This article aims at addressing the relationship between expertise and politics by examining a reorganization process of Statistics Norway. The puzzle is why a minor reorganization with low political salience, in a ...

How can states influence the formation and functioning of international legal institutions they are party to? Do international legal commitments influence domestic politics? Throughout five articles, I examine these questions ...

In the 1990s, European social democracts coalesced around a set of principles often referred to as the third way, characterised by prudent economic governance, a slimmer public sector, productive welfare services and ...

Monarchy was the dominant form of rule in the pre-modern era and it persists in a handful of countries. We propose a unified theoretical explanation for its rise and decline. Specifically, we argue that monarchy offers an ...

Political science has long debated the significance of protest during a democratic transition, but attention has been largely confined to its impact on elite support for democracy. Contributing to scholarship on the ...

It is often said that we live in a time of crisis for social democracy. Many of the West European centre-left parties that seemed the natural parties of government in the second half of the twentieth century are in decline. ...

Contemporary debates on Russian nuclear strategy focus on making sense of Russia’s nuclear capabilities, signalling and nuclear declarations. This paper argues that understanding how nuclear capabilities and strategy ...

Hvis sekteriske spenninger har eksistert i lang tid, hvorfor varierer volden? Sekterisk konflikt ser ut til å være et økende fenomen i Midtøsten. Konfliktene ser ut til å variere geografisk hvor sjiaer og sunnier sameksisterer. ...

This article contributes with a novel systematic theoretical and empirical exploration of why states find a nonpermanent seat in the UN Security Council attractive. Three conceptualizations of power—to influence, to network, ...

Hva slags samfunnsansvar forventer nordmenn av norsk banknæring? Som innflytelsesrike aktører med stor økonomisk og politisk makt er banker i Norge med på å både skape og løse problemer relatert til miljø, menneskerettigheter, ...

Legislative debates are understudied in political science. Modern tools for analyzing speech content has, fortunately, given us an opportunity to make inferences based on an ever increasing accessibility of vast corpora ...

This thesis provides novel insight into different aspects of West-European integration policies, including recent policy developments, the central-local governance and the national horizontal governance of the field. It ...

Public sector reforms often take place in heterogeneous reform environments. Key political, administrative, and societal actors often advocate different definitions of problems and solutions. A major leadership challenge ...

Focal days of protest are increasingly common to episodes of revolutionary mobilization. This paper explores the significance of focal days in patterning sustained protest in Egypt and Tunisia from 2011 to 2012. In Egypt, ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker mål- og resultatstyring i introduksjonsprogrammet for flyktninger. Det ble i 2018 innført sanksjoner på måloppnåelsen i introduksjonsprogrammet, ved at resultatene kommunene oppnår i introduksjo ...

«Arbeiderpartiet er i ferd med å miste sin sjel», sto det skrevet i et leserinnlegg i Altaposten 27. mai 2019. Dette utsagnet vitnet om det som skulle komme. Fire måneder senere gjorde Arbeiderpartiet sitt dårligste ...

Oppgaven kartlegger interkommunale variasjoner på kulturfeltet, og hovedsakelig kunstfeltene musikk, scenekunst og visuell kunst. Gjennom å se på betingelsene for kommunens evne og mulighet til å iverksette lokal kulturpolitikk ...

As energy security becomes a key topic of policy debates, not least in Central and Eastern European states, which are vulnerable to gas supply disruptions from Russia, it has been suggested that EU energy policy becomes ...

Since 2018, and as ISIL have gradually lost its territory in Syria, several Norwegian female ISIL affiliates have requested the Norwegian authorities for assisted repatriations back to Norway. As research has helped unravel ...

United Nations Peacekeeping Operations are important instruments in contemporary conflict management. The financing of these operations is a collective responsibility of the UN member states; however, as of 30th of April ...

Våren 2017 lanserte Solberg-regjeringen Stortingsmelding 41 (2016-2017) Klimastrategi for 2030 – norsk omstilling i europeisk samarbeid. Dette er den niende stortingsmeldingen om klima, men den første som kun omtaler ...

It is commonly held that political leaders favour people of the same ethnic origin. We test this argument of ethno-political favouritism by studying variations in the usage of maternal health care services across groups ...

What explains support for violence against the state? The surge in survey-based studies in (former) conflict areas has improved our understanding of the determinants of armed conflict. Yet, the potential interaction between ...

Masteroppgaven undersøker effekter av collaborative governance i en stor prosess i den norske sentralforvaltningen. Begrepet oversettes til samstyring, og kommer fra en styringstrend som innebærer økt fokus på bredt samarbeid ...

Is there a gender gap in political views? In this master thesis, I will investigate whether or not women and men have different placements on the political dimension, often referred to as the libertarian–authoritarian ...

There are two contrasting understandings of security within International Relations (IR) theory; for national or “negative” security, it is self-regarding; for common or “positive” security, it is other-regarding. Examining ...

The Women, Peace and Security resolutions promotes norms along the pillars of participation, protection, prevention and recovery and relief. The norms seek to, among other things, improve women’s participation in conflict ...

This thesis explores how political actors in Norway meet demands for Muslim religious accommodation, within a considerable space for political discretion, and under the conditions created by high levels of conflict over ...

I en stortingsmelding som ble presentert februar 2015 fremmet regjeringen sitt ønske om å samarbeide med EU om å oppnå sine klimamål for 2030. En viktig forutsetning var at avtalen ikke skulle bli en del av EØS-avtalen, ...

Committee coordinators face a classic delegation problem when assigning reports to their committee members. Although a few theoretical developments have focused on the effects of expertise on delegation, empirical studies ...

Using game theory, this thesis aims to map the conditions (if any) under which the Amazon agreement between Norway and Brazil might be made self-enforcing. Modelling the agreement as a repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma, it first ...

This thesis explores the performance management of government agencies in Norway using agency theory and stewardship theory answering i) How do ministry-agency steering practices vary, and to what extent do organizational ...

In the 1990s and 2000s, pressure from feminist movements and allies succeeded in pushing scores of states to reform their laws to prevent and punish violence against women (VAW). Even in states with progressive legislation, ...

The focus on gender equality has significantly altered the work of international institutions. The United Nations (UN) stands out as a central arena and key actor for promoting norms and policies on gender equality. As a ...

Siden den kalde krigen har USA og Russland opprettholdt gjensidig kjernefysisk avskrekking, noe som har bidratt til å bevare strategisk stabilitet i Europa. I 2008 iverksatte Russland sin nye forsvarsreform, med formidable ...

Sosiale medier har gitt nye muligheter innen politisk kommunikasjon: politiske aktører kan i stor grad publisere det de selv ønsker uten pressens filter, og nærmest nå ut til et ubegrenset publikum. Oppgavens formål er å ...

To study Russia’s security policy has always been an important issue, but it was not until 2007 that a visible turning point was observed in Russian security policy towards a more anti-western and expansionist tendency. ...

This thesis is an exploratory study of the relation between implementation of public management (PM) reforms and the level of perceived academic freedom. Both at the institutional and the individual level. Academic freedom ...

Many moral and political theorists have recently argued that the fact that an agent has innocently benefited from wrongdoing or injustice can ground special moral duties to help out the victims or simply give up the benefits. ...

Denne masteroppgaven har som overordnet målsetning å fremskaffe kunnskap om sentrale utilsiktede og negative bivirkninger ved tiltak som har til hensikt å forebygge radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme. Ut fra denne ...

På grunn av hemmelighold og lite tillit til omverden finnes det få direkte, og enda færre studier med mange respondenter av medlemmer i ytre høyre-grupper. Forskning på tradisjonelle, i betydningen fascistiske og nynazistiske, ...

Momentous events in Western democracies have brought renewed attention to how various aspects of government-controlled policy outputs and outcomes affect citizens’ trust in politics. Unlike most previous research, this ...

Sammendrag Denne oppgaven tar for seg det nasjonale utdanningsprosjektet «Demokratilæring på Utøya», og undersøker problemstillingen: «Hva slags fremstilling av det norske demokratiet kommer til uttrykk i «Demokratilæring ...

Comparative scholars emphasise that public administration should be understood in terms of context-bound patterns of organising and decision-making. Agencies in the same context will display more commonalities than those ...

‘Energy democracy’ has evolved from a slogan used by activists demanding a greater say in energy-related decision-making to a term used in policy documents and scholarly literature on energy governance and energy transitions. ...

This article tests an often‐stated assumption in the “machinery of government” literature: that government parties’ issue and policy preferences affect the ministerial structure. Using a new Dataset on Immigrant Integration ...

This article focuses on perceived coordination quality among Norwegian civil servants. It explains how they assess the quality of coordination in their own field of work along different dimensions. To what degree have such ...

In the academic literature, Hungary and Poland are often cited as paradigmatic cases of democratic backsliding. However, as the backsliding narrative gained traction, the term has been applied to the rest of the post-communist ...

Most countries struggle to implement CO2 reducing policies. Implementation is politically difficult since it typically forces politicians to trade‐off different concerns. The literature on how parties and members of ...

I offentlige byråkratier over hele den vestlige verden har det de siste årene blitt ansatte flere kommunikasjonsrådgivere, ofte med bakgrunn fra journalistikken. Disse aktørene er ansatt som byråkrater, men jobber i enkelte ...

In this article we defend the view that, on the All Affected Principle of voting rights, the weight of a person’s vote on a decision should be determined by and only by the degree to which that decision affects her interests, ...

This article addresses the Norwegian government’s meaning-making, crises communication and reputation management during the Corona pandemic crisis. It argues that reputation management can be seen as a combination of ...

In this paper I address the objection to sufficientarianism posed by Paula Casal and Richard Arneson, that it is hard to conceive of a sufficiency threshold such that distribution is highly important just below it, and not ...

Most analyses of arms control during the Cold War focus on its role in maintaining strategic stability between the United States and the Soviet Union. However, history shows that the superpowers' search for strategic ...

Purpose Compared with the worldwide reform trend of transcending new public management (NPM) during the past two decades, China's service-oriented government (SOG) reforms are a relatively different reform approach. ...

Nuclear power became a controversial issue in Japan after the Fukushima accident in March 2011. The accident spurred a drastic change in nuclear policy in Germany, while Japan’s reaction was surprisingly less dramatic. ...

Scholars claim that civil servants are increasingly having to engage in media management and be aware of how events are presented in the press, with this media awareness being said to threaten civil servants’ traditional ...

I denne oppgaven står valgkamp og partiutvikling i fokus. Oppgaven undersøker hvordan utviklingstrekk som profesjonalisering, medialisering og sentralisering har påvirket politikken og partiene generelt. Oppgaven starter ...

Leve hele livet er en kvalitetsreform som har fokus på å løfte kvaliteten på tjenestene til eldre i helse- og omsorgssektoren. Reformen påpeker at kommuner i dag ikke lærer nok av hverandre. Denne reformen skal løse det ...

In this article, we examine the units of the central administrations of Chinese universities to ascertain to what extent they reflect Chinese structural and cultural characteristics or global templates, seen through certain ...

Over recent decades, the institutions of political leadership have been criticised for being caught up in outdated designs that are not adapting to societal changes. In many western countries, this diagnosis has spurred ...

Secular European states have adopted a range of regulation and accommodation policies concerning minority religious practices, often with much controversy. These policies are often heterogeneous, even within nation states. ...

We present a temporally fine-grained data set on regimes, defined as the formal and informal rules essential for selecting leaders. The data set comprises more than 2,000 regimes from 197 polities, 1789 to 2016. We highlight ...

Increasing political concern over segregation, extremism, and value conflicts subject Muslim civil society organisations to a great deal of critical attention across Europe, both as problematic and as potential partners ...

‘Energy democracy’ has evolved from a slogan used by activists demanding a greater say in energy-related decision-making to a term used in policy documents and scholarly literature on energy governance and energy transitions. ...

Ministerial advisors (MAs) have become an essential aspect of executive branches worldwide, thus making the MA office a potential route for young politicians aspiring to an expanding political class. The article studies ...

Much research following Kaufman’s classic study Are Government Organizations Immortal? has investigated the claim that government agencies enjoy great security and long life. Less attention has been paid to Kaufman’s thesis ...

The PhD-thesis studies how the quest for more sustainable and ecosystem based water management affects coordination practices of bureaucrats across institutional divides, policy sectors and government levels, with a view ...

Since 2011, we have witnessed both the worst terror attack ever on Norwegian soil as well as an attempted act of terror. Both actions were conducted by right-wing extremists, who were radicalized by inspiration from, but ...

This study investigates the role of discourses in processes of democratic decline. By bringing Jacques Rancière’s works on politics and depoliticization into dialogue with poststructuralist discourse analysis, the thesis ...

The aim of the study was to perform a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to investigate the psychometric properties of the proxy version of Kidscreen-27 in order to determine whether the instrument can be used to assess ...

I årene 2016-2019 har norske direktorater bestilt og fått utført over 700 meningsmålinger, og samtlige målinger inngår i empirien til denne oppgaven. I analysedelen er alle undersøkelser gjennomgått, og et utvalg av ...

ABSTRACT Despite decades of research, there is no consensus on the relationship between democratic institutions and risk of civil war. We alleviate measurement issues and theoretical ambiguity in much existing ...

De siste årene har det vært flere politiske og sosiale hendelser som uttrykker en sterk protest mot det politiske etablissementet i Vest-Europa. Det har vokst frem flere høyrepopulistiske partier som mener de er talerør ...

Stemmeretten ved sametingsvalg i Norge er ikke knyttet til at en bor innenfor et bestemt geografisk område, men er en politisk rettighet som erverves på individuelt etnisk grunnlag, og som følger individet uavhengig av ...

We revisit the hypothesis that a Weberian bureaucracy enhances economic growth. Theoretically, we develop arguments for why such a bureaucracy may enhance growth and discuss plausible counterarguments. Empirically, we use ...

We describe and analyze patterns in the geographical focus of political science research across more than a century. Using a new database of titles and abstracts from 27,690 publications in eight major political science ...

This chapter introduces the book. In the first part, we discuss different meanings of “political leadership”, arguing that political leadership should be understood as three interrelated functions: Identifying problems, ...

Myanmar’s introduction of competitive elections after decades of military rule raised expectations for progress in economic and social development, including in the area of women’s rights. In this paper, we draw on data ...

This article analyzes Myanmar’s transition from authoritarianism and asks if it represents a transition towards democracy or a hybrid form of rule. Starting from theoretical debates about modes of transition, the article ...

Abstract Various theories in political science point to temporal heterogeneity in relationships of interest. Yet, empirical research typically ignores such heterogeneity or employs fairly crude measures to evaluate ...

This study attempts to reconcile competing positions in an important debate about the relationship between regime type and human development. We contend that this empirical relationship is contingent upon issues of ...

På hvilken måte kan endringer i holdninger bidra til å forklare nedgangen i oppslutningen til de sosialdemokratiske partiene i Norge, Sverige og Danmark? De sosialdemokratiske partiene i Skandinavia har opplevd en nedgang ...

Fremveksten av komplekse og grenseoverskridende utfordringer har økt nødvendigheten av samarbeid og koordinering på tvers av sektorielle linjer. I denne masteroppgaven kombineres en kritisk diskursanalyse med koordineringsteori ...

Formålet med denne studien er å utforske og belyse hvordan regjeringens «digitaliseringsprosjekt» blir implementert i den norske sentralforvaltningen. Digitaliseringsprosjektet omfatter digitaliseringsplanene regjeringen ...

States sign arms control treaties. Such treaties are advantageous for the international community as they reduce the prospect of a nuclear war. However, even if arms control treaties improves world security, it is still a ...

Through an analysis of survey data from six US Presidential elections, I examine attitude change among voters in the post-election period. I examine the impact of having voted for the losing candidate and establish whether ...

Temaet for denne oppgaven er hvordan Norge håndterer policy-problemer relatert til kunstig intelligens (KI), og hvordan den norske håndteringen kan sammenlignes med Finlands, Estlands og Storbritannias tilnærming. Med Norge ...

Den russiske anneksjonen av Krim i 2014 markerte et omfattende forsvarspolitisk skifte for Sverige og Finland og det vestlige sikkerhetsfelleskapet. Denne masteroppgaven er en kvalitativ studie som undersøker hvorfor Sverige ...

Kinas enorme vekst har ført til at den unipolare verden med USA som ensom supermakt er ved veis ende. Med Kina som en ny supermakt har det internasjonale systemet returnert til en bipolar struktur. Kina blir i økende grad ...

Climate is getting hotter - both in fact and as a research topic. Yet there is little scientific consensus on the conflict potential carried by changes in climate and weather patterns. Previous studies investigating the ...