Browsing Department of Comparative Politics by Title
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Gerrymandering v. The Constitution: The case of Gill v. Whitford
(Master thesis, 2018-06-16)In this case study I analyze partisan gerrymandering in the United States with the research question: Does partisan gerrymandering violate the Constitution of the United States of America? With this as a starting point I ... -
"Gimme Shelter": How Can States and the World Community Protect "Climate Refugees"?
(Master thesis, 2012-08-02)The aim of this paper is to look at how the world community can offer protection to climate refugees". Although migration in the face of natural or human made disasters is not a new trend, there are signs of increases in ... -
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 ... -
Globalisation and the welfare state - A meta-regression analysis
(Master thesis, 2014-06-02)The effect of economic globalisation on the welfare state is a widely polarised debate in the scholarly literature. In essence, there are three possible effects of this relationship: economic globalisation increases welfare, ... -
Golpes con adjetivos: ¿presición o confusión?
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The Government Deference Dimension of Judicial Decision Making: Evidence from the Supreme Court of Norway
(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 ... -
Grant or deny? Gatekeeping on the Norwegian Supreme Court
(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 ... -
Growing Despite the Odds - How NGOs Shift Scale in an Authoritarian Regime
(Master thesis, 2016-06-01)Similar non-governmental organizations in a similar context should, according to structural analysis have the same outcome. Why can we then observe differences in scale shift between similar organizations that are active ... -
Hardstyret held fram. Ein etterrøknad i strukturelle vilkòr for framvoksteren av nye slag autoritære regime i Sentral-Asia etter uppløysingi av Sovjetsamveldet
(Master thesis, 2009-05-20)Denne masteruppgåva presenterer etnonasjonal demografisk samansetnad og innkomor frå eksport av råvareressursar som dei avgjerande strukturelle vilkòri for framvoksteren av nye autoritære regimeslag i dei sentralasiatiske ... -
Heller filantropi enn demokrati. Statoils CSR i utlandet.
(Master thesis, 2012-05-15)Multinasjonale selskaper opplever stadig høyere forventninger til å ta ansvar for sosial og politisk utvikling i de landene de opererer i. Statoil, som er i ferd med å utvide sin virksomhet i land utenfor Norge, har satt ... -
Hierarchies of Representation: The Re-distributive Effects ofGender and Youth Quotas
(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 ... -
A High Court Plays the Accordion: Validating Ex Ante Case Complexity on Oral Arguments
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While high courts with fixed time for oral arguments deprive researchers of the opportunity to extract temporal variance, courts that apply the “accordion model” institutional design and adjust the time for oral arguments ... -
History matters. A comparative analysis of historical legacies and post-communist corruption
(Master thesis, 2014-06-02)This thesis investigates the empirical relationship between historical legacies and post-communist corruption. A common argument in the post-communist corruption literature is that the current problems of corruption should ... -
Hizbollahs utvikling fra fundamentalistisk motstandsbevegelse til en markant aktør i sivilsamfunnet og politisk parti. Libanon 1982 - 2000
(Master thesis, 2015-05-25)Hizbollah ble etablert i 1982, og fremstod for offentligheten i 1985. Organisasjonen utviklet seg fra å være en fundamentalistisk gerilja og motstandsbevegelse mot Israels okkupasjon av Libanon, til å bli en politisk, ... -
Homofili og Politikk. En komparativ analyse av verdiendringer og meningskoalisjoner bak vedtaket av partnerskapsloven i Danmark og Norge
(Master thesis, 2000)Oppgaven stiller spørsmålstegn ved hvilke faktorer som lå til grunn for den politiske viljen til å vedta partnerskapslovgivning i Danmark og Norge. Fokus ligger særlig på å avdekke hvilke verdier som lå til grunn for ... -
Horizontal and vertical spill-over in multilevel electoral systems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)A multilevel electoral system perspective reveals several ways in which electoral spill-over may occur. Vertical spill-over may be top-down from the national to the regional level or can be bottom-up from the regional to ... -
Horizontal Reciprocal Radicalization. A comparative analysis of two cases in a Norwegian context
(Master thesis, 2017-12-13)In 2006, Roger Eatwell introduced the concept of “Cumulative Extremism”, after he observed violent clashes between radical right- and radical Islamist groups in Britain. In 2012, their sister groups, Profetens Ummah and ... -
Hovudstaden som terrormål: Kva faktorar bidreg til angrep mot statens hjerte?
(Master thesis, 2013-06-03)Problemstillinga i denne oppgåva er: I kva grad har terrorangrepa i perioden 1998-2011 vore retta mot ein stats hovudstad, og kva variablar forklarer hovudstadsangrep? Hovudhypotesen i oppgåva er at fleirtalet av angrepa ... -
How African countries respond to fake news and hate speech
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While scholars have already identified and discussed some of the most urgent problems in content moderation in the Global North, fewer scholars have paid attention to content regulation in the Global South, and notably ... -
How and Why Parties Respond to Membership Decline: The Case of the SPD and the CDU
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)A dominant assumption in the existing literature on party organisation in Western Europe holds that parties acquiesce in membership decline because modern campaigning is capital- rather than labour-intensive. This article ...