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Arbeidsmarkedet og progresjon i videregående opplæring
(Master thesis, 2014-08-29)Siden slutten av 2. verdenskrig har det vært en betydelig økning i antall personer som har fullført videregående opplæring og tatt høyere utdanning. Det synes å være konsensus blant politikere at fullføring av videregående ... -
Arbeidsmarkedseffekter av kontantstøtten
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg om kontantstøtten fører til endringer i arbeidstilbudet. For å undersøke dette bruker jeg en endring 1. august 2012 i kontantstøtten, hvor den statlige ordningen sluttet å gjelde for barn ... -
"Arbeidstakerspørsmål eller klimaspørsmål?" - Fagbevegelsen og det grønne skiftet
(Master thesis, 2023-06-23)I vår tid anses ofte klimasaken som en av de største, om ikke den største saken. Effekten av klimaendringene og omstillingen som kreves for å møte disse vil ha store konsekvenser for hele samfunnet, så vel som arbeidslivet. ... -
Arctic governance: Understanding the geopolitics of commercial shipping via the Northern Sea Route
(Master thesis, 2015-06-02)The purpose of this study is to examine the implications of the development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) with regard to governance in the Arctic. This topic is of importance as Arctic waters are getting bluer, more ... -
Are Candidate Evaluations Less Susceptible to Partisan Bias than Party Evaluations?
(Master thesis, 2020-08-28)According to the personalization hypothesis, voters’ attention is shifting away from collective entities like political parties to individual candidates. As attitudes towards candidates are growing more consequential in ... -
Are child protection workers and judges in alignment with citizens when considering interventions into a family? A cross-country study of four jurisdictions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper examines whether and how the views of professional decision makers in public agencies and courts in four child protection jurisdictions align with the views of the public. Democratic states are built on the ... -
Are citizens responsive to interest groups? A field experiment on lobbying and intended citizen behaviour
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The ability to mobilise public opinion is central to interest group politics. Yet, whether and how groups succeed in swaying the public remains inconclusive. The article assesses this by conducting a field experiment in ... -
Are low-skilled young people increasingly useless, and are men the losers among them?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Claims that low-skilled young people, and especially the men among them, are being excluded from the labour market have been influential over recent decades, contributing to an increasing concern over the issue of early ... -
Are smart city projects catalyzing urban energy sustainability?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the links between smart cities and urban energy sustainability. Because achieving a “smart city” is a wide agenda rather than a specific set of interventions, smartness itself ... -
The art of building bridges between the world of the poor and the world of the non-poor
(Chapter, 1997)If the poor are to participate in civil society, thechallenge is to build bridges between the world of the poorand the world of the non-poor, and to secure a two-waytraffic across those bridges.Poverty can neither be ... -
Arthroplasty Data Visualization
(Master thesis, 2021-06-15)This master's thesis presents the work done in the field of visualization and interactivity conducted within the Design Science framework. The main goal was to make the data analysis using the arthroplasty register data ... -
ARTree. Designing & evaluating handheld augmented reality art
(Master thesis, 2011-06-01)Augmented reality is a technology combining physical and virtual objects. This study aimes to explore the use of this technology in art. The prototype ARTree was developed through contributions from an artist, and consists ... -
Arven etter … Konsekvensene av arveavgiftens opphevelse på formuesulikheten i Norge
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)What are the redistributive consequences of removing the inheritance taxation? With persistently high levels of wealth inequality, there are arguments suggesting that inheritance tax could serve as an effective instrument ... -
Askeladden og ministeren - Tolkningsrammer og medielogikk i "Aker-saken" 2009.
(Master thesis, 2010-06-01)Denne masteroppgaven ser på VGs dekning avkonflikten mellom regjeringen og Kjell Inge Røkkei 2009, også kjent som Aker-saken.Problemstillingen er: "Hvilke tolkningsrammerbruker VG i Aker-saken, og hva gjør deforskjellige ... -
Aspirations & responsibilities. a qualitative study among female care workers in Khayelitsha
(Master thesis, 2011-03-07)In 1997 the South African Department of Social Welfare presented the White Paper for Social Welfare as a strategy to compensate for the apartheid regime's exclusion of the black majority for decades. In this document they ... -
ASPIRE Adaptive strategy prediction in a RTS environment
(Master thesis, 2012-06-01)When playing a Real Time Strategy(RTS) game against the non-human player(bot) it is important that the bot can do different strategies to create a challenging experience over time. In this thesis we aim to improve the way ... -
Asserting the right to care – Birth parents’ arguments in newborn care orders
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Summary Removing a newborn from his or her birth parents’ care is arguably a stark display of state power into the family. This study explores birth parents’ engagement with care proceedings in all (N = 177) newborn care ... -
Assessing Citizens’ Trust in Public Healthcare: a Study of the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in the Western Region of Ghana
(Master thesis, 2018-06-23)What explains trust in healthcare and how do public health facilities ensure they are trusted by citizens. This research explores how institutional factors as well as individual dispositions, affect the trust reposed in ... -
Assessing Contradictions: Methodological Challenges when Mapping Symbolic Boundaries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In this article, we address the methodological question of making sense of contradictions in sociological analysis. Focusing on the scholarly debate about generating and interpreting data on symbolic boundaries – the ways ... -
Assessing Landscape Change in a Mining Area of the Peruvian Andes. A Case Study in The Yanacocha Mine, Cajamarca
(Master thesis, 2006)This study examines physical and perceived landscape change in a mining area innorthern Peru. Mining conflicts between companies and local people have intensified;this highlights the necessity of a better understanding of ...