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 ...

While interest groups are consulted at different stages of policy making to provide expertise and legitimacy, their influence is often criticized as being undemocratic. Yet, we know little about how their participation in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Objective: The purpose of this article is to explain howPeronism, an allegedly personalist party, has managed to insti-tutionalize its internal power struggles and its successionprocedures since democratization in 1983.Methods: ...

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 ...

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 research of this thesis is guided by a curiosity to understand the soft law non-binding framework of the 2018 UN Global Compacts on Refugees and for Migration, and its significance for the international protection of ...

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 ...