Department of Comparative Politics
Recent Submissions
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Democratic Reflections : To what extent do representatives mirror their constituents, and how does it affect the challenges modern, representative democracy are facing?
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-02-04)This thesis addresses the important challenges that contemporary, representative democracies are facing, and shows how (better) representation can contribute to tackling them. In doing so, I limit the scope to one specific ... -
Lokalavisens betydning for lokaldemokratiet
(Master thesis, 2021-11-23)I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg hvilken betydning de minste lokalavisene i Norge har for lokaldemokratiet i kommunene de dekker. Spørsmålet jeg ønsket å besvare i oppgaven er: «Er det forskjell i kvaliteten på demokratiet ... -
Climate Change and New Approaches to Securing the Arctic: The Case Study of Canada
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Markedsstyring versus menneskerettigheten til vann: En komparativ studie av interesser og ideologi i vannpolitikken i Chile og Bolivia
(Master thesis, 2021-11-23)The management of increasingly scarce water resources is a fundamental political question. It revolves around needs, interests, and power, and it's inherently ideological. The aim of this thesis is to better understand why ... -
“From radical revolution to pragmatic moderation.” What drives anti-system moderation in former rebel parties?
(Master thesis, 2021-12-17) -
Inadvertent Legitimization of Despotism: A Qualitative Case-Study of the International Approach to the War in Syria
(Master thesis, 2021-12-21) -
Target, shaper, implementor : Regional Administrative Behaviour in the Rescaling of Norway’s Subnational Government Architecture
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-01-21)The Norwegian 2014-2020 Local Government Reform, and the 2015-2020 Regional Government Reform reduced the number of municipalities from 428 to 356, the number of counties from 19 to 11, and transferred some political and ... -
Reserved but Principled – and Sometimes Functional: Explaining Decentralisation Preferences Among Regional Bureaucrats
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In recent decades, decentralisation measures have been implemented in most advanced democracies. While such reforms may be driven by subnational pressures and demands for empowerment, the central government usually has the ... -
Understanding bureaucratic support for coerced institutional change
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Institutional reform processes can be contested. The more so by those working in the affected institutions. Bureaucracies, in particular, can be resistant to change. To better understand such processes, we study the regional ... -
“Ren populisme!” Finnes det populistiske trekk ved Rødts kommunikasjonsstil på Facebook?
(Master thesis, 2021-06-15)Denne oppgaven tar for seg Rødt og har som formål å undersøke hvorvidt det finnes populistiske trekk ved partiet. I den offentlige debatten er det flere eksempler på at partiet på ulike måter er omtalt som populistisk. Med ... -
Diaspora Mobilization for Justice During Conflict : The Case of Syria
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-12-15)This dissertation asks how diaspora mobilization for transitional justice evolves during conflict. Mobilization for transitional justice typically “deals with the past” and focuses on retrospective attempts to deal with ... -
Improved Multilevel Regression with Post-Stratification Through Machine Learning (autoMrP)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Multilevel regression with post-stratification (MrP) has quickly become the gold standard for small area estimation. While the first MrP models did not include context-level information, current applications almost always ... -
EU membership effect on interest group access to the European Commission
(Master thesis, 2021-07-23) -
Unequal representation: The case of climate policy and youth
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)A growing body of research finds that representation is real, but likely unequal. Policy is shown to disproportionately follow the preferences of some societal groups, most notably the rich, in advanced democracies. This ... -
Divine Intervention: The Influence of Pentecostal Sermons on Democratic Values Evidence from Zambia
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)Pentecostalism has grown immensely over the last 20 years in many African states, but we have little systematic understanding of how this growth affects democratic development. Drawing on democratic theories that emphasise ... -
Between a Rock and a Hard Place. The Islamic Council of Norway and the Challenge of Representing Islam in Europe
(Doctoral thesis, 2020)In several European countries the authorities have sought to institutionalize and regulate the Islamic or Muslim presence in their countries through Islamic Representative Councils (IRCs) that can function as interlocutors ... -
Asylum recognition rates in the EU - Do procedural differences matter?
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02) -
Spesialiserte advokater mot dommere med generell kompetanse - En analyse om effekten av advokaterfaring på saksutfall i Norges Høyesterett 2018-2020
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)This thesis examines the influence of lawyer experience on case outcomes in the Norwegian Supreme Court from 2008 to 2020. The human capital theory has long claimed that there is a positive relationship between on-the-job-training ... -
An economic explanation to welfare state attitudes: a multilevel analysis of 21 European countries
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The Effect of Voter ID Laws on Turnout: A Counterfactual Analysis
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)In the United States, laws requiring voters to show ID in order to vote are both a novel and highly controversial policy intervention. Disagreement over these laws largely centers on their expected effect on turnout, with ...
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