Christine Bangum is a Senior Research Fellow at ISF and has submitted her doctoral thesis in economics at BI Norwegian Business School. She holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Oslo and has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University and the University of Copenhagen. She has previously worked at the Norwegian Parliament and as a research assistant on the Norwegian National Election Study.
Bangum's research interests include political and social participation, charitable giving, political parties, and electoral behavior. Her research has been published in Journal of Public Economics and Economica, and has received funding from the Fulbright Program and Norges Bank's Fund for Economic Research.
She is affiliated with the Centre for Research on Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector.