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Rett og politikk. En studie av NSR og Ap på Sametinget 1998-2004
(Master thesis, 2004)Formålet med denne undersøkelsen er å avdekke hovedforskjellene mellom Norske Samers Riksforbund (NSR) og Arbeiderpartiet (Ap) på Sametinget i dag. De er Sametingets to største partigrupper, og har vært representert i alle ... -
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 ... -
Motives in Development Policy, whose are they really? -A study of the administration's role in Norwegian development policy
(Master thesis, 2005)Engaging in a study of the administration’s role in Norwegian development policy, this thesis explores the microfoundations of development assistance in relation to the concept of motives in development policy.In this ... -
Outsourcing Peace? The United Nations' Use of Private Security and Military Companies
(Master thesis, 2005-09)Private companies provide security and military services to states, international organizations, international non-governmental organizations, and individuals. This thesis addresses the United Nation’s use of private ... -
TWEED Code Book
(Book, 2006)The data set Terrorism in Western Europe: Events Data, TWEED, contains information on events related to internal (or domestic) terrorism in 18 West European countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, ... -
The Making and Unmaking of the Politics of Exceptionality. Studying Processes of Securitisation and Desecuritisation in the Orange and Okavango River Basins
(Master thesis, 2006)This study acknowledges the shortcomings of, on the one side, keeping the concept ofsecurity in international relations limited and confined to state protection by military meansfrom perceived internal and/or external ... -
Shifting parties, constant cleavage. Party system formation along the urban-rural cleavage in post-communist Lithuania
(Master thesis, 2006)When studying the party system formation in post-communist Lithuania, the WesternEuropean theoretical framework is a useful, although not sufficient tool to understand thisprocess. Weak alignments between voters and parties ... -
The Politics of Housing Delivery: A Comparative Study of Administrative Behaviour in South Africa and Zimbabwe
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Messy Issues, Policy Conflict and the Differentiated Polity: Analysing Contemporary Policy Responses to Complex, Uncertain and Transversal Policy Problems
(Doctoral thesis, 2006-04-07)At present, a surprisingly wide variety of commentators and observers seem toagree that Europeans are failing to tackle urgent policy challenges. As a result,so the argument does, Europeans are falling further and further ... -
Oceans Apart: Ideologies of Extraterritorial Foreign Policy in Northern Europe and the USA
(Doctoral thesis, 2006-06-23)In the study of international relations, domestic variables have rather seldom been used to explainphenomena on the international level. In comparative politics and historical sociology, explainingdomestic outcomes have ... -
Trade liberalization: The right engine of growth? A quantitative analysis
(Master thesis, 2007)Do lower barriers to international trade induce a positive effect on economic growth? This has been a highly debated issue within the field of economics for more than a century. Several studies find a positive relationship ... -
Massesamfunnet Redux. En universell modell som forklarer endringer og utfall i demokratiseringsprosessen
(Master thesis, 2007)Dette er en teoretisk oppgave hvis formål er å vise hvordan generelle teorier ikke nødvendigvis er avgrenset til bestemte tidspunkt og geografiske regioner. Ved å kombinere ulike teorier kan en skape en ny teoretisk modell ... -
Sivilsamfunns demokratiske rolle. Er Norge og Danmark så ulike?
(Master thesis, 2007)The starting point of this paper is the reports on power and democracy which were finished in Denmark and Norway in 2003. The paper is an attempt at explaining the reason for the great differences between the conclusions ... -
Nødvendigheten av frihet og behovet for beskyttelse. Den historiske oppfatningen av individuell frihet, og den offentlige diskursen etter 11. september 2001
(Master thesis, 2007)Denne oppgaven har som mål å utføre en analyse av endringene i den offentlige oppfatningen av begrepet frihet. Oppgavens problemstilling reiser spørsmål om hvorvidt et økende søkelys på sikkerhet fører til et press på, og ... -
Brød eller sirkus? En tidsserieanalyse av TV-debatters innflytelse på partioppslutning i stortingsvalgkampen 2005
(Master thesis, 2007)Problemstillingen i denne masteroppgaven er om politikeres opptredener i TV-debatter har effekt på partiers oppslutning i norske stortingsvalgkamper. Bakgrunnen for temaet er analyser som viser at valgkamper blir viktigere ... -
No Compromise - No Democracy. Pacts, Threats and Nested Games as Approaches to the Belarusian and Russian Transitions
(Master thesis, 2007)Belarus and Russia entered simultaneous transitions as the Soviet Union broke down at theend of 1991. As most other former Soviet republics Belarus and Russia did not end up withdemocratic regimes as a result of transition. ... -
Velferd, Utjamning, Fattigdom. Problemrepresentasjoner i tre stortingsmeldinger om velferdspolitikk 1995-2002
(Master thesis, 2007)Denne oppgaven argumenterer for at en viktig innfallsvinkel til å studere utviklingen av velferdsstaten er å undersøke hvordan den blir språklig konstruert i politisk debatt og policydiskurs. Med dette som utgangspunkt ... -
Explaining Cross-National Variation in Voter Turnout: Aggregate and Temporal Patterns
(Master thesis, 2007)Over the last 25 years, cross-national variation in voter turnout has received increased attention from social science researchers. The dominant view in the field is that existing research on voter turnout has established ... -
Winning Without Fighting: The Art of Nonviolent Action
(Master thesis, 2008)Nonviolent collective action emerged during the last century as a potent tool for democratizationand the pursuit of freedom and human rights. Yet the phenomenon remains somewhatunderstudied, and our understanding of its ... -
"Om ikke akkurat grasrot, så nesten litt". Miljøverndepartementets bruk av "sivilsamfunnsinitiativer" som virkemidler for økt folkelig miljøengasjement
(Master thesis, 2008)This thesis studies how the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment tries to increase citizeninvolvement in environmental issues by using “grassroot” consumer organizations as a tool. Twosuch organizations are examined, ...