Browsing Institutt for statsvitenskap by Author "Dahlum, Sirianne"

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  • Chaos on Campus: Universities and Mass Political Protest 
    Dahlum, Sirianne; Wig, Tore (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    History suggests universities are hotbeds of political protest. However, the generality and causal nature of this relationship has never been quantified. This article investigates whether universities give rise to political ...
  • Democracy by Demand? Reinvestigating the Effect of Self-expression Values on Political Regime Type 
    Dahlum, Sirianne; Knutsen, Carl Henrik (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    The notion that cultural characteristics influence political regimes remains popular, despite mixed supporting evidence. In particular, democracy is argued to emerge and thrive in countries where liberal or freedom-oriented ...
  • Democrayc by demand? : Reinvestigating the effect of values on political institutions. 
    Dahlum, Sirianne (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
    In this thesis I critically investigate and test the central implications of Inglehart and Welzel’s (2005) theory claiming that mass values explain democracy. The proposition that democracies will emerge and survive as a ...
  • Do Democracies Provide Better Education? Revisiting the Democracy–Human Capital Link 
    Dahlum, Sirianne; Knutsen, Carl Henrik (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    We investigate whether democracy enhances the skills and knowledge of citizens through improving education quality. This, in turn, could have ramifications for other development outcomes such as economic growth. We offer ...
  • Joining forces: Social coalitions and democratic revolutions 
    Dahlum, Sirianne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    When are mass protest movements able to overthrow authoritarian regimes and promote democratic transitions? This article considers whether socially diverse protest movements are more conducive to democratization than ...
  • Peace above the glass ceiling: The historical relationship between female political empowerment and civil conflict 
    Dahlum, Sirianne; Wig, Tore (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Abstract We investigate whether female political empowerment is conducive to civil peace, drawing on global data on female political empowerment over a 200-year period, from the Varieties of Democracy database. ...
  • What Counts as Evidence? Panel Data and the Empirical Evaluation of Revised Modernization Theory 
    Dahlum, Sirianne; Knutsen, Carl Henrik (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
  • Who Revolts? Empirically Revisiting the Social Origins of Democracy 
    Dahlum, Sirianne; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Wig, Tore (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    Several prominent accounts suggest that democratic transitions are more likely to take place when opposition to the incumbent regime is led by certain social groups. We further develop the argument that opposition movements ...
  • Women's political empowerment and economic growth 
    Dahlum, Sirianne; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Mechkova, Valeriya (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    We investigate whether and how women’s political empowerment relates to technological change, the main driver of long-term economic growth. We argue that three aspects of empowerment – descriptive representation, civil ...
  • Women's political representation, good governance and human development 
    Mechkova, Valeriya; Dahlum, Sirianne; Petrarca, Constanza Sanhueza (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    As women's political inclusion has become the international norm, many countries have implemented gender quotas or actively tried to increase women's political representation. Women's inclusion is also expected to bring ...