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A political history of visual display 
Krogstad, Anne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Visual presentations of political leaders have a long tradition. They convey information about who a politician is and – to a certain degree – his or her political positions. As studiously crafted displays of ideals, such ...
Type M Error Might Explain Weisburd’s Paradox 
Gelman, Andrew; Skardhamar, Torbjørn; Aaltonen, Mikko (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Simple calculations seem to show that larger studies should have higher statistical power, but empirical meta-analyses of published work in criminology have found zero or weak correlations between sample size and estimated ...
Advisory Commissions, Academic Expertise and Democratic Legitimacy: The Case of Norway 
Holst, Cathrine; Christensen, Johan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Commissions appointed to examine and propose solutions to major policy problems play a vital role in policy formulation in the Nordic countries. Whereas existing accounts emphasize the corporatist and statist features of ...
Women’s empowerment through electricity access: scoping study and proposal for a framework of analysis 
Winther, Tanja; Matinga, Margaret N.; Ulsrud, Kirsten; Standal, Karina (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This article reviews the empirical literature on women’s empowerment through electricity access and the methodologies that have been used. Statistical studies have looked at areas with access to the grid and measured the ...
From ecstasy to MDMA: Recreational drug use, symbolic boundaries and drug trends 
Edland-Gryt, Marit; Sandberg, Sveinung; Pedersen, Willy (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Background: Ecstasy pills with MDMA as the main ingredient were introduced in many European countries in the 1980s, and were often linked to the rave and club scenes. However, use gradually levelled off, in part as a ...
Income inequality and privatisation: a multilevel analysis comparing prefectural size of private sectors in Western China 
Bakkeli, Nan Z (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In 2000, the Chinese government initiated a campaign to develop Western China and reduce local and regional inequality. Privatisation has been a central component of the campaign. This article studies the relationship ...
Ideational struggles over women's part-time work in Norway: Destabilizing the gender contract 
Ellingsæter, Anne Lise; Mosesdottir, Lilja (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
High rates of part-time work have been associated with high female employment rates in the Nordic countries, except for Finland. Part-time work has played a key role in the modification of the male breadwinner gender ...
In Sickness and in Health: The Role of Marital Partners in Cancer Survival 
Syse, Astri; Lyngstad, Torkild Hovde (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Married cancer patients enjoy a survival advantage, potentially attributable to better health at diagnosis, earlier contact with health personnel, and/or access to resources to ensure more optimal treatment. These mechanisms ...
How can poverty be reduced among small-scale farmers in the highlands of western Cameroon? 
Hesselberg, Jan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The article discusses, on the basis of the situation of small-scale farmers in the western highlands of Cameroon, strategies that may reduce their poverty. Background information about Cameroon is given in order to situate ...
Emerging Nordic Food approaches 
Sæther, Bjørnar; Jesper, Manniche (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
How is low parental socioeconomic status associated with future smoking and nicotine dependence in offspring? A population-based longitudinal 13-year follow-up 
Pedersen, Willy; von Soest, Tilmann (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Aims: Low socioeconomic status (SES) characterizes smoking and nicotine dependence in adult samples. However, less is known about how parental SES is linked to smoking in offspring and potential mechanisms at work. Methods: ...
Predicting early onset of intoxication versus drinking—A population-based prospective study of Norwegian adolescents 
Enstad, Frøydis; Pedersen, Willy; Nilsen, Wendy; von Soest, Tilmann (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Aims: Recent research suggests that early onset of intoxication (EOI) may be of greater importance for a wide range of subsequent adverse outcomes than early drinking experiences without intoxication. However, research on ...
Norwegian national day oratory: constructing and reconstructing a national we 
Buxrud, Bjørnar; Fangen, Katrine (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
National day speeches play an explicit part in defining national identities. In this article, we examine how mayors in Norwegian municipalities reflect on Norway's increased diversity in their 17 May speeches. National day ...
Leaving, staying or belonging: exploring the relationship between formal education, youth mobility and community resilience in rural Alaska 
Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Rural Alaskan youth are encouraged to pursue higher education in order to enhance individual and community resilience. However, the dwindling number of youth that return to their home communities after attending post-secondary ...
Fødselsrekkefølge og utdanningsoppnåelse: Har foreldrenes landbakgrunn betydning? 
Isungset, Martin Arstad; Lillehagen, Mats; Ugreninov, Elisabeth (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Innen samfunnsforskningen er sosial bakgrunn en av hovedforklaringene på utdanning- og yrkesoppnåelse i voksen alder. Samtidig har en lang forskningstradisjon vist at det er forskjeller mellom søsken i samme familie i ...
The Effect of Childhood Family Size on Fertility in Adulthood: New Evidence From IV Estimation 
Cools, Sara; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Although fertility is positively correlated across generations, the causal effect of children’s experience with larger sibships on their own fertility in adulthood is poorly understood. With the sex composition of the two ...
Nationhood and Scandinavian naturalization politics: varieties of the civic turn 
Jensen, Kristian Kriegbaum; Fernandez, Christian; Brochmann, Grete (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The neighboring countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway represent three very similar societies that differ markedly with respect to naturalization policy. While the general trend of a civic turn has brought about some of ...
Exploring urban metabolism—Towards an interdisciplinary perspective 
Dijst, Martin; Worrel, Ernst; Böcker, Lars; Brunner, Paul; Davoudi, Simin; Geertman, Stan; Harmsen, Robert; Helbich, Marco; Holtslag, Albert; Kwan, MP; Lenz, Barbara; Lyons, Glenn; Mokhtarian, Patricia; Newman, Peter; Perrels, Adriaan; Ribeiro, Ana Poças; Carreón, Jesus Rosales; Thomson, Giles; Urge-Vorsatz, Diana; Zeyringer, Marianne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The discussion on urban metabolism has been long dominated by natural scientists focussing on natural forces shaping the energy and material flows in urban systems. However, in the anthropocene human forces such as ...
The dynamics of urban metabolism in the face of digitalization and changing lifestyles: Understanding and influencing our cities 
Lyons, Glenn; Mokhtarian, Patricia; Dijst, Martin; Böcker, Lars (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The world’s population continues to grow. With a trend of urbanisation apparent, increasing attention is now being given to understanding and shaping our cities to support an evolving society. Urban metabolism concerns the ...
Sharing for people, planet or profit? Analysing motivations for intended sharing economy participation 
Böcker, Lars; Meelen, Toon (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The sharing economy is a fast-growing and heavily debated phenomenon. This study provides an overview of motivations of people willing to participate in different forms of the sharing economy. A survey was held amongst ...
Age at arrival and life chances among childhood immigrants 
Hermansen, Are Skeie (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This study examines the causal relationship between childhood immigrants’ age at arrival and their life chances as adults. I analyze panel data on siblings from Norwegian administrative registries, which enables me to ...
The Direct Effect of Social Origins on Social Mobility Chances: ‘Glass Floors’ and ‘Glass Ceilings’ in Britain 
Gugushvili, Alexi; Bukodi, Erzsebet; John H., Goldthorpe (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In this article we pursue, using appropriate British birth cohort data, various issues that arise from recent research into the ‘direct’ effect of social origins on individuals’ social mobility chances: i.e. the effect ...
Eilert Sundt: Hard refser, øm forsoner 
Pedersen, Willy (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Den norske samfunnsforskningen hviler på Eilert Sundt. Jon Elster (1989:171–182) mener arbeidene hans er eksemplariske, fordi de ikke er preget av den destruktive disiplinoppdelingen vi fikk i siste halvdel av 1800-tallet, ...
Gender, occupational gender segregation and sickness absence: Longitudinal evidence 
Melsom, Anne May; Mastekaasa, Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Women have much higher sickness absence rates than men. One prominent hypothesis is that this is a result of gender segregation in the labour market and the differences in employment or working conditions that follow from ...
Transformation in a changing climate: a research agenda 
Fazey, Ioan; Moug, Peter; Allen, Simon; Beckmann, Kate; Blackwood, David; Bonaventura, Mike; Burnett, Kathryn; Danson, Mike; Falconer, Ruth; Gagnon, Alexandre S.; Harkness, Rachel; Hodgson, Anthony; Holm, Lorents; Irvine, Katherine N.; Low, Ragne; Lyon, Christopher; Moss, Anna; Moran, Clare; Naylor, Larissa; O'Brien, Karen; Russell, Shona; Skerratt, Sarah; Rao-Williams, Jennifer; Wolstenholme, Ruth (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The concept of transformation in relation to climate and other global change is increasingly receiving attention. The concept provides important opportunities to help examine how rapid and fundamental change to address ...
Sources of Societal Value Similarities across Europe: Evidence from Dyadic Models 
Akaliyski, Plamen Ivanov (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Focusing on Europe, this article aims to disentangle the patterns of cultural clustering and to throw more light on concepts such as ‘civilizations’ and ‘cultural zones.’ Cross-cultural analyses unanimously find that various ...
Enduring contexts: Segregation by affluence throughout the life course 
Toft, Maren (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Although temporal processes are fundamental to the ‘spatialization of class’, they remain understudied. This article thus provides empirical evidence of residential pathways in the Oslo region over the life course; it does ...
Long-term climate data description in Ethiopia 
Abebe, Gezahegn (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This article presents long-term analyzed rainfall and temperature data obtained from the National Metrological Agency (NMA) of Ethiopia. Using tables and graphic trends of analysis, the article shows the low and declining ...
Running Performance, VO2max, and Running Economy: The Widespread Issue of Endogenous Selection Bias 
Borgen, Nicolai T. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Studies in sport and exercise medicine routinely use samples of highly trained individuals in order to understand what characterizes elite endurance performance, such as running economy and maximal oxygen uptake ( VO2max ...
Diversity in narratives to green the Norwegian salmon farming industry 
Christiansen, Erling A N; Jakobsen, Stig-Erik (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Despite being an economic success and generating considerable profit, the Norwegian salmon farming industry face environmental challenges that need to be solved. Since 2014, all new licenses to farm salmon are labelled ...
Description of long-term climate data in Eastern and Southeastern Ethiopia 
Mulugeta, Mesay; Tolossa, Degefa; Abebe, Gezahegn (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This article presents long-term analyzed climate data from nine weather stations in eastern and southeastern parts of Ethiopia. At the outset of this data process, unrefined meteorological data was obtained from National ...
Petty commodities, serious business: The governance of fashion jewelry chains between China and Ghana 
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In many parts of the world, people access consumer goods mainly via informal economic networks. In this article, I analyse the governance of petty commodity chains through a case study of Chinese fashion jewellery produced ...
Forms of Capital and Modes of Closure in Upper Class Reproduction 
Flemmen, Magne; Toft, Maren; Andersen, Patrick Lie; Hansen, Marianne Nordli; Ljunggren, Jørn (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
We investigate the recruitment into the upper class, analysing the impact of different forms of capital and modes of closure. Unlike many Bourdieu-influenced approaches to class, we systematically investigate divisions by ...
Politics of citizenship: Towards an analytical framework 
Stokke, Kristian (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In the theory-oriented article, the author discusses the meaning of politics of citizenship. He argues that a broad conception of citizenship may provide an integral framework for studying political contentions over cultural, ...
Sykehusets floker i møte med Reformer 
Kjekshus, Lars Erik (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Hva karakteriserer helsevesenets problemer, og hvordan kan ulike reformer ses som svar på disse problemene? Dette kapitlet tar utgangspunkt i sykehusenes uløselige problemer forstått som floker, og setter nyere ...
 
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