Browsing Department of Comparative Politics by Title
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A study of the Nigerian truth commission and why it failed
(Master thesis, 2009)The Nigeria truth commission the Oputa Panel was set up in 1999 to investigate and recommend the appropriate redress of human rights violations committed between 1966 and 1999. Facing several delays and dangers of shut ... -
Supreme Court Justices’ Economic Behaviour: A Multilevel Model Analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-03)Supreme Court justices are overlooked, but important, national policy-making players who render final and consequential decisions in cases on economic conflicts. The research question asks what forces explain the decisional ... -
Swiss and Norwegian regions in Brussels: How and why do the regions of associated member-states of the EU mobilize in Brussels?
(Master thesis, 2015-06-02)Why do the regions of Norway have regional offices in Brussels while the Swiss regions do not? The research done in the thesis features one of the first analyses done on regional mobilization from countries currently not ... -
Syrian diaspora mobilization for prospective transitional justice in the absence of transition
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Mobilization for transitional justice typically “deals with the past,” focusing on retrospective attempts to deal with injustices. Little attention has been afforded to such mobilization when prospects for transition and ... -
Syrian diaspora mobilization: vertical coordination, patronage relations, and the challenges of fragmentation in the pursuit of transitional justice
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The 2011 Syrian uprising saw the rise of several Syrian diaspora organizations seeking transitional justice (TJ). In this article, we ask why these organizations have been unable to present a coherent and unified TJ agenda. ... -
Systems Engineering Applied to Evaluate Social Systems: Analyzing systemic challenges to the Norwegian welfare state
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-12-01)The Norwegian welfare state is one of the most generous in the world providing social security through universal healthcare, education and childcare. Elderly Norwegians also face a relatively secure retirement with a solid ... -
Søken etter fred. En sammenliknende studie av fredsprosessene i Somalia og Somaliland
(Master thesis, 2019-07-06)This thesis seeks to explain the differing outcomes of the peacebuilding processes in both Somaliland and Somalia. I conducted a comparative study of the peace processes in Somalia and Somaliland covering the period from ... -
A Tale of Two Cities. A comparative study of ISIS in Ramadi and Fallujah
(Master thesis, 2017-06-30)ISIS attacked Ramadi and Fallujah in the early days of January 2014, and while Fallujah fell at once with no visible resistance, it took protracted fighting and a three-day surge by ISIS before Ramadi fell on May 17 the ... -
Target, shaper, implementor : Regional Administrative Behaviour in the Rescaling of Norway’s Subnational Government Architecture
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-01-21)The Norwegian 2014-2020 Local Government Reform, and the 2015-2020 Regional Government Reform reduced the number of municipalities from 428 to 356, the number of counties from 19 to 11, and transferred some political and ... -
Taxing the 1 per cent: Public Opinion vs Public Policy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Recent studies suggest that public policy in established democracies mainly caters to the interests of the rich and ignores the average citizen when their preferences diverge. I argue that high-income taxation has become ... -
Teologi og tilpasning: Skillelinjer og konfliktlinjer i norsk organisert islam
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Innenfor statsvitenskapen har flere forskere analysert samfunnet som et felt som preges av politiske skillelinjer eller konfliktlinjer, etter pionerarbeidene til Stein Rokkan. En konfliktlinje er en dimensjon konflikter ... -
The Term ‘Lone Wolf’ and its Alternatives: Patterns of Public and Academic Use from 2000 to 2020
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Prominent cases of terror attacks planned and perpetrated by individuals have generated an ongoing public and academic debate about how to understand this phenomenon. The moniker “lone wolf” stands at the center of this ... -
The territorial architecture of government
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article sets the stage for a special issue that examines the interplay between subnational and supranational governance. It begins by discussing how the territorial architecture of government has become more multilevel ... -
Territorial reforms, mobilisation, and political trust: a case study from Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The focus of this study is the political trust implications of territorial reforms, approaches to territorial reform, and the effects of the mobilisation of political-territorial collective identities. We focus on the ... -
The impact of REDD+ on environmental governance and deforestation: A comparative case study of Peru and two subnational Units
(Master thesis, 2019-07-06)Peru adopted a “nested approach” to REDD+ in 2008. The nested approach can teach us a lot about environmental governance and deforestation, because Peru develops REDD+ the on local, regional and national level. The ... -
The Norwegian welfare state and the integration of refugees through activation. An exploratory case study of Bergen
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)Within the field of immigration research one particular topic keeps resurfaces, namely how will immigrants affect the welfare state, a discussion that is often focused on how to protect the welfare state from immigrants. ... -
The value of human values for understanding attitudes towards the EU: A multi-country and longitudinal study
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Thirty years of Regional and Federal Studies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Regional and Federal Studies' 30th anniversary offers an opportunity to take stock of the state of the discipline and of the journal. We make four claims. First, the multi-level nature of the political world has intensified ... -
Three approaches to labor-market vulnerability and political preferences
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This contribution starts by presenting the three main approaches that political scientists use to analyze labor market vulnerability. We proceed to discuss various operationalizations of labor market vulnerability. We ... -
The Three Mahapacs: a game theoretical analysis of power changes and democracy-building in Israel
(Master thesis, 2009-05-27)Since independence, Israel has passed through the phases of democratic transition from the non-democratic British Mandate Authority of pre-independence Palestine to the democratic confirmation of peaceful transfers of ...