Browsing Department of Comparative Politics by Title
Now showing items 464-483 of 540
-
A Tale of Two Cities. A comparative study of ISIS in Ramadi and Fallujah
(Master thesis, 2017-06-30)ISIS attacked Ramadi and Fallujah in the early days of January 2014, and while Fallujah fell at once with no visible resistance, it took protracted fighting and a three-day surge by ISIS before Ramadi fell on May 17 the ... -
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 ... -
Teologi og tilpasning: Skillelinjer og konfliktlinjer i norsk organisert islam
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Innenfor statsvitenskapen har flere forskere analysert samfunnet som et felt som preges av politiske skillelinjer eller konfliktlinjer, etter pionerarbeidene til Stein Rokkan. En konfliktlinje er en dimensjon konflikter ... -
The Term ‘Lone Wolf’ and its Alternatives: Patterns of Public and Academic Use from 2000 to 2020
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Prominent cases of terror attacks planned and perpetrated by individuals have generated an ongoing public and academic debate about how to understand this phenomenon. The moniker “lone wolf” stands at the center of this ... -
The territorial architecture of government
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article sets the stage for a special issue that examines the interplay between subnational and supranational governance. It begins by discussing how the territorial architecture of government has become more multilevel ... -
Territorial reforms, mobilisation, and political trust: a case study from Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The focus of this study is the political trust implications of territorial reforms, approaches to territorial reform, and the effects of the mobilisation of political-territorial collective identities. We focus on the ... -
The absence of climate change mitigation
(Master thesis, 2019-12-19) -
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 ... -
The EU as a democracy promoter in the Maghreb - A crystallization of the European dilemma?
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)In 2021, High Representative of the EU, Josep Borrell, stated that; “25 years after the Barcelona Declaration and 10 years after the Arab Spring, challenges in the Mediterranean – many of which resulting from global trends ... -
The impact of REDD+ on environmental governance and deforestation: A comparative case study of Peru and two subnational Units
(Master thesis, 2019-07-06)Peru adopted a “nested approach” to REDD+ in 2008. The nested approach can teach us a lot about environmental governance and deforestation, because Peru develops REDD+ the on local, regional and national level. The ... -
The Norwegian welfare state and the integration of refugees through activation. An exploratory case study of Bergen
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)Within the field of immigration research one particular topic keeps resurfaces, namely how will immigrants affect the welfare state, a discussion that is often focused on how to protect the welfare state from immigrants. ... -
The regulation and use of armed guards for protection of merchant vessels transitioning high risk areas
(Master thesis, 2020-08-05)The regulation and use of armed guards for protection of merchant vessels transitioning high risk areas - A comparative study of two Western European states’ approach to the employment of armed security. -
The value of human values for understanding attitudes towards the EU: A multi-country and longitudinal study
(Master thesis, 2019-12-12) -
The Winner Takes it All: Investigating the incumbency effect for the Progress Party on the Norwegian municipal level
(Master thesis, 2019-06-28)With this thesis I explore the incumbency effect for the Progress Party in local Norwegian politics. While there seems to be wide-ranging agreement that incumbency indeed has an effect, whether this is an advantage or ... -
Thirty years of Regional and Federal Studies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Regional and Federal Studies' 30th anniversary offers an opportunity to take stock of the state of the discipline and of the journal. We make four claims. First, the multi-level nature of the political world has intensified ... -
Three approaches to labor-market vulnerability and political preferences
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This contribution starts by presenting the three main approaches that political scientists use to analyze labor market vulnerability. We proceed to discuss various operationalizations of labor market vulnerability. We ... -
The Three Mahapacs: a game theoretical analysis of power changes and democracy-building in Israel
(Master thesis, 2009-05-27)Since independence, Israel has passed through the phases of democratic transition from the non-democratic British Mandate Authority of pre-independence Palestine to the democratic confirmation of peaceful transfers of ... -
Tilfeldighetsprinsippet i Norges Høyesterett: Fordelingen av saker mellom dommere og fordelingen av dommere på avdeling. En empirisk undersøkelse
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)I hvilken grad etterlever Norges Høyesterett sitt eget «tilfeldighetsprinsipp» som domstolen sier den praktiserer? Et tilfeldighetsprinsipp er en viktig prosedyre som skal sikre at tildelingen av saker til dommere og ... -
To comply or not to comply? Building an index for constitutional compliance
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)There are limited, but increasing, attempts at quantitatively measuring the distance between de jure provisions and their de facto adherence. Such attempts seem mostly concerned with rights provisions, but some also concern ...