Browsing Department of Comparative Politics by Title
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Power and Arms: The Diffusion of Military Innovations and Technology. A Comparative Historical Analysis of the Spread of Military Power After the Cold War and Consequences for the Norwegian Navy in the NATO Alliance
(Master thesis, 2018-07-07)This thesis investigates the extensive puzzle of various influences on the diffusion of military power, meaning the spread of certain innovations, through the international system and the implications for international ... -
Preserving the old or building the new? Reputation-building through strategic talk and engagement with stakeholder inputs by the European Commission
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)How bureaucracies respond publicly to policy inputs received in the context of stakeholder participation in policymaking provides important insights into their reputation-building strategies. We examine the European ... -
Presidencialismo em crise ou parlamentarismo por outros meios? Impeachments presidenciais no Brasil e na América Latina
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)O objetivo desse artigo é contextualizar o impeachment da presidente brasileira Dilma Rousseff na literatura mais ampla sobre interrupções de mandatos presidenciais na América Latina. Contrariando a tese linziana de ... -
Presidential Interruptions in Latin America. Concepts, Causes, and Outcomes
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-03-04)This dissertation deals with executive instability in Latin American presidentialregimes, a phenomenon called Presidential Interruptions. The dissertation analyses 14cases of presidential interruptions in Latin America in ... -
Procedural justice in welfare complaints systems: A comparative study of Norway and Germany
(Master thesis, 2013-05-27)The thesis investigates to what extent Norwegian and German complaints systems secure procedural justice for welfare claimants. Complaints systems are important mechanisms for protection of citizen's welfare rights. The ... -
Public Support for a Ban on Begging in Norway - A Consequence of Negative Stereotypes about the Roma Minority?
(Master thesis, 2016-11-21)This thesis examines whether public support for a ban on begging in Norway is influenced by negative stereotypes about the Roma minority. In 2005, the ban on begging was abolished in Norway by a unanimous vote in Parliament. ... -
Quality of Government Sustains News Media Trust: A Cross-Country Comparative Study on The Effect of Quality of Government and Media Systems on News Media Trust in Europe
(Master thesis, 2017-07-04)The news media play important roles in consolidated democracies as a source of information, watchdog over the powerful and curators of the public sphere. In regimes undergoing democratic transition, news media can be ... -
Rådgivere i Norge - politiske aktører?
(Master thesis, 2010-05-20)The purpose of this master thesis is to describe the role of advisors in Norwegian politics. Political communication and democratic research have found that political advisors have gained an enhanced role in politics. ... -
Reaching sustainability: Combining sustainable development with emission reductions in the Clean Development Mechanism. A study of the sustainability contributions in the CDM projects with Norwegian investment
(Master thesis, 2014-11-20)This thesis investigates how projects of The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) contribute to sustainable development. These are projects with the dual objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to ... -
Reconciling participatory and evidence-based policymaking in the EU Better Regulation policy: mission (im)possible?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Modern systems of governance are increasingly adopting measures aimed at fostering public participation in policymaking, while embedding decisions in scientific evidence under the label of Better Regulation policy. Existing ... -
Reform and Stability - The Russian and Chinese Welfare Systems Compared
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Systematic theoretical work on Russian and Chinese social policy seems to be lacking. While previous research establishes how democratic systems produce welfare, it is unclear what kind of welfare such transitional systems ... -
Regional assemblies and executives, regional authority, and the strategic manipulation of regional elections in electoral autocracies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this introduction, we set out to analyse the relationship between regional elections and regional authority and the extent to which regional elections are held free and fair. We hypothesize that the incentives to interfere ... -
Regional spillover into third-order European elections
(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 ... -
Regionale endringer - nøkternhet, pragmatisme og status quo: En kvantitativ studie av holdninger til regionreformen blant fylkesadministrasjonenes ansatte
(Master thesis, 2018-06-16)This thesis seeks to understand the regional administrative employees' attitudes to the ongoing regional reform in Norway. The reform consists of two elements – the merge, both voluntary and by force, of counties, and the ... -
Regions and immigration in advanced democracies
(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) ... -
Regulating Lobbying Through Voluntary Transparency Clubs: the Connoisseurs’ Assessment. Evidence from the European Union
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Regulating private actors’ participation in policy‐making is key to democratic governance. Across political systems, targeted transparency is used to regulate lobbying activities. We examine the extent to which primary ... -
Regulating low wages: cross-national policy variation and outcomes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article provides a comparative analysis of three central policies to regulate low wages: statutory minimum wages, state support for collective bargaining and topping up low wages with public transfers (in-work benefits). ... -
Rejected Cultural Biases Shape Our Political Views: A Migrant Household Study and Two Large-Scale Surveys
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-09-28)The main research problem of how we should understand the relationship between individuals, social structures in institutions, and cultural biases is approached from two different angles: from a study of migrant households ... -
The relationship between financial development and economic growth
(Master thesis, 2011-06-01)Developing countries in Asia and Africa have economically often been lagging behind the economies of the West. One reason can be found by looking at the executive capacities and the necessary financial structures. Global ... -
The relationship between natural resources and armed conflict onset:"It's complicated". A quantitative analysis of how natural resources affect internal armed conflict onset during the period 1950-2003
(Master thesis, 2012-05-31)The thesis examines how natural resources affect internal armed conflict onset through a quantitative analysis of data on 167 countries covering the period 1950-2003. Previous research on the relationship between natural ...