturen i komparativt perspektiv he worked at the Institute for Social Research from 1986 to 1992. From 1993 he was a professor at the University of Oslo, serving until his death at age 66 in 2019.[2][3]

He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters,[4] He chaired the Norwegian Political Science Association from 2010 to 2017 and the Nordic Political Science Association from 2011 to 2014, and was a board member of the European Consortium for Political Research from 2018 to his death.[3]

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  1. ^ "In Memoriam". PS: Political Science & Politics. 53 (2): 383–395. 2020. doi:10.1017/S1049096520000062. ISSN 1049-0965.
  2. ^ "Oddbjørn Knutsen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  3. ^ a b Semb, Anne Julie (12 September 2019). "Oddbjørn Knutsen". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 68.
  4. ^ "Medlemmer" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 29 October 2019.