Department of Comparative Politics
Recent Submissions
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“From radical revolution to pragmatic moderation.” What drives anti-system moderation in former rebel parties?
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Target, shaper, implementor : Regional Administrative Behaviour in the Rescaling of Norway’s Subnational Government Architecture
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-01-21)The Norwegian 2014-2020 Local Government Reform, and the 2015-2020 Regional Government Reform reduced the number of municipalities from 428 to 356, the number of counties from 19 to 11, and transferred some political and ... -
Reserved but Principled – and Sometimes Functional: Explaining Decentralisation Preferences Among Regional Bureaucrats
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In recent decades, decentralisation measures have been implemented in most advanced democracies. While such reforms may be driven by subnational pressures and demands for empowerment, the central government usually has the ... -
Understanding bureaucratic support for coerced institutional change
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Institutional reform processes can be contested. The more so by those working in the affected institutions. Bureaucracies, in particular, can be resistant to change. To better understand such processes, we study the regional ... -
Diaspora Mobilization for Justice During Conflict : The Case of Syria
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-12-15)This dissertation asks how diaspora mobilization for transitional justice evolves during conflict. Mobilization for transitional justice typically “deals with the past” and focuses on retrospective attempts to deal with ... -
Improved Multilevel Regression with Post-Stratification Through Machine Learning (autoMrP)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)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 ... -
Unequal representation: The case of climate policy and youth
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)A growing body of research finds that representation is real, but likely unequal. Policy is shown to disproportionately follow the preferences of some societal groups, most notably the rich, in advanced democracies. This ... -
Divine Intervention: The Influence of Pentecostal Sermons on Democratic Values Evidence from Zambia
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)Pentecostalism has grown immensely over the last 20 years in many African states, but we have little systematic understanding of how this growth affects democratic development. Drawing on democratic theories that emphasise ... -
Between a Rock and a Hard Place. The Islamic Council of Norway and the Challenge of Representing Islam in Europe
(Doctoral thesis, 2020)In several European countries the authorities have sought to institutionalize and regulate the Islamic or Muslim presence in their countries through Islamic Representative Councils (IRCs) that can function as interlocutors ... -
Globalisation and democracy - friends or foes? Examining the effects of economic globalization on the quality of democracy in established democracies.
(Master thesis, 2021-07-16)This thesis examines whether economic globalisation has any general effects on the quality of democracy in established democracies. Globalisation is considered a crucial contemporary challenge to modern democracies. While ... -
Balancing the thin line between political and ecological protest, A Study of the Shies Protest
(Master thesis, 2021-08-18) -
Politiets innsats mot æresrelatert vold
(Master thesis, 2021-06-15) -
Local Ownership in Funding mechanisms’ Support to Civil Society Organizations’ Peacebuilding efforts
(Master thesis, 2021-06-15)With the purpose of delivering “clarity through specificity” (Uphoff and Cohen 1980), this thesis explores the vaguely defined concept of local ownership in the area of international funding mechanisms support to “local” ... -
Accountable to whom? How strong parties subvert local democratic institutions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)How do politicians in emerging democracies subvert institutional reforms that are designed to improve accountability? Looking at patron-client relations within political parties, I present a strategy, partisan accountability, ... -
Approaching the boundary problem: Self-determination, inclusion, and the unpuzzling of transboundary conflicts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In recent decades, decisionmakers have increasingly faced conflicts juxtaposing demands for self-determination and inclusion. Political theorists term this juxtaposition “the boundary problem.” They have offered normative ... -
Samepolitikkens plass i utviklingsprosesser i nord
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)I løpet av de siste 30 årene har framveksten av Sametinget og andre samiske institusjoner løftet samepolitikken inn i en internasjonal urfolksdiskurs, hvor samiske rettigheter er styrket gjennom norsk støtte til internasjonale ... -
Regional spillover into third-order European elections
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Second-order election research clearly reveals that national incumbency impacts on European election outcomes but despite the increasing importance of regions few studies explore the impact of regional politics. I theorize ... -
Thirty years of Regional and Federal Studies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Regional and Federal Studies' 30th anniversary offers an opportunity to take stock of the state of the discipline and of the journal. We make four claims. First, the multi-level nature of the political world has intensified ... -
Regions and immigration in advanced democracies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Immigration has become a cleaving issue in contemporary politics. Ranging from forced migration and climate-related population displacement to more mundane intra-European Union/European Free Trade Association (EU/EFTA) ... -
Free Speech and Ideology: Society, Politics, Law
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Free speech remains a crucial question at the heart of every democracy. In Western countries, citizens ranging from progressive fringes to “constitutional conservatives” defend it as frequently as staunchly. In this paper, ...
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