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 ...

Utlendingsdirektoratet (UDI) og Utlendingsnemnda (UNE) er de to sentrale aktørene i norsk utlendingsforvaltning. Sammen er de førsteinstans og klageinstans i det som de senere årene har blitt et mer og mer politisert felt, ...

An increase in renewable energy in a country’s energy mix is one of the measures countries can take in order to mitigate climate change. One way of increasing the renewable energy share in a country’s energy mix is through ...

After the Cold War, the overall patterns of warfare and armed conflicts changed. Consequently, in order to meet the new threats to international peace and security, the United Nations (UN) had to revise its strategy. In ...

I denne oppgaven diskuterer jeg hvorvidt anstendige hierarkiske folkegrupper bør inkluderes i Folkenes samfunn. Jeg argumenterer for at denne typen folkegrupper ikke behandler alle sine medlemmer likeverdig, og at aksept ...

Hvorfor utvikler folk forskjellige politiske verdier, til tross for at de lever og vokser opp under tilsvarende omstendigheter? Ved å analysere survey-data fra Tyskland og Nederland benytter jeg Big-Five rammeverket for å ...

China’s rise and the correlation between historical power transitions and great power conflict have led to frequent suggestions that conflict between China and the United States may be imminent. However, such dramatic ...

Denne studien undersøker hvordan interessegrupper henvender seg til de politiske partiene i Norge. Både ovenfor Stortinget og partiapparatet, hvilke faktorer som påvirker hvilke partier interessegruppene tar kontakt med ...

Tema for denne oppgaven er hvordan det institusjonelle rammeverket i internasjonale miljøregimer bidrar til å styrke statenes muligheter til problemløsning. Det institusjonelle rammeverket utgjør en vesentlig del av hvordan ...

The ongoing Brexit negotiations are the first ever negotiations about the withdrawal of a member state from the European Union. The result of the negotiations will determine the UK’s terms of withdrawal and the framework ...

While we have extensive knowledge upon the effects from political values onto voting; the role of personal values is largely unappreciated. Using Schwartz basic personal value theory, this thesis aims to expand on our ...

Sammendrag Formålet med denne oppgaven er å undersøke totalforsvarets relevans, i lys av et stadig mer komplekst og omskiftelig trusselbilde. Norge står overfor en betydelig risiko for å bli rammet av sikkerhetstruende ...

The creation of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in 1974 was conducted under very particular institutional and geopolitical circumstances. It was a time when relations in global energy were defined largely by the ...

Since the Cold War, peace negotiations have become the most common way to end wars, but far from an easy one. The parties to the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary armed forces of Colombia (FARC) finally reached a ...

Temaet for denne avhandlingen er den ideologiske utviklingen til Scottish National Party (SNP) fra 1999 og frem til i dag. Partiet klassifiserer seg selv som et sosialdemokratisk nasjonalistisk parti, og besitter i dag sin ...

Denne studien undersøker om sammenhengen mellom sosial klasse og partivalg ble påvirket av den økonomiske krisen som brøt ut i kjølvannet av finanskrisen 2007-2008. Studien bryter ny mark gjennom å se på et forhold som i ...

Målet med denne oppgaven er å besvare om «den begunstigede betaler»-prinsippet (DBBprinsippet) bør anvendes som en del av det normative grunnlaget for byrdefordeling i internasjonal klimapolitikk. For å undersøke denne ...

Summary This research is important, relevant for media scholars as well as scholars of peace building, because the idea of using media in peace building has not been emphasised as much as other subjective methods in ...

Med Kinas vekst har det øst-asiatiske sikkerhetskomplekset blitt et senter for stormaktspolitikk. Hvordan USA og Kina hevder sine interesser gjennom ulike strategier vil få konsekvenser for den regionale stabiliteten. ...

This thesis seeks to uncover whether reformed World Bank statebuilding efforts in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCS) are producing satisfactory results. Fragile and conflict-affected states are known to be particularly ...

This thesis is a comparative study of the congressional redistricting process in 43 states and an analysis of partisan bias in the U.S. House of Representatives elections in 2012, 2014 and 2016. Partisan bias is, generally ...

Hvorfor velger noen å bli statssekretær? Denne oppgaven forsøker å bidra til mer kunnskap om statssekretærer ved å se på statssekretærembetet i et karriereperspektiv. Oppgaven tar for seg tre empiriske spørsmål: 1) Hvilke ...

I dagens konflikter og humanitære kriser har ikke-statlige organisasjoner (NGOer) fått en økt betydning. NGOer og militære aktører befinner seg i økende grad i samme operasjonsområdet. Dette har ført til at NGOer og militæret ...

The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is the EU’s climate flagship for cutting industry emissions. In the early phases of EU ETS (2005-2012), industries were mostly allocated free emissions allowances. For phase 3 ...

The Islamic Republic has been building a transnational network of armed resistance groups since the Iranian revolution in 1979, with Shi’a militias being its most important asset. These groups are viewed as one of Iran’s ...

Income inequality has risen in most OECD countries since the 1970s. In the same period, the economy has become more financialized both as an accumulative property and as a corporate strategy. Meanwhile, labour unions have ...

Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the European Union (EU) are divided between two sector overreaching policy frameworks, the Emissions Trading Scheme and the Effort Sharing policy. The Effort Sharing policy ...

Do people have ideologically constrained and stable political belief systems, and does it matter for their vote choice? This has been under debate since the seminal article of Converse (1964) stated that most people were ...

This thesis analyzes Turkey’s security policies toward Russia, the US and NATO with a focus on two cases: Syria (2011-2018) and the Black Sea region (2014-2018). It employs Stephen Walt’s balance of threat theory (1987) ...

Bakgrunn: Miljøkonsekvensene av en stadig mer globalisert verdensøkonomi har i senere tid fått økt oppmerksomhet, og det har blitt hevdet at miljøreguleringer kan være en faktor som påvirker lokasjonsbeslutninger til ...

Why are some citizens uncommitted to Liberal Democracy? In this thesis, I attempt to explain this with the use of two main arguments. The first is that this democratic detachment is a consequence of deficient democratic ...

In short, my research interest aims to identify, describe and analyze Bangladesh`s policy approaches as well actual politics towards the Rohingyas after the massive exodus in Bangladesh on 25 August 2017. The central finding ...

Hvert år anmodes norske kommuner om å bosette et gitt antall flyktninger. Forespørselen kommer fra staten, representert ved Integrerings- og mangfoldsdirektoratet (IMDi). Denne oppgaven presenterer en komparativ undersøkelse ...

Notions discriminatory to persons with disabilities commonly underpin political theories of rights. While persons without disabilities are considered “normal” and independent, persons with disabilities are commonly seen ...

Hate crime is a fluid category that has been constructed and implemented in a variety of ways within the legal system and in political discourse. As hate crime policies have been developed in many divergent directions ...

Individuals’ equal right to make their own decisions and to control their own lives is fundamental to realising human rights. The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities confirms this axiom ...

This study focuses on how Finnish pre-service teachers’ instructional self-efficacy contributes to their belief in their ability to provide learning opportunities and positive classroom outcomes. Data were gathered from ...

While kinship is among the basic organizing principles of all human life, its role in and implications for international politics and relations have been subject to surprisingly little exploration in International Relations ...

Technology has become an ever-present factor in virtually every contemporary situation, and digital media has gained a significant role in the lives of young people. This article explores and compares the antecedents for ...

Denne case-studien av sykehjemstjenesten i Oslo kommune undersøker hvordan styring og ansvarliggjøring av offentlig tjenesteproduksjon fungerer. I lys av et økende ønske om å fristille leverandører av tjenester for å skape ...

This article contributes to the literature on the politicization of appointments to increase political control over public bureaucracies with often substantial managerial and policy autonomy. Using data from a large-scale ...

Combining new quantitative and qualitative data, this article first describes and compares the evolution of right-wing terrorism and militancy in the Nordic countries between 1990 and 2015. Having established that Sweden ...

Har den kommende sammenslåingen mellom Mandal, Lindesnes og Marnardal ført til at kommunene endrer sin økonomiske politikk? I denne studien undersøkes det hvordan det kan oppstå et «common pool problem» i forbindelse med ...

Studier om kommunikasjonsvirksomhet og omdømmehåndtering i offentlige organisasjoner er et relativt nytt forskningsfelt i statsvitenskapelig og organisasjonsteoretisk forskningstradisjon. En bakgrunn for en økende orientering ...

There is a vast literature on the decline of party membership within European democracies, which is manifested in declining membership figures. Despite this trend, several parties on the far right, including Norway’s ...

Regjeringen Stoltenberg II vedtok ved utgangen av 2012 å slå sammen Direktoratet for naturforvaltning (DN) og Klima- og forurensningsdirektoratet (Klif) til det som skulle bli Miljødirektoratet, med virkning fra 1. juli ...

Google Scholar (GS) is an important tool that faculty, administrators, and external reviewers use to evaluate the scholarly impact of candidates for jobs, tenure, and promotion. This article highlights both the benefits ...

Investigation of whether, how, and why inequality influences the dynamics of violent conflict has a long intellectual history. Inequality between individuals and households (vertical inequality) has dominated the literature, ...

This thesis is set to explore Kazakhstan´s behavior in relation to China´s rise, vis-à-vis Russian relations – Kazakhstan´s traditional patron. It examines if Kazakhstan engages in balancing or bandwagoning behavior through ...

Studien undersøker om ekspertutvalg medfører økt ekspertifisering av kunnskapsgrunnlaget for politiske beslutninger i Norge. Det er innarbeidet praksis å invitere eksperter til å informere og gi råd til politikkutformere, ...

The US utilized leadership in the Paris Agreement negotiations in several and important ways. In particular, the bilateral cooperation with China was pivotal and helped securing the Agreement’s broad participation. That ...

The crisis in the Eurozone area and the rest of the EU has in many ways been a seismic shift in both the economic and political framework of the Eurozone area. We know quite a bit about the political short-term effects of ...

This thesis examines the prominent military component of identity construction in Russia to determine the motivation behind state implemented identity initiatives their consequences. The motivations are investigated by ...

Selv om konspirasjonsteorier har vært tema for en økende mengde studier de siste tiår, finnes det få undersøkelser som setter konspirasjonsteorier som sådan i sentrum, undersøker spekteret av disse innenfor ideologiene på ...

There is a current debate about the impact and content of the Trump Nuclear Posture Review, which presents the indented nuclear strategy of the United States. This document is controversial because it opens for nuclear ...

In this thesis, I examine how the process of digitalization in the energy system is leading to changing understandings of its security. More precisely I track how discourses place themselves into different epistemic logics ...

This thesis examines the distinctive features of the Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters in the EU’s external trade agreements. Furthermore, it utilise theoretical perspectives of global political justice to assess ...

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 ...

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. ...

Økt innvandring utgjør en av dagens største utfordringer for den nordiske modellen. For at den nordiske modellen skal bestå har det vært ansett som nødvendig at flyktninger og innvandrere integreres i arbeidslivet, slik ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anthropogenic climate change is an existential threat to the people of sinking island states. When their territories inevitably disappear, what, if anything, do the world's remaining territorial states owe them? According ...

According to a prominent forward-looking justification of territorial (jurisdictional) rights, people may establish such rights over a piece of land if they develop economic and/or religious-cultural life plans the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Increasing specialisation and demands to decrease the length of hospital stays have important consequences for the integration of specialised health and local care services. Based on case studies of care agreements in ...