• Repressing or regulating? How African states control online activities 

  Lemaire, Pauline Marguerite (Doctoral thesis, 2023-12-06)

  Sosiale medier og internett har blitt sett på som gode verktøy for demokratisk deltakelse, som gjør det lettere for innbyggerne å delta i politikken og for kandidatene å nå ut til velgerne. Internett og sosiale medier byr ...

• Women Judges in Fragile States. Insights from the Haitian Judiciary 

  Tøraasen, Marianne (Doctoral thesis, 2023-11-10)

  Denne artikkelbaserte doktorgradsavhandlingen studerer kvinners representasjon i domstolene i sårbare stater gjennom en casestudie av Haiti, et av verdens mest sårbare (og minst likestilte) land. Studien setter søkelys på ...

• Are citizens responsive to interest groups? A field experiment on lobbying and intended citizen behaviour 

  Junk, Wiebke Marie; Rasmussen, Anne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  The ability to mobilise public opinion is central to interest group politics. Yet, whether and how groups succeed in swaying the public remains inconclusive. The article assesses this by conducting a field experiment in ...

• Understanding patterns of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking: Evidence from the European Union 

  Bunea, Adriana; Lipcean, Sergiu (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  What explains the levels and diversity of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking? We examine a novel dataset on a stakeholder engagement mechanism recently introduced by the European ...

• Online censorship and young people’s use of social media to get news 

  Lemaire, Pauline (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  The increasing adoption of social media across Africa has raised hopes that they represent a new locus of youth political agency. However, as social media has become more ubiquitous, so has its control by African regimes. ...

• Institutions that Define the Policy-Making Role of Courts: A Comparative Analysis of the Supreme Courts of Scandinavia 

  Ghavanini, Anna Wallermann; Grendstad, Gunnar; Karlsson Schaffer, Johan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  Scandinavian supreme courts have been described as deferential to the elected branches of government and reluctant to exercise their limited review powers. However, in recent years these courts have increasingly decided ...

• On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework 

  Bærøe, Kristine; Albertsen, Andreas; Cappelen, Cornelius Wright (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  Should we let personal responsibility for health-related behavior influence the allocation of healthcare resources? In this paper, we clarify what it means to be responsible for an action. We rely on a crucial conceptual ...

• Sámi agency in economic development processes in the Norwegian High North 

  Angell, Elisabeth; Eikeland, Sveinung; Selle, Per (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  The emergence of the Sámi Parliament has lifted Norwegian Sámi politics into an international discourse on indigenous peoples. The clearest imprints of the new Sámi political space are found in the High North region of ...

• Ettpartidominans i et flerpartisystem: Norske Samers Riksforbund i Sametinget 

  Falch, Torvald; Selle, Per (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  Norske Samers Riksforbund (NSR) har dominert Sametinget siden Sametinget ble etablert med et flerpartisystem i 1989. Ved hvert valg har NSR vunnet flest representanter, de har for det meste vært hovedaktøren i dannelsen ...

• Wage Inequality in Rich Democracies : Policies and Politics 

  Pedersen, Siri Hansen (Doctoral thesis, 2023-08-09)

  Økende økonomisk ulikhet er en betydelig utfordring for moderne avanserte demokratier. Økonomisk ulikhet skaper sosiale spenninger, reduserer sosial mobilitet, hindrer økonomisk vekst, og undergraver prinsippet om lik ...

• Miss Represented or Misrepresented? A study of congruence between citizens’ expressed issue priorities and representatives’ issue attention during legislative debates 

  Dybesland, Sara Helene (Master thesis, 2023-06-02)

• Representative democracy and climate change : Climate policy preferences and congruence between citizens and elected representatives 

  Helliesen, Mari Skåra (Doctoral thesis, 2023-06-09)

  Denne avhandlingen tar for seg to viktige aspekter ved politikken i dag. For det første, koblingen mellom innbyggere, folkevalgte og offentlig politikk, som er essensielt for funksjonen til et representativt demokrati. For ...

• (Inequality in) Interest Group Involvement and the Legitimacy of Policy Making 

  Rasmussen, Anne; Reher, Stefanie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  While interest groups are consulted at different stages of policy making to provide expertise and legitimacy, their influence is often criticized as being undemocratic. Yet, we know little about how their participation in ...

• Macroeconomy and macropartisanship: Economic conditions and party identification 

  Okolikj, Martin; Quinlan, Stephen; Lewis-Beck, Michael S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  “It's the economy stupid”—is the phrase that captures the ubiquity of economics in determining election outcomes. Nevertheless, while several studies support the premise of economic voting, a constant critique of valence ...

• The trade-off between admitting and paying: Experimental evidence on attitudes towards asylum responsibility-sharing 

  Cappelen, Cornelius Wright; Sicakkan, Hakan G.; VanWolleghem, Pierre-Georges (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  The concentration of the world's refugees in developing countries calls for international collaboration on the matter. In the face of concerns voiced not only amongst politicians but also the public, we investigate how ...

• Affluence and Influence in a Social Democracy 

  Mathisen, Ruben Berge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  Research from the United States and Europe suggests that affluent citizens enjoy considerably more policy influence than do average citizens and the poor. I examine the extent of unequal policy responsiveness in one of the ...

• Cultural theory, rejection of cultural bias, and party preference 

  Olli, Eero Vebjørn; Swedlow, Brendon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  What explains party preference? Ideology and values do but these explanations are undertheorized. We offer grid-group cultural theory (CT) to provide a theory of ideology and values to explain party preference. We aim to ...

• An Empirical Evaluation of Explanations for Political System Support 

  Saghaug Broderstad, Troy (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  The literature that examines cross-national satisfaction with democracy seeks to discover a set of predictors that are associated with evaluations of regime performance. The most common way of examining the determinants ...

• Conditional satisfaction: political support, congruence, and cabinet composition 

  Mayne, Quinton; Troy, Broderstad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  This paper examines the relationship between citizen satisfaction with the functioning of democracy and ideological congruence. We focus on how this relationship may vary by government type, paying attention to the ...

• Youth Advantage Versus Gender Penalty: Selecting and Electing Young Candidates 

  Belschner, Jana Birke (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  Young people are under-represented in formal politics. While this may be a mere projection of their lack among voters and party members, the article investigates whether being young is a disadvantage in election processes, ...

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