Browsing Department of Comparative Politics by Document Types "Doctoral thesis"
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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 ... -
The Politics of Housing Delivery: A Comparative Study of Administrative Behaviour in South Africa and Zimbabwe
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Presidential Interruptions in Latin America. Concepts, Causes, and Outcomes
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-03-04)This dissertation deals with executive instability in Latin American presidentialregimes, a phenomenon called Presidential Interruptions. The dissertation analyses 14cases of presidential interruptions in Latin America in ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Stat, region, union. Flernivåstyre i Den europeiske union
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-06-25)If we study the cultural, economic and political processes of integration taking place in Europetoday and link them to changes in the room for manoeuvre European nation states haveexperienced after the implementation of ... -
Still indispensable: how modern parties need grass roots activists for campaigning and sustaining democracy
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-06-13)This dissertation argues that modern political parties still need grass roots activists for campaigning and sustaining democracy. Western European parties have lost members at an increasing rate over the last 50 years and ... -
Systems Engineering Applied to Evaluate Social Systems: Analyzing systemic challenges to the Norwegian welfare state
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-12-01)The Norwegian welfare state is one of the most generous in the world providing social security through universal healthcare, education and childcare. Elderly Norwegians also face a relatively secure retirement with a solid ... -
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 ... -
Understanding the Uneven Playing Field. The Multifaceted Role of Unfair Electoral Competition in a Non-Democratic Regime
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-06-15)If you are running as an opposition candidate in an election in a non-democratic regime, you know that you are running against a candidate who has better access to the state than you. As a result, you are likely to have ... -
The urban poor as citizens and clients. Enacting political agency through political parties and social movements in Kenya and Zambia
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-05-27)How has political pluralism and increasingly more competitive elections affected the political agency of the urban poor in Kenya and Zambia, and why? This thesis compares the political mobilization of the urban poor by ... -
Whose idea? Family policy in Germany and Norway and the role of international organizations
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-05-28)Ideer som teoretisk innfallsvinkel anvendes i økende grad i studier av velferdspolitiske reformer. En årsak er at teorier som vektlegger funksjonelle (eksempelvis indre og ytre reformpress), institusjonelle (eksempelvis ...