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He has written articles and books on EU Foreign and Security Policy, EU Enlargement, EU Institutions and Comparative Politics.
Robinson's fields of research include classical and modern political thought, radical social theory in the African diaspora, comparative politics, and media and politics.
His coauthored book with Philippe C. Schmitter, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies (1986), was one of the most widely read and influential works in comparative politics during the 1980s and 1990s.
The process surrounding the 2008 appointments was criticised by professor of comparative politics at the University of Bergen, Gunnar Grendstad for a "lack of transparency".
He has authored and edited a large number of books, including "Arguing Comparative Politics", (Oxford University Press, 2001), and, co-authored with Juan Linz and Yogendra Yadav, "Democracy in Multinational Societies: India and Other Polities", (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) and with Juan Linz, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post Communist Europe, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
Solhjell holds a Masters Degree in Political Science, with emphasis on Sociology, Comparative Politics and History of Ideas at both the University of Oslo and the University of Bergen.
He is member of the Editorial Boards of International Journal for Comparative Sociology, International Political Science Review, International Political Science Abstracts, Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, European Political Science Review, Taiwan Journal of Democracy; Co-editor of the ECPR book series on Comparative Politics for Oxford University Press; member of the Prize Committee of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science.
His current position is as Professor of Political Theory and Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, where he has held various positions since 1991, and where he specializes in political institutions, political economy and American politics, especially issues such as elections, voting systems and constitutions.
He was also awarded the Townsend Harris and Margaret Byrd Dawson Medals for significant achievement, the Northern Telecom-International Council for Canadian Studies Gold Medal, and the Leon Epstein Prize in Comparative Politics by the American Political Science Association.