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Regionale endringer - nøkternhet, pragmatisme og status quo: En kvantitativ studie av holdninger til regionreformen blant fylkesadministrasjonenes ansatte
(Master thesis, 2018-06-16)This thesis seeks to understand the regional administrative employees' attitudes to the ongoing regional reform in Norway. The reform consists of two elements – the merge, both voluntary and by force, of counties, and the ... -
Regionalist Party Spillover from Regional into National and European Elections: The Impact of the Multilevel Electoral System on Vertical Bottom-up Spillover
(Master thesis, 2022-06-23)This thesis explores how the permissiveness of the electoral system impacts regionalist parties’ vertical bottom-up electoral spillover effects from the regional electoral arena into the national and European electoral ... -
Regions and immigration in advanced democracies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Immigration has become a cleaving issue in contemporary politics. Ranging from forced migration and climate-related population displacement to more mundane intra-European Union/European Free Trade Association (EU/EFTA) ... -
Regjerende populister: Demokratiske effekter av populistisk styring
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Regulating Lobbying Through Voluntary Transparency Clubs: the Connoisseurs’ Assessment. Evidence from the European Union
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Regulating private actors’ participation in policy‐making is key to democratic governance. Across political systems, targeted transparency is used to regulate lobbying activities. We examine the extent to which primary ... -
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). ... -
Rejected Cultural Biases Shape Our Political Views: A Migrant Household Study and Two Large-Scale Surveys
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-09-28)The main research problem of how we should understand the relationship between individuals, social structures in institutions, and cultural biases is approached from two different angles: from a study of migrant households ... -
The relationship between financial development and economic growth
(Master thesis, 2011-06-01)Developing countries in Asia and Africa have economically often been lagging behind the economies of the West. One reason can be found by looking at the executive capacities and the necessary financial structures. Global ... -
The relationship between natural resources and armed conflict onset:"It's complicated". A quantitative analysis of how natural resources affect internal armed conflict onset during the period 1950-2003
(Master thesis, 2012-05-31)The thesis examines how natural resources affect internal armed conflict onset through a quantitative analysis of data on 167 countries covering the period 1950-2003. Previous research on the relationship between natural ... -
Religious change and political continuity. The evangelical church in Guatemalan politics
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-05-20)This thesis explores the political implications of the rapid growth of Protestantism in Guatemala. Contrasting the considerable changes in the religious landscape, Guatemalan politics has long been characterised by continuity. ... -
“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 ... -
Representative democracy and climate change : Climate policy preferences and congruence between citizens and elected representatives
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-06-09)Denne avhandlingen tar for seg to viktige aspekter ved politikken i dag. For det første, koblingen mellom innbyggere, folkevalgte og offentlig politikk, som er essensielt for funksjonen til et representativt demokrati. For ... -
Repressing or regulating? How African states control online activities
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-12-06)Sosiale medier og internett har blitt sett på som gode verktøy for demokratisk deltakelse, som gjør det lettere for innbyggerne å delta i politikken og for kandidatene å nå ut til velgerne. Internett og sosiale medier byr ... -
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 ... -
Responding to the gig economy: A comparative case-study of platform work in Norway and United Kingdom
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)The rise of the gig economy is a challenge facing many established economies in Europe. The ongoing digital transformation of society has resulted in rapid changes to the labour market. Work through digital labour platforms ... -
Responsibility to Protect in Application: A Comparative Analysis of Libya and Syria during the Arab spring
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)Responsibility to protect (RtoP) is a recent concept of international politics, whose goal is to define the best attitude to adopt when the world is confronted to grave humanitarian crises. Within RtoP, each state carries ... -
The Responsibility to Protect: En løsning for konflikten i Syria?
(Master thesis, 2014-05-26)Konflikten i Syria startet mars 2011 og har utviklet seg til en borgerkrig med store menneskelige lidelser mens denne studien har blitt utarbeidet. Reaksjonene fra verdenssamfunnet har vært å fordømme volden, men avgjørende ... -
Responsiveness to a Digital Age: Voting on Artificial Intelligence in the European Parliament
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)Artificial Intelligence is a growing technology that is likely to be central for economies and industries across the whole globe. The European Union wants to be at the forefront of the development and deployment of this ... -
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 ... -
Rett og politikk. En studie av NSR og Ap på Sametinget 1998-2004
(Master thesis, 2004)Formålet med denne undersøkelsen er å avdekke hovedforskjellene mellom Norske Samers Riksforbund (NSR) og Arbeiderpartiet (Ap) på Sametinget i dag. De er Sametingets to største partigrupper, og har vært representert i alle ...