Blar i Department of Comparative Politics på emneord "731114"
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A Reaffirmed Call for Responsibility-Sharing: Determinants of Responsibility-Sharing after the 2018 Global Compact on Refugees
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)This thesis investigates what can explain states’ contributions to responsibility-sharing in the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees. Refugees and the responsibilities of refugee protection continue to be ... -
Achieving justice by starvation: a quantitative analysis of hunger strike outcomes
(Master thesis, 2014-06-02)This thesis analysis hunger strikes as a specific protest tactic and aims to contribute to the understanding of where, when and how hunger strikes are most likely to reach their intended goals. By using a dataset consisting ... -
Adapting to closing space: Human rights NGOs’ strategies in Putin’s Russia
(Master thesis, 2018-06-21)This thesis is concerned with investigating two phenomena related to civil society occurring in competitive authoritarian regimes: Closing space for civil society and deliberation in the form of limited pluralism. The study ... -
"Addressing the Gender Blindness of Decommodification" - Adapting decommodification of the paradox of female commodification
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)This thesis seeks to resolve the gender blindness of Esping-Andersen's decommodification index and examine which socioeconomic and political forces that explain decommodification when female decommodification is accounted ... -
Afrikansk samarbeid i regionale mellomstatlege institusjonar.
(Master thesis, 2009-05-20)The thesis deals with interstate cooperation in African regional institutions, and poses the question: What characterizes African interstate cooperation as opposed to regional cooperation in other world regions. Institutional ... -
Alle piler peker opp En vekstkurveanalyse av kvinner i de høyeste domstolene
(Master thesis, 2019-12-18)Cross-sectional time-series analysis of women’s representation in states’ legislatures has a rich tradition within social sciences. The same cannot be said about women’s representation on the highest courts. This thesis ... -
An economic explanation to welfare state attitudes: a multilevel analysis of 21 European countries
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Arctic governance: Understanding the geopolitics of commercial shipping via the Northern Sea Route
(Master thesis, 2015-06-02)The purpose of this study is to examine the implications of the development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) with regard to governance in the Arctic. This topic is of importance as Arctic waters are getting bluer, more ... -
Are Candidate Evaluations Less Susceptible to Partisan Bias than Party Evaluations?
(Master thesis, 2020-08-28)According to the personalization hypothesis, voters’ attention is shifting away from collective entities like political parties to individual candidates. As attitudes towards candidates are growing more consequential in ... -
Arven etter … Konsekvensene av arveavgiftens opphevelse på formuesulikheten i Norge
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)What are the redistributive consequences of removing the inheritance taxation? With persistently high levels of wealth inequality, there are arguments suggesting that inheritance tax could serve as an effective instrument ... -
Asylum recognition rates in the EU - Do procedural differences matter?
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«Baajh vaeride årrodh! – La fjella leve!»: En rammeanalyse av verdikonflikten mellom «grønn økonomi» og minoriteters rett til kulturutøvelse
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)On 11th February 2023, young Norwegian activists together with the Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg occupied Norway ́s Oil & Energy Ministry. This marked 500 days since the Norwegian Supreme Court had found ... -
Balancing budgets. Political explanations of central government’s budget balance
(Master thesis, 2010-06-02)This thesis tries to identify which political and societal factors influence central governments' fiscal balance. It conducts the analysis using the statistical technique longitudinal multilevel models. 46 electoral ... -
Balancing the thin line between political and ecological protest, A Study of the Shies Protest
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Banebrytande eller unødvendig komplisert bistand? Ein casestudie av eit heilskapleg norsk bistandsprosjekt i Malawi
(Master thesis, 2023-11-20)Ein av dei største norske bistandsinvesteringane i Malawi er utdanningssatsinga "Joint Programme for Girls Education", eit fellesprogram som tek form som eit samarbeid på landnivå mellom UNICEF, UNFPA og WFP. Programmet ... -
«Barnevernet vil de ha fullstendig fjernet» En studie av årsaker til mistillit til barnevernet
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)This study examines what underlies critical attitudes towards the Norwegian child protection service (CPS) by using quantitative methods and survey data. The CPS`s mandate is to ensure that children in Norway who live under ... -
Between communism and democracy: why postcommunist regimes get "stuck in transition"
(Master thesis, 2010-11-19)The transitions from communist rule throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have resulted in high regime diversity among the postcommunist regimes. Which factors may explain these differences in the political ... -
Bistand for utvikling. Effekten av handelsrelatert bistand på økonomisk utvikling i land sør for Sahara
(Master thesis, 2015-06-02)The aim of this thesis is to study the relationship between Aid for Trade, and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. The research question is: Does trade related aid has a positive direct effect on economic development ... -
Bompengeopprøret i Rogaland. Hets, truslar og bompengar
(Master thesis, 2020-08-28)Målet med denne oppgåva var å få økt kunnskap om bompengeopprøret som tok stad frå hausten 2018 til våren 2019 i Rogaland. Problemstillinga forsøkjer og gje eit svar på kva som gjorde at debattklimaet i bompengesaken vart ...