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The Co-evolution of Reputation Management, Governance Capacity, Legitimacy and Accountability in Crisis Managment
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)Dealing with crises is a main responsibility of government authorities. Crises strike at the core of democratic governance and challenge not only capacity but also legitimacy and accountability. They are a test of whether ... -
Co-occurrence frequency in vegetation patches decreases towards the harsh edge along an arid volcanic elevational gradient<sup>a</sup>
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Positive plant–plant interactions are thought to drive vegetation patterns in harsh environments, such as semi-arid areas. According to the stress-gradient hypothesis (SGH), the role of positive interactions between species ... -
Co-occurring occupations among siblings in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)According to class theory, social class boundaries are akin to social mobility patterns. This study explores these patterns by looking at co-occurring occupations among siblings. The author uses data from Norway's ... -
Coal phase-out pledges follow peak coal: evidence from 60 years of growth and decline in coal power capacity worldwide
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Transitioning to net-zero carbon emissions requires phasing-out unabated coal power; however, recently it has only been declining in some countries, while it stagnated or even increased in others. Where and under what ... -
Coalition and Relativised Group Announcement Logic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)There are several ways to quantify over public announcements. The most notable are reflected in arbitrary, group, and coalition announcement logics (APAL, GAL, and CAL correspondingly), with the latter being the least ... -
Coalition Logic for Specification and Verification of Smart Contract Upgrades
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science;13753, Chapter, 2022)It has been argued in the literature that logics for reasoning about strategic abilities, and in particular coalition logic (CL), are well-suited for verification of properties of smart contracts on a blockchain. Smart ... -
Collaboration in Online Communities: Exploring Finnish Wikipedia
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-09-20)Online communities have risen to a great social and economic importance during the last two decades. Many online communities are oriented towards content production, and Wikipedia is one of the most prominent instances of ... -
Collaborative video editing
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-01-26)Samarbeid i videoredigering Denne avhandlingen tar opp følgende spørsmål: Hvordan kan vi støtte samarbeid i videoredigering? I ulike anvendelsesområder, som skriving og design, er bruk av samarbeidsverktøy utbredt. ... -
A collective sigh of relief : Local reactions to the establishment of new asylum centers in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03-25)This article investigates a mood change in local communities where new asylum seeker facilities were established in the wake of the “refugee crisis” in 2015. Whereas opinions in flux are often studied using quantitative ... -
Colonizing the demos? Settler rights, Indigenous sovereignty, and the contested ‘structure of governance’ in Canada’s North
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Settler-colonialism can consist of a struggle over the pre-political ‘structure of governance’ – over who composes the demos and how decisions should be made. This article examines two lawsuits where settlers contested the ... -
Combining several thermal indices to generate a unique heat comfort assessment methodology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Purpose: The proposed methodology hopes to provide a systematic multi-disciplinary approach to assess the thermal environment while minimizing unneeded efforts. Design/methodology/approach: Different factors affect the ... -
Commercial Services, Enclosure and Legitimacy: Comparing Contexts and Strategies for Public Service Media Funding and Development
(Chapter, 2008)European public broadcasters have long since ceased to be solely publicly financed. But the inherently controversial licence fee on television sets has remained a key source of funding. Facing an increasingly complex digital ... -
The commitment curve: Global regulation of business and human rights
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-07)The divide between hard law and soft law approaches to global regulation of corporations in relation to human rights is partly based on empirical assumptions. Taking a step back, we assess the claims concerning the current ... -
Common dreams and individual goals - Negotiating identity across the Thai-Burma border
(Master thesis, 2013-09-27)Abstract Within a socio-historical framework of how modern nation-states and ethnic labels came to be in the Southeast Asian Mainland, this thesis sets out to explore how young individuals, currently engaging as cross-border ... -
Commonalities and Differences in Methods and Patterns of Torture and Ill-treatment of Political Prisoners in Iran and Why Torturing?!
(Master thesis, 2018-07-13)This thesis aims to explore how political prisoners are treated in the places of detention and prisons in Iran. In doing so, it targets to specifically find answers to three main questions: 1) What are those common methods ... -
Community participation in school development: Understanding participation in basic school performance in the Nanumba district of Ghana
(Master thesis, 2005)This study has been an attempt to look at the impact of community participation on the performance of basic schools in Ghana, specifically the Nanumba District of the Northern Region. As a government policy under the ... -
Community Participation in Solid Waste Management, Kathmandu
(Master thesis, 2012-06-26)Waste management in Nepal is one of the important topics discussed today. Participation of the community is thus,being encouraged to manage solid waste. My study area is Kathmandu (Buddhajyoti, Chamati and Milijuli, Ganesh ... -
Community Policing in South Africa - Mission impossible? A qualitative case study of police reform failure in South Africa after the 1994-transition to democracy
(Master thesis, 2014-06-02)Since the 1990s community policing has been promoted as an ideal and pursued though policing reforms in large parts of the developing world, especially in post-transitional societies faced with the twin problem of high ... -
‘The Community’ as a Multivocal Concept: Everyday Urban Life and Grassroots Politics in Caracas’ Informal Neighbourhoods
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article analyses the multivocal meanings of the concept ‘the community’ as embedded and employed in everyday- and political discourses in working class and shantytown neighbourhoods (barrios) in the capital city of ...