Department of Comparative Politics
Nye registreringer
-
Grant or deny? Gatekeeping on the Norwegian Supreme Court
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)Interest in the Supreme Court has grown within political science. The rapidly expanding research on the United States Supreme Court has inspired scholars worldwide to study their own national courts. This field is expanding ... -
Endogenous Popularity: How Perceptions of Support Affect the Popularity of Authoritarian Regimes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Being popular makes it easier for dictators to govern. A growing body of scholarship therefore focuses on the factors that influence authoritarian popularity. However, it is possible that the perception of popularity itself ... -
Does policy context matter for citizen engagement in policymaking? Evidence from the European Commission's public consultation regime
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The European Commission has shown efforts to strengthen citizens’ participation in its policy formulation processes through public consultation opportunities. However, we currently lack a systematic analysis of the factors ... -
A Sami land-claims settlement? Assessing Norway's Finnmark Act in a comparative perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Sami, the Indigenous peoples of Fennoscandia, assert ownership-, use-, and management-rights to their traditional lands. Norway's 2005 Finnmark Act is the only legislation so far to broadly respond to those assertions. ... -
One More Time? Parties’ Repeated Electoral Entry in Younger Democracies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Why and how parties continue contesting elections (“repeated entry”) is an underresearched question despite its essence for party survival and party-system stability. We study repeated entry in three decades of elections ... -
Rethinking public funding of parties and corruption: Confronting theoretical complexity and challenging measurement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Does the provision of state subsidies to political parties reduce their involvement in corruption? Existing research provides inconclusive evidence on this relationship, perhaps because cross-national studies on public ... -
The online hostility hypothesis: representations of Muslims in online media
(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 ... -
Ungdomspolitikere og sosiale medier. Hvilke utfordringer og muligheter finnes, en casestudie av ungdomspolitikere i Fredrikstad.
(Master thesis, 2024-02-23)Denne masteroppgaven tar sikte på å gi et bidrag til eventuell forskning rundt hvilke muligheter og utfordringer ungdomspolitikere ser ved bruk av sosiale medier til å fronte politikk. Selv om denne oppgaven fokuserer på ... -
Avoiding a natural resource curse? The impact of administrative efficiency on Colombian municipalities’ fiscal effort
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The term ‘paradox of the plenty’ was coined to describe an often-found inverse relationship between royalty revenue and economic development. The main causal mechanism is thought to be a substitution effect whereby governments ... -
European allygnment: Civil society and political inclusion of the LGBTI community – a mixed methods approach.
(Master thesis, 2023-12-04)The quest for political inclusion of the LGBTI community is complicated. In the last decades, more queer electoral candidates have been elected, queer rights have increased, and general discrimination decreased. Simultaneously, ... -
Populisme på samisk. Framveksten av Nordkalottfolket på Sametinget
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Nordkalottfolket (NKF) fikk sitt politiske gjennombrudd i Sametinget ved valget i 2021 med 18,3 prosent av stemmene med 9 av 39 representanter fra 6 av 7 valgkretser. Med populismens forståelse av hvordan «folket», «eliten» ... -
Kan mikroinvesteringer i landbruket bidra til empowerment for malawiske kvinner?
(Master thesis, 2023-12-01) -
Regulating low wages: cross-national policy variation and outcomes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article provides a comparative analysis of three central policies to regulate low wages: statutory minimum wages, state support for collective bargaining and topping up low wages with public transfers (in-work benefits). ... -
Samfunnsøkonomisk verdiskaping- et smutthull for brudd på urfolksrettigheter? En komparativ studie av om en innvilget driftskonsesjon for Nussir ASA kan bryte med samiske urfolksrettigheter.
(Master thesis, 2023-12-01)Denne studien har hatt som formål å belyse problemstillingen “hvordan har den samfunnsøkonomiske verdiskapingen i Nussir-saken tatt hensyn til samiske urfolksrettigheter?” Bakgrunnen for valg av tematikk er basert på ... -
The Development of Political trust: A multilevel analysis of cross-curtain differences in State-citizen relationships
(Master thesis, 2011-09-20)This analysis is based on a multidimensional view on political trust, aiming to explore whether there are significant differences in the causal effects of political trust between Western and Eastern Europe. Using the classic ... -
Minimum wages: by collective bargaining and by law
(Chapter, 2023) -
Electoral Alliances in a Multilevel Perspective
(Master thesis, 2023-11-20)This thesis investigates the strategic dynamics of Electoral Alliances (EAs) in multilevel electoral systems, focusing on Western European democracies. EAs, defined as joint party lists, can be a critical tool for political ... -
Banebrytande eller unødvendig komplisert bistand? Ein casestudie av eit heilskapleg norsk bistandsprosjekt i Malawi
(Master thesis, 2023-11-20)Ein av dei største norske bistandsinvesteringane i Malawi er utdanningssatsinga "Joint Programme for Girls Education", eit fellesprogram som tek form som eit samarbeid på landnivå mellom UNICEF, UNFPA og WFP. Programmet ... -
Moving beyond the second-order election model?: Three generations of regional election research
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this introduction to the sixth annual review of regional elections we identify three generations of regional election studies that have applied the second-order election (SOE) model. First-generation literature finds ... -
Taxing the 1 per cent: Public Opinion vs Public Policy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Recent studies suggest that public policy in established democracies mainly caters to the interests of the rich and ignores the average citizen when their preferences diverge. I argue that high-income taxation has become ...