• Legislators, organizations and ties: understanding interest group recognition in the European Parliament 

  Ibenskas, Raimondas; Bunea, Adriana (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  What explains Members of European Parliament's (MEPs’) decisions to recognize some interest groups as relevant policy actors? Addressing this question is fundamental for understanding the role of political elites in shaping ...

• With the cards stacked against you. Challenges to a negotiated transition to democracy in Venezuela 

  Marsteintredet, Leiv (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  This article uses the political science literature on transitions to democracy to discuss the domestic challenges to a negotiated transition in Venezuela. Whereas a transition to democracy may occur through many different ...

• From Backlogs to Quality Assurance. The Development of Law Clerk Units at Norwegian Courts 

  Grendstad, Gunnar; Shaffer, William R.; Sunde, Jørn Øyrehagen; Waltenburg, Eric N. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  The Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE) approves the role of law clerks assisting judges in their decision making but cautions against clerks replacing judges. In this article we put CCJE’s caution to a test and ...

• Multi-level governance in a “Europe with the regions”. 

  Schakel, Arjan Hille (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08)

  The concept of multilevel governance was introduced to reveal the impact of regions on European Union (EU) policy making in Brussels. In this contribution, I show that multilevel governance also exposes regional involvement ...

• Politikk i sentrum og periferi - en analyse av Arbeiderpartiets kommunepartier 

  Vestre, Vemund (Master thesis, 2020-12-12)

  This thesis aims to identify differences in policy and ideology between different levels of the Norwegian Labour Party along the centre-periphery dimension. To do this I combine local election manifestos with data on ...

• Den stille revolusjonen møter ungdommelig reaksjon 

  Jordal, Chase Alexander (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”

• Party Competition as an Explanation for New Parties’ Decision to Reenter Elections and Electoral Success: A Heckman’s Selection Model of New Parties in Central and Eastern Europe 

  Baumann, Sofie Hillestad (Master thesis, 2020-08-28)

  This thesis investigates the determinants of reentry and electoral success among new parties that encounter ideological competition from established parties in Central and Eastern Europe. In this part of Europe there is a ...

• Constitutionalising Rights to Water and Sanitation: International Norm Diffusion or Local Politics? 

  Loen, Mathea (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, ...

• The Political Inclusion of Youth : Quotas, Parties, and Elections in Democratic and Democratizing States 

  Belschner, Jana Birke (Doctoral thesis, 2020-08-28)

  This cumulative PhD dissertation studies the political inclusion of young men and women in democratic and democratizing states. It compares three aspects of political inclusion on the macro, meso, and micro levels of ...

• Lek eller læring? En kvalitativ studie om somaliske foreldrenes opplevelse av skole-hjemsamarbeid 

  Ibrahim, Abdullahi Elmi (Master thesis, 2020-08-29)

  Sammendrag Dette er en masteroppgave om demokratibygging ved Universitet i Bergen. Den er en kvalitativ undersøkelse av somaliske foreldres perspektiv på skole-hjem samarbeid. Problemstillingen er: Hvordan opplever somaliske ...

• Brexit 2016. En empirisk analyse av populistiske trender, historie og kultur. 

  Lier, Sigval Økland (Master thesis, 2020-08-28)

  Background and objectives: In June of 2016 a small majority in the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU). This is referred to as Brexit. The purpose of this thesis is to attempt to understand Brexit ...

• Rising Tide or Skilful Manoeuvring? Comparison of classical theories on elections and parties applied to a novel case: The Green Parties 

  Sæverås, Kasper Rømsing (Master thesis, 2020-08-28)

  There has been a steadily increasing interest in the study of the phenomenon of “niche” parties in the last decade. The resulting literature has predominantly focused on populist right-wing parties, and while this is vital, ...

• Just a matter of power? Explaining EU Member States’ commitment to Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) 

  Eilertsen, Ragnhild Hoff (Master thesis, 2020-08-28)

  The EU Member States have generally been reluctant towards a common European security and defence policy, and previous attempts of such inter-state cooperation have been perceived as unsuccessful. Yet, the new European ...

• Skandalepolitikk og medienes rolle: En emnemodellering av mediedekningen av metoo-kampanjen. 

  Smedsvik, Vilde (Master thesis, 2020-08-28)

  Throughout the past decades, political scandals have been increasingly widespread across the world. The key elements of political scandals are typically sex, money, and power. Today these scandals could not have existed ...

• Are Candidate Evaluations Less Susceptible to Partisan Bias than Party Evaluations? 

  Dahl, Soran Hajo (Master thesis, 2020-08-28)

  According to the personalization hypothesis, voters’ attention is shifting away from collective entities like political parties to individual candidates. As attitudes towards candidates are growing more consequential in ...

• Local climate adaptation - Identifying opportunities and challenges for using climate knowledge in municipal decision making 

  Halle, Mina Måsvær (Master thesis, 2020-08-28)

  The usability of climate knowledge for decision makers has proved problematic. The often discussed usability gap occurs because of a discrepancy of what climate scientist perceive to be useful information and what decision ...

• Anti-Corruption Parties in the CEE. The Causal Effect of Anti-Corruption Party. Success on Established Parties’ Salience Shifts. A Regression Discontinuity Approach 

  Lynngård, Juni Maria Jebsen (Master thesis, 2020-08-28)

• Bompengeopprøret i Rogaland. Hets, truslar og bompengar 

  Bernes, Agnes Hoshovde (Master thesis, 2020-08-28)

  Målet med denne oppgåva var å få økt kunnskap om bompengeopprøret som tok stad frå hausten 2018 til våren 2019 i Rogaland. Problemstillinga forsøkjer og gje eit svar på kva som gjorde at debattklimaet i bompengesaken vart ...

• Regjerende populister: Demokratiske effekter av populistisk styring 

  Celiussen, Markus (Master thesis, 2020-08-28)

• Hvordan kan valgteori forklare holdninger til klimaendringer i Europa? En prediktiv analyse 

  Hjelle, Karoline Margrethe (Master thesis, 2020-08-28)

  This thesis identifies various explanations for attitudes towards climate change. My argument is that there are several explanations in the literature on perceptions of climate change that are not elucidated. These ...

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