Browsing Department of Comparative Politics by Subject "731114"
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Close elections and turnout: The margin of victory and horseshoes in comparative perspective
(Master thesis, 2014-11-20)More people decide to vote when the race is close than when it is not. This is arguably the most consistent finding in aggregate-level research on turnout. However, studies in recent years using multilevel analysis ... -
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 ... -
Constitutionalising Rights to Water and Sanitation: International Norm Diffusion or Local Politics?
(Master thesis, 2020-08-28)Water constitutes the foundation of human life. Without water, no one survives. In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 64/292 recognising the Human Right to Water and Sanitation. Subsequently, ... -
Contextual factors and the salience of the immigration issue : An analysis of populist radical right parties' favourite topic
(Master thesis, 2011-03-22)This master thesis seeks to explain how structural factors influence the salience of the immigration issue. Stated more precisely, the research question is: To what extent does immigration influence the salience of the ... -
Crises to die for: a quantitative study of financial crises, political instability, and economic growth
(Master thesis, 2011-05-27)This thesis emphasizes the multidimensionality of political instability when examining whether financial crises may trigger political instability, and how financial crises and instability affect the growth rate of the ... -
Dansk Folkepartis bastioner - sosialt marginaliserte, etniske konfliktsoner eller sosialt samhørige? En kvantitativ studie av Dansk Folkepartis kommunale oppslutning ved Folketingsvalget 2011
(Master thesis, 2013-11-19)The electoral success of right-wing populist parties in recent years has been widely studied by scholars of political science. However, their electoral success also varies significantly within countries. The aim of this ... -
The Dark Side of the Welfare State - Is the carceral state slowly replacing the welfare state?
(Master thesis, 2017-06-22)The overarching aim of this thesis is to explore whether traditional welfare politics and the politics of crime and punishment ought to be considered part of the same policy domain — the governance of social marginality. ... -
Decision-Shaping From the Outside: Measuring and explaining the degree of preference attainment in the EEA EFTA Comments
(Master thesis, 2020-08-21)The membership of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway in the European Economic Area (EEA) has often been suggested to entail a democratic deficit. These three European Free Trade Association (EFTA) members have to implement ... -
Demokrati for folket, men av hvem? – En casestudie av Bosnia Hercegovina for å forstå internasjonale aktørers påvirkning på demokratiseringsprosesser og demokrati
(Master thesis, 2018-12-15)This thesis seeks to develop a thorough understanding of international actors’ influence on democratization processes and democratic consolidation, by conducting a qualitative case study of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This ... -
Den femte Bølgen? En komparativ studie av den arabiske våren og demokratibølger
(Master thesis, 2012-06-07)I denne oppgaven har målet vært å forsøke og forklare hvorfor fenomen som den arabiske våren oppstår igjennom et strukturelt perspektiv. Oppgavens problemstilling er hvilke strukturelle faktorer forklarer transisjonsbølg ... -
Den koreanske chaebolen: En kvalitativ studie som undersøker økonomiske konglomeraters påvirkning på korrupsjon
(Master thesis, 2018-06-22)This thesis seeks to compare South Korea and Taiwan regarding the issue of corruption. Korea and Taiwan are both previous Japanese colonies; they share a strong military legacy; and both have recently experience rapid ... -
Den stille revolusjonen møter ungdommelig reaksjon
(Master thesis, 2020-08-28)En undersøkelse av politiske og verdimessige holdninger til landets yngste stemmeberettigete generasjoner sett i lys av Ronald Ingleharts teorier om “The silent revolution” -
Det regionale nivåets framtid - En komparativ studie av holdninger til forvaltningsordningen blant fylkestingspolitikere på Vestlandet
(Master thesis, 2013-02-21)Målet med denne studien er å få økt kunnskap om hva regionalpolitikere på Vestlandet mener om fremtidig forvaltningsordning. Problemstillingen forsøker å gi svar på hvilken forvaltningsordning politikerne ønsker, og hvilke ... -
Determinants of active labor market policy: A spatial and multilevel analysis of ALMP expenditures in 29 OECD countries between 1985 and 2010
(Master thesis, 2013-06-03)In recent years, a growing field of research, known as policy diffusion, has investigated the idea that policy choices affect each other across geographic units. However, the distinction between direct and indirect diffusion ... -
Diaspora Mobilization in the Wake of the Syrian Civil War. The Syrian Anti-Regime Diaspora’s Struggle for Influence in the US and the UK
(Master thesis, 2016-11-21)This thesis seeks to analyze the Syrian diaspora's political mobilization emerging in the United States and the United Kingdom after the inception of the 2011 uprising. Despite extensive mobilization, the diaspora has been ... -
Distribution effects of central bank independence: A panel data analysis of 134 countries between 1980 and 2012
(Master thesis, 2017-06-21)Increasing inequality within countries has been put on the agenda in recent years, much due to the impact of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. The distributive effects of central bank independence have ... -
Diversity in Stakeholder Preferences Regarding EU Policy: The Effect of Survey Elements within Processes of Open Public Consultation
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)Since the "European Governance A White Paper" launched in 2001, the European Union has worked to improve accountability and transparency within the organization. Preferences voiced by the public are one of the most important ... -
Divine Intervention: The Influence of Pentecostal Sermons on Democratic Values Evidence from Zambia
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)Pentecostalism has grown immensely over the last 20 years in many African states, but we have little systematic understanding of how this growth affects democratic development. Drawing on democratic theories that emphasise ... -
Domestic terrorism and government duration -An event history analysis
(Master thesis, 2013-06-03)There are now several studies investigating empirical relationships between that of terrorism, electoral preferences and electoral accountability. However, very little research has been done on the connections between ... -
"Don't mess with Texas": A Quantitative Study of Party Polarization, and the Constituencies' Effect on Legislators' Ideology within the Congressional Delegation from Texas in the United States House of Representatives
(Master thesis, 2015-05-31)Since the 1980s there has been a significant increase in polarization between the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States Congress. This thesis looks further into the increase in polarization in the United ...