• Den stille revolusjonen møter ungdommelig reaksjon 

  Jordal, Chase Alexander (Master thesis, 2020-08-28)

  En undersøkelse av politiske og verdimessige holdninger til landets yngste stemmeberettigete generasjoner sett i lys av Ronald Ingleharts teorier om “The silent revolution”

• Party Competition as an Explanation for New Parties’ Decision to Reenter Elections and Electoral Success: A Heckman’s Selection Model of New Parties in Central and Eastern Europe 

  Baumann, Sofie Hillestad (Master thesis, 2020-08-28)

  This thesis investigates the determinants of reentry and electoral success among new parties that encounter ideological competition from established parties in Central and Eastern Europe. In this part of Europe there is a ...

• Constitutionalising Rights to Water and Sanitation: International Norm Diffusion or Local Politics? 

  Loen, Mathea (Master thesis, 2020-08-28)

  Water constitutes the foundation of human life. Without water, no one survives. In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 64/292 recognising the Human Right to Water and Sanitation. Subsequently, ...

• The Political Inclusion of Youth : Quotas, Parties, and Elections in Democratic and Democratizing States 

  Belschner, Jana Birke (Doctoral thesis, 2020-08-28)

  This cumulative PhD dissertation studies the political inclusion of young men and women in democratic and democratizing states. It compares three aspects of political inclusion on the macro, meso, and micro levels of ...

• Just a matter of power? Explaining EU Member States’ commitment to Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) 

  Eilertsen, Ragnhild Hoff (Master thesis, 2020-08-28)

  The EU Member States have generally been reluctant towards a common European security and defence policy, and previous attempts of such inter-state cooperation have been perceived as unsuccessful. Yet, the new European ...

• Bompengeopprøret i Rogaland. Hets, truslar og bompengar 

  Bernes, Agnes Hoshovde (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 ...

• Decision-Shaping From the Outside: Measuring and explaining the degree of preference attainment in the EEA EFTA Comments 

  Karlsen, Ole Johan (Master thesis, 2020-08-21)

  The membership of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway in the European Economic Area (EEA) has often been suggested to entail a democratic deficit. These three European Free Trade Association (EFTA) members have to implement ...

• La vicepresidencia y los problemas de la sucesión presidencial en América Latina. Viejos y nuevos retos para el presidencialismo 

  Marsteintredet, Leiv (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01-22)

  After Vice-President Temer supported the impeachment of President Rousseff in Brazil, the vice presidency has (again) received criticism in Latin America. The newly raised criticism echoes a long-standing critique of the ...

• Conditional Legitimacy: How Turnout, Majority Size and Outcome Affect Perceptions of Legitimacy in EU Membership Referendums 

  Arnesen, Sveinung; Saghaug Broderstad, Troy; Johannesson, Mikael Poul; Linde, Jonas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

  This conjoint study investigates the type of mandate a referendum confers in the political decision-making process. While a majority of citizens in general believe that the government should follow the results of a referendum ...

• Coup with Adjectives: Conceptual Stretching or Innovation in Comparative Research? 

  Marsteintredet, Leiv; Malamud, Andres (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

  Was Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff victim of a coup or removed through a legal process of impeachment? The heated debate on the 2016 ousting of Brazil’s president testifies to the growing controversy around the definition ...

• Introduction: The Russian welfare state in a time of economic stagnation 

  Cook, Linda J.; Holm-Hansen, Jørn; Kivinen, Markku; Kuhnle, Stein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

  This Special Issue is devoted to Russia’s welfare state during the years of economic stagnation that began in 2013. Twelve experts assess social conditions and reforms in poverty, labor market, pension, housing and education ...

• Policy representation in Europe: the 2018 Peter Mair lecture 

  Rasmussen, Anne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

  A key challenge of democratic societies is to ensure a continuous flow of information between the people and elites in order to secure representation of citizen preferences. While there may be occasions where deviations ...

• Påvirker innvandringsscenarier nordmenns holdninger til innvandrere? Et surveyeksperiment 

  Christensen, Dag Arne; Arnesen, Sveinung; Midtbø, Tor (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

  Er nordmenns forventninger om størrelsen på fremtidig innvandring med på å påvirke deres holdninger til innvandrere? Eksperimenter fra USA viser at eksponering for framskrivninger der den hvite delen av befolkningen ender ...

• Golpes con adjetivos: ¿presición o confusión? 

  Marsteintredet, Leiv; Malamud, Andres (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

• Effects of the Refugee Crisis on Perceptions of Asylum Seekers in Recipient Populations 

  Bjånesøy, Lise Lund (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

  This article examines the effects of the refugee crisis on perceptions of asylum seekers. Previous research has demonstrated that asylum seekers are perceived in terms of deservingness—either as deserving refugees in need ...

• Do citizens make inferences from political candidate characteristics when aiming for substantive representation? 

  Arnesen, Sveinung; Duell, Dominik; Johannesson, Mikael Poul (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

  We elicit citizens' preferences over hypothetical candidates by applying conjoint survey experiments within a probability-based online panel of the Norwegian electorate. Our experimental treatments differ in whether citizens ...

• Discrimination, Antiprejudice Norms, and Public Support for Multicultural Policies in Europe: The Case of Religious Schools 

  Blinder, Scott; Ford, Robert; Ivarsflaten, Elisabeth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

  This study examines public support for a key contested multicultural policy in contemporary Europe: the provision of religious schools. It makes two main contributions, one substantive and one theoretical. Substantively, ...

• Dissent, Legitimacy, and Public Support for Court Decisions: Evidence from a Survey‐Based Experiment 

  Bentsen, Henrik Litleré (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

  Scholars often argue that whereas unanimous rulings should boost public support for court decisions, dissents should fuel public opposition. Previous studies on public responses to U.S. Supreme Court decisions suggest that ...

• Citizens’ Attitudes toward a System of Responsibility Sharing for Asylum Seekers in Europe: A Replication Study 

  Faleide, Ingrid Kvåle (Master thesis, 2020-06-24)

  Four years after the unprecedented influx of refugees to Europe in 2015/2016, Europe still only has temporary solutions for refugee protection. The current regulations of the Common European Asylum System are not capable ...

• Climate and Conflict: A logistic multilevel analysis of the relationship between climate variability and violent conflict 

  Grendal, Ola Nestvold (Master thesis, 2020-06-24)

  In this thesis I investigate the link between climate variability and violent conflict. By applying an unconventional way of measuring conflict with regards to death toll based in contemporary climate-conflict literature, ...

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