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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This article explores the prevalent issue of sexual violence against and among humanitarian aid workers, with a focus on why the aid sector creates a particularly permissive environment for sexual violence. Although the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
The expectancy-disconfirmation model (EDM) explains satisfaction with public services as a combination of service expectations and perceived performance. We study how satisfaction in turn affects political trust. We mimic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Estimating the ideological positions of political actors is an important step toward answering a number of substantive questions in political science. Survey scales provide useful data for such estimation, but also present ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
For a well-functioning and inclusive democracy, it is crucial that minority voices can participate in public debate and express their opinions through the news media. However, media participation can be demanding, especially ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
There is a gap in the literature in international relations and European integration with respect to why states establish cooperative formats involving integrative commitments. In this thesis, I address this gap by providing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Mange etniske minoriteter opplever rasisme som et stort problem i Norge. Dette gjelder spesielt mikroaggresjoner basert på kulturelle forestillinger om at «det norske» er overlegent. I denne artikkelen beskriver vi ulike ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This article explores the Counter-Revolution beyond the violent paramilitary reaction in Central- and Eastern Europe in 1918–1921. To this end it looks at the case study of Norway, and the organization Samfundshjelpen ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
In this article we introduce and utilize the concept scientification of Islamophobia to analyze a website called WikiIslam, and the way that its contents are used by websites and online users in a complex global ecology ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
The European Union (EU) began developing climate policy in the 1990s. Since then, it has built up a broad portfolio of mitigation policy measures and governance tools, including legally binding targets to reduce greenhouse ...
Addressing Energy Poverty: A Critical Examination of the Implementation of Energy Policies in Malawi
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Durable and effective civil resistance in high-risk authoritarian settings is a rare phenomenon. Existing research suggests that civil resistance in such contexts is usually short-lived and unsuccessful due to brutal ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne oppgaven handler om hvordan hensyn vektlegges i plansaker, nærmere bestemt hvilke hensyn som er avgjørende i innsigelser avgjort på departementsnivå. Oppgavens formål har vært å finne svar på hvilke hensyn som ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The student political movement in Zimbabwe has been an important in protests for change since the colonial rule. Despite the progressive character of the student politics, it has been dominated by men and marked by violence. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The primary objective of this master’s thesis was to study legal and ethical considerations that impact the decision-making of psychiatrists in complex cases concerning the use of coercive practices within Norwegian mental ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
While a dense network of civil society organizations has commonly been regarded to enhance democracy, this thesis seeks to explore how Hindu nationalist civil society organizations influence autocratization in India. Since ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This open access book is the first account of the whole diversity of teacher education in the Nordic region: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, the Åland Islands and Sápmi (where the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
The EU's decade of crises has brought home an important fact: The EU, far from being an 'ever closer union among the peoples of Europe', is at a crossroads. It is faced with a choice between retaining a commitment to legal ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
The G5 Sahel Joint Force was established in 2017 to combat terrorism, illicit trafficking and transnational crime in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger. To fulfil its mandate, it was quickly determined that the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Med utgangspunkt i hypoteser avledet fra sikkerhetiseringsteori, humanitarisme og tidligere forskning på feltet, studerer jeg i denne oppgaven sammenhengen mellom hvordan norske politikere fremstilte og forstod ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article examines the extent to which external actors influence the efficiency of the G5 Sahel Joint Force’s (G5S-JF) chain of command and what this means for the relationship between the G5S-JF and external actors. I ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
How do informational autocrats, who seek information control, govern education, which is a large information channel? In this thesis, I develop the concept of centralized curriculum control (“CCC”), as a survival strategy ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
How does conflict recurrence impact the likelihood of mediation onset in an intrastate conflict? In this thesis, I argue that a history of armed conflict will affect the conflict actors’ decision to accept mediation. To ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis aims to show that the debate of ideal and non-ideal theory used in justice theory can not only be applied to democratic theory – it is beneficial as well. Through an extensive framework, the theory is applied ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis investigates individuals' support for arms shipments to countries at war, employing an original online survey experiment (N=255) in Germany. Since the effect of human rights and democracy levels was mostly ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Even autocrats are forced to rely on their political allies to remain in power. Min- isters make up a considerable share of these allies in any political regime, and their competency can both aid and threaten the incumbent ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In recent years, several democracies have experienced episodes where democratically elected incumbents undermine core democratic rights, norms, and institutions. The phenomenon of why citizens continue to vote for these ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
States participate in joint military exercises for various reasons. These reasons are largely unexplored in existing literature. Military exercises, while serving a purpose in terms of advancing the military stature of a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The energy transition will entail a surge in mineral demand. For decades, the reality of mining has been hidden from the European continent. Following growing recognition of the dangers associated with overreliance on ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Lederskap anses av mange som avgjørende for å lykkes med internasjonalt klimasamarbeid, og Norge har i mange år ønsket å innta en lederrolle i de internasjonale klimaforhandlingene. Det kan imidlertid være krevende å forstå ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Forholdet mellom politikk og administrasjon har lenge blitt forsket på. Dette forholdet er interessant fordi det er gjenstand for et betydningsfullt dilemma. Den første siden av dilemmaet er knyttet til demokrati. Dersom ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Research in the field of migration diplomacy has empirically focused mainly on host and transit states, meaning that their interaction with donor states and the effect of their strategies on the donor states’ decision-making ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis explores the relationship between attitudes related to the populist radical right toward climate change skepticism in Sweden, a country that has had a recent spike in a radical right party – The Sweden Democrats. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Masteroppgaven «En utvikling mot bedre brukeroppfølging?» tar sikte på å besvare følgende problemstilling: Hvordan har endringen av arbeidsavklaringspengeordningen i 2017 påvirket relasjonen mellom veilederne på NAV-kontoret ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
2019 has been the most violent year on record for health workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Attacks on healthcare coincided with the first-ever Ebola outbreak in an active conflict zone. Many of the attacks ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis starts out with the question of whether foreign aid can make incumbent leaders in recipient states more popular among their citizens by improving citizens’ living conditions. As many aid-receiving states are ...
Exploring perceptions of policy making: Collective action and distributive conflict in enhancing NDC ambition under the Paris Agreement Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Drawing and expanding on the literature on discourses and intervention, this article investigates how the relationship between the G5 Sahel Joint Force (G5S-JF) and external actors (the UN, EU and France) came about. To ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Private cyber security companies have predominantly described Chinese cyber operations as information gathering. The existing literature in political science on cyber operations, however, have largely ignored this aspect ...
Sweden’s Road to NATO: A Case Study of Systemic, Regional, and Domestic Drivers of Sweden’s NATO Bid
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022 caused a major shift in the security and politics of the Nordic region. This study explores the reasons why Sweden decided to join NATO in May 2022, breaking a 200-year ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne oppgaven undersøker endringer i Taiwans forsvarsstrategi fra årene (omtrent) 2013 til 2021. Taiwans forsvarsevne uten å belage seg på amerikansk bistand har ikke blitt ordentlig utforsket. Årsaken til dette kan være ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Since 1999, the absolute number of firearm fatalities has increased at an average rate of 1.2% yet 2020 saw the sharpest increase with the injury intent of homicide driving the increase by 6.6%. This thesis investigates ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
With digital technologies taking on an ever-larger role in societies, the impact of the digital revolution on contemporary politics is obvious. As digitalization continues apace, the global and interconnected superstructure ...
Colombia’s relentless pursuit of justice: Wartime abuses, dynamics of violence, and justice outcomes
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
In this dissertation, I explore the origins and outcomes of Colombia’s approach to addressing wartime abuses in the 2016 Final Peace Agreement. This peace agreement contains a justice policy on wartime abuses that is ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Increasingly many citizens residing abroad maintain connections to their country of origin and follow its national elections. Considering that this group constitutes a growing share of the national electorate, it ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Samfunnssikkerhet- og krisehåndteringsfeltet er i rask utvikling, og har blitt ytterligere aktualisert etter flere ekstraordinære krisehendelser både nasjonalt og internasjonalt de siste femten årene. Terrorangrepene i USA ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Women’s political empowerment is central for states to advance gender equality and to move toward peace following armed conflicts. Recent research has directed attention to the relationship between gender provisions within ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
While we know that women often participate in armed groups as combatants, they are routinely left out of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) processes. Women’s groups in various peace processes worldwide ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Migration policy is among the most politicized ans disruptive issue in modern democracies. This thesis focuses on decision-making processes behind EU migration policies in light of recent crisis, looking at the period ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Som et land med tett tilknytning til EU gjennom EØS-avtalen, er det uvanlig at Norge bruker lang tid på å implementere bestemmelser vedtatt av EU. Likevel har implementeringen av EUs bygningsenergidirektiv fra 2010 vært ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis examines the effects of the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on the relationship on climate change between China and the US, two major global greenhouse gas emitters. The study aims to shed light on the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The unanticipated and abrupt outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 rapidly shifted the political opportunities for the family of parties residing on the far right of electoral politics. Prior to the pandemic, these ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
What are the consequences for democracy when an autocratic state expands its global influence? Recent literature investigating trends of autocratisation has argued that authoritarian norms and ideas can spread between ...
Countering radicalisation through education: The role of teachers in counter-radicalisation work in Norway Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This master thesis examines role of teachers in upper-secondary education in Norway, specifically in Troms og Finnmark, in countering radicalization and extremism among students. This qualitative study employs semi-structured ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I denne oppgaven studerer jeg om tillitsreformen i Oslo kommune har ført til færre mål og redusert detaljstyring, som er to av reformmålene. Jeg forklarer utfallet og gjennomføringen av reformen ved bruk av top-down, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2023)
Populist radical right parties (PRRPs) have become more mainstream, increasing their relevance in European politics. While a lot is already known about them, there are still gaps in our knowledge. This article addresses ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Libyan Women’s Fight for Peace in Libya Post-2011 Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Who is deemed vulnerable and in need of protection has a bearing on important policy decisions, such as refugee acceptance or provision of aid. In war, dominant narratives construe women as paradigmatic victims, even while ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis looks at the Bosnian group living in Norway 30 years after their first arrival in 1993 and attempts to enlighten the question of “To what extent are Bosnians in Norway engaged politically and civically in the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract This article employs cultural repertoire theory to investigate how 84 Muslim men in Norway make meaning of adopting or rejecting political violence. Previous studies have addressed political violence among Muslims, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Which types of international institutions display higher ability to change states’ behaviour? This article assesses the relative environmental effectiveness of a management-based (‘soft’) and an enforcement-based (‘hard’) ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
The growing importance of non-state actors in politics, who are often included in networks with public actors, has led several scholars to challenge the idea that representation is limited to traditional representative ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Recent reports from the V-Dem Institute paint a gloomy picture of the future of liberal democracy. The reports find that the advances of democracy in the past decades are regressing, with a record number of 42 countries ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I arbeidet med lokal samfunnssikkerhet i Norge er kommunene avhengige av tverrsektorielle samarbeid for å sikre en best mulig utnyttelse av tilgjengelige ressurser. Dette samarbeidet omtales i sektoren som «samvirket». I ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Enormous growth of the world population during the last two centuries and its present slowing down pose questions about precedents in history and broader forces shaping the population size. Population estimates collected ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Does emerging technology or bureaucratic politics better explain arms control agreements? The world has entered a new nuclear era, characterized by a lack of arms control in an age of rapidly advancing technologies. Fears ...
Civilian Protection Payment and the Escalation of Violence against Civilians in Northwestern Nigeria
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
How do civilian protection payments to militias affect the dynamics of communal conflict? Building on the literature on communal conflict, civilian agency, rebel taxation, and criminal extortion, I argue that civilian ...
Are Small States Insecure About their Size? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The intrinsic power and capabilities of a small state is seen in the small state literature as being too little to influence power balances and great power revisionism. Instead, the small state literature observes small ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Can transparency enhance the legitimacy of international institutions? As transparency has become a widely applied procedural standard in international politics, a range of institutions have implemented transparency reforms ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Politiske partier fungerer som bindeleddet mellom samfunn og stat, og er essensielle for at moderne demokratiet skal fungere. I Makt- og demokratiutredningen fra 2003 kom det frem at demokratiet har vært igjennom en ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I april 2021, fem måneder før valget til den tyske Forbundsdagen, toppet De Grønne (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) meningsmålingene, og det var ikke utenkelig at partiet ville overta kanslerposten etter Angela Merkel. Hvordan ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Over the past decades, France has faced a significant challenge concerning radical Islam and a surge in domestic religious-motivated terrorist attacks. This study investigates President Emmanuel Macron’s responses to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Do disadvantaged ethnic groups favor violent over nonviolent conflict tactics? To understand when and why civil war breaks out, we need to study violent and nonviolent forms of conflict together, using analytical tools ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
We examine the existence and strength of organizational ties between parties and interest groups by innovating on classic resource exchange theory. First, we propose that the nature of interest groups’ policy orientation ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne oppgaven har undersøkt hvordan tillitsvalgte ser på vervet, utøver det på arbeidsplassen, og påvirkning på organisasjonsgraden, i Meny og Ikea, gjennom tre teoretiske perspektiver. Perspektivene som er brukt er Mancur ...
En rasjonell forklaring på krig? En casestudie av årsakene til Russlands invasjon av Ukraina gjennom et rasjonelt og et konstruktivistisk perspektiv Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2023)
Religion has a different background in Scandinavia than in the rest of Europe. Due to the dominance of the Lutheran Church—officially sanctioned as the State’s Church—denominational affiliation has not played the same role ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Over the past 20 years, much empirical work has examined the impact – on a variety of outcomes – of political reservations for members of the Scheduled Castes (SCs) in India. In this chapter, we provide an overview of what ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Organizational ties between political parties and interest groups are common in contemporary democracies, but little is known about the political effects of such ties. This article examines whether the strength of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2023)
Non-state actors play an essential role in the fabric of global climate governance. Here we propose four tailored strategies that non-state actors can mobilize to advance climate action among states and harness the potential ...
Politiske preferanser og holdninger til ulikhet - En studie av prekære arbeidere sine holdninger til økonomisk ulikhet Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Denne artikkelen handler om interesseorganisasjoners involvering i og tilgang til politiske beslutningsprosesser i Norge. Vi presenterer kunnskapsstatus på feltet siden siste makt- og demokratiutredning og analyserer ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruption in higher medical education and healthcare worldwide. To thrive in times of uncertainty, medical higher education institutions have to adapt to the post-COVID-19 era and innovate its ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis seeks to answer the question of why Sweden decided to apply for NATO membership in May 2022. To explain the decision, the analysis explores three hypotheses rooted in realism, liberalism, and institutional path ...
Samstyring for bærekraftig byutvikling Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
How do you face democratic backsliding within an organisation known for its emphasis on democracy? Despite membership criteria of democracy and the rule of law unmatched by any other international organisation, the EU has ...