• Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship 

  Schemmel, Christian; Picot, Georg Johannes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Statutory minimum wages have become an important tool for regulating labor markets. One major reason is the decline in collective wage bargaining. But how can minimum wages be justified? We show that their best justification ...

• Innen rimelig tid. Sakskompleksitet og saksbehandlingstid i straffesaker i lagmannsrettene 

  Bentsen, Henrik Litleré; Skiple, Jon Kåre; Deichman-Sørensen, Marte Birkeland; Grendstad, Gunnar; Langford, Malcolm (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Mens undersøkelser viser at lagmannsrettene ikke innfrir Stortingets måltall om tre måneders gjennomsnittlig saksbehandlingstid i straffesaker, mangler vi fortsatt kunnskap om årsakene til overskridelsene. I denne artikkelen ...

• EUs påvirkning på ikke-medlemmers autonomi: Norges og Storbritannias handlingsrom innenfor klima og energi 

  Leiren, Merethe Dotterud; Farstad, Fay Madeleine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  EUs grønne giv kan ha omfattende konsekvenser også for land som ikke er medlemmer, men som er tilknyttet EU. Mens Norge møter klimakrisen med å samarbeide tettere med EU, har Storbritannia trukket seg ut av viktige avtaler. ...

• Going Regional: Regional and Multilevel Electoral Democracy in Western Europe in Times of Decentralization (1945-2019) 

  Verdoes, Alexander (Doctoral thesis, 2024-10-31)

  I vest-europeiske land har regionalforvaltning opplevd en betydelig forandring siden andre verdenskrig. Denne forandringen involverer etableringen av nye regioner, forsterkning av mange eksisterende regioner og innføringen ...

• Decoding Legitimacy: Public Perceptions of AI-Assisted Decision-Making in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration 

  Haugen, Gjøri Marie (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  This master thesis addresses the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) systems in public decision-making. The study’s main objective is to investigate to what extent the use of AI ...

• Does executive autonomy reduce second-order election effects? 

  Schakel, Arjan Hille; Verdoes, Alexander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  The second-order election (SOE) model expects voters to punish parties in national government and reward opposition, small and new parties because there is ‘less at stake’ in an SOE. One key assumption that is rarely studied ...

• Does party identification still matter for political efficacy? A cross-national assessment, 1996–2016 

  Hooghe, Marc; Okolikj, Martin; Oser, Jennifer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  It has been argued that party membership has declined in most liberal democracies over the past several decades, and the remaining party members are even more committed to party goals and policies. If partisanship becomes ...

• Demokrati på arbeidsplassen. Demokratiske val og avgrensingar i den tilsetteeigde verksemda Kantega 

  Kobbeltveit, Øystein (Master thesis, 2024-06-06)

  Democratic enterprises, businesses owned and controlled by employees, have been supported by Marxists, anarchists, social democrats, and democratic theorists for various reasons. The left and anarchists see them as an ...

• Maktfordeling og beslutningsprosesser i flernivåstyringssystem: En analyse av kommunesammenslåingsprosessen mellom Ballangen, Hamarøy, Narvik og Tysfjord. 

  Torbergsen, Kristine Amalie Fagerli (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  Denne oppgaven tar for seg en kommunesammenslåingsprosess hvor Tysfjord kommune er hovedaktøren. Temaet i oppgaven er hvordan interessekonflikt og ulikt maktforhold påvirker politiske beslutningsprosesser på lokalt, regionalt ...

• Populisme og autokratisering: En komparativ casestudie av Nayib Bukeles og Jair Bolsonaros presidentskap 

  Swensen, Martin Abusdal (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  This master’s thesis theorizes populism, democracy, and the relationship between them. The alleged threat that populist leaders impose to the democratic characteristics of political systems, brings up the question of how ...

• Global Visions, Regional Realities: EU Migration and Asylum Policy in light of the UN Compacts on Migration and Refugees 

  Lindseth, Marte (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  This thesis examines the development of the European Union’s migration and asylum policy post-2018, focusing on its alignment and misalignment with the United Nation’s Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees. It explores ...

• Identification and Participation in the United States: A Panel Matching Analysis of Voter ID Laws’ Effect on State-level Turnout 

  Oldeide, Magne (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  The United States has a long and controversial history with voter suppression. Has voter suppression returned in the form of voter ID laws? My research question is "to what degree do voter ID laws affect turnout in the ...

• Investigating the Salience of Liberalism in US Economic Foreign Policy: An analysis of the CHIPS Act of 2022 

  Rye, Alma Theodora (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  This paper examines the extent to which liberalism has become less salient in US economic foreign policy post-2017. The direction of US foreign policy has been a topic of extensive debate among scholars and analysts through ...

• Is There a Switch in Accent for the Heavenly Chorus? Explaining differences in interest group preference attainment in the European Union’s climate action policies 

  Setalid, Malin (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  Over the past five years, there has been an increase in national and supranational efforts to combat climate change. The European Union’s (EU) ambitious climate initiative, the European Green Deal (EUGD), remains the Union’s ...

• Indigenous People’s Self-governing Bodies and the Role of Civil Society: The Case of the Norwegian Sámi 

  Selle, Per; Strømsnes, Kristin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  In this paper, the authors look at the relationship between the Sámi Parliament in Norway and the Sámi civil society as seen both from the perspective of the party leaders and representatives, the civil society organisations, ...

• Latin America in Times of Turbulence. Presidentialism under Stress 

  Llanos, Mariana; Marsteintredet, Leiv (Book, 2023)

• Farewell note: a decade as RFS Editor 

  Tatham, Michael Robert (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  This farewell note reflects on a decade of editorship for Regional & Federal Studies (RFS). It draws on this experience to highlight some areas of change and continuity in the journal’s life, the publishing industry, and ...

• Endogenous Popularity: How Perceptions of Support Affect the Popularity of Authoritarian Regimes 

  Buckley, Noah; Marquardt, Kyle Lohse; Reuter, Ora John; Tertytchnaya, Katerina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Being popular makes it easier for dictators to govern. A growing body of scholarship therefore focuses on the factors that influence authoritarian popularity. However, it is possible that the perception of popularity itself ...

• Grant or deny? Gatekeeping on the Norwegian Supreme Court 

  Bekkevold, Mari Karoline (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  Interest in the Supreme Court has grown within political science. The rapidly expanding research on the United States Supreme Court has inspired scholars worldwide to study their own national courts. This field is expanding ...

• Does policy context matter for citizen engagement in policymaking? Evidence from the European Commission's public consultation regime 

  Nørbech, Idunn Johanne Bjøve (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  The European Commission has shown efforts to strengthen citizens’ participation in its policy formulation processes through public consultation opportunities. However, we currently lack a systematic analysis of the factors ...

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