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How can Big Data from Social Media be used in Emergency Management? A case study of Twitter during the Paris attacks
(Master thesis, 2018-06-21)Over the past years, social media have impacted emergency management and disaster response in numerous ways. The access to live, continuous updates from the public brings new opportunities when it comes to detecing, ... -
How culture may nurture institutional trust: Some empirical insights from Bangladesh and Nepal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-06)Motivation Most studies of the normative roots of political trust argue that they stem from policy performance rather than from cultural orientation. That sits at odds with the observation that institutional trust—that ... -
How do cities challenge patterns of demand? Characterising the local governance of climate change in Nordic cities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Meeting international climate targets will require deep and rapid shifts in urban demand patterns. While the literature has emphasized the role played by cities in the response to climate change, it remains unclear whether ... -
How do oil prices and investments impact the dynamics of firm value?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The purpose of this study is twofold: (i) to analyze the impact of investment policy decision on the firm value given the uncertain oil and gas prices and (ii) to propose policies that enhance firm value. The study develops ... -
How Do Political Parties Capture New Democracies? Hungary and North Macedonia in Comparison
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Recent democratic backsliding in Eastern Europe challenges the optimism of two decades of scholarship on post-communist democratization. The most severe form of backsliding—state capture by ruling parties—has occurred in ... -
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. ...