Browsing Department of Comparative Politics by Title
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Parti, velgere, media og politikk. Innflytelse på Stortingets dagsorden gjennom representasjon og agendasetting 1985-2001
(Master thesis, 2004)I denne oppgaven analyseres partienes, velgernes og medienes innflytelse på Stortingets dagsorden i perioden 1985-2001. To ulike prosesser for innflytelse på offentlig politikk, politisk representasjon og politisk ... -
Participation in Indigenous Democracy: Voter Turnout in Sámi Parliamentary Elections in Norway and Sweden
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-11-05)This article compares and analyzes voter turnout in the 2013 elections to the Sámi parliaments in Norway and Sweden, using data from voter surveys. Is voting in these elections motivated by the same factors that explain ... -
Party Competition as an Explanation for New Parties’ Decision to Reenter Elections and Electoral Success: A Heckman’s Selection Model of New Parties in Central and Eastern Europe
(Master thesis, 2020-08-28)This thesis investigates the determinants of reentry and electoral success among new parties that encounter ideological competition from established parties in Central and Eastern Europe. In this part of Europe there is a ... -
Party Responsiveness to Public Opinion in Young Democracies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Are political parties in young democracies responsive to the policy preferences of the public? Compared to extensive scholarship on party responsiveness in established democracies, research on party responsiveness in young ... -
Party roles in young democratic regimes - Challenging dynamics in a modern political environment
(Master thesis, 2009-12-03)The democratic situation for young regimes in Eastern Europe is one hallmarked withchallenges. This master thesis focuses on three young democracies, Hungary, Latvia andSlovenia, in order to shed on these challenges. The ... -
Past and Present Sources of European Union. A Comparative Historical-Institutionalist Analysis
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-06-11)This study sets out to explain why continental and southern Europe has beensignificantly more favourable to post-1945 European integration than the north. I arguethat this is an important problem for two reasons. First, ... -
Patterns of Financialisation: A Multimethod Study of Banking Regulation in Canada
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)In this thesis I ask if financialisation – the increasing influence of the financial sector – may cause a dual effect of increased economic growth and decrease wage share of total income. I operationalise financialisation ... -
På gata for å skape data? En casestudie av SIAN sin gate- og nettaktivitet
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)It has been argued that the far-right has moved their street activism to online platforms. While the radical right and the extreme right were active in the streets 20 years ago, they have primarily shifted their activism ... -
Påvirker innvandringsscenarier nordmenns holdninger til innvandrere? Et surveyeksperiment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Er nordmenns forventninger om størrelsen på fremtidig innvandring med på å påvirke deres holdninger til innvandrere? Eksperimenter fra USA viser at eksponering for framskrivninger der den hvite delen av befolkningen ender ... -
Påvirkning i korrupsjonens gråsoner
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Perspectives on human rights in a local context. A case study of Belarus.
(Master thesis, 2019-07-06)The present research makes several noteworthy contributions to the theme of perspectives on human rights in a local context by examining the case of Belarus. Its major objective is to examine the interrelation between the ... -
A Platform or Partner: Engaging the Media in Advocacy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)What are the roles of media actors in relation to civil society actors in advocacy campaigns, and what factors shape these roles? Interested in media strategies of civil society actors, the paper examines the advocacy for ... -
Platform work in a Coordinated Market Economy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)To investigate whether platform work can grow even in political economies with an adverse institutional environment, we examine Germany as a least likely case. We assess what constrains the growth of platform work in Germany ... -
Policy positions, power and interest group-party lobby routines
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Prior literature points to the importance of party power and ideology for interest group-party contacts in the legislative arena. But interest groups do not often have ideologies – they are typically active in a small ... -
Policy representation in Europe: the 2018 Peter Mair lecture
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)A key challenge of democratic societies is to ensure a continuous flow of information between the people and elites in order to secure representation of citizen preferences. While there may be occasions where deviations ... -
Political (In)tolerance of the Far-Right: The Importance of Agency
(Journal article, 2021-05-04)This paper examines the impact of far-right agency on public political tolerance—what the parties on the far right do to disconnect themselves from accusations of extremism and thus increase their political tolerance by ... -
The political agency of private military and security companies: Govenors in the making
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-06-06)This thesis studies the political agency of private military and security companies (PMSCs) and, in particular, the legitimation of their authority. Four case studies provide four inroads into the manner in which these ... -
Political and institutional limits to the rise of platform work
(Chapter, 2022)This chapter discusses why it is unlikely that platform work will replace standard employment on a massive scale. I discuss social, economic, institutional, and political factors that limit platform work. Among the ... -
Political congruence between adolescence and their parents: evidence from a quasi-experimental local elections in the city of Ghent (Belgium)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Lowering the voting age is often criticized due to the alleged political immaturity of young voters, which is considered as negative for the quality of democracy. We adopt a unique approach to this issue by measuring ... -
The Political Inclusion of Youth : Quotas, Parties, and Elections in Democratic and Democratizing States
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-08-28)This cumulative PhD dissertation studies the political inclusion of young men and women in democratic and democratizing states. It compares three aspects of political inclusion on the macro, meso, and micro levels of ...