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Identification and Participation in the United States: A Panel Matching Analysis of Voter ID Laws’ Effect on State-level Turnout
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)The United States has a long and controversial history with voter suppression. Has voter suppression returned in the form of voter ID laws? My research question is "to what degree do voter ID laws affect turnout in the ... -
Identity, Votes and Violence: Degree of Hindu-Muslim Conflict in Gujarat and Rajasthan
(Master thesis, 2008-06)The thesis explores variation in the degree of Hindu-Muslim conflict in the Indian statesGujarat and Rajasthan. Gujarat is characterised by Hindu-Muslim political conflict as well asendemic religious violence. In 2002 more ... -
«Ikke velg klassens klovn!» En studie av elevrådsvalgenes demokratiske begrensninger og potensiale
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Illegitim valgmanipulasjon i Russland. Fra vondt til verre eller mer av det samme?
(Master thesis, 2014-05-05)Det russiske parlamentsvalget i 2011 var det mest omstridte i landet i nyere tid. Titusener tok til gatene for å kreve omvalg, etter en valgprosess som i følge opposisjonen var den skitneste noen sinne. I denne avhandlingen ... -
The Impact of Female Leadership in Collegial Courts on Time to Render Merits Decisions: Evidence from the Norwegian Supreme Court
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)What is the effect of gender on the deliberative process of judging? Drawing on previous research on female leaders’ inclination to foster a more inclusive and collaborative decision-making process, we argue that decision ... -
Implementation of CSR in the Energy Sector: The Case of Equinor
(Master thesis, 2019-07-06)Globalization has made possible global social relations, and understandably these social relations also need governance. Corporate social responsibility is a concept within the business sector relevant for corporate ... -
The Implementation of the Dublin regulations in Greece, Italy and Spain
(Master thesis, 2017-06-16)The objective of this thesis is to explain variations in the implementation of the Dublin regulations in Spain, Italy and Greece. My theoretical framework draws from the literature on Europeanization. I have conducted ... -
Improved Multilevel Regression with Post-Stratification Through Machine Learning (autoMrP)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Multilevel regression with post-stratification (MrP) has quickly become the gold standard for small area estimation. While the first MrP models did not include context-level information, current applications almost always ... -
In Science We Trust, Through Ideology We Look: Explaining Climate Change Attitudes in Norway
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)This thesis explores climate change attitudes among the Norwegian public. While previous research on public opinion on climate change to a large degree has focused on scepticism, this thesis focuses on climate change ... -
In the eyes of the people. An analysis of the impact of EU membership on new member states
(Master thesis, 2008)This study analyzes the impact of EU membership on new member states. The focus is on thecitizens’ perceptions of the benefits of EU membership taking the eastwards expansion in 2004as a point of departure. Considering the ... -
Indigenous People’s Self-governing Bodies and the Role of Civil Society: The Case of the Norwegian Sámi
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this paper, the authors look at the relationship between the Sámi Parliament in Norway and the Sámi civil society as seen both from the perspective of the party leaders and representatives, the civil society organisations, ... -
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 ...