Browsing Department of Comparative Politics by Title
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The Making and Unmaking of the Politics of Exceptionality. Studying Processes of Securitisation and Desecuritisation in the Orange and Okavango River Basins
(Master thesis, 2006)This study acknowledges the shortcomings of, on the one side, keeping the concept ofsecurity in international relations limited and confined to state protection by military meansfrom perceived internal and/or external ... -
Making the government accountable: rethinking immigration as an issue in the European Union
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In the last decades, European countries have experienced two relevant waves of immigration. These ‘immigration shocks’ have contributed to increase dramatically public attention on immigration issues but also to structure ... -
Mange politiske mål på få mål jord - ein analyse av partipolitikkens rolle i forvaltinga av norske jordressursar
(Master thesis, 2017-06-15)The point of departure for this thesis is the inconsistency between national goals to conserve farmland, and the local management of this natural resource, which prevents Norway from complying with its national goals. The ... -
Marinejegerkommandoens evne til militær rådgivning. Crisis Response Unit 222 Special Operations Advisory Team i Afghanistan, 2015-2018
(Master thesis, 2019-07-26)Hvordan har Forsvarets Spesialstyrker (FS) lykkes med militær rådgivning av Crisis Response Unit (CRU) 222 når de står overfor komplekse utfordringer som tilsynelatende hindrer vellykket statsog demokratibygging i Afghanistan? ... -
Massesamfunnet Redux. En universell modell som forklarer endringer og utfall i demokratiseringsprosessen
(Master thesis, 2007)Dette er en teoretisk oppgave hvis formål er å vise hvordan generelle teorier ikke nødvendigvis er avgrenset til bestemte tidspunkt og geografiske regioner. Ved å kombinere ulike teorier kan en skape en ny teoretisk modell ... -
Med evne og vilje til å være upartisk? En analyse av den internasjonale straffedomstolens legitimitet ved behandlingen av anmodningene om etterforskning i Uganda og Sudan
(Master thesis, 2009-05-20)This master thesis explores preconditions for the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The foundations for the Court's legitimacy will be investigated by researching the selection process in two cases ... -
Med én fot innenfor: hvordan norske interesseaktører jobber i Brussel
(Master thesis, 2011-05-31)Denne masteroppgaven er et hypotesegenererende casestudium, foretatt innenfor et hovedsaklig uutforsket område. Oppgavens hovedmål er å forklare hvorfor interesseaktører i EU-systemet velger ulike lobbystrategier når de ... -
Media effects on opinions about climate change mitigation and the Norwegian petroleum industry
(Master thesis, 2015-06-05)With this thesis I aim to investigate the media influences on Norwegian public opinions on climate change mitigation policies, with a particular emphasis on mitigation policies that target the Norwegian petroleum industry. ... -
Mellom ord og krig: Ein komparativ casestudie av EU og USA sin bruk av GSP-sanksjonar mot Kviterussland
(Master thesis, 2012-06-03)This thesis aims to reveal the nature of the European Union as a sender of sanctions compared with the United States. The question I ask is; is the European Union less united as sender of GSP-sanctions than the US, and ... -
Mellom pietistisk fundamentalisme og kommunalistisk interessepolitikk. En komparativ analyse av interaksjon mellom religion og politikk i India, Sri Lanka og Pakistan
(Master thesis, 2001)Temaet i denne hovedoppgaven er forholdet mellom religion og politikk. Enhetene er India, Sri Lanka og Pakistan. Tidsmessig er analysen hovedsakelig avgrenset til landenes periode som selvstendige stater. Oppgavens teoretiske ... -
Messy Issues, Policy Conflict and the Differentiated Polity: Analysing Contemporary Policy Responses to Complex, Uncertain and Transversal Policy Problems
(Doctoral thesis, 2006-04-07)At present, a surprisingly wide variety of commentators and observers seem toagree that Europeans are failing to tackle urgent policy challenges. As a result,so the argument does, Europeans are falling further and further ... -
A meta-analysis of income and democracy. Why we still have not reached consensus after 60 years of research
(Master thesis, 2015-06-02)The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between per capita income and democracy. Namely, do increases in income per capita affect a regime's level of democracy? The scholarly tradition has investigated ... -
The metamorphosis of the russian opposition parties from 1993 to nowadays
(Master thesis, 2011-05-30)This thesis is investigating the changes in the role of the political opposition in Russia since 1993. The main aim of this research is to determine how Russian political system is influencing the role of the political ... -
The metapolitics of settler colonialism : Individual rights, collective boundaries, and Indigenous (de)colonization
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-06-19)Metapolitics are like the forces inside the atom, so constitutive of the world around us that they hide in plain sight. If domestic politics happens within polities, and geopolitics happens between them, metapolitics decides ... -
Militær opprustning av kunstig intelligens - En casestudie på utviklingen av kunstig intelligens i Kina, Russland og USA
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)Denne oppgaven identifiserer drivere og hindringer for utviklingen av kunstig intelligens. Oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i stormaktsperspektivet og er en casestudie av Kina, Russland og USA. Hva som utgjør drivere og eller ... -
Miljøpartiet de Grønne på Stortinget: En studie av et partipolitisk gjennomslag
(Master thesis, 2016-07-08)The aim of this study is to explain the entrance of the Norwegian Green Party in national politics in Norway. Even if the environmental issue has been strongly present in Norwegian politics, a green party represented in ... -
Minimum Wage, Minimum Effect
(Master thesis, 2019-06-14)Rising income inequality is one of the greatest challenges that advanced democracies currently face. This thesis analyses to what extent statutory minimum wages can contribute to tackling this challenge. In the existing ... -
Models with Men and Women: Representing Gender in Dynamic Modeling of Social Systems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-05-23)Dynamic engineering models have yet to be evaluated in the context of feminist engineering ethics. Decision-making concerning gender in dynamic modeling design is a gender and ethical issue that is important to address ... -
Money for nothing? Arguments for basic income, universal pensions and universal child benefits in Norway
(Master thesis, 2014-06-02)Basic income is a radical idea which has gained more attention in many countries in recent years, as traditional welfare states are having trouble solving the problems they were created to solve. Basic income promises to ... -
"Money, like water, will always find an outlet": Financing presidential general elections from 1976 to 2012.
(Master thesis, 2013-06-03)This thesis investigates political finance in the United States focusing on presidential general elections from 1976 to 2012. Political finance is a scholarly field that has received renewed attention in American politics ...