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 ...

Multilevel regression with post-stratification (MrP) has quickly become the gold standard for small area estimation. While the first MrP models did not include context-level information, current applications almost always ...

Sex ratios in India have been declining for decades, and “missing girls” are a serious social and political problem. Drawing on subdistrict-level data from the 2001 and 2011 Censuses and detailed data on women’s education ...

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 ...

Abstract The International Association of Universities (IAU) is the only inclusive global university association, its membership barriers are low, yet few universities are members despite considerable benefits. What ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the study of electoral politics and political behavior in the developing world, India is often considered to be an exemplar of the centrality of contingency in distributive politics, the role of ethnicity in shaping ...

History suggests universities are hotbeds of political protest. However, the generality and causal nature of this relationship has never been quantified. This article investigates whether universities give rise to political ...

Public resources are often allocated neither effectively nor equitably, and they serve as a tool for securing re-election. Despite compelling evidence for pork-barrel politics, little is known about voters’ perceptions of ...

Abstract Postal voting intends to provide citizens residing abroad with a convenient voting technique to influence political representation in their country of origin. However, its adoption among individuals is dependent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

The idea of a clear separation between policymaking and implementation is difficult to sustain for policy bureaucracies in which public officials have “policy work” as their main activity. A diverse body of scholarship ...

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. ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

«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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

‘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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Norske politikere kan gjennom sosiale medier som Facebook enkelt skape engasjement, promotere, overbevise, mobilisere velgere og forme den politiske debatten. Gjennom politisk uttrykksmåte, personifisert politisk uttrykksmåte, ...

Cyberspace presents a new arena for international relations and order. As society becomes more reliant on this domain it increases vulnerabilities against cyber threats. While the EU and NATO have been long-time partners ...

In recent years, intelligence agencies in Western European countries have warned of a growing threat from the far right. Drawing on a new dataset using the variable measuring fatal attacks from the Right Wing Terrorism and ...

Forskning på omdømme innen statsvitenskap er et felt i blomstring. Offentlige organisasjoner legitimerer ofte sin eksistens gjennom å være nøytrale og upartiske. Dette kan imidlertid bli en utfordring hvis organisasjonene ...

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 ...

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 ...

The European Union made a deal with Turkey in March 2016 in an attempt to lower the number of refugees coming to Europe. In return the EU would give financial aid to refugees staying in Turkey. This is known as the EU-Turkey ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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. ...

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 ...

Medialisering av byråkratiet er ikke et nytt fenomen. Der tidligere forskning har tatt utgangspunkt i tradisjonelle medier som TV, radio og aviser har de norske departementene fulgt samfunnets utvikling og utvidet sin ...

Sammendrag Hvordan løses konflikter i temporære organisasjoner hvor det er manglende hierarkiske strukturer og autoritetslinjer? I økende grad kommer ulike aktører sammen for å løse unike og komplekse oppgaver som ikke kan ...

This thesis investigates the conditions under which rainfall variability affects violent, state-based conflict. More than a decade of research on the climate-conflict nexus has produced diverse results, which could imply ...

While Brexit has encouraged further interest in the phenomenon of right-wing Euroscepticism, it also serves as an opportunity to investigate pro-European attitudes. The Brexit process put pro-Europeans in a position where ...

Since transitioning from a civil war (1980-1992), El Salvador has been struggling with high levels of violence. With one of the highest murder rates in the world, the country is considered one of the most violent places ...

The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) is the largest sovereign welfare fund in the world, invested in more than 9,000 companies globally. Because GPFG is owned by the Norwegian state, overlapping consensus ...

Den naturlige loven er en universell og rasjonell lov som utgår fra Gud, oppfattes av mennesker, bekreftes ved bruk av fornuften og har til hensikt å fremme menneskehetens, enkeltmenneskenes og familiers bevaring, utvikling ...

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 ...

It is a common claim that mutually exclusive social identities can explain political behavior. Recently, studies have instead examined how individuals themselves emphasize different overlapping social identities and its ...

I denne avhandlingen har jeg undersøkt problemstillingen «Hvorfor vil ikke Norge la EU fiske snøkrabbe i Svalbards havområder, og hvordan kan dette forklare driverne bak Norges posisjon når det gjelder Svalbards maritime ...

Det digitale roms rolle i det internasjonale system kan beskrivast som eit krevjande domene som manglar regulering på fleire områder. Denne oppgåva er ei teoritestande og komparativ casestudie som forsøker å forklare ...

Olje – den globale livsnerven, er bærebjelken til det moderne samfunnet. Medlemslandene i Organisasjonen av oljeeksporterende land (OPEC), kontrollerer i dag majoriteten av påviste oljeressurser, noe som har gitt organisasjonen ...

The role played by the internet in processes of radicalisation is a pervasive subject in discussions of violent extremism, both in the circles of policymakers, researchers, and the media. While the fact that the internet ...

The end of the Cold War brought several important changes to the field of peace and reconciliation. The United Nations Security Council became less paralyzed by Cold War politics and more conflicts were solved through ...

Why do some protests turn violent while others do not? The violent escalation of demonstrations is subject to massive media coverage, yet little empircal research on the causes of this has been done. This thesis offers a ...