Browsing Department of Comparative Politics by Title
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Industrial development in the North – Sámi interests squeezed between globalization and tradition
(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 ... -
(Inequality in) Interest Group Involvement and the Legitimacy of Policy Making
(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 ... -
Institutional development through crisis? an analysis of the European Court of Human Rights' pilot judgement procedure addressing systemic human rights issues
(Master thesis, 2011-09-20)The thesis aims to investigate a new approach put to use by the European Court of Human Rights for the first time in 2004, known as the Pilot Judgement Procedure, and asks whether this procedure contributes to the ... -
The institutional trajectory of Hamas: From radicalism to pragmatism—and back again?
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-03-06)This thesis explains Hamas’s development, from its modest beginnings to the political force it is today, by analyzing it as a case of party institutionalization. The analytical framework, based on elements from the literature ... -
Institutions that Define the Policy-Making Role of Courts: A Comparative Analysis of the Supreme Courts of Scandinavia
(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 ... -
Inter-gruppe kontakt og verknaden på tillit og toleranse. Gjev inter-gruppe kontakt meir positive oppfatningar av utgrupper og definerte andre?
(Master thesis, 2015-06-02)Auken i etnisk og sosialt mangfald har samstundes auka kontakt mellom etniske grupper, som vidare er venta å auke også i framtida (Sturgis, Brunton-Smith, Read og Allum 2010: 58). Kunnskap om verknadane av inter-gruppe ... -
Interest group networks in the European Union
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Interest group networks are crucial for understanding European Union (EU) integration, policymaking and interest representation. Yet, comparative analysis of interest organisation networks across EU policy areas is limited. ... -
Internal party democracy in former rebel parties
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Intraparty democracy is considered an important feature of former rebel movements’ adaptation to democracy more generally. What conditions intraparty democracy in former rebel parties? This article traces internal debates ... -
The international diffusion of expatriate dual citizenship
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-13)While the global increase of expatriate dual citizenship acceptance over the past decades has been widely observed, the temporal and spatial contexts of this trend have remained understudied. Based on a novel data set of ... -
Internationalisation and study success: Class attendance and the delicate balance between collaborative learning and being lost in translation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The internationalisation of Higher Education is broadly seen as a positive development. It is a process that is said to contribute to intercultural skills acquisition, which is deemed crucial in today’s globalised society. ... -
Introducing the Party-interest group relationships in contemporary democracies datasets
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Few existing datasets on parties and interest groups include data from both sides and a wide variety of interest groups and parties. We contribute to filling this gap by making several interconnected new datasets publicly ... -
Introduction: The Russian welfare state in a time of economic stagnation
(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 ... -
Investigating the Salience of Liberalism in US Economic Foreign Policy: An analysis of the CHIPS Act of 2022
(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 boycott the best way to participate ? A study of the possible democratizing effects of election boycotts in the Arab world: 1990-2010
(Master thesis, 2011-06-01)This thesis aims to determine if election boycott is a sound strategy if the opposition in Arab states aspires democratization. No scholars have conducted research focusing on this specific subject up to date, despite the ... -
Is Europe’s right wing turn due to immigration? Empirical evidence from Italy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Immigration has unquestionably gained importance in Italian public opinion over the past few years; but what has been its effect on politics? Building on a recent trend in literature, this paper appraises the effect of ... -
Is Nonterritorial Autonomy Wrong for Indigenous Rights? Examining the ‘Territorialisation’ of Sami Power in Norway
(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 ... -
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
(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 ... -
Is this a men’s world? On the need to study descriptive representation of women in lobbying and policy advocacy
(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 ... -
"It's not about winning, it's about participating". Uncovering the determinants of regional participation in the policy-making structures of the European Union
(Master thesis, 2011-05-28)This thesis seeks to uncover which factors determine regional participation in European Union policy-making structures. It does so by conducting a multiple regression analysis of 233 regions from all the 27 member-states ... -
Just a matter of power? Explaining EU Member States’ commitment to Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO)
(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 ...