In many European countries right-wing populist parties have experienced a dramatic rise in electoral success, and since the 1970s no other party family have seen the same rise in electoral success as the parties which ...

Den kalde krigen var en ideologisk maktkamp mellom USA, med sitt liberale demokrati og kommunistiske Sovjetunionen. Hvem av stormaktene som startet den kalde krigen, er en diskusjon den dag i dag, og at krigen varte så ...

In the long shadows of Norway’s post-war purge: Second generation’s problems in lightof modern transition theory.The first «wave» of transitions from authoritarian rule to democracy in modern times inSouthern Europe in the ...

The thesis analyses de facto-states from the creation of the United Nation in 1945 until and including 2012. Twenty-three entities are identified, of which four have had success and become UN members, and ten have failed ...

The thesis explores variation in the degree of Hindu-Muslim conflict in the Indian statesGujarat and Rajasthan. Gujarat is characterised by Hindu-Muslim political conflict as well asendemic religious violence. In 2002 more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...