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How do trade unions contribute to democratisation?
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)The Tunisian General Labour Union was one of the members of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The quartet was awarded the prize for its contribution to the democratic process ... -
How do Zambian smallholder farmers allocate their budget? Evidence of dynamic decision-making based on a Cournot field experiment
(Conference lecture, 2017)Smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa repeatedly face situations of complex and dynamic decision trade-offs, which include allocating money across short-term and long-term production activities. Short-term activities ... -
How does an Exogenous Shock Affect Institutional Change? The Case of Digitalization in Konkurransetilsynet and COVID-19 Pandemic
(Master thesis, 2022-06-15)Denne kvalitative casestudien utforsker korleis eit eksogent sjokk kan påverke institusjonell endring, med å analysere digitaliseringa i Konkurransetilsynet, som starta før og fortsette inn i COVID-19-pandemien. Med å bruke ... -
How Does Place Matter to Highly Skilled Migrants? Work/Non-work Experiences of International Physicians in Norway and Sweden
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-10-07)The article tackles the question of how place matters to migrant physicians in the regions of Agder in Norway and Skåne in Sweden by exploring how place-specific conditions affect their experiences in the work, private, ... -
How Elite Politicization of Terror Impacts Sympathies for Partisans: Radical Right versus Social Democrats
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The populist radical right is frequently engaged in intense political and normative conflict with their political opponents. Does this have a spillover effect on citizens’ sympathies for populist radical right voters and ... -
"How Gender Affects Decision Making - A Case Study of Tibeto- Burmese Women in Kobang VDC, Mustang, Nepal"
(Master thesis, 2009)It is commonly presented in scientific literature that Tibeto-BurmeseMountain women’sstatus is higher than Indo-AryanTerai women. Findings of many studies indicates thatTibeto-Burmese women are traditionally afforded more ... -
How national parks change a rural municipality's development strategies - The Skjåk case, Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The governance structure on which contemporary nature conservation policy and practice are based represents a new structure that may affect development strategies in rural municipalities. The purpose of the article is to ... -
How Populism and Polarization Affect Europe’s Liberal Democracies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In recent years, two phenomena have put Europe’s liberal democracies under strain: populism and polarization. The rise of populist parties, the increasing radicalization of publics and political discourse, as well as the ... -
How prediction markets help us understand events‘ impact on the vote in US Presidential Elections
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011)In this paper we argue that pre-election polls and prediction markets reflect two different processes which, by analyzing them together, can help us understand if and how key events which occur during an election campaign ... -
How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this study, we extend the literature on the rally ‘round the flag phenomenon, that is, that international crises tend to cause an increase in citizens’ approval of political institutions. We advance this literature and ... -
How the Catholic Church Influences Italian Politics
(Master thesis, 2017-12-12)The Catholic Church has a unique relationship with Italy, with the location of the Vatican in the heart of Rome. From the time of the Italian unification in 1861, the Catholic Church has used different strategies to influence ... -
"How the hell can you tell?" Norske statsministres ettermæle fra Stang til Stoltenberg
(Master thesis, 2011-05-29)Abstrakt. Denne oppgaven tar sikte på å forklare hva som avgjør norske statsministres ettermæle. Ettermælet er definert fra en undersøkelse besvart av 54 statsvitere, mediafolk og historikere. De har gitt alle statsministrene ... -
How the public understands news media trust: An open-ended approach
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Despite the central role that ordinary citizens play as ‘trustors’ (i.e. the actor that places trust) in the literature on news media trust, prior quantitative studies have paid little attention to how ordinary citizens ... -
How to Balance Individual Rights and Societal Security? The View of Civil Servants
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)How do Norwegian government officials perceive the dilemma between liberty and security after the 2011 terrorist attacks? A survey from 2016 shows that the central government officials’ attitudes are rather similar to the ... -
How to communicate effectively to combat corruption. An analysis of the language used the fight against corruption in Italy.
(Master thesis, 2018-06-30)In spite of the difficulties related to measuring corruption, both international surveys and national statistics indicate that corruption remains a serious problem in Italy, resilient to time as well as political changes. ... -
How to correct misperceptions of delays: an interactive learning environment to reduce binge drinking
(Master thesis, 2010-11-06)Background: People misperceive accumulation processes. Take for example the case of people becoming more drunk than intended. Such misperceptions can lead to high costs that in some cases may be fatal. We ask: Could ... -
How to sit on Two Sides of the Table? Swedish and Norwegian Unions’ Approaches to Representative Worker Participation during the 20th Century
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08)To this day, participation rights in Sweden have been reserved for union members both on the company level and on the board level, while all employees in companies, which are covered by respective agreements and laws, have ... -
How virtual meetings stimulate process innovations in organisations: mixed-methods evidence from emergency response providers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Although meetings are an omnipresent organisational practice for interactive idea generation, we know little about how the switch to digital forms affects innovation-oriented behaviours in meetings. This sequential ... -
How wearing a mask and practicing physical ( social ) distancing is changing the shape of Covid-19 pandemics spread curve in Serbia? System Dynamics analysis
(Master thesis, 2020-09-01)Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel coronavirus, emerged in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China, in early December 2019. During the time of writing these lines, numbers of infected ... -
(How) Do Voters Discriminate Against Women Candidates? Experimental and Qualitative Evidence From Malawi
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)How do voters evaluate women candidates in places where traditional gender norms are strong? We conduct a survey experiment in Malawi to assess both whether citizens discriminate against women candidates and how other ...