Will climate change increase the prevalence of violent conflict in the future? To investigate this broad and difficult question, this thesis argues that we need to start with sound causal inference regarding the historical ...

Elever i norske videregående skoler har vanligvis tilgang til datamaskiner med internett-tilgang mens undervisningen pågår. Teknologitilgjengeligheten kan ha betydning for læreres mestringsforventninger til faglig undervisning. ...

Denne studien undersøker hvilke organisasjonsmessige faktorer som er relatert til læreres kollegiale hjelpsomhet med IKT i undervisning og læreres forbedringsbestrebelser. Analysen baseres seg på et utvalg av lærere i ...

1. januar 2016 ble det opprettet et nytt direktorat for e-helse. E-helse er et stort satsingsområde og brukes som et virkemiddel for å modernisere, utvikle og effektivisere helse- og omsorgssektoren. I dag anses e-helse i ...

Nord Stream 1 and 2 - one finalised and one planned sub-sea pipeline for direct transport of Russian gas to Germany - have raised the issue of Central European energy security. Different countries have expressed their ...

Recent scholarship on advisory systems has focussed on the externalization of advisory capacities and sectoral dynamics of change, whereas changes of internal policy advisory systems have not yet been approached systematically. ...

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 ...

We investigate whether mining affects local corruption in Africa. Several cross-country analyses report that natural resources have adverse effects on political institutions by increasing corruption, whereas other country-level ...

Do different types of inequality spur violence with different targets? This article explores whom violent movements choose to target when they take to arms, by comparing civil conflicts, which target the state, to communal ...

This article investigates perceived accountability patterns of national agencies’ chief executives in four countries with a Rechtsstaat tradition and tests theoretical expectations about potential tensions between managerial ...

The politicization of bureaucracy is a widespread strategy to increase the political control of ministerial departments in parliamentary democracies. It is, however, largely unknown why executive politicians promote some ...

Oslo kommune har i perioden 2004-2016 bygget ut ladeinfrastruktur for elbiler i et stort omfang. I løpet av denne perioden har kommunen gått fra å utrede mulighetene for hvordan en slik utbygging kan gjennomføres til å ...

Norge har inngått avtaler med Den europeiske union (EU) på flere saksfelt, blant annet på justis- og innenriksfeltet. Schengen- og Dublin-avtalene forplikter Norge til regelverk som kommer fra EU, og tidligere forskning ...

This thesis examines recent developments in China’s bilateral relationship with Saudi Arabia and Iran. The purpouse is to examine the empirical foundations for claiming that China is increasing its involvement in the Middle ...

Med en vedvarende svekkelse av partienes medlemstall som bakteppe, undersøker denne oppgaven hvilke grep, om noen, de politiske partiene gjør for å ha en tilknytning til sivilsamfunnet. Det sentrale spørsmålet denne oppgaven ...

For many decades, scholars have debated the relationship between riches in natural resources and development. The aim of this thesis is to complement that debate, by investigating the relationship between riches from natural ...

Theories of voting rights differ quite sharply with regard to whether or not they support (rapid) enfranchisement of irregular immigrants. In this paper, we first outline these theories and their implications. We then ...

What explains variation of sexual exploitation and abuse in UN peacekeeping missions in Africa across a large number of missions and over time? To what extend does a specific pattern of sexual exploitation and abuse by ...

Høyrepopulistiske partier er på fremmarsj i Europa, og i Norden har Sverigedemokratene, Dansk Folkeparti, Sannfinnene og Fremskrittspartiet fått økt oppslutning og makt. Sist gang radikale høyrepartier fikk makt ble ...

Adequate self-efficacy is useful for motivating individuals to engage in continued improvement. This study explores the potential antecedents of instructional self-efficacy beliefs among Norwegian student teachers attending ...

In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and got involved in an insurgency in the Donbass region of Ukraine. The Russian willingness to use military force in an internationally aggressive manner surprised the West. Subsequently, ...

Teachers’ operational control is challenged by pupils’ access to computers with internet in the classroom. The teacher’s control of operations will be diminished in a technology-rich classroom. Professional growth is ...

This study builds on and contributes to work about the use of student evaluation of teacher performance. Although many studies have examined multiple forms of teacher evaluation, not much has been written about high school ...

The European Union (EU) institutional framework for financial stability has been redesigned three times since 2000. The financial crisis (2008-2009) and the European debt crisis (2009-) both triggered reforms. The first ...

School learners can struggle with setting and striving for objectives that require sustained academic self‐discipline. We believe that teachers’ instructional qualities and school culture are factors that can successfully ...

Anti-immigrant hostility is on the rise in many parts of the world. The escalation of hate crimes and hate speech against international migrants witnessed in receiving societies points towards a climate of increasing ...

I 2015 opplevde Norge den sterkeste pågangen av asylsøkere man noen gang har registrert. På grenseovergangen Storskog i Finnmark oppstod en uoversiktlig situasjon, da asylankomstene nærmest gikk fra null til to hundre ...

I denne oppgaven kartlegger jeg de fire hovedorganisasjonene på arbeidstakersiden LO, Unio, YS og Akademikernes bruk av administrative og parlamentariske strategier i perioden 2013- 2017. I tillegg undersøker jeg nærmere ...

Denne oppgaven studerer fremvekst og organisering av fire nye politiske partier i Polen og Spania: Razem, Nowoczesna, Podemos og Ciudadanos. Bakgrunnen for studien er at alle partiene har vokst frem som et resultat av ...

Vinteren 2015 offentliggjorde regjeringen Solberg, sammen med Venstre og Kristelig Folkeparti, hva som skal være Norges klimamål for 2030; innen 2030 skal Norge redusere klimagassutslipp med 40 prosent sammenlignet med ...

Ever since the the Dublin convention entered into force in 1997, asylum seekers have been given a common status in all of Europe: If an asylum application is rejected in one country, the persons right to apply for asylum ...

Despite recent increase in terrorism research, both the academic community and general news media have, to a large degree, failed to include the situation in Kenya, a country suffering from continued terrorist attacks by ...

Violence against aid workers has become a major concern for most humanitarian agencies. Adding to the destruction and chaos of conflict, deliberate attacks on humanitarian staff and facilities cause maximum damage to the ...

In this thesis, I apply insights from collective memory studies to poststructuralist IR in order to enhance understanding of how popular culture operates in processes of discursive identity construction. More specifically, ...

This review “diagnoses” climate change as an international governance challenge and explores the political feasibility of alternative “cures.” Human activities’ growing effect on Earth's climate system is extremely ...

Although existing literature on central local governance includes comprehensive studies on how constitutional and financial frameworks regulate local government autonomy, this study seeks explanation for the introduction ...

Kan byråkrater løse oppgaver som krever at motstridende forventninger blir ivaretatt samtidig? Er det slik at statlige institusjoner som løser oppgaver mot det lokale styringsnivået er spesielt egnet til å løse slikt ...

22. juli 2011 ble myndighetene i Norge satt på prøve da en bombe først gikk av i regjeringskvartalet, og det så kom meldinger om skyting på Utøya der flere hundre ungdommer fra Arbeiderpartiets ungdomsfylking deltok på ...

De siste årene har palmeolje fått stor oppmerksomhet i norske medier på grunn av sitt relativt høye fettinnhold og fordi produksjonen ofte fører til tropisk avskoging. Samtidig har de tre norske paraplykjedene på ...

This study seeks to contribute to the literature on ethical foreign policy through an empirical analysis of normative ideas guiding Sweden’s foreign policy since the 1960s. Drawing on normative theory, the study challenges ...

Denne oppgaven handler om i hvilken grad og på hvilken måte kjønnsgapet blant høyrepopulistiske partiers velgere i Norge og Danmark har utviklet seg over tid, og hvordan disse partiene har endret sin programprofil over ...

Denne studien har til hensikt å forstå og forklare innholdet i regjeringen Solbergs jernbanereform slik det presenteres i Meld. St. 27 (2014-2015) På rett spor – reform av jernbanesektoren. Ved å anvende tre ulike ...

Myanmar is one of the most recent democratizing countries in the world today. Although it represents a success story in many ways, the democratic system is still largely flawed, and the conflict level in ethnic regions, ...

Studien er en empirisk analyse av nordmenns holdninger til Russland i 2016-2017, og undersøker hovedsakelig om nordnorske holdninger til Russland divergerer fra holdningene i resten av Norge. Russlands anneksjon av Krimhalvøya ...

This thesis provides an analytical map for understanding national rhetoric, based on the combined knowledge from contemporary rhetorical theory and the social identity approach in social psychology. A symbiosis of theoretical ...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, economic sanctions have become an increasingly employed tool by major powers in order to achieve international political objectives. A growing body of research has emerged, however, ...

Denne oppgaven har som formål å teste ut en del av argumentene for å redusere ulikhet i Afrika sør for Sahara – nemlig hvorvidt demokratier fører til høyere utdanning og lavere arbeidsledighet, for den yngre befolkningen. ...

Nuclear power was regarded as unattractive, and British politicians stated it would be foolish to embark on a new generation of nuclear in the United Kingdom. Three years after these statements, the energy review of 2006 ...

The subject matter of this thesis is methods in normative political theory (and moral philosophy more generally) and moral intuitions. I am concerned with two set of questions, where the former set is implied by the latter. ...

Emmanuel Macron’s election as President of the Republic and the formation of a government that includes a mix of politicians from parties on the left and right of the political spectrum, as well as a significant share of ...

I gjennomføringen av Solberg-regjeringens kommunereform ble den norske Fylkesmannen gitt et oppdrag. Fylkesmannen skulle være tilrettelegger og koordinator og sørge for at påbegynte prosesser ble avsluttet innen fristen ...

Nasjonal klimapolitikk blir til tider sett på som en forhandling mellom mer eller mindre klimavennlige partier. Forut for dette er det ofte en lang politikkutvikling preget av organisasjoner og institusjoner innenfor et ...

Hvordan påvirker variasjoner i lokale kontekster iverksettingen av nasjonal politikk? For å undersøke dette spørsmålet i teorien, har jeg i denne oppgaven studert Fylkesmannens rolle i iverksettingen av kommunereformen av ...

Local government systems change at varying speeds. While some countries have dramatically reduced the number of local governments during a short period of time, other countries have seen only incremental change or relative ...

Denne masteroppgaven handler om norske partimedlemmers holdninger til naturvern, miljø og klima i perioden 1990-2016. Utgangspunktet er et ønske om både å kartlegge medlemmenes holdninger til disse spørsmålene, og å se på ...

The war in eastern Ukraine and the Russian annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, have led to a significant worsening of the relationship between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and Russia. The Russian ...

Denne studien kartlegger strategibruken hos fem av de største bistandsorganisasjonene i Norge i dag. I de senere årene har det vært publisert mye forskning på hva slags ulike strategier interessegrupper benytter seg av i ...

I denne masteroppgåva har eg gjort ei kvantitativ analyse av over 200 000 nordmenn og ikkje-vestlege innvandrarar som har delteke på statlege arbeidsmarknadstiltak i perioden januar 2011 til desember 2015. Eg har sett på ...

The Norwegian bureaucracy is subjected to structural changes on a regular basis. The frequency at which this occurs begs the question: Why does it happen? In the literature, termination (organizational death) has been ...

Det å analysere en hendelse som er ny i nasjonal sammenheng og som setter etater og befolkning på prøve, kan sies å være viktig for å dra lærdom av fortiden og gi et bedre utgangspunkt for fremtidige hendelser. Målet med ...

Every country in the world has been, and will continue to be, affected by migration. As a result, international migration has attracted political circles, media and public discourse, and become an object of great research. ...

In this thesis, I have worked out from the following research question: What characterizes reputation management in higher education institutions? I chose to approach the research question by looking at the differences and ...

A central puzzle in peace and conflict studies is why wars end. This study focuses on an aspect of this puzzle: Why do armed actors at some point decide to negotiate? I use empirical data collected on two peace processes ...

In 2011, Bahrain was one of the Arab countries which were affected by mass-scale protests. Since then, the relationship between the ruler and the ruled has deteriorated on several accounts. This thesis examines this ...

Målsetningen min i denne masteroppgaven er å belyse hvilken betydning lokalpolitisk lederskap har for utfallet av politiske prosesser. Jeg tar utgangspunkt i to ulike typer for lederskap, en mobiliserende og en representerende ...

Dynasticism has emerged as common concept to refer to the logics of rule in pre-modern international systems. This thesis will attempt both to theorise the concept, as well as developing an ideal-typical framework to analyse ...

Oppgaven studerer forekomsten og bruken av det litteraturen skisserer som tre sentrale kontrollmekanismer fra de norske koalisjonsregjeringene Lyng til Solberg. Det teoretiske utgangspunktet er prinsipal-agent-teori og ...

This master thesis offers an additional look at the state of Russia’s civil society sector in the year 2017. The data shows that, while researchers are right to be critical to the current development of the NGO sector, ...

Philippe Van Parijs ascribes to a conception of justice that he terms real-libertarianism. Real-libertarianism holds that social justice should be properly understood as a situation where, subject to equal formal rights ...

I denne oppgaven analyseres effekten av de «smarte» sanksjonene innført av EU og USA mot Russland i respons på Krim-annekteringen, og landets støtte til de omstridte områdene i Øst-Ukraina. Problemstillingen lyder som ...

Food insecurity is the most common manifestation of protracted crises, and the proportion of undernourished people is three times as high in such context compared to other development countries (SOFI 2010). In order to ...

Studies show that public administrations that practise merit-based recruitment of their personnel are significantly less marked by corruption than administrations that do not recruit in this manner. While we know a lot ...

In school settings, self-control is central to the ability of learners to complete their academic work successfully. Learners’ self-control is directly influenced by the ways in which educators execute their work, including ...

In this article, we argue that autocratic regimes are no less likely than democracies to adopt old-age pensions, although autocratic programs are less universal in their coverage. Our theoretical argument focuses on the ...

Most studies of democratic developments are limited to the period after World War II. However, political regimes varied according to different aspects of democracy long before the establishment of modern liberal mass ...

Although the Paris Agreement arguably made some progress, interest in supplementary approaches to climate change co-operation persist. This article examines the conditions under which a climate club might emerge and grow. ...

The duration of on-campus academic engagements is an uncertain and highly debated indicator of study input. Researchers adopt this indicator with the expectation that student teachers must invest an amount of time and ...

Government formation in parliamentary democracies is supposed to occur within the parliament. Yet, outside actors, such as the head of state, may formally or informally influence which party holds the position of Prime ...

Under what conditions should we expect the United States to support international enforcement of treaties? We hypothesize that U.S. support is most likely for treaties where international enforcement will cause considerable ...

Developing students’ digital skills and self-confidence in their ability to purposefully use online learning opportunities is considered important for achieving educational objectives. This study empirically explores ...

«Agonistisk pluralisme» er Chantal Mouffe sin radikale demokratiteori, og teorien er dypt forankret i den post-strukturalistiske tradisjonen. «Antagonisme» er et helt sentralt begrep i teorien, og beskriver identitetskonflikter ...

This study examines teaching evaluation based on student feedback which is intended to contribute to teachers’ professional development. Although studies have highlighted that teaching evaluation is a potential source of ...

Background Pain problems are common in children and adolescents. Measures of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) can be used to assess children’s subjective perspectives of pain experience and its impact ...

I 2017 er det 60 år siden Stein Rokkan, Henry Valen og deres medarbeidere gjennomførte den første norske valgundersøkelsen. På bred basis tok man sikte på å studere politiske partier, rekruttering, velgeratferd og medienes ...

This thesis contributes to the debate on the Nordic welfare model by providing an in-depth analysis of the present state of Norwegian elder care services. The analysis concentrates on the two main tensions embedded in ...

This thesis aims to shed light on the participation of local civil society organizations (CSO) in peace negotiations, and asks how CSOs can participate in such negotiations and whether the level of CSO participation makes ...