The literature on EU integration gives no clear answer as to where real decision-making power in the EU is situated. Which stakeholders are the most influential when major decisions are made, for example? An approach held ...

This study examines the lobbying strategies employed by the interest organizations of Germany s energy industries in the process leading up to the EU s Renewable Energy Directive. How did they lobby, and what does this ...

This paper seeks to explain why the two neighbouring Nordic countries Norway and Denmark, despite many political and cultural similarities, have had very different legal frameworks regulating pornography. Denmark was the ...

The present report documents the conference “Lessons from Indonesia in Comparative Perspectives,” held in Oslo on 29-30 November 2017. The event was the closing conference for the Power, Welfare and Democracy project, which ...

Voting behaviour is not a binary variable in people’s experience: Most migrants have voted, sometimes before migrating and sometimes from abroad. Very few vote always or never. The political dynamics in both countries of ...

Denne forskningsrapporten bygger på intervjuer med lokale tillitsvalgte og fotfolk i arbeiderbevegelsen. Tema var deres liv som ”arbeideraktivister” i tiden fra industrisamfunnets gjennombrudd etter 1905 og fram til ...

This report outlines the steps taken to design and implement a stakeholder survey on trust and distrust in European regulatory governance and ultimately create a large, multi-actor, multi-level, multi-sector, and cross-country ...