Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Ivarsflaten, Elisabeth"
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Attitudes to public spending on environmental risk reduction: the role of temporal and spatial distance
Kysela, Eva; Tvinnereim, Endre; Ivarsflaten, Elisabeth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Climate change is often perceived as a distant threat affecting people in distant places and the far future. Such perceptions could dampen public willingness to spend on climate change mitigation. We contribute to the ... -
«Den store demokratidebatten» – da og nå
Ivarsflaten, Elisabeth; Fimreite, Anne Lise (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020) -
Discrimination, Antiprejudice Norms, and Public Support for Multicultural Policies in Europe: The Case of Religious Schools
Blinder, Scott; Ford, Robert; Ivarsflaten, Elisabeth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This study examines public support for a key contested multicultural policy in contemporary Europe: the provision of religious schools. It makes two main contributions, one substantive and one theoretical. Substantively, ... -
The Local-National Gap in Intergroup Attitudes and Far-Right Underperformance in Local Elections
Bye, Hege Høivik; Bygnes, Susanne; Ivarsflaten, Elisabeth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The far right typically performs worse in local elections than in national ones. We propose that a key reason for this underperformance is the difference in how intergroup attitudes manifest and are informed in local and ... -
The online hostility hypothesis: representations of Muslims in online media
Sandberg, Linn; Dahlberg, Stefan; Ivarsflaten, Elisabeth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Using a large data set of online media content in eight European countries, this paper broadens the empirical investigation of the online hostility hypothesis, which posits that interactions on social sites such as blogs ... -
Public political tolerance of the far right in contemporary Western Europe
Bjånesøy, Lise Lund; Ivarsflaten, Elisabeth; Berntzen, Lars Erik Nese (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Political initiatives promoting a far-right agenda have gained significant political influence in Western European democracies. This has occurred despite apparent broad-based public rejection of Europe’s Nazi past. This ... -
The scope of exclusionary public response to the European refugee crisis
Nordø, Åsta Dyrnes; Ivarsflaten, Elisabeth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)We know from previous research that an exclusionary reaction in public opinion is likely following a sudden and large-scale influx of refugees of the sort experienced in many European countries in 2015. Yet, we know much ...