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The Demise of an Agency Director – A Puzzling Saga of Political Control and Professional Autonomy. 
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
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 ...
State Capacity in the International Investment Treaty Regime 
Berge, Tarald Laudal (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
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 ...
Third way departures and 21st-century social democracy: Corbyn vs. Macron 
Bratberg, Øivind; Brandal, Nikolai (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
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 ...
Why monarchy? The rise and demise of a regime type 
Gerring, John; Wig, Tore; Veenendaal, Wouter; Weitzel, Daniel; Teorell, Jan; Kikuta, Kyosuke (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
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 ...
Unpopular protest: Mass mobilization and attitudes to democracy in post-mubarak egypt 
Ketchley, Neil; El-Rayyes, Thoraya (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
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 ...
Each Unhappy in Its Own Way? The Rise and Fall of Social Democracy in the Visegrád Countries since 1989 
Bakke, Elisabeth; Sitter, Nick (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
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. ...
Russian Nuclear Strategy and Conventional Inferiority 
Bruusgaard, Kristin Ven (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
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 ...
Når sekterisme blir voldelig: Sunni/sjia-vold i Saudi-Arabia, 2003-2017 Restricted Access
Rusten, Kine Aastad (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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. ...
A Non-Permanent Seat in the United Nations Security Council: Why Bother? 
Ekengren, Ann-Marie; Hjorthen, Fredrik Dybfest; Möller, Ulrika (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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, ...
Norsk banknæring, en ansvarlig samfunnsaktør i tråd med folks forventninger? 
Holmemo, Markus Daae-Qvale (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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, ...
Parliamentary Debates in Norway: A Computational Social Science Approach 
Søyland, Martin (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
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 ...
Convergence, Centralization and Change: Immigrant Integration Policies in West-Europe, 1997-2017 
Hernes, Vilde (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
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 ...
Local government reform: compromise through cross-cutting cleavages 
Klausen, Jan Erling; Askim, Jostein; Christensen, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Fridays of Revolution: Focal Days and Mass Protest in Egypt and Tunisia 
Ketchley, Neil; Barrie, Christopher (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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, ...
Fra målstyring til mål- og resultatstyring: En studie av innføring av sanksjoner overfor kommuner i introduksjonsprogrammet for flyktninger 
Vestrheim, Eline Moe (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
De forsvunne velgere - En analyse av Arbeiderpartiets identitetstap og velgerflukt ved stortingsvalget 2017 og lokalvalget 2019 
Engen, Hedda Sofie Myklegård (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
«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 ...
Kommunal kulturpolitikk - Variasjoner og handlingsrom 
Goffeng, Gudrun Emilie Aagaard (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Securitization and state encroachment on the energy sector: Politics of exception in Poland's energy governance 
Szulecki, Kacper (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Moral, but not principled? Political Framing on the Attribution of Responsibility regarding the Norwegian Female ISIL Affiliates 
Morken, Hanna Karoline (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
The Financial Burden Of Peacekeeping - A study of the US’ financial contribution to the UN Peacekeeping Budget during the presidential periods of Obama and Trump Restricted Access
Attramadal, Vilde Katrine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
En klimastrategi for halvparten av Norges klimagassutslipp Restricted Access
Busengdal, Helene Sommerset (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Ethno-political favouritism in maternal health care service delivery: Micro-level evidence from sub-Saharan Africa, 1981–2014. 
Theisen, Ole Magnus; Strand, Håvard; Østby, Gudrun (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Explaining Support for Political Violence: Grievance and Perceived Opportunity 
Dyrstad, Karin; Hillesund, Solveig (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Samstyring i norsk offentlig sektor: En analyse av fagfornyelsen av nye læreplaner 
Høyer-Humberset, Erik (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
The Collective Reintegration of the FARC - Bringing in the Group Asset Restricted Access
Ryland, Reidun (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Please mind the gender gap: A study of gender’s effect on the libertarian–authoritarian dimension in Norway 
Stensrud, Ingvild Leren (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Subject-Object (non-)Separability and the Constitution of International Security 
Indreiten, Martin With (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
“… Operations on the Ground in Distant Countries”: Norwegian Male Officers’ Understanding and Use of the Women, Peace and Security Norms Restricted Access
Bæk, Sindre (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Policy responses to contestation over Islam in Norway 
Lillevik, Ragna (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
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 ...
Norsk klimamål med suverenitet og forpliktelser i balanse: Innsatsfordelingen og EØS-avtalens protokoll 31 
Bjelland, Adeleine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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, ...
Delegation of committee reports in the European Parliament 
Hermansen, Silje Synnøve Lyder; Chiou, Fang-Yi; Høyland, Bjørn (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
The Brazil-Norway Amazon agreement: A game-theoretic analysis 
Høie, William (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Principals and agents or principals and stewards?: Performance management of agencies in Norwegian state administration 
Bjurstrøm, Karl Hagen (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
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 ...
Fighting Violence Against Women: Laws, Norms & Challenges Ahead 
Jensenius, Francesca R.; Htun, Mala (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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, ...
Understanding variation in implementation of gender mainstreaming - A statistical analysis of UNIDO projects 
Hindahl, Eli Marie Sagedal (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Klassisk avskrekkingsteori i møte med moderne krigføring Implikasjoner av utviklingen i russisk militærmakt for avskrekking og strategisk stabilitet 
Norberg, Ingvild Katariina (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Departementsleder, partipolitiker eller regjeringsmedlem? En studie av norske ministres bruk av Facebook 
Thoresen, Mari (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Explaining Russia’s Security Policy in the Barents and Baltic Sea Regions A Comparative Case Study 
Alberti, Elizabeth (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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. ...
Public Management Reforms in Norwegian Higher Education Institutions An Exploratory Study of the Relation Between Perceived Academic Freedom, Types of Institutions and Academic Performance Indicators 
Svartefoss, Silje Marie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
What is the Wrong in Retaining Benefits from Wrongdoing? How Recent Attempts to Formulate a Plausible Rationale for the `Beneficiary Pays Principle? Have Failed 
Lindstad, Sigurd (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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. ...
Når gode intensjoner gjør vondt verre - De utilsiktede bivirkningene og negative konsekvensene av tiltak for å forebygge radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme 
Nybø, Thomas Kjelling (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Lokal struktur, nasjonal reform - En analyse av Innlandet politidistrikts arbeid med politireformen i 2015 Restricted Access
Rollheim, Dina Høe (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Aktivister mot Islam: En empirisk studie av medlemmene i SIAN 
Tranøy, Hans Peter Riise (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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, ...
Downbound spiral? Economic grievances, perceived social protection and political distrust 
Haugsgjerd, Atle; Kumlin, Staffan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Hva slags fremstilling av det norske demokratiet kommer til uttrykk i "Demokratilæring på Utøya", og hvilke forbindelser har denne fremstillingen til toneangivende aktørers bidrag i kjølvannet av terroren i 2011? 
Amundsen, Pia-Helene (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Deterrence strategy in a hybrid threat landscape - An analysis of NATO’s deterrence strategy in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania concerning Russian hybrid threats and the concept of cross-domain deterrence 
Hauane, Katrine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
"Chad" Tarrant vs. Virgin Manshaus: Connecting discourse on masculinity and violence in the contemporary online extreme-right Restricted Access
Rosness, Olav (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Uppståndelse eller resultat? Effekter av köreformer på tillfredställelse med sjukvården i Sverige 
Arvidsson, Isak Mattias (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The interaction of administrative tradition and organisational characteristics: the case of agency personnel management autonomy 
Bach, Tobias; Verhoest, Koen; Wynen, Jan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 as a process, an outcome and a goal: A conceptual review 
Øverland, Indra; Szulecki, Kacper (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
‘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. ...
Strengthening Global Governance on Marine Plastic Litter. An assessment of UNEP’s leadership and performance. 
Johansen, Kari Synnøve (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Policy preferences and ministerial structures: Immigrant integration governance in Western Europe, 1997–2017. 
Hernes, Vilde (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Coordination quality in central government – the case of Norway 
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
The EU’s Enfants Terribles: Democratic Backsliding in Central Europe since 2010 
Bakke, Elisabeth; Sitter, Nick (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Climate politics in hard times: How local economic shocks influence MPs attention to climate change 
Finseraas, Henning; Høyland, Bjørn; Søyland, Martin G. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Kommunikasjonsrådgiverne i norske departementer: En «ny» type byråkrater i skjæringsfeltet mellom politikk og administrasjon? 
Figenschou, Tine Ustad; Kolltveit, Kristoffer (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
The All Affected Principle, and the Weighting of Votes 
Angell, Kim; Huseby, Robert (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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, ...
The Caravan of Jihad: Are we witnessing a transnationalization of al-Shabaab in East Africa? Restricted Access
Sommer, Daniel (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The coronavirus crisis—crisis communication, meaning-making, and reputation management 
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Sufficiency and the Threshold Question 
Huseby, Robert (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
What History Can Teach 
Cameron, James Jerome John (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Ambiguous hybridity? Main features of China's service-oriented government reform 
Xiaolong, Tian; Christensen, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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. ...
Fukushima policy fallout - A case study of the change in energy policy in Japan after the Fukushima accident. 
Kalland, Hedda Helle (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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. ...
Media and Bureaucracy: Investigating Media Awareness Amongst Civil Servants 
Karlsen, Rune; Kolltveit, Kristoffer; Schillemans, Thomas; Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Like god til lands som til bys og i media med? - En casestudie av profesjonalisering av lokalvalgkamp i Venstre Restricted Access
Lyngstad, Oda Nedberg (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Statens forventninger til hvordan kommuner lærer - En idéanalyse av Leve hele livet Restricted Access
Husa, Marta (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Chinese University Administrations: Chinese Characteristics or Global Influence? 
Christensen, Tom; Ma, Liang (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Strengthening Local Political Leadership through Institutional Design: How and Why 
Bentzen, Tina; Lo, Christian; Winsvold, Marte (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
The political accommodation of military turbans and the police hijab in Norway: windows of opportunity 
Lillevik, Ragna (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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. ...
Patterns of regime breakdown since the French revolution 
Wig, Tore; Djuve, Vilde Lunnan; Knutsen, Carl Henrik (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Better together? Multicultural dilemmas and practices in funding of Muslim civil society organisations 
Lillevik, Ragna (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 as a process, an outcome and a goal: A conceptual review 
Szulecki, Kacper; Øverland, Indra (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
‘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. ...
Public Office as a Stepping Stone? Investigating the Careers of Ministerial Advisors 
Askim, Jostein; Kolltveit, Kristoffer; Karlsen, Rune (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
How Government Agencies React to Termination Threats 
Askim, Jostein; Blom-Hansen, Jens; Houlberg, Kurt; Serritzlew, Søren (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Managing the river basin: The role of regional authorities in the European Union administrative system 
Indset, Marhe (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
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 ...
Variations within the Norwegian Far Right: From neo-Nazism to anti-Islamism 
Fangen, Katrine; Nilsen, Maria Reite (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Depoliticizing Democracy Through Discourse 
Hjermann, Anni Roth (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Confirmatory factor analysis of the proxy version of Kidscreen-27 and relationships between health-related quality of life dimensions and body mass index and physical activity in young schoolchildren 
Riiser, Kirsti; Helseth, Sølvi; Christophersen, Knut-Andreas; Haraldstad, Kristin (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Meningsmålingsdemokratiet Norske direktoraters bruk av meningsmålinger 2016-2019. 
Stavrum, Gunnar (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Which Institutions Matter? Re-Considering the Democratic Civil Peace 
Fjelde, Hanne; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
En blåkledd periferiprotest? En studie av hvordan høyrepopulistiske partier posisjonerer seg på sentrum-periferi-aksen 
Rosness, Maria Emilie Ziem (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Urbanisering av det samiske elektoratet: En fremvoksende skillelinje i den moderne samepolitikken? 
Selle, Per; Semb, Anne Julie; Strømsnes, Kristin (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Bureaucracy and Growth 
Cornell, Agnes; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Teorell, Jan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Geographical Coverage in Political Science Research 
Wilson, Matthew C.; Knutsen, Carl Henrik (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Folkevalgt og politisk leder 
Røiseland, Asbjørn; Vabo, Signy Irene; Sørensen, Eva; Torfing, Jacob (Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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, ...
Political Change, Women’s Rights, and Public Opinion on Gender Equality in Myanmar 
Htun, Mala; Jensenius, Francesca R. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Transition to democracy or hybrid regime? The dynamics and outcome of democratization in Myanmar 
Stokke, Kristian; Aung, Soe Myint (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Characterizing and Assessing Temporal Heterogeneity: Introducing a Change Point Framework, with Applications on the Study of Democratization 
Hermansen, Gudmund Horn; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Democracy and human development: issues of conceptualization and measurement 
Gerring, John; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Maguire, Matthew; Skaaning, Svend-Erik; Teorell, Jan; Coppedge, Michael (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
Sosialdemokratiet i utakt: En analyse av sosialdemokratiske velgeres holdninger i Skandinavia Restricted Access
Løvdahl, Sofie Rosten (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Explaining the Gender Gap in Parents' Available Labour Supply - A Statistical Analysis of how Access to Childcare Influence the Available Labour Supply of Parents' of Preschoolers in the UK and Norway, 2008-2018 
Sølverød, Kaia Andrea (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Bærekraftig matproduksjon - En diskursiv tilnærming til koordinering. 
Skagen, Katrine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Forvaltning på nett? En casestudie av implementering av administrativ reform i sentralforvaltningen 
Behn, Fredrik Johan (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Formålet med denne studien er å utforske og belyse hvordan regjeringens «digitaliseringsprosjekt» blir implementert i den norske sentralforvaltningen. Digitaliseringsprosjektet omfatter digitaliseringsplanene regjeringen ...
Why Opt for a New START? The U.S. Senate’s ratification process and the purposes of arms control 
Andersen, Adelina Trolle (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
How do you like me now? Cognitive dissonance and adaptive attitude change in the post-election period 
Abel, Sarah Virginia (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Social Cohesion and Peacebuilding: An Assessment of the Use of Social Cohesion-Promoting Programs in Myanmar's Conflict Areas Restricted Access
Pejic, Nevena (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Håndtering av policy-problemer relatert til kunstig intelligens i Norge: En sammenligning med Finland, Estland og Storbritannia 
Bjerkehagen, Martin (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Et endret nordisk balansepunkt?: Endringer i Sveriges og Finlands forsvarssamarbeid og forsvarstenkning etter 2014 
Weinstock, Nicolai Fredrik (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Norsk sikkerhetspolitikk og Kina – indirekte og direkte utfordringer ved en ny supermakt 
Steffensen, Pål Gjerme (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Heating Up the Dry Debate: A Sensitivity Analysis of Drought and Communal Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa (1989-2014) 
Methi, Fredrik (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
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