Browsing Department of Comparative Politics by Title
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«Ikke velg klassens klovn!» En studie av elevrådsvalgenes demokratiske begrensninger og potensiale
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Illegitim valgmanipulasjon i Russland. Fra vondt til verre eller mer av det samme?
(Master thesis, 2014-05-05)Det russiske parlamentsvalget i 2011 var det mest omstridte i landet i nyere tid. Titusener tok til gatene for å kreve omvalg, etter en valgprosess som i følge opposisjonen var den skitneste noen sinne. I denne avhandlingen ... -
Implementation of CSR in the Energy Sector: The Case of Equinor
(Master thesis, 2019-07-06)Globalization has made possible global social relations, and understandably these social relations also need governance. Corporate social responsibility is a concept within the business sector relevant for corporate ... -
The Implementation of the Dublin regulations in Greece, Italy and Spain
(Master thesis, 2017-06-16)The objective of this thesis is to explain variations in the implementation of the Dublin regulations in Spain, Italy and Greece. My theoretical framework draws from the literature on Europeanization. I have conducted ... -
Improved Multilevel Regression with Post-Stratification Through Machine Learning (autoMrP)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Multilevel regression with post-stratification (MrP) has quickly become the gold standard for small area estimation. While the first MrP models did not include context-level information, current applications almost always ... -
In Science We Trust, Through Ideology We Look: Explaining Climate Change Attitudes in Norway
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)This thesis explores climate change attitudes among the Norwegian public. While previous research on public opinion on climate change to a large degree has focused on scepticism, this thesis focuses on climate change ... -
In the eyes of the people. An analysis of the impact of EU membership on new member states
(Master thesis, 2008)This study analyzes the impact of EU membership on new member states. The focus is on thecitizens’ perceptions of the benefits of EU membership taking the eastwards expansion in 2004as a point of departure. Considering the ... -
Inadvertent Legitimization of Despotism: A Qualitative Case-Study of the International Approach to the War in Syria
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Industrial development in the North – Sámi interests squeezed between globalization and tradition
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In this article, we analyse tensions in Sámi local communities meeting new industrial development. Indigenous communities experience outmigration and are in need of new business development and employment. Global extractive ... -
Inequality and conflict in the 21st century: A theoretical evaluation of the IC-nexus
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02) -
Innvandringsdebatten i Norge: Endringer i meningsinnhold under "flyktningkrisen" 2015 - 2016
(Master thesis, 2021-12-07)Formålet med oppgaven er å undersøke om debatten rundt innvandring og flukt i Aftenposten har endret seg under «flyktningkrisen» og kan disse sees i sammenheng med antall asylsøkere i Norge i samme periode. Perioden som ... -
Institutional development through crisis? an analysis of the European Court of Human Rights' pilot judgement procedure addressing systemic human rights issues
(Master thesis, 2011-09-20)The thesis aims to investigate a new approach put to use by the European Court of Human Rights for the first time in 2004, known as the Pilot Judgement Procedure, and asks whether this procedure contributes to the ... -
The institutional trajectory of Hamas: From radicalism to pragmatism—and back again?
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-03-06)This thesis explains Hamas’s development, from its modest beginnings to the political force it is today, by analyzing it as a case of party institutionalization. The analytical framework, based on elements from the literature ... -
Inter-gruppe kontakt og verknaden på tillit og toleranse. Gjev inter-gruppe kontakt meir positive oppfatningar av utgrupper og definerte andre?
(Master thesis, 2015-06-02)Auken i etnisk og sosialt mangfald har samstundes auka kontakt mellom etniske grupper, som vidare er venta å auke også i framtida (Sturgis, Brunton-Smith, Read og Allum 2010: 58). Kunnskap om verknadane av inter-gruppe ... -
Interest group networks in the European Union
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Interest group networks are crucial for understanding European Union (EU) integration, policymaking and interest representation. Yet, comparative analysis of interest organisation networks across EU policy areas is limited. ... -
Internal party democracy in former rebel parties
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Intraparty democracy is considered an important feature of former rebel movements’ adaptation to democracy more generally. What conditions intraparty democracy in former rebel parties? This article traces internal debates ... -
The international diffusion of expatriate dual citizenship
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-13)While the global increase of expatriate dual citizenship acceptance over the past decades has been widely observed, the temporal and spatial contexts of this trend have remained understudied. Based on a novel data set of ... -
Introducing the Party-interest group relationships in contemporary democracies datasets
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Few existing datasets on parties and interest groups include data from both sides and a wide variety of interest groups and parties. We contribute to filling this gap by making several interconnected new datasets publicly ... -
Introduction: The Russian welfare state in a time of economic stagnation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This Special Issue is devoted to Russia’s welfare state during the years of economic stagnation that began in 2013. Twelve experts assess social conditions and reforms in poverty, labor market, pension, housing and education ... -
Is boycott the best way to participate ? A study of the possible democratizing effects of election boycotts in the Arab world: 1990-2010
(Master thesis, 2011-06-01)This thesis aims to determine if election boycott is a sound strategy if the opposition in Arab states aspires democratization. No scholars have conducted research focusing on this specific subject up to date, despite the ...