Researching sensitive topics often carries immediate effects on researchers, yet discussions about the emotional and psychological impacts of conducting this type of research remain rare. In recent years, debates begun to ...

Why do states make substantial military contributions to coalition operations while at the same time applying reservations - caveats - to how the coalition can use the national military contribution? Caveats often signal ...

The EU is the only regional organization that has the ambition to pursue a common foreign policy. The EU is not a state, and it is different from other regional actors at the UNGA, owing to its high level of integration. ...

The consensus-seeking nature of Germany’s civic epistemology and largely absent structural incentives for advisory work of academics may imply an overall comparatively lower engagement. Yet, German political science stands ...

Do people from disadvantaged ethnic groups favor political violence over non-violent tactics? Studies of horizontal (between-group) inequality often concentrate on civil war. This article drills below the macro level and ...

We know more about why laws on violence against women (VAW) were adopted than about how much and in what ways these laws affect society. The authors argue that even weakly enforced laws can contribute to positive social ...

Legitimacy is a fragile relation that can be questioned and endangered by the smallest of events. However, in many instances, the contestation leads neither to a downfall nor to disempowerment. How can controversial ...

Few existing datasets on parties and interest groups include data from both sides and a wide variety of interest groups and parties. We contribute to filling this gap by making several interconnected new datasets publicly ...

Avhandlingen drøfter de tre skandinaviske majoritetskirkens respons på innvandringspolitikk, med særlig vekt perioden 2000-2021. Denne perioden faller sammen med det som ofte omtales som religionens tilbakekomst i ...

This paper analyses the institutions associated with government termination in parliamentary systems: no-confidence and confidence motions, and the early dissolution of the parliament. We consider constitutional texts for ...

Artikkelen studerer instrumenter for koalisjonskontroll i Norge, saerlig regjeringsavtaler og partikryssende statssekretaerer. Den spør hvordan bruken av disse instrumentene har utviklet seg mellom 1963 og 2020, og bruker ...

For many left-wing and liberal social movement activists, support for ‘Europe’ and opposition to a ‘nationalist’ turn has become a key motivation for their activism. Paradoxically, however, their opponents at the other end ...

The Storting election of September 2021 signalled the end of eight years in office for of the centre-right government led by Premier Erna Solberg. During this period, different constellations of parties had been in power: ...

The focus in this study is on the antecedents of Icelandic student teachers’ instructional self-efficacy in classroom management and ability to support learner engagement. We examine how student teachers’ instructional ...

It is well established that a country’s institutional features can weaken economic voting because voters find it hard to attribute performance to specific parties. We argue that local-level party system institutionalization ...

Since 2010, Czech voters have turned their backs on the four long-standing parties that used to constitute the core of the party system, and have flocked to new, often populist alternatives. The most successful of these ...

In this article, we nuance the relationships between political agency, victimhood, and gender during armed conflicts. Dom- inant narratives often spotlight individuals as either passive victims or active agents. These ...

The literature on government coalitions uses a common definition of when governments terminate and new ones form. This terminology is convenient and has served empirical coalitions studies quite well. This article challenges ...

Denne masteroppgaven kartlegger rådende diskurser i debatten omkring krisepakken til oljenæringen som ble vedtatt av et bredt forlik i Stortinget, våren 2020. Oppgaven undersøker handlingsrommet for grønn omstilling i møte ...

Denne oppgaven studerer en av kjernekonseptene innenfor statsvitenskapelig litteratur, makt. Nærmere bestemt næringsaktørers makt og hvordan denne påvirker politiske beslutningstakeres valg. Det vil i oppgaven settes søkelys ...

Applying a dual-process framework to in-depth interviews and survey data, this article explores behavioural manifestations of intercultural attitudes for white majority Norwegians. The article builds upon established ...

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 ...

This study investigates how lawyers affect the decision-making of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Research from American courts have highlighted legal representation as an important determinant of judicial ...

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 ...

Covid 19-pandemien eller koronakrisen aktualiserer krisehåndtering i offentlig sektor. I denne oppgaven er det tematiske fokuset på den delen av krisehåndtering som handler om politisk krisekommunikasjon i to land, Norge ...

This thesis analyzes diffusion of autocratization, and whether declines in certain aspects of democracy diffuse more than others. I intend to fill gaps in the literature on autocratic diffusion, which is lacking in terms ...

The increasing instability of the environment on which we humans depend is a vital political concern, and environmental policies are tools for governments to regulate human impact on the natural world. To increase the ...

In 2020, the EU Member States agreed to remove intra-EU bilateral investment treaties. This decision has fuelled a legal and academic policy debate. In this thesis I ask the question: "Do intra-EU bilateral investment ...

Since the commencement of Putin’s third presidential period in 2012, Russian identity politics has variously been interpreted as an ‘ethnonationalist turn’, a ‘conservative turn’, and a ‘turn towards tradition’. A further ...

In parallel with the rise of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda after the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2000, consociational power sharing has emerged as the model of choice for ...

Abstract Scholarship on political Islam suggests that support for early Islamist movements came from literate merchants, government officials, and professionals who lacked political representation. We test these claims ...

Despite the burgeoning literature, evidence on how right-wing populists frame and act on energy and climate issues is limited and even more scarce for other types of populist parties. We address this gap by exploring the ...

Limitarianisme er en fordelingsrettferdighetsteori som ønsker å begrense rikdom for å sikre politisk likhet og dekke grunnleggende behov. Teorien beskriver et mål på rikdom, og forfekter hundre prosent skatt på økonomiske ...

This report outlines the steps taken to design and implement a stakeholder survey on trust and distrust in European regulatory governance and ultimately create a large, multi-actor, multi-level, multi-sector, and cross-country ...

This article begins by outlining four post-WWII strategies of right-wing revolutionary resistance: vanguardism; the cell system; leaderless resistance; and metapolitics. Next, the article argues that metapolitics became a ...

Organisational transitions in governments have long been discussed in the literature. While, more recently, organisational life cycle changes between birth and death have been the focus of research, a systematic comparison ...

Public bureaucracies have mostly been invisible in research on political communication, but more recently, there has been an increasing interest in their communicative efforts. In this chapter, we review the literature and ...

Using a neo‐institutional framework, this study investigates how German police use Twitter for their communication. This is relevant, because the police increasingly use social media to bypass the media's gatekeeping ...

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 ...

Koronakrisen sendte et sosialt og økonomisk sjokk gjennom land i hele verden, og en rekke verdier og interesser har stått på spill. Interessegrupper som forsøker å nå ut til beslutningstakere og påvirke offentlig politikk, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I 2015 kom Arbeiderpartiet, Miljøpartiet De Grønne og Sosialistisk Venstreparti til den politiske makten i Oslo kommune. Med det nye rødgrønne byrådet fulgte en mer ambisiøs og betydelig skjerpet klimapolitikk, og for å ...

Has the right-wing become more united as the Radical Right’s electoral support has flourished? This thesis will examine whether the existing literature’s claim that greater unity has developed among right-wing parties, ...

While energy traditionally has been a competence closely linked to national level of governance in the European Union, the year 2009 marked a critical juncture in the development of an European energy policy as both the ...

Masteroppgaven studerer hvordan sykehjemspolitikken har endret seg i Oslo kommune etter at de rødgrønne partiene kom til makten ved kommunevalget i 2015, og ble gjenvalgt i 2019. Politiske virkemidler og mål har endret ...

Hvordan kan terrorisme forklares? Hvorfor opplever enkelte land mer terrorisme enn sine naboland? Disse spørsmålene utgjør motivasjonen bak arbeidet med denne oppgaven. Problemstillingen som undersøkes er følgende: «Hva ...

Formålet med denne oppgaven er å undersøke den statlige styringen av norsk barnevernsektor i perioden fra 1991 frem til 2021. Perioden markeres med opprettelsen av Barne- og familiedepartementet og følger departementet ...

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 ...

Forholdet mellom fag og politikk i sentralforvaltningen er kompleks. Spenningsforholdet er alltid i krysspress mellom ulike forventninger som embetsverket må balansere. Problemstillingen som blir tatt opp her er: I hvilken ...

The purpose of this master thesis is to examine the economic effects of outsourcing administrative services in Norwegian ministries and directorates. Generally, the private delivery of government-funded services by means ...

Power-sharing is increasingly favored as a peace agreement provision as means to end intrastate war. One form of power-sharing, dispersive power-sharing, emphasizes partitioning the policy making process and providing ...

In ethnic violence research, scholars tend to lump together different forms of ethnic violence. Prominent scholars have argued that this strategy is insufficient to understand the causes of violence, thus calling for ...

Innvandringssaken nådde nye høyder ved stortingsvalget i 2017. Da mente mer enn hver fjerde velger at innvandring var deres viktigste sak. Hvilken effekt hadde innvandringssaken for valget i 2017? Denne oppgaven studerer ...

For decades, scholars have studied the relationship between repression and dissent. Researchers in this field of literature find evidence for multiple causal directions. Their findings suggest that repression simultaneously ...

This study aims to provide knowledge on the PRRPs’ positions on education, thereby filling a gap in the research literature on PRRPs and a gap existing in the literature on education policy. The study asks two research ...

Over hele den vestlige verden har det de siste tiårene skjedd en vekst i antallet politisk ansatte i departementene (departementspolitikere), noe som ofte ses på som uttrykk for politisering og et ønske om økt kontroll ...

Power-sharing is increasingly favored as a peace agreement provision as means to end intrastate war. One form of power-sharing, dispersive power-sharing, emphasizes partitioning the policy making process and providing ...

Why perpetrate sexual violence in public spaces of protest? Regimes, security forces, and civilians perpetrate sexualized violence during conflictual periods of protest, unrest, and revolution; yet the relationship between ...

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 ...

Norske lokalpolitikere har en generelt høy frafallsrate, og den største andelen av de som faller fra, trekker seg av eget ønske. Unge lokalpolitikere har spesielt høy frafallsrate. Dette kan dels forklares med at unge er ...

Abstract This paper is an analysis of the political development in Ukraine during the presidency of Volodymyr Zelensky. The paper identifies five independent variables that explains the size and constitution of the winning ...

How are courts -- facing institutional challenges in a hostile political environment -- able to rule contrary to the political preferences of recalcitrant actors? I confront this puzzle by theorizing an unconventional ...

Tidligere forskning på ytre høyre organisasjoner I Norge har særlig omhandlet hvordan disse benytter sosiale medier for rekrutteringsarbeid og informasjonsspredning. Betyr dette at tradisjonelle medier er uviktige for ytre ...

For at vi skal ha mulighet til å hanskes med de menneskeskapte klimaendringene, legger Parisavtalen opp til at hver enkelt stat skal innføre økte ambisjoner over tid. EU signerte avtalen som én part, og differensierte ...

Labor unions have often been major interest groups within most industrialized economies, and have played a crucial role in the development of worker’s rights. However, scholars disagree about the role and effect these labor ...

Scholars of social movements recognize the threat that opposition protests pose to the stability of an authoritarian regime. Extensive research has been done on how mass protests can induce regime change, and in turn, ...

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. ...

I lys av en større internasjonal trend mot mer sentraliserte former for regjeringskommunikasjon i en rekke vestlige demokratier, undersøker denne oppgaven Statsministerens kontors’ (SMKs) rolle i regjeringens strategiske ...

Denne oppgaven studerer endringene i statlig styring av flyktningbosetting og hvordan dette har påvirket kommunenes strategier i arbeidet med flyktningbosetting. I 2015 skjedde det store endringer i bosettingssituasjonen ...

This article studies the difference in the government response to COVID-19 in Norway and Sweden drawing upon theories of agenda setting, crisis management and multi-level governance. Despite having virtually identical ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that the traditional “booth, ballot, and pen” model of voting, based on a specific location and physical presence, may not be feasible during a health crisis. This situation has ...

Acts of terror lead to both a rise of an extended sense of fear that goes beyond the physical location of the attacks and to increased expressions of online hate. In this longitudinal study, we analyzed dynamics between ...

Theory on successful crisis management is applied to try to shed light on two important and relatively under-examined nuclear crises and their further implications for Russian nuclear crisis management. By conducting a ...

Alle kan ikke få alt de ønsker seg. Godene må fordeles mennesker imellom. Et spesielt viktig spørsmål er hvordan godene fordeles på en rettferdig måte. Krever rettferdigheten at godene fordeles likt, at vi gir prioritet ...

Research has, to a large degree, focused on war and its relationship to the absence of war, ignoring the vast variety of non-war that exists and the conditions that define quality peace. Quantitative research has especially ...

This research defines intractable conflict as a disagreement between two or more states over the legal status of a territory, whose parties have not been able to find a solution for a long time and that have had periods ...

This research defines intractable conflict as a disagreement between two or more states over the legal status of a territory, whose parties have not been able to find a solution for a long time and that have had periods ...

Hvorfor har de tre ellers ganske så like skandinaviske landene endt opp med så ulike utfall av informasjonsdeling i det forebyggende arbeidet mot radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme? På tross av de mange likhetstrekkene ...