Department of Comparative Politics
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Endogenous Popularity: How Perceptions of Support Affect the Popularity of Authoritarian Regimes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Being popular makes it easier for dictators to govern. A growing body of scholarship therefore focuses on the factors that influence authoritarian popularity. However, it is possible that the perception of popularity itself ... -
Grant or deny? Gatekeeping on the Norwegian Supreme Court
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)Interest in the Supreme Court has grown within political science. The rapidly expanding research on the United States Supreme Court has inspired scholars worldwide to study their own national courts. This field is expanding ... -
Does policy context matter for citizen engagement in policymaking? Evidence from the European Commission's public consultation regime
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The European Commission has shown efforts to strengthen citizens’ participation in its policy formulation processes through public consultation opportunities. However, we currently lack a systematic analysis of the factors ... -
A Sami land-claims settlement? Assessing Norway's Finnmark Act in a comparative perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Sami, the Indigenous peoples of Fennoscandia, assert ownership-, use-, and management-rights to their traditional lands. Norway's 2005 Finnmark Act is the only legislation so far to broadly respond to those assertions. ... -
One More Time? Parties’ Repeated Electoral Entry in Younger Democracies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Why and how parties continue contesting elections (“repeated entry”) is an underresearched question despite its essence for party survival and party-system stability. We study repeated entry in three decades of elections ... -
Rethinking public funding of parties and corruption: Confronting theoretical complexity and challenging measurement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Does the provision of state subsidies to political parties reduce their involvement in corruption? Existing research provides inconclusive evidence on this relationship, perhaps because cross-national studies on public ... -
The online hostility hypothesis: representations of Muslims in online media
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Using a large data set of online media content in eight European countries, this paper broadens the empirical investigation of the online hostility hypothesis, which posits that interactions on social sites such as blogs ... -
Avoiding a natural resource curse? The impact of administrative efficiency on Colombian municipalities’ fiscal effort
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The term ‘paradox of the plenty’ was coined to describe an often-found inverse relationship between royalty revenue and economic development. The main causal mechanism is thought to be a substitution effect whereby governments ... -
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. ...