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A Reaffirmed Call for Responsibility-Sharing: Determinants of Responsibility-Sharing after the 2018 Global Compact on Refugees
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)This thesis investigates what can explain states’ contributions to responsibility-sharing in the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees. Refugees and the responsibilities of refugee protection continue to be ... -
Alle piler peker opp En vekstkurveanalyse av kvinner i de høyeste domstolene
(Master thesis, 2019-12-18)Cross-sectional time-series analysis of women’s representation in states’ legislatures has a rich tradition within social sciences. The same cannot be said about women’s representation on the highest courts. This thesis ... -
Amerikansk bruk av etterretningskontraktører - En utfordring for de statlige kjerneoppgavene og voldsmonopol?
(Master thesis, 2019-07-02)Bruken av etterretningskontraktører i den amerikanske forsvarssektoren har siden angrepene 11. september 2001 hatt en voldsom oppblomstring. Manglende ressurser, store personellkutt og tungrodd byråkrati er noe av forklaringen ... -
An economic explanation to welfare state attitudes: a multilevel analysis of 21 European countries
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Are Candidate Evaluations Less Susceptible to Partisan Bias than Party Evaluations?
(Master thesis, 2020-08-28)According to the personalization hypothesis, voters’ attention is shifting away from collective entities like political parties to individual candidates. As attitudes towards candidates are growing more consequential in ... -
Arven etter … Konsekvensene av arveavgiftens opphevelse på formuesulikheten i Norge
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)What are the redistributive consequences of removing the inheritance taxation? With persistently high levels of wealth inequality, there are arguments suggesting that inheritance tax could serve as an effective instrument ... -
Asylum recognition rates in the EU - Do procedural differences matter?
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«Baajh vaeride årrodh! – La fjella leve!»: En rammeanalyse av verdikonflikten mellom «grønn økonomi» og minoriteters rett til kulturutøvelse
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)On 11th February 2023, young Norwegian activists together with the Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg occupied Norway ́s Oil & Energy Ministry. This marked 500 days since the Norwegian Supreme Court had found ... -
Banebrytande eller unødvendig komplisert bistand? Ein casestudie av eit heilskapleg norsk bistandsprosjekt i Malawi
(Master thesis, 2023-11-20)Ein av dei største norske bistandsinvesteringane i Malawi er utdanningssatsinga "Joint Programme for Girls Education", eit fellesprogram som tek form som eit samarbeid på landnivå mellom UNICEF, UNFPA og WFP. Programmet ... -
Brexit 2016. En empirisk analyse av populistiske trender, historie og kultur.
(Master thesis, 2020-08-28)Background and objectives: In June of 2016 a small majority in the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU). This is referred to as Brexit. The purpose of this thesis is to attempt to understand Brexit ... -
Building Trust in Brussels: Lobbying Strategies of Nordic Interest groups
(Master thesis, 2020-08-28)In their pursuit of influencing EU institutions and decision-makers, Nordic interest groups face the choice of directly contacting the decision-makers or generating pressure indirectly through mobilizing and/or changing ... -
Challenges in Accessing Humanitarian Spaces in High-Conflict Contexts: ICRC, MSF, and NAC’s practice of Humanitarian Diplomacy in Southeast Afghanistan.
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)The nature of the practice of Humanitarian Diplomacy makes it a difficult subject for scholars to study and generalize and therefore has resulted in the field being dominated by single case-studies. This is especially true ... -
Climate Change and New Approaches to Securing the Arctic: The Case Study of Canada
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Complex Relationships: Income Inequality, Trust and Corruption
(Master thesis, 2019-06-28)The goal of this thesis is to investigate the link between income inequality and corruption and poses the following research question: Is there a positive relationship from income inequality to corruption and is this effect ... -
Conflicting Interests in Clean Energy Transitions: A panel analysis of offshore wind deployment in Europe, 2001-2020
(Master thesis, 2022-12-06)Offshore wind has become an increasingly attractive energy source in the ongoing transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Until recently, this clean energy technology has primarily been deployed in a handful ... -
Dangerous Elections: Causes of Electoral Violence in Unconsolidated Regimes
(Master thesis, 2019-12-10)Most countries in the world today use elections as a method of transferring political power and bring legitimacy to ruling incumbents. However, some elections are marred by wide-spread electoral violence, a specific ... -
Dealing with the great unknown: A qualitative study on how representatives justify their decision-making
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)