Browsing Department of Comparative Politics by Title
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Understanding the Uneven Playing Field. The Multifaceted Role of Unfair Electoral Competition in a Non-Democratic Regime
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-06-15)If you are running as an opposition candidate in an election in a non-democratic regime, you know that you are running against a candidate who has better access to the state than you. As a result, you are likely to have ... -
The Unequal Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Political Interest Representation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic is viewed by many as the biggest global crisis since WWII and had profound effects on the daily lives of people and decision-making worldwide. Using the pandemic as a system-wide agenda shock, we ... -
Unequal representation of women and youth on climate policy issues
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Women and youth support climate policies to a larger extent than their counterparts, and they are underrepresented in formal politics. This paper explores whether descriptively underrepresented groups also are substantively ... -
Unequal representation: The case of climate policy and youth
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)A growing body of research finds that representation is real, but likely unequal. Policy is shown to disproportionately follow the preferences of some societal groups, most notably the rich, in advanced democracies. This ... -
Unge partimedlemmer. En kvantitativ og kvalitativ studie av hvorfor ungdommer melder seg inn i politiske partier
(Master thesis, 2017-06-24)I Norge og i flere andre europeiske land har de politiske partiene opplevd en markant nedgang i antall medlemmer. Blant medlemmene er de unge er ofte underrepresentert. Partiene representerer folket i de politiske ... -
Unravelling the ‘devolution paradox’: Citizen preferences for self-rule and for shared rule
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Recent survey research has revealed a ‘devolution paradox’: some citizens who favour stronger regional governments inconsistently desire policy uniformity across regions and state-wide intervention in policy provision. It ... -
The urban poor as citizens and clients. Enacting political agency through political parties and social movements in Kenya and Zambia
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-05-27)How has political pluralism and increasingly more competitive elections affected the political agency of the urban poor in Kenya and Zambia, and why? This thesis compares the political mobilization of the urban poor by ... -
Urbanisering av det samiske elektoratet: en fremvoksende skillelinje i den moderne samepolitikken?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Stemmeretten ved sametingsvalg i Norge er ikke knyttet til at en bor innenfor et bestemt geografisk område, men er en politisk rettighet som erverves på individuelt etnisk grunnlag, og som følger individet uavhengig av ... -
Valgets kval. Hvorfor innførte Tunisia og Egypt valgsystemene de gjorde etter den arabiske våren, og hvilke konsekvenser hadde dette?
(Master thesis, 2015-05-31)Midtøstens regimestabilitet ble kraftig utfordret av den arabiske våren som startet i 2010. Autoritære statsledere som hadde sittet ved makten i decennier i Tunisia og Egypt måtte bøye av for et massivt folkeopprør. I løpet ... -
Valkampen – ei journalistisk høgtid. Korleis dekka journalistar stortingsvalet i 2017, og kva meiner dei sjølve om denne dekkinga i etterkant?
(Master thesis, 2019-01-12)Journalistar har ei viktig samfunnsrolle, men denne rolla er under press. Det er viktigare enn nokon gang at journalistar oppfyller sin samfunnskontrakt, der dei sørger for å oppretthalda funksjonen som den fjerde statsmakt ... -
"Vår evne til å kompromisse" - Flernivåanalyse av årsakene til dissens i straffesaker i Norges Høyesterett fra 1996 til 2011
(Master thesis, 2012-06-07)Målet med oppgaven er å undersøke hva som påvirker dommere til å dissentere i straffesaker i Norges Høyesterett. Problemstillingen er interessant fordi dommere skal drive rettsutvikling gjennom deres beslutningstaking. ... -
The veepstakes: A study of the selections of the American vice presidents from 1940 to 2008
(Master thesis, 2009-11-19)American vice presidents have become influential and powerful political figures. Yet, they are not popularly elected; since 1940, they have been personally selected by the presidential nominees themselves. This thesis ... -
Veien til økt kvalitet. Internasjonalisering av norsk høyere utdanning
(Master thesis, 2015-05-31)Denne studien har som formål å belyse hvilke rasjonaler som driver norske statlige høyskoler til å investere i internasjonalisering, samt å avdekke hvilke utfordringer norske statlige høyskoler opplever i møte med ... -
Velferd, Utjamning, Fattigdom. Problemrepresentasjoner i tre stortingsmeldinger om velferdspolitikk 1995-2002
(Master thesis, 2007)Denne oppgaven argumenterer for at en viktig innfallsvinkel til å studere utviklingen av velferdsstaten er å undersøke hvordan den blir språklig konstruert i politisk debatt og policydiskurs. Med dette som utgangspunkt ... -
Voter alignments in a dominant party system: The cleavage structures of the Russian Federation.
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)This thesis investigates whether there is a social cleavage structure across the Russian regions and whether this structure is mirrored in the electoral vote shares for Putin and his party United Russia on one hand, versus ... -
Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper presents the results of a conjoint survey experiment in which Swiss citizens were asked to choose among parliamentary candidates with different class profiles determined by occupation, education and income. ... -
Wage Inequality in Rich Democracies : Policies and Politics
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-08-09)Økende økonomisk ulikhet er en betydelig utfordring for moderne avanserte demokratier. Økonomisk ulikhet skaper sosiale spenninger, reduserer sosial mobilitet, hindrer økonomisk vekst, og undergraver prinsippet om lik ... -
Water & Power
(Master thesis, 2018-06-22)In this thesis, I attempt to explain the development of the international human right to water, and how this has affected opportunities for those that have their rights violated. As the right to water was elevated to an ... -
”We are equal, we are different”: A social movements’ approach to the emergence of indigenous parties in Bolivia and Peru
(Master thesis, 2010-06)This thesis discusses the emergence of ethnic, or indigenous, parties in Bolivia and Peru. More specifically, it seeks to explain why Bolivia has seen the emergence of indigenous-based political parties at the national ... -
What influences State Friendly voting in the Norwegian Supreme Court?. An Analysis of dissenting Supreme Court Decisions from 1991 to 2012
(Master thesis, 2013-11-19)The aim of this thesis is investigate if the Norwegian Supreme Court exhibits a state friendly nature when they vote in dissenting civilian cases where one of the litigants is the state in the time period 1991-2012. The ...