Department of Comparative Politics: Recent submissions
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Populisme på samisk. Framveksten av Nordkalottfolket på Sametinget
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Nordkalottfolket (NKF) fikk sitt politiske gjennombrudd i Sametinget ved valget i 2021 med 18,3 prosent av stemmene med 9 av 39 representanter fra 6 av 7 valgkretser. Med populismens forståelse av hvordan «folket», «eliten» ... -
Kan mikroinvesteringer i landbruket bidra til empowerment for malawiske kvinner?
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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). ... -
Minimum wages: by collective bargaining and by law
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Moving beyond the second-order election model?: Three generations of regional election research
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this introduction to the sixth annual review of regional elections we identify three generations of regional election studies that have applied the second-order election (SOE) model. First-generation literature finds ... -
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 ... -
Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Affective polarization – that is, antipathy towards political opponents – sits high on the academic and political agenda. This is because it is thought to have a multitude of damaging consequences, both for how citizens ... -
Repressing or regulating? How African states control online activities
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-12-06)Sosiale medier og internett har blitt sett på som gode verktøy for demokratisk deltakelse, som gjør det lettere for innbyggerne å delta i politikken og for kandidatene å nå ut til velgerne. Internett og sosiale medier byr ... -
Women Judges in Fragile States. Insights from the Haitian Judiciary
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-11-10)Denne artikkelbaserte doktorgradsavhandlingen studerer kvinners representasjon i domstolene i sårbare stater gjennom en casestudie av Haiti, et av verdens mest sårbare (og minst likestilte) land. Studien setter søkelys på ... -
Are citizens responsive to interest groups? A field experiment on lobbying and intended citizen behaviour
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The ability to mobilise public opinion is central to interest group politics. Yet, whether and how groups succeed in swaying the public remains inconclusive. The article assesses this by conducting a field experiment in ... -
Understanding patterns of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking: Evidence from the European Union
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)What explains the levels and diversity of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking? We examine a novel dataset on a stakeholder engagement mechanism recently introduced by the European ... -
Online censorship and young people’s use of social media to get news
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The increasing adoption of social media across Africa has raised hopes that they represent a new locus of youth political agency. However, as social media has become more ubiquitous, so has its control by African regimes. ... -
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 ... -
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Should we let personal responsibility for health-related behavior influence the allocation of healthcare resources? In this paper, we clarify what it means to be responsible for an action. We rely on a crucial conceptual ... -
Sámi agency in economic development processes in the Norwegian High North
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The emergence of the Sámi Parliament has lifted Norwegian Sámi politics into an international discourse on indigenous peoples. The clearest imprints of the new Sámi political space are found in the High North region of ... -
Ettpartidominans i et flerpartisystem: Norske Samers Riksforbund i Sametinget
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Norske Samers Riksforbund (NSR) har dominert Sametinget siden Sametinget ble etablert med et flerpartisystem i 1989. Ved hvert valg har NSR vunnet flest representanter, de har for det meste vært hovedaktøren i dannelsen ... -
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 ... -
Representative democracy and climate change : Climate policy preferences and congruence between citizens and elected representatives
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-06-09)Denne avhandlingen tar for seg to viktige aspekter ved politikken i dag. For det første, koblingen mellom innbyggere, folkevalgte og offentlig politikk, som er essensielt for funksjonen til et representativt demokrati. For ... -
(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 ...