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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 ... -
Commuting, a choice or a necessity? A system dynamic simulation model for intra urban migration
(Master thesis, 2013-05-30)The number of commuters is one of the main determinants of traffic and pollution problems. In a growing city like Bergen, the number of commuters has been increasing dramatically. A simulation model has been built to explain ... -
A comparative analysis of the Child Protection Systems in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania and Russia
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A Comparative analysis of the relationship between gaming controllers and game mechanics
(Master thesis, 2013-06-08)In this thesis I have presented the issue of not exploiting the possibilities different technologies offer us in video games. The research questions were how can input-technologies affect the enjoyment of video games?", ... -
Comparative Research Programme on Poverty: International Social Science Council
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A comparative, simulation supported study on the diffusion of battery electric vehicles in Norway and Sweden
(Master thesis, 2017-08-29)We are living at a point in history where global cost dynamics and specific political choices may lead to an integral transformation of the mobility system as we know it. After a century where the internal combustion engine ... -
Comparing approaches to interactive lifelog search at the lifelog search challenge (LSC2018)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC) is an international content retrieval competition that evaluates search for personal lifelog data. At the LSC, content-based search is performed over a multi-modal dataset, continuously ... -
Comparing input interfaces to elicit belief distributions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This paper introduces a new software interface to elicit belief distributions of any shape: Click-and-Drag. The interface was tested against the state of the art in the experimental literature—a text-based interface and ... -
Comparing Interactive Retrieval Approaches at the Lifelog Search Challenge 2021
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC) is an interactive benchmarking evaluation workshop for lifelog retrieval systems. The challenge was first organised in 2018 aiming to find the system that can quickly retrieve relevant ... -
Comparing Platform "Ranking Cultures" Across Languages: The Case of Islam on YouTube in Scandinavia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article is concerned with how different agencies play out in shaping public debate online and, for this purpose, employs an approach that acknowledges the role not just of algorithms seen in isolation, but in context ... -
Comparing population view´s on state responsibility for children in vulnerable situations – the role of institutional context and socio-demographic characteristics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper examines populous perspectives of the government’s responsibility to intervene in situations of possible parental neglect of children in England, Finland, Norway, and California (USA), and ask if institutional ... -
Comparing Public Discourse on Immigration in Scandinavia: Some Background Notes and Preliminary Results
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article briefly presents the SCANPUB project, devoted to the comparative study of public discourse on immigration in Scandinavia from 1970 to 2016, from which this issue of Javnost/The Public stems. Its emphasis is ... -
Comparing Welfare States and their Futures
(Chapter, 1986) -
Competing climate spectacles in the amplified public space
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The climate change debate is finding new expressions through political protests and demonstrations, during which a plurality of climate narratives emerges. While protests such as Extinction Rebellion have had a strong ... -
Competing realities on the arena of social policy
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Competing with grades - The effect of school choice on high school dropout rates
(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 ... -
Competing with precision: incentives for developing predictive biomarker tests
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)We study the incentives of drug producers to develop predictive biomarkers, taking into account strategic interaction between drug producers and health plans. For this purpose, we develop a two-dimensional spatial framework ... -
Competition and equity in health care markets
(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
(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 ...