Blar i Department of Comparative Politics på tittel
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The Politics of Housing Delivery: A Comparative Study of Administrative Behaviour in South Africa and Zimbabwe
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The Politics of Liberal Rights in Africa : Regulating and legislating freedom of association, expression, and information
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-09-02)Hvordan utspiller kampen om liberale rettigheter seg i Afrikas flerpartidemokratier? Dette spørsmålet er i sentrum for denne avhandlingen. Selv om afrikanske demokratier i stor grad har omfavnet den valgdemokratiske ... -
Politiets innsats mot æresrelatert vold
(Master thesis, 2021-06-15) -
Politifagforeninger - Hvordan innflytelse har de på staters demokrati?
(Master thesis, 2016-06-01)Alle stater har politi. Politiet er den institusjon som håndhever statsmaktens legitime voldsbruk på egen befolkning og politiet er en forutsetning for statens demokratiske virke. Fagforeninger er også en sentral institusjon ... -
Politikk i sentrum og periferi - en analyse av Arbeiderpartiets kommunepartier
(Master thesis, 2020-12-12)This thesis aims to identify differences in policy and ideology between different levels of the Norwegian Labour Party along the centre-periphery dimension. To do this I combine local election manifestos with data on ... -
"Politikk schmolitikk?" En analyse av norsk politisk mediedekning
(Master thesis, 2011-05-31)This thesis concerns an important relationship between different actors of the mediated political debate, first and foremost between journalists and politicians. I go through two different theories about their relationship ... -
Politikk teller, kjønnsroller avgjør. Om kjønnsfordelingen i 30 europeiske parlamenter
(Master thesis, 2008)Even though most political scientists writing on gender presence in parliaments tend to focuson either socioeconomic or political factors, my finding is that gender roles is the factor withthe most explanatory power. Those ... -
Politisk kultur og demokratiutvikling i Polen
(Master thesis, 2022-12-01)Denne oppgaven tar for seg autokratiseringen som foregår i Polen og om denne utviklingen har noe med politisk kultur å gjøre, både blant de styrende og hos deler av befolkningen. Bakgrunnen for denne studien, er den generelle ... -
Politiske og institusjonelle trekk: En kvantitativ studie av norske kommuners budsjettbalanse
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)This thesis examines what political and institutional factors effect municipalities fiscal balance. Previous research in this field has tended to investigate single phenomenon’s effect on fiscal balance. This thesis aims ... -
Politiske og økonomiske effekter på utslipp av drivhusgasser: en kvantitativ studie
(Master thesis, 2011-05-31)Denne studien undersøker hvorvidt det finnes en kurvlineær sammenheng mellom økonomisk utviklingsnivå og utslipp av drivhusgasser, hvor fattige og rike land har lave utslipp mens vanlige land har høye utslipp. Dette er et ... -
Populism and the pandemic. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro leading the country in times of COVID-19
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)While there are many studies on the buzz-word populism, there are far fewer studies on how populism effects crisis management. When the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 disease a global pandemic on March ... -
Populisme og autokratisering: En komparativ casestudie av Nayib Bukeles og Jair Bolsonaros presidentskap
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)This master’s thesis theorizes populism, democracy, and the relationship between them. The alleged threat that populist leaders impose to the democratic characteristics of political systems, brings up the question of how ... -
Populisme på samisk. Framveksten av Nordkalottfolket på Sametinget
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Nordkalottfolket (NKF) fikk sitt politiske gjennombrudd i Sametinget ved valget i 2021 med 18,3 prosent av stemmene med 9 av 39 representanter fra 6 av 7 valgkretser. Med populismens forståelse av hvordan «folket», «eliten» ... -
Populist MPs on Facebook: Adoption and emotional reactions in Austria, the Netherlands, and Sweden
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The argument goes that social media can reinforce the rise of populism as populists' emotionally charged language fits well with social media algorithms. However, whether this potential materializes in practice depends on ... -
Populist Radical Right Parties in Government: Representational Correctives or Vehicles of Discontent?
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)In the past decades, populist radical right parties in Europe have seen a rise in popularity and have recently started entering European parliaments and governments. This thesis seeks to dive deeper into the consequences ... -
Populist Radical Right Voters in Contemporary Democracies in Western Europe: Operationalizing and Testing the Three-Dimensional Political Space hypotheses
(Master thesis, 2014-06-02)This thesis operationalizes and tests a new theoretical framework of how to map populist radical right voters in the political space. While such research has been dominated by two-dimensional frameworks, the framework of ... -
A Postmaterialist Explanation for Homophobia in Africa: Multilevel Analysis of Attitudes Towards Homosexuals in 33 African Countries
(Master thesis, 2018-06-26)This thesis advances a modified version of Inglehart’s Postmaterialist thesis as an explanation for homophobia in Africa. My argument is that economic development substantially contributes to creating a Postmaterialist ... -
Power and Arms: The Diffusion of Military Innovations and Technology. A Comparative Historical Analysis of the Spread of Military Power After the Cold War and Consequences for the Norwegian Navy in the NATO Alliance
(Master thesis, 2018-07-07)This thesis investigates the extensive puzzle of various influences on the diffusion of military power, meaning the spread of certain innovations, through the international system and the implications for international ... -
Predicting the legal status of recreational marijuana in U.S. states
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)Following decades of a war on drugs in the United States and the demonization of marijuana, a wave of recreational legalization began in 2012 with Washington state and Colorado. Recreational marijuana legalization is a ... -
Preserving the old or building the new? Reputation-building through strategic talk and engagement with stakeholder inputs by the European Commission
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)How bureaucracies respond publicly to policy inputs received in the context of stakeholder participation in policymaking provides important insights into their reputation-building strategies. We examine the European ...