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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 ... -
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 ... -
Årsaker til at eldre er underrepresentert i folkevalgte organer
(Master thesis, 2020-08-04)Antall eldre i Norge øker hvert år og eldre utgjør en stadig økende andel av befolkningen. Stadig flere lever lenger og har bedre helse enn tidligere generasjoner. Eldre har tilsynelatende aldri hatt bedre forutsetninger ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Dialog på bakrommet vs. krasse enkeltuttalelser: En politisk diskursanalyse av dialogstrategien i norsk utenrikspolitikk
(Master thesis, 2020-08-04)Tema for denne oppgaven er argumentasjonen knyttet til dialogstrategien i norsk utenrikspolitikk. Formålet er å skape et grunnlag for diskusjon om strategien i tilfeller hvor norske interesser og verdier kommer i konflikt. ... -
Does aid save infants lives? A geospatial impact evaluation of aid effectiveness in Uganda
(Master thesis, 2019-06-21)While there are many studies of how official development aid (ODA) affects economic growth, there are far fewer studies of how aid affects health outcomes. Also, most of the studies of aid effectiveness have been cross-country ... -
Does direct democracy mean more equal democracy? A study of government responsiveness in advanced democracies
(Master thesis, 2020-06-24)As it constitutes a main feature of contemporary democracy, government responsiveness has provided the basis for large a body of literature, usually finding that public policy tends to reflect the preferences of citizens. ... -
Hit ‘em where it hurts: Measuring and testing the impact of economic nonviolent strategies on democratization
(Master thesis, 2019-06-29)The literature on nonviolent political action has found that nonviolence far outpaces violence when it comes to winning political conflicts. Yet which actions nonviolent movements may perform to achieve success has rarely ... -
Hvordan kan valgteori forklare holdninger til klimaendringer i Europa? En prediktiv analyse
(Master thesis, 2020-08-28)This thesis identifies various explanations for attitudes towards climate change. My argument is that there are several explanations in the literature on perceptions of climate change that are not elucidated. These ... -
Høyrepopulistiske partier i regjering: effekten på valgoppslutning og politikk
(Master thesis, 2019-06-21)In many European countries right-wing populist parties have experienced a dramatic rise in electoral success, and since the 1970s no other party family have seen the same rise in electoral success as the parties which ... -
Korrupsjon i Norge: Hva kan domfellelser fortelle oss?
(Master thesis, 2019-12-03)Corruption has received increased attention from scholars and international organizations over the last 25 years. They have emphasized the importance of reducing corruption because of its detrimental consequences to society. ... -
Lek eller læring? En kvalitativ studie om somaliske foreldrenes opplevelse av skole-hjemsamarbeid
(Master thesis, 2020-08-29)Sammendrag Dette er en masteroppgave om demokratibygging ved Universitet i Bergen. Den er en kvalitativ undersøkelse av somaliske foreldres perspektiv på skole-hjem samarbeid. Problemstillingen er: Hvordan opplever somaliske ...