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Minimum Wage, Minimum Effect
(Master thesis, 2019-06-14)Rising income inequality is one of the greatest challenges that advanced democracies currently face. This thesis analyses to what extent statutory minimum wages can contribute to tackling this challenge. In the existing ... -
Minimum wages: by collective bargaining and by law
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Models with Men and Women: Representing Gender in Dynamic Modeling of Social Systems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-05-23)Dynamic engineering models have yet to be evaluated in the context of feminist engineering ethics. Decision-making concerning gender in dynamic modeling design is a gender and ethical issue that is important to address ... -
Money for nothing? Arguments for basic income, universal pensions and universal child benefits in Norway
(Master thesis, 2014-06-02)Basic income is a radical idea which has gained more attention in many countries in recent years, as traditional welfare states are having trouble solving the problems they were created to solve. Basic income promises to ... -
"Money, like water, will always find an outlet": Financing presidential general elections from 1976 to 2012.
(Master thesis, 2013-06-03)This thesis investigates political finance in the United States focusing on presidential general elections from 1976 to 2012. Political finance is a scholarly field that has received renewed attention in American politics ... -
Monster or Hero? Far-right Responses to Anders Behring Breivik and the July 22, 2011 Terrorist Attacks
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study maps and seeks to explain the evolution of far-right responses to the July 22 terrorist attacks in 2011. We identify substantial temporal and spatial variation in how different far-right actors responded between ... -
Motives in Development Policy, whose are they really? -A study of the administration's role in Norwegian development policy
(Master thesis, 2005)Engaging in a study of the administration’s role in Norwegian development policy, this thesis explores the microfoundations of development assistance in relation to the concept of motives in development policy.In this ... -
Moving beyond the second-order election model?: Three generations of regional election research
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this introduction to the sixth annual review of regional elections we identify three generations of regional election studies that have applied the second-order election (SOE) model. First-generation literature finds ... -
Multi-level governance in a “Europe with the regions”.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08)The concept of multilevel governance was introduced to reveal the impact of regions on European Union (EU) policy making in Brussels. In this contribution, I show that multilevel governance also exposes regional involvement ... -
Nativist attitudes and opportunistic support for democracy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Do nativists differ from other citizens in their attitudes towards democracy? In this article it is demonstrated that nativism goes hand in hand with preferences for a type of democracy where the interests of the natives ... -
A nativist divide? Anti-immigration attitudes and diffuse support for democracy in Western Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Earlier research has shown a strong connection between anti-immigration attitudes and political trust in Western Europe. In this research note, we examine if nativists’ low levels of specific political support translate ... -
NATO + Russland = Umulig?
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)Fra 16. Oktober 1962 til 28. Oktober 1962 holdt verden pusten. Krisen handlet om utplasseringen av atomvåpenraketter på Cuba. Den daværende amerikanske presidenten John F. Kennedy iverksatte en skipsblokade rundt øyen, og ... -
Naturressurser, institusjoner og korrupsjon- en kvantitativ analyse.
(Master thesis, 2008-12-04)Dette studiet studerer forholdet mellom naturressurser, institusjoner og korrupsjon. Ulike teorier blir presentert som forklaringer på hvorfor korrupsjonsnivået varierer, der både politiske, økonomiske og kulturelle ... -
Når det gjelder som mest. En studie av tillit til myndigheter for å håndtere terrorangrep i Norge
(Master thesis, 2015-06-02)The purpose of this thesis is to examine to what extent trust in authorities' ability to handle a terrorist attack can be explained by policy distance. The level of trust in political institutions in Norway is generally ... -
«Når man først spør, så forplikter man jo til å høre etter» En studie av lokalpolitikeres holdninger til borgerpanel
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)In a time where political participation and democratic legitimacy are in decline, several countries and regions have taken to democratic innovations as a measure to reinvigorate their democracy. For democratic innovations ... -
A New French Revolution? An integrative approach in the analysis of the Romanian transition
(Master thesis, 2001)This thesis has focued on the Romanian transition. The critical period concerned was from March 1989, with apparent signs of liberalisation, to the 1990 elections. Romania differed from the East and Central European ... -
New Policies, Old Attitudes? - Discrimination against Roma in Norway
(Master thesis, 2017-06-15)Norway has a long history of discrimination against a group of Roma, namely the Tater/Romani people. In 1998, the Norwegian authorities officially apologised for the way in which the Tater/Romani people had been treated. ... -
No Compromise - No Democracy. Pacts, Threats and Nested Games as Approaches to the Belarusian and Russian Transitions
(Master thesis, 2007)Belarus and Russia entered simultaneous transitions as the Soviet Union broke down at theend of 1991. As most other former Soviet republics Belarus and Russia did not end up withdemocratic regimes as a result of transition. ... -
No Country for Green Men? A case study of the Green Party of the United States
(Master thesis, 2014-05-31)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the following question: Why has the Green Party of the United States not been more successful in the political arena?" This question is again related to two broader questions; why ...