• Same Rules, Higher Costs: Women’s Pathways to Candidacy in Zambia 

  Rakner, Lise; Arriola, Leonardo; Phillips, Melanie L. (Chapter, 2021)

• Introducing the Party-interest group relationships in contemporary democracies datasets 

  Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd; Hansen, Vibeke Wøien; Rødland, Lise; Maiken, Røed; Klüver, Heike; Le Gall, Cal; Marshall, David; Otjes, Simon; Poguntke, Thomas; Rasmussen, Anne; Saurugger, Sabine; Witko, Christopher (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 

  Dalen, Kristin (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 

  Gåsemyr, Hans Jørgen; Medin, Hege (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 

  Buck, Marcus; Markussen, Joakim Aalmen; Midtbø, Tor; Stein, Jonas (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 

  Rasmussen, Anne; Buhmann-Holmes, Nicholas; Egerod, Benjamin C. K. (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 

  Wang, Vibeke; Muriaas, Ragnhild Louise; Peters, Yvette (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 

  Garbe, Lisa; Selvik, Lisa-Marie Måseidvåg; Lemaire, Pauline Marguerite (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 

  Berntzen, Lars Erik Nese; Ravndal, Jacob Aasland (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 

  Sandberg, Linn (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 

  Berntzen, Lars Erik; Bjørgo, Tore (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 

  Devine, Daniel J.; Ibenskas, Raimondas (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 

  Falch, Torvald; Selle, Per (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 

  Abbas, Joan Elizabeth; Chrisp, Joe Marek (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 

  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 ...

• How Do Political Parties Capture New Democracies? Hungary and North Macedonia in Comparison 

  Auerbach, Kiran Rose; Kartner, Jennifer (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 

  Elgvin, Olav (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 ...

• Syrian diaspora mobilization for prospective transitional justice in the absence of transition 

  Stokke, Espen Ringkjøb; Wiebelhaus-Brahm, Eric (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  Mobilization for transitional justice typically “deals with the past,” focusing on retrospective attempts to deal with injustices. Little attention has been afforded to such mobilization when prospects for transition and ...

• Blessing or Curse for Congruence? How Interest Mobilization Affects Congruence between Citizens and Elected Representatives 

  De Bruycker, Iskander; Rasmussen, Anne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  This article examines the role of interest mobilization in strengthening or weakening congruence between elected representatives and citizens on EU policy issues. It argues that the relationship between public opinion, ...

• A Platform or Partner: Engaging the Media in Advocacy 

  Selvik, Lisa-Marie Måseidvåg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  What are the roles of media actors in relation to civil society actors in advocacy campaigns, and what factors shape these roles? Interested in media strategies of civil society actors, the paper examines the advocacy for ...

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