Blar i Department of Comparative Politics på tittel
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To sider av same sak: Ein kvantitativ casestudie av haldningar til kommunesamanslåing og politisk legitimitet
(Master thesis, 2013-06-06)Oppgåva studerer årsaker til haldningar til kommunesamanslåing og korleis desse heng saman med legitimitetsgrunnlaget for kommunesamanslåingar. To kommunar, Hareid og Ulstein, utgjer casen for analysen. Analyseeiningane ... -
A tough trade-off? The asymmetrical impact of populist radical right inclusion on satisfaction with democracy and government
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Populist radical right (PRR) parties are increasingly included in coalition governments across Western Europe. How does such inclusion affect satisfaction with democracy (SWD) in these societies? While some citizens will ... -
Tracking trust - Investigating how social capital influences economic development in Latin America.
(Master thesis, 2009-12-04)This thesis investigates how social capital can lead to enhanced economic development through lowering transaction costs and promoting labour productivity and investment. The research question is: How does social capital ... -
Trade liberalization: The right engine of growth? A quantitative analysis
(Master thesis, 2007)Do lower barriers to international trade induce a positive effect on economic growth? This has been a highly debated issue within the field of economics for more than a century. Several studies find a positive relationship ... -
The trade-off between admitting and paying: Experimental evidence on attitudes towards asylum responsibility-sharing
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The concentration of the world's refugees in developing countries calls for international collaboration on the matter. In the face of concerns voiced not only amongst politicians but also the public, we investigate how ... -
Trajectories of Mental Health Problems in Childhood and Adult Voting Behaviour: Evidence from the 1970s British Cohort Study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The link between childhood mental health difficulties such as conduct problems and adult political abstention has been overlooked despite early mental health difficulties potentially resulting in political self-marginalisation. ... -
Trust and credibility: a study of Norwegian asylum practice in sexual orientation claims
(Master thesis, 2013-06-01)This thesis looks at the Norwegian asylum process in cases where the claimant's sexual orientation is their grounds for seeking asylum. Semi- structured interviews with gay asylum seekers, asylum caseworkers, lawyers and ... -
Trust beyond borders: The Norwegian welfare state, social coordinated security schemes and the free movement of labour
(Master thesis, 2014-11-20)Will the increase in the number of labour immigrants after the EU enlargements in 2004, 2007 and 2013, in the context of having to comply with the regulation of coordinated social security from EU, harm levels of general ... -
Trust in political parties and ideological proximity voting in Europe: the role of trust in political parties as a heuristic mechanism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Previous studies have investigated to what extent voters can achieve proximity between their preferences and the positions of the party they vote for. Combining data from the European Social Survey and the Chapel Hill ... -
Tuning in to formal politics: Mock elections at school and the intention of electoral participation among first time voters in Norway
(Journal article, 2016)The aim of this study is to investigate the relation between political education in schools and the willingness of students to vote in parliamentary elections. Empirically tested through the case of mock elections at schools ... -
TWEED Code Book
(Book, 2006)The data set Terrorism in Western Europe: Events Data, TWEED, contains information on events related to internal (or domestic) terrorism in 18 West European countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, ... -
'Two Bulls in a Kraal' - Recognising cultural difference in post-Apartheid South Africa
(Master thesis, 2002)This thesis addresses the dilemmas that might occur when one introduces liberal strategies for accommodating difference in a society with deep cultural cleavages. In the last few decades there have been an exhaustive debate ... -
Uchaguzi: An analysis of the crowdsourced election monitoring in Kenya 2013
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)During the 2013 general elections in Kenya the crowdsourced election monitoring project Uchaguzi ran in parallel with ordinary domestic and international election observations. Such monitoring projects have been performed ... -
UK Independence Party - Ny politisk kraft i et definert politisk tomrom. Et casestudium av partiets fremvekst i britisk politikk
(Master thesis, 2014-06-04)Ved årets Europaparlamentsvalg sjokkerte UK Independence Party mange ved å bli Storbritannias største parti. Til tross for den siste tidens fremganger er partiet fortsatt lite kjent. Denne oppgaven søker derfor å belyse ... -
Underholdskravet: En ulv i fåreklær? En komparativ analyse av motivene bak endringene av underholdskravet ved familiegjenforening.
(Master thesis, 2015-06-02)The aim of this study has been to investigate motives behind three changes in the Norwegian Immigration Act (Utlendingsloven). The subject in focus has been the rules regarding family migration, and especially the rule ... -
Understanding bureaucratic support for coerced institutional change
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)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 ... -
Understanding patterns of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking: Evidence from the European Union
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)What explains the levels and diversity of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking? We examine a novel dataset on a stakeholder engagement mechanism recently introduced by the European ... -
Understanding the Different Outcomes of the Arab Uprisings: A Comparison of Egypt and Tunisia
(Master thesis, 2017-06-15)This thesis attempts to analyse and explain the reason why Egypt and Tunisia experienced different transitional outcomes following the Arab uprisings in 2011. Although both countries appear to have similar authoritarian ...