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From convergence to congruence: European integration and citizen–elite congruence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Recent research argues that European integration has led to an ideological convergence of member state party systems, which is purported to have significant consequences for democratic representation. We argue that convergence ... -
From Crisis to Organizational Loss of Legitimacy - A case study of the European Commission during the European debt crisis
(Master thesis, 2020-08-18)This thesis is a case study about the European Commission following the European sovereign debt crisis. It builds on Hamilton’s (2006) theoretical argument that an organization’s loss of legitimacy becomes reflected in ... -
From ER to VR: Analysing interaction in a Collaborative Virtual Environment
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From expert discipline to common practice: a vision and research agenda for extending the reach of enterprise modeling
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-02)The benefits of enterprise modeling (EM) and its contribution to organizational tasks are largely undisputed in business and information systems engineering. EM as a discipline has been around for several decades but is ... -
From face-to-face to Facebook? Web technologies in Norwegian civil society
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-11-21)Using a mixed methods approach, this article-based thesis investigates some of the implications of web technologies for political participation and for voluntary organizations in Norway. First, in a general theoretical and ... -
From Fermentation to Maturity? Reflections on Media and Communication Studies: An Interview with Todd Gitlin, Jostein Gripsrud & Michael Schudson
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009)Twenty-six years after the Journal of Communication published a special issue entitled “Ferment in the Field,” Professors Todd Gitlin, Jostein Gripsrud and Michael Schudson reflect on the state of the field of media and ... -
From Guerillas to Cabinets - A Study of the Development of Post-War Political Parties in Kosovo
(Master thesis, 2017-06-17)The fourth Yugoslav war, the war in Kosovo, was fought between 1998 and 1999. The Kosovo Liberation Army and the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosovo, fought the Serb police, military and paramilitary forces, but also ... -
From instrumentalization to commoning: A critical review of participation in urban nature-based solutions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-16)Nature-based solutions (NBS) are becoming a widely recognized approach to urban sustainability. Most of the literature and policy handbooks on the topic emphasize the importance of participation in some form but interpretations ... -
From jhum to broom: Agricultural land-use change and food security implications on the Meghalaya Plateau, India
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-02)Human population growth in the developing world drives land-use changes, impacting food security. In India, the dramatic change in demographic dynamics over the past century has reduced traditional agricultural land-use ... -
From local content to local participation? Exploring entrepreneurship in Ghana’s oil and gas industry
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-06-27)Ghana started commercial oil production in 2010 and as part of strategies to facilitate linkages between the oil and gas industry and the Ghanaian economy, a local content law was passed in 2013. This PhD thesis examines ... -
From Marikana to London. The Anti-Blackness of Mining Finance
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-06-14)On the 16th of August 2012, thirty-four striking mineworkers were shot dead by police forces in Marikana in South Africa during a strike against Lonmin, a British mining company. The massacre was reminiscent of the days ... -
From mice-eaten passports to fingerprint scanning: fluctuating state presence and 'entangled documents' along the Kyrgyz–Uzbek border
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article focuses on engagement with identity documents among the rural Uzbek population in the borderlands of Kyrgyzstan. By exploring the materiality of the documents and people’s concern with these material artefacts ... -
From musical expressivity to public political discourse proper: the case of Karpe Diem in the aftermath of the Utøya massacre
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Musical communication is widely understood to be too elusive and abstract to have any discernible significance for political public discourse. However, in the aftermath of the Utøya-massacre there have been several instances ... -
From Policy to Practice. A Study of Street-level bureaucracy and young clients in two rural communities
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“From radical revolution to pragmatic moderation.” What drives anti-system moderation in former rebel parties?
(Master thesis, 2021-12-17)A growing literature researches how former rebel parties (FRPs), parties with a past as insurgency groups, adjust to being part of formal political systems. Yet, little has been written about FRPs as a cohesive category ... -
From Russia with Cleavages. A Study in Party System and Voting Behaviour in Post-Communist Russia
(Master thesis, 2005)Introduction: On December 12th 1993 the Russians were about to elect their new national assembly: TheState Duma. Nearly 106 million registered voters were allowed to participate in the election.This was the first election ... -
From secessionism to regionalism: Intra-organizational change and ideological moderation within armed secessionist movements
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-05)Secessionist movements rarely succeed in their quests for separate statehood. Hence, conflict resolution efforts in secessionist wars tend to focus on making autonomy frameworks acceptable to both sides. This article posits ... -
From state capture to business capture: A qualitative analysis of institutional development in post-Soviet Russia
(Master thesis, 2014-05-29)This thesis investigates Russian institutional development since the breakdown of the Soviet Union. The aim of the study is to explore whether the role of formal institutions has increased at the expense of informal ... -
From The Club Stage to the National Scene: How Mass Media Interpreted Two Comedians as Important Immigrant Voices
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article investigates how comedians with an immigrant background gain political relevance, taking two contemporary comedians from Norway and Sweden as cases. The study uses media's interpretive power as a way to explore ... -
From Victim to Survivor: Healing and Recovery in a Drug Addiction Treatment Program in San Francisco
(Master thesis, 2008)In this thesis I explore clients’ participation in therapy groups at a drug treatment program in San Francisco. Based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork, following women in their daily attempts at “working the program”, ...