Department of Comparative Politics
Recent Submissions
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Regionalist Party Spillover from Regional into National and European Elections: The Impact of the Multilevel Electoral System on Vertical Bottom-up Spillover
(Master thesis, 2022-06-23)This thesis explores how the permissiveness of the electoral system impacts regionalist parties’ vertical bottom-up electoral spillover effects from the regional electoral arena into the national and European electoral ... -
Do informal Networks Increase Migrants’ Over-Education? Comparing Over-Education for Natives, Migrants and Second Generations in Italy and Assessing the Role of Networks in Generating It
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Whilst migration has become a structural feature of most European countries, the integration of foreigners in the labour market continues to raise concerns. Evidence across countries shows that migrants are more often ... -
Same Rules, Higher Costs: Women’s Pathways to Candidacy in Zambia
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Introducing the Party-interest group relationships in contemporary democracies datasets
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Few existing datasets on parties and interest groups include data from both sides and a wide variety of interest groups and parties. We contribute to filling this gap by making several interconnected new datasets publicly ... -
Changing Attitudes towards Government Responsibility for Social Welfare in China between 2004-2014: Evidence from Three National Surveys
(Journal article, 2022)Social policies in China have expanded rapidly since the early 2000s, broadening welfare provisions aiming to improve citizens’ well-being in a context of rapid development and increasing inequality. How people see the ... -
Norge som mål for utenlandske investeringer: Trender og forklaringer
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Utenlandske investeringer er en viktig del av økonomien i mange land. Det gjelder også Norge, hvor utenlandskontrollerte foretak sysselsetter 21 prosent av arbeidstakerne i privat næringsliv. Samtidig vet vi at strømmene ... -
Brent jord: langsiktige politiske konsekvenser av nedbrenning og tvangsevakuering i Nord-Troms og Finnmark
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Høsten 1944 iverksatte den tyske okkupasjonsmakten operasjon «Nordlicht», også kjent som «den brente jords taktikk». De materielle ødeleggelsene og de menneskelige omkostningene var enorme. Selve ødeleggelsene og operasjonen ... -
The Executive Revolving Door: New Dataset on the Career Moves of Former Danish Ministers and Permanent Secretaries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Concerns have been raised that transfers of bureaucrats and politicians into the private sector might create unfair advantages for their future employers and even lead to distrust in government. Not surprisingly, the study ... -
Affirmative action measures and electoral candidates’ positioning in Zambia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While the increase of women in elected office has received much scholarly attention, less attention has been paid to the dynamics of resisting gender quotas in countries that fail to adopt such measures despite regional ... -
How African countries respond to fake news and hate speech
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While scholars have already identified and discussed some of the most urgent problems in content moderation in the Global North, fewer scholars have paid attention to content regulation in the Global South, and notably ... -
Monster or Hero? Far-right Responses to Anders Behring Breivik and the July 22, 2011 Terrorist Attacks
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study maps and seeks to explain the evolution of far-right responses to the July 22 terrorist attacks in 2011. We identify substantial temporal and spatial variation in how different far-right actors responded between ... -
Socially mediated issue ownership
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Given the growing importance of issue competition and the growing use of social media during elections, this study seeks to create a better understanding of how issue dynamics relating to political parties play out on ... -
The Term ‘Lone Wolf’ and its Alternatives: Patterns of Public and Academic Use from 2000 to 2020
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Prominent cases of terror attacks planned and perpetrated by individuals have generated an ongoing public and academic debate about how to understand this phenomenon. The moniker “lone wolf” stands at the center of this ... -
From convergence to congruence: European integration and citizen–elite congruence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Recent research argues that European integration has led to an ideological convergence of member state party systems, which is purported to have significant consequences for democratic representation. We argue that convergence ... -
Et rettighetsfellesskap: samisk systembygging i den norske enhetsstaten
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Artikkelen er inspirert av Stein Rokkans «impossibility theorem», som sier at integreringsmekanismene i den enkelte nasjonalstat er så omfattende at betingelsene for en sterk felles europeisk identitet med et institusjonelt ... -
Working Hard or Hardly Working? Examining the Politics of In-Work Conditionality in the UK
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The intensification of behavioural requirements and punitive measures in unemployment benefits by UK governments has been popular and instrumental to the politics of welfare reform. Yet there is scant research into the ... -
The scope of exclusionary public response to the European refugee crisis
(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 ... -
How Do Political Parties Capture New Democracies? Hungary and North Macedonia in Comparison
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Recent democratic backsliding in Eastern Europe challenges the optimism of two decades of scholarship on post-communist democratization. The most severe form of backsliding—state capture by ruling parties—has occurred in ... -
Teologi og tilpasning: Skillelinjer og konfliktlinjer i norsk organisert islam
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Innenfor statsvitenskapen har flere forskere analysert samfunnet som et felt som preges av politiske skillelinjer eller konfliktlinjer, etter pionerarbeidene til Stein Rokkan. En konfliktlinje er en dimensjon konflikter ...
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