• Decoding Legitimacy: Public Perceptions of AI-Assisted Decision-Making in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration 

  Haugen, Gjøri Marie (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  This master thesis addresses the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) systems in public decision-making. The study’s main objective is to investigate to what extent the use of AI ...

• Does executive autonomy reduce second-order election effects? 

  Schakel, Arjan Hille; Verdoes, Alexander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  The second-order election (SOE) model expects voters to punish parties in national government and reward opposition, small and new parties because there is ‘less at stake’ in an SOE. One key assumption that is rarely studied ...

• Does party identification still matter for political efficacy? A cross-national assessment, 1996–2016 

  Hooghe, Marc; Okolikj, Martin; Oser, Jennifer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  It has been argued that party membership has declined in most liberal democracies over the past several decades, and the remaining party members are even more committed to party goals and policies. If partisanship becomes ...

• Demokrati på arbeidsplassen. Demokratiske val og avgrensingar i den tilsetteeigde verksemda Kantega 

  Kobbeltveit, Øystein (Master thesis, 2024-06-06)

  Democratic enterprises, businesses owned and controlled by employees, have been supported by Marxists, anarchists, social democrats, and democratic theorists for various reasons. The left and anarchists see them as an ...

• Ytre høyres bruk av humor - En casestudie av Alliansen 

  Smedbakken, Lars Erik (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  Denne oppgaven er en casestudie av det politiske partiet Alliansens bruk av humoristiske memer som deles på en åpen gruppe på Telegram. Ved å gjøre en analyse av 305 memer på gruppen «Venner av Alliansen» har jeg undersøkt ...

• Tilbakekall av norsk statsborgerskap: Konsekvenser for integrering og samfunnstillit i det norsk-somaliske miljøet? 

  Yabarow, Abdullahi Barre (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  Sammendrag Denne masteroppgaven undersøker konsekvensene av UDIs praksis med tilbakekall av norsk statsborgerskap for norske somalieres tillit til myndighetene og staten, samt hvordan denne praksisen påvirker integreringen ...

• Demokratiet i Tsjekkia i perioden 2008 til 2023: Et robust demokrati eller begynnende avdemokratisering? 

  Aardal, Geir (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

• Maktfordeling og beslutningsprosesser i flernivåstyringssystem: En analyse av kommunesammenslåingsprosessen mellom Ballangen, Hamarøy, Narvik og Tysfjord. 

  Torbergsen, Kristine Amalie Fagerli (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  Denne oppgaven tar for seg en kommunesammenslåingsprosess hvor Tysfjord kommune er hovedaktøren. Temaet i oppgaven er hvordan interessekonflikt og ulikt maktforhold påvirker politiske beslutningsprosesser på lokalt, regionalt ...

• Populisme og autokratisering: En komparativ casestudie av Nayib Bukeles og Jair Bolsonaros presidentskap 

  Swensen, Martin Abusdal (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  This master’s thesis theorizes populism, democracy, and the relationship between them. The alleged threat that populist leaders impose to the democratic characteristics of political systems, brings up the question of how ...

• Global Visions, Regional Realities: EU Migration and Asylum Policy in light of the UN Compacts on Migration and Refugees 

  Lindseth, Marte (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  This thesis examines the development of the European Union’s migration and asylum policy post-2018, focusing on its alignment and misalignment with the United Nation’s Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees. It explores ...

• Identification and Participation in the United States: A Panel Matching Analysis of Voter ID Laws’ Effect on State-level Turnout 

  Oldeide, Magne (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  The United States has a long and controversial history with voter suppression. Has voter suppression returned in the form of voter ID laws? My research question is "to what degree do voter ID laws affect turnout in the ...

• Investigating the Salience of Liberalism in US Economic Foreign Policy: An analysis of the CHIPS Act of 2022 

  Rye, Alma Theodora (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  This paper examines the extent to which liberalism has become less salient in US economic foreign policy post-2017. The direction of US foreign policy has been a topic of extensive debate among scholars and analysts through ...

• Is There a Switch in Accent for the Heavenly Chorus? Explaining differences in interest group preference attainment in the European Union’s climate action policies 

  Setalid, Malin (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  Over the past five years, there has been an increase in national and supranational efforts to combat climate change. The European Union’s (EU) ambitious climate initiative, the European Green Deal (EUGD), remains the Union’s ...

• Indigenous People’s Self-governing Bodies and the Role of Civil Society: The Case of the Norwegian Sámi 

  Selle, Per; Strømsnes, Kristin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  In this paper, the authors look at the relationship between the Sámi Parliament in Norway and the Sámi civil society as seen both from the perspective of the party leaders and representatives, the civil society organisations, ...

• Latin America in Times of Turbulence. Presidentialism under Stress 

  Llanos, Mariana; Marsteintredet, Leiv (Book, 2023)

• Farewell note: a decade as RFS Editor 

  Tatham, Michael Robert (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  This farewell note reflects on a decade of editorship for Regional & Federal Studies (RFS). It draws on this experience to highlight some areas of change and continuity in the journal’s life, the publishing industry, and ...

• Why countries do (not) lower the voting age: A mixed-methods study of conditions and processes 

  Gjermundsen, Benjamin Haug (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  Many countries around the world have successfully lowered their voting ages to 16 at either the local, regional, and/or national level. These countries have applied differing methods for their implementation process. Some ...

• Do Electoral Systems Influence Political Equality? - A Multimethod Thesis on the Relationship Between Electoral Systems and Political Equality 

  Tjensvold, Tommy Gjesdal (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  In this thesis I look at the relationship between political equality and electoral systems. While I mention several different aspects of electoral systems in the thesis, mostly I focus on the effects of district magnitude ...

• How do Global Capital Flows Affect Economic Growth? Unlocking the Puzzle via a Meta-Regression Analysis of Existing Studies 

  Romfog, Vebjørn (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  Due to the various empirical and theoretical perspectives of capital flows and management techniques’ effects on economic growth, the thesis asks: “How do Global Capital Flows Affect Economic Growth?”. The relationship ...

• Endogenous Popularity: How Perceptions of Support Affect the Popularity of Authoritarian Regimes 

  Buckley, Noah; Marquardt, Kyle Lohse; Reuter, Ora John; Tertytchnaya, Katerina (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 ...

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