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Offentlig støtte i asymmetrisk krigføring: Hvordan amerikansk opinion påvirket utfallet av Afghanistankrigen
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)In April 2021, President Biden announced the drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan. Thereby ending the United States’ longest war by August 31st 2021. Seemingly, the drawdown was not motivated by any new evolvement ... -
Once declared obsolete, now applied to refugees from Ukraine - The EU Temporary Protection Directive
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Union (EU) made a historic decision to activate the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) for Ukrainian refugees. The directive had never been activated before and was ... -
Patterns of Financialisation: A Multimethod Study of Banking Regulation in Canada
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)In this thesis I ask if financialisation – the increasing influence of the financial sector – may cause a dual effect of increased economic growth and decrease wage share of total income. I operationalise financialisation ... -
På gata for å skape data? En casestudie av SIAN sin gate- og nettaktivitet
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)It has been argued that the far-right has moved their street activism to online platforms. While the radical right and the extreme right were active in the streets 20 years ago, they have primarily shifted their activism ... -
Politikk i sentrum og periferi - en analyse av Arbeiderpartiets kommunepartier
(Master thesis, 2020-12-12)This thesis aims to identify differences in policy and ideology between different levels of the Norwegian Labour Party along the centre-periphery dimension. To do this I combine local election manifestos with data on ... -
Politisk kultur og demokratiutvikling i Polen
(Master thesis, 2022-12-01)Denne oppgaven tar for seg autokratiseringen som foregår i Polen og om denne utviklingen har noe med politisk kultur å gjøre, både blant de styrende og hos deler av befolkningen. Bakgrunnen for denne studien, er den generelle ... -
Politiske og institusjonelle trekk: En kvantitativ studie av norske kommuners budsjettbalanse
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)This thesis examines what political and institutional factors effect municipalities fiscal balance. Previous research in this field has tended to investigate single phenomenon’s effect on fiscal balance. This thesis aims ... -
Populism and the pandemic. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro leading the country in times of COVID-19
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)While there are many studies on the buzz-word populism, there are far fewer studies on how populism effects crisis management. When the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 disease a global pandemic on March ... -
Predicting the legal status of recreational marijuana in U.S. states
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)Following decades of a war on drugs in the United States and the demonization of marijuana, a wave of recreational legalization began in 2012 with Washington state and Colorado. Recreational marijuana legalization is a ... -
Public money, public goods? The Bayh Dole Act and its “manufactured substantially” provision
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 allows private institutions and small businesses to patent the results of federally funded research. One of the goals of the Act is to promote the commercialization and public availability of ... -
Rasjonelt valg eller skattemoral? - En flermetodisk studie av nordmenns motivasjon til å kjøpe svart arbeid
(Master thesis, 2019-06-13)Taxation is essential for encompassing and universal welfare-states like Norway. However, if citizens opt to free-ride, the result is that someone else loses. In this paper it is applied a multimethod framework to map ... -
Regionalist Party Spillover from Regional into National and European Elections: The Impact of the Multilevel Electoral System on Vertical Bottom-up Spillover
(Master thesis, 2022-06-23)This thesis explores how the permissiveness of the electoral system impacts regionalist parties’ vertical bottom-up electoral spillover effects from the regional electoral arena into the national and European electoral ... -
Regjerende populister: Demokratiske effekter av populistisk styring
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“Ren populisme!” Finnes det populistiske trekk ved Rødts kommunikasjonsstil på Facebook?
(Master thesis, 2021-06-15)Denne oppgaven tar for seg Rødt og har som formål å undersøke hvorvidt det finnes populistiske trekk ved partiet. I den offentlige debatten er det flere eksempler på at partiet på ulike måter er omtalt som populistisk. Med ... -
Responsiveness to a Digital Age: Voting on Artificial Intelligence in the European Parliament
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)Artificial Intelligence is a growing technology that is likely to be central for economies and industries across the whole globe. The European Union wants to be at the forefront of the development and deployment of this ... -
Rising Tide or Skilful Manoeuvring? Comparison of classical theories on elections and parties applied to a novel case: The Green Parties
(Master thesis, 2020-08-28)There has been a steadily increasing interest in the study of the phenomenon of “niche” parties in the last decade. The resulting literature has predominantly focused on populist right-wing parties, and while this is vital, ... -
Rogue aid or the poor helping the poor? Making sense of Chinese foreign aid to Africa
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)This thesis investigates Chinese foreign aid allocation to Africa between 2000 and 2014. China is an emerging donor of foreign aid and has become an alternative source of assistance for African recipient countries. Considering ... -
Samfunnsøkonomisk verdiskaping- et smutthull for brudd på urfolksrettigheter? En komparativ studie av om en innvilget driftskonsesjon for Nussir ASA kan bryte med samiske urfolksrettigheter.
(Master thesis, 2023-12-01)Denne studien har hatt som formål å belyse problemstillingen “hvordan har den samfunnsøkonomiske verdiskapingen i Nussir-saken tatt hensyn til samiske urfolksrettigheter?” Bakgrunnen for valg av tematikk er basert på ... -
Should the Norwegian Progress Party be considered as members of the Populist Radical Right Party Family? A Qualitative Analysis of the Authoritarian, Nativist and Populist Elements in the Norwegian Progress Party
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)This thesis started with a simple question that teased my interest, does Norway have a populist radical right party? Most European countries do, and the literature was unclear as to whether the Norwegian Progress Party ... -
Skandalepolitikk og medienes rolle: En emnemodellering av mediedekningen av metoo-kampanjen.
(Master thesis, 2020-08-28)Throughout the past decades, political scandals have been increasingly widespread across the world. The key elements of political scandals are typically sex, money, and power. Today these scandals could not have existed ...