Blar i Department of Comparative Politics på dokumenttype "Journal article"
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Colonizing the demos? Settler rights, Indigenous sovereignty, and the contested ‘structure of governance’ in Canada’s North
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Settler-colonialism can consist of a struggle over the pre-political ‘structure of governance’ – over who composes the demos and how decisions should be made. This article examines two lawsuits where settlers contested the ... -
The commitment curve: Global regulation of business and human rights
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-07)The divide between hard law and soft law approaches to global regulation of corporations in relation to human rights is partly based on empirical assumptions. Taking a step back, we assess the claims concerning the current ... -
Competition and interaction: Party ties to interest groups in a multidimensional policy space
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Political parties and interest groups play a vital role in incorporating societal interests into democratic decision-making. Therefore, explaining the nature and variation in the relationship between them will advance our ... -
The Complex Relationship Between Civil Society and Trust
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)This article is about the importance of an institutional perspective of trust. The core argument is that the type, scope and organization of civil society play a crucial role for the high level of trust and social capital ... -
Conditional Legitimacy: How Turnout, Majority Size and Outcome Affect Perceptions of Legitimacy in EU Membership Referendums
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This conjoint study investigates the type of mandate a referendum confers in the political decision-making process. While a majority of citizens in general believe that the government should follow the results of a referendum ... -
Conditional satisfaction: political support, congruence, and cabinet composition
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper examines the relationship between citizen satisfaction with the functioning of democracy and ideological congruence. We focus on how this relationship may vary by government type, paying attention to the ... -
Congruence and party responsiveness in Western Europe in the 21st century
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Research on party responsiveness in established democracies suggests that parties follow shifts in the preferences of either the general electorate or party supporters. Drawing on theoretical models of party competition ... -
Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Affective polarization – that is, antipathy towards political opponents – sits high on the academic and political agenda. This is because it is thought to have a multitude of damaging consequences, both for how citizens ... -
Constituting settler colonialism: the ‘boundary problem’, liberal equality, and settler state-making in Australia’s Northern Territory
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Between Indigenous sovereignty and settler colonisation lie contested frontiers. I suggest Australia’s Northern Territory is one such frontier. This paper explores the 1998 settler campaign for Northern Territory statehood, ... -
Coup with Adjectives: Conceptual Stretching or Innovation in Comparative Research?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Was Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff victim of a coup or removed through a legal process of impeachment? The heated debate on the 2016 ousting of Brazil’s president testifies to the growing controversy around the definition ... -
Cultural theory, rejection of cultural bias, and party preference
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)What explains party preference? Ideology and values do but these explanations are undertheorized. We offer grid-group cultural theory (CT) to provide a theory of ideology and values to explain party preference. We aim to ... -
Defining the playing field: A framework for analysing fairness in access to resources, media and the law
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-02)The playing field is a concept often used to describe level of fairness in electoral competition. With Levitsky and Way’s definition of the playing field as a case in point, this paper takes a critical look at existing ... -
Demokrati og uvitenhet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Denne artikkelen diskuterer først den såkalte «ignoranseinnvendingen» mot demokratiet som hevder at det store flertallet av velgere vet forsvinnende lite om politikk, og at epistokrati derfor er å foretrekke. Vi konkluderer ... -
«Den store demokratidebatten» – da og nå
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Discrimination, Antiprejudice Norms, and Public Support for Multicultural Policies in Europe: The Case of Religious Schools
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This study examines public support for a key contested multicultural policy in contemporary Europe: the provision of religious schools. It makes two main contributions, one substantive and one theoretical. Substantively, ... -
Disentangling the Influence of Recommender Attributes and News-Story Attributes: A Conjoint Experiment on Exposure and Sharing Decisions on Social Networking Sites
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-17)While news outlets still play an important role as a source of news, people increasingly receive their political information and news from social networking sites (SNSs). This study extends the literature on exposure and ... -
Dissecting Public Opinion on Regional Authority: Four Types of Regionalists Based on Citizens’ Preferences for Self-Rule and Shared Rule
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Although regional governments play vital roles in most political systems, citizens’ perceptions regarding regional authority are only rarely studied. Relying on the International Constitutional Values Survey held among ... -
Dissent, Legitimacy, and Public Support for Court Decisions: Evidence from a Survey‐Based Experiment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Scholars often argue that whereas unanimous rulings should boost public support for court decisions, dissents should fuel public opposition. Previous studies on public responses to U.S. Supreme Court decisions suggest that ... -
Do citizens make inferences from political candidate characteristics when aiming for substantive representation?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)We elicit citizens' preferences over hypothetical candidates by applying conjoint survey experiments within a probability-based online panel of the Norwegian electorate. Our experimental treatments differ in whether citizens ... -
Do informal Networks Increase Migrants’ Over-Education? Comparing Over-Education for Natives, Migrants and Second Generations in Italy and Assessing the Role of Networks in Generating It
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Whilst migration has become a structural feature of most European countries, the integration of foreigners in the labour market continues to raise concerns. Evidence across countries shows that migrants are more often ...