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Socially mediated issue ownership
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Given the growing importance of issue competition and the growing use of social media during elections, this study seeks to create a better understanding of how issue dynamics relating to political parties play out on ... -
Sosial kapital -: hvor kommer det fra?
(Master thesis, 2010-10-04)I denne masteroppgaven undersøker jeg ulike antagelser om hvor sosial kapital kommer fra, og hvordan den blir opprettholdt. Jeg jobber ut i fra følgende problemstilling: Hvor kommer sosial kapital fra? Ut i fra eksisterende ... -
Stat, region, union. Flernivåstyre i Den europeiske union
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-06-25)If we study the cultural, economic and political processes of integration taking place in Europetoday and link them to changes in the room for manoeuvre European nation states haveexperienced after the implementation of ... -
State Capacity, Internal Conflict and Democratic Breakdown - A Comparative Study of Mali and Ghana.
(Master thesis, 2014-11-20)The two underdeveloped, West-African states, Mali and Ghana, have been praised for their well-established democratic institutions, and have been said to be good role models when it comes to democracy in an African context. ... -
A State Friendly Court: An Analysis of Norwegian Supreme Court Decisions
(Master thesis, 2012-11-20)The aim of this thesis is to test the state friendly hypothesis by comparing and integrating three different approaches to the study of judicial behavior in a hierarchical regression analysis. Decisions of the Norwegian ... -
Statsvennlighet i Norges Høyesterett. En flernivåanalyse av saksegenskapers påvirkning på dommernes vota i sivilsaker mellom staten og private parter, 1963 - 2014
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)This thesis examines the influence of case characteristics on the behavior of Norwegian Supreme Court justices when the state appears as a party in civil cases. Acting as the highest court of appeal, the Supreme Court has ... -
The stigmatisation effect of the radical right on voters’ assessment of political proposals
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Despite the continued electoral progress of the radical right, there are reasons to believe that its full electoral potential has yet to be revealed. Previous research suggests that it suffers from a stigmatisation effect ... -
Still indispensable: how modern parties need grass roots activists for campaigning and sustaining democracy
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-06-13)This dissertation argues that modern political parties still need grass roots activists for campaigning and sustaining democracy. Western European parties have lost members at an increasing rate over the last 50 years and ... -
"Strategic Deterrence" in the North. Implications of Russian Maritime Defence Planning and Seapower to Norwegian Maritime Strategy
(Master thesis, 2018-06-22)Aiming to contribute on research cumulation on Russian military affairs in general and maritime defence planning and seapower in general, the thesis objectives are twofold in exploring Russian maritime defence planning and ... -
Structural Disadvantage: Evidence of Gender Disparities in the Norwegian Pension System
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-02-23)Norway is a world leader in gender equality according to sustainable development performance indicators. This study goes beyond these indicators to investigate systemic economic disadvantages for women, focusing specifically ... -
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 ...