• Regional spillover into third-order European elections 

  Schakel, Arjan Hille (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 ...

• Regions and immigration in advanced democracies 

  Tatham, Michael Robert (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) ...

• Thirty years of Regional and Federal Studies 

  Harbers, Imke; Tatham, Michael Robert; Tillin, Louise; Zuber, Christina Isabel (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 ...

• Do voters follow? The effect of party cues on public opinion during a process of policy change 

  Nordø, Åsta Dyrnes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  A large body of literature has demonstrated how citizens use party endorsements when shaping their policy opinions. However, recent studies question the centrality of party cues in shaping public opinion. This study advances ...

• Gen(d)eralized Trust: An Experimental Approach to Interpersonal Trust and Gender Sensitivity 

  Cappelen, Cornelius; Linde, Jonas; Olander, Petrus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  In this research note, the authors examine the extent to which one gender is more trusted than the other, relying on between-subjects survey experiments fielded in Germany, Norway and the United States. The authors’ findings ...

• The Government Deference Dimension of Judicial Decision Making: Evidence from the Supreme Court of Norway 

  Skiple, Jon Kåre; Bentsen, Henrik Litleré; Hanretty, Chris (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Past research has revealed conflicting findings regarding the degree to which judges on European apex courts enact their policy preferences or instead disagree on the basis of divergent legal views. We investigate disagreement ...

• Free Speech and Ideology: Society, Politics, Law 

  Mazzola, Dario (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, ...

• «Barnevernet vil de ha fullstendig fjernet» En studie av årsaker til mistillit til barnevernet 

  Johansen, Helle Karina (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 ...

• «Noe langt borte, og noe høyt oppe». Representasjon i ikke-representative institusjoner: Norges Høyesterett og den geografiske dimensjonen i norsk politikk 

  Misje, Ingvild (Master thesis, 2021-06-01)

  Eksisterer en forventning om at bare med likemenn i kontorene, vil ens brøl fra bakken bli anerkjent og akseptert? I så fall har beslutninger truffet av dem som avspeiler befolkningen deskriptivt, et legitimerende potensial. ...

• Is this a men’s world? On the need to study descriptive representation of women in lobbying and policy advocacy 

  Junk, Wiebke Marie; Romeijn, Jeroen; Rasmussen, Anne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  How well are women represented in the world of political advocacy? Despite the important role of interest groups in modern democracies, the demographic composition of the interest group community remains a blind spot in ...

• The Controversial Populist Radical Right Through the Eyes of the Public: Disliked, yet Tolerated? 

  Bjånesøy, Lise Lund (Doctoral thesis, 2021-06-28)

  This thesis is about the populist radical right and why we need to study this group of parties. I ask the following research question: Why is there exceptional political controversy around the populist radical right? To ...

• Political (In)tolerance of the Far-Right: The Importance of Agency 

  Bjånesøy, Lise Lund (Journal article, 2021-05-04)

  This paper examines the impact of far-right agency on public political tolerance—what the parties on the far right do to disconnect themselves from accusations of extremism and thus increase their political tolerance by ...

• Competition and interaction: Party ties to interest groups in a multidimensional policy space 

  Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd; Hansen, Vibeke Wøien; Marshall, David; Rasmussen, Anne; Webb, Paul D (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Political parties and interest groups play a vital role in incorporating societal interests into democratic decision-making. Therefore, explaining the nature and variation in the relationship between them will advance our ...

• Disentangling the Influence of Recommender Attributes and News-Story Attributes: A Conjoint Experiment on Exposure and Sharing Decisions on Social Networking Sites 

  Johannesson, Mikael Poul; Knudsen, Erik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-17)

  While news outlets still play an important role as a source of news, people increasingly receive their political information and news from social networking sites (SNSs). This study extends the literature on exposure and ...

• Is Nonterritorial Autonomy Wrong for Indigenous Rights? Examining the ‘Territorialisation’ of Sami Power in Norway 

  Spitzer, Aaron; Selle, Per (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Nonterritorial autonomy (nta) decouples governance of ‘people’ and ‘place’, allowing demographically submerged minorities to protect their cultural – but not territorial – interests. Indigenous peoples are often submerged ...

• Hierarchies of Representation: The Re-distributive Effects ofGender and Youth Quotas 

  Belschner, Jana Birke; Garcia de Paredes, Marta (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  This article investigates how paired electoral quotas re-distribute parliamentary seats between majority and minority groups. Focusing on gender and youth quotas, we use the concept of Hierarchies of Representation to ...

• Urbanisering av det samiske elektoratet: en fremvoksende skillelinje i den moderne samepolitikken? 

  Selle, Per; Semb, Anne Julie; Strømsnes, Kristin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Stemmeretten ved sametingsvalg i Norge er ikke knyttet til at en bor innenfor et bestemt geografisk område, men er en politisk rettighet som erverves på individuelt etnisk grunnlag, og som følger individet uavhengig av ...

• Demokrati og uvitenhet 

  Cappelen, Cornelius; Cappelen, Herman Wright (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Denne artikkelen diskuterer først den såkalte «ignoranseinnvendingen» mot demokratiet som hevder at det store flertallet av velgere vet forsvinnende lite om politikk, og at epistokrati derfor er å foretrekke. Vi konkluderer ...

• Industrial development in the North – Sámi interests squeezed between globalization and tradition 

  Angell, Elisabeth; Nygaard, Vigdis; Selle, Per (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  In this article, we analyse tensions in Sámi local communities meeting new industrial development. Indigenous communities experience outmigration and are in need of new business development and employment. Global extractive ...

• The ‘sanction‑policy’ linkage from the perspective of citizens and the role of the party system 

  Fumarola, Andrea (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Research on dynamic representation stresses the effect of electoral incentives on politicians’ motivation to pursue policies in line with the preferences of the majority of the citizens. However, comparative research on ...

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