Browsing Faculty of Social Sciences by Title

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    • Competing realities on the arena of social policy 

      Øyen, Else (Chapter, 1984)

    • Competing with grades - The effect of school choice on high school dropout rates 

      Fidjeland, Andreas Lofthus (Master thesis, 2017-06-09)
      As efforts are made to reduce dropouts among high school students, school choice remains a hotly debated policy. The subject is complicated by an apparent gender gap in the academic performance of boys and girls. As girls ...

    • Competition and equity in health care markets 

      Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      We provide a model where hospitals compete on quality under fixed prices to investigate how hospital competition affects (i) quality differences between hospitals, and as a result, (ii) health inequalities across hospitals ...

    • Competition and interaction: Party ties to interest groups in a multidimensional policy space 

      Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd; Hansen, Vibeke Wøien; Marshall, David; Rasmussen, Anne; Webb, Paul D (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Political parties and interest groups play a vital role in incorporating societal interests into democratic decision-making. Therefore, explaining the nature and variation in the relationship between them will advance our ...

    • Competition and physician behaviour: Does the competitive environment affect the propensity to issue sickness certificates? 

      Brekke, Kurt Richard; Holmås, Tor Helge; Monstad, Karin; Straume, Odd Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on its impact on service provision is limited, mainly due to endogeneity issues. In this paper we exploit that many GPs, in addition to own ...

    • Competition between biofuel and food? The case of a jatropha biodiesel project and its effects on food security in the affected communities in Northern Ghana 

      Boamah, Festus (Master thesis, 2010-05-18)
      Biofuels have become an issue of much concern to policy makers, national governments and the international agencies amid discussions on climate change. Debates and discussions about the implications of biofuels are underpinned ...

    • Competitive effects of Airbnb on the Norwegian hotel market 

      Ytreberg, Nora Svarstad (Master thesis, 2016-12-01)
      The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the growing literature on the competitive effects of P2P sharing platforms on existing markets, in particular their effect on incumbent firms. I study the case of Airbnb and its ...

    • Competitive effects of cross-ownership in the Norwegian publishing industry 

      Waldrop, Audun Steinson (Master thesis, 2021-06-15)
      The aim of this paper is to contribute to the growing literature on competitive effects of overlapping ownership. Overlapping ownership means that competing firms have ownership in each other, this is known as cross-ownership, ...

    • The Complex Relationship Between Civil Society and Trust 

      Selle, Per; Wollebæk, Dag (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      This article is about the importance of an institutional perspective of trust. The core argument is that the type, scope and organization of civil society play a crucial role for the high level of trust and social capital ...

    • Complex Relationships: Income Inequality, Trust and Corruption 

      Almelid, Knut Eirik (Master thesis, 2019-06-28)
      The goal of this thesis is to investigate the link between income inequality and corruption and poses the following research question: Is there a positive relationship from income inequality to corruption and is this effect ...

    • Complexity and Hybrid Public Administration—Theoretical and Empirical Challenges 

      Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-10-07)
      This article provides a greater understanding of hybrid public administration. Different generations of public sector reforms have accentuated hybrid and complex features of public organizations, resulting in multiple-layer ...

    • The Complexity Landscape of Outcome Determination in Judgment Aggregation 

      Endriss, Ulle; de Haan, Ronald; Lang, Jérôme; Slavkovik, Marija (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      We provide a comprehensive analysis of the computational complexity of the outcome determination problem for the most important aggregation rules proposed in the literature on logic-based judgment aggregation. Judgment ...

    • Computational comprehension of spatial directions expressed in natural language 

      Kapustin, Pavlo (Master thesis, 2015-06-01)

    • Computational ethics 

      Edmond, Awad; Levine, Sydney; Anderson, Michael; Susan Leigh, Anderson; Conitzer, Vincent; Crockett, M.J.; Everett, Jim A.C.; Evgeniou, Theodoros; Gopnik, Alison; Jamison, Julian C.; Kim, Taw Wan; Liao, S. Matthew; Meyer, Michelle N.; Mikhail, John; Opoku-Agyemang, Kweku; Schaich Borg, Jana; Schroeder, Juliana; Sinott-Armstrong, Walter; Slavkovik, Marija; Tenenbaum, Josh B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Technological advances are enabling roles for machines that present novel ethical challenges. The study of 'AI ethics' has emerged to confront these challenges, and connects perspectives from philosophy, computer science, ...

    • Computational Journalism. When journalism meets programming 

      Stavelin, Eirik (Doctoral thesis, 2014-05-08)
      Digital data sources and platforms allow journalists to produce news in new and different ways. The shift from an analog to digital workflow introduces computation as a central component of news production. This enables ...

    • Computational Support for Concept Blending applied to Musical Instruments 

      Naustdal, Andreas Schnitler (Master thesis, 2017-12-23)
      This thesis presents a concept blending implementation that suggests which properties of a known concept are most compatible to blend with another concept. The implementation uses Wikipedia descriptions of concepts as data ...

    • Computing Consensus: A Logic for Reasoning About Deliberative Processes Based on Argumentation 

      Dyrkolbotn, Sjur Kristoffer; Pedersen, Truls Andre (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Argumentation theory can encode an agent’s assessment of the state of an exchange of points of view. We present a conservative model of multiple agents potentially disagreeing on the views presented during a process of ...

    • Conceptual Framework for Modeling Dynamic Complexities in Produced Water Management 

      Sabie, Robert; Langarudi, Saeed Pourmasoumi; Perez, Kevin; Thomson, Bruce; Fernald, Alexander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      This research addresses a gap in the produced water management (PWM) literature by providing a conceptual framework to describe the connections of PWM to regional water budgets. We use southeastern New Mexico as a case ...

    • Conceptual frameworks linking agriculture and food security 

      Nicholson, Charles F.; Kopainsky, Birgit; Stephens, Emma; Parsons, David; Jones, Andrew D.; Garrett, James H.; Phillips, Erica (Journal article, 2020)
      Many conceptual frameworks have been developed to facilitate understanding and analysis of the linkages between agriculture and food security. Despite having usefully guided analysis and investment, these frameworks exhibit ...

    • Conceptualizing Abortion Lawfare 

      Gloppen, Siri (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Women's sexual and reproductive rights are politicized worldwide, with the most contentious right being the right to safe, legal abortion. In Latin America, where one stands on the issue of abortion has become a central ...