• Siblings’ outcomes and social mobility : Educational attainment, occupations, and class destinations 

  Uvaag, Stian Aleksander (Doctoral thesis, 2024-10-18)

  Denne avhandlingen undersøker søskens utdanningsoppnåelse, yrkesutfall og klassedestinasjoner. Forskningsspørsmålene som stilles i avhandlingen er: ‘Hvilke sosiale posisjoner har en tendens til å opptre sammen i søskenflokker?’ ...

• A survey on popularity bias in recommender systems 

  Klimashevskaia, Anastasiia; Jannach, Dietmar; Elahi, Mehdi; Trattner, Christoph (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Recommender systems help people find relevant content in a personalized way. One main promise of such systems is that they are able to increase the visibility of items in the long tail, i.e., the lesser-known items in a ...

• Decoding Legitimacy: Public Perceptions of AI-Assisted Decision-Making in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration 

  Haugen, Gjøri Marie (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  This master thesis addresses the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) systems in public decision-making. The study’s main objective is to investigate to what extent the use of AI ...

• Framing the Intersectional Representation of the Landless Workers’ Movement on Instagram 

  de Melo Junior, Jose Gilvan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  The Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) is a grassroots organization influenced by Marxism, which has attracted national and international attention for its strategies for the occupation and redistribution of land in Brazil. ...

• The Rebound Effect: Autonomous Ships Rebound Effect on Energy Consumption 

  Ahmed, Isra Abdelmnim Bashir (Master thesis, 2024-08-15)

  The maritime industry is transforming with autonomous ships driven by advancements in artificial intelligence. This study examines the rebound effect of adopting autonomous ships in Norway, where energy efficiency gains ...

• Generosity's Double-Edged Sword: Unmasking the Impact of Raised Social Assistance Rates in Norway 

  Lorentzen, Thomas; Dahl, Espen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  As long as welfare arrangements have been in existence, there has been a strong belief that high-benefit generosity leads to welfare reliance. In this study, we investigate whether an increase in welfare generosity in ...

• Organizing for Wicked Problems : What coordinating agencies do, and why they do it 

  Førde, Johannes Sandvik (Doctoral thesis, 2024-10-11)

  Denne avhandlinga har som utgangspunkt at organisering er viktig, og at det er med organisering som verkemiddel statar forsøker å løyse problem samfunnet står overfor. Men kva skjer når statar møter såkalla gjenstridige ...

• Assessing the Reachability of Cash-Based Aid vs. In-Kind Aid in Conflict Zones. A System Dynamics Model with a Case Study in Sudan 

  Ahmed Othman, Abeer Tajalsir (Master thesis, 2024-08-15)

• Modelling Endogenized Human Behavior: A System Dynamics Based Integration of Pro-Environ- mental Intention in Integrated Assessment Modelling 

  Tusch, Benedikt (Master thesis, 2024-06-28)

  This thesis investigates the system dynamic representation of human behavior, i.e. pro-environmental behavior, within Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). The research is grounded in psychological theories, i.e. Theory of ...

• Same but different: On continuity and change in agricultural policy reforms 

  Melås, Anders Mahlum; Vik, Jostein; Farsund, Arild Aurvåg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  This article contributes to the Historical Institutionalism literature on stability and change by unpacking how an institution has persisted for more than 70 years despite substantial contextual changes. The overall stability ...

• Does executive autonomy reduce second-order election effects? 

  Schakel, Arjan Hille; Verdoes, Alexander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  The second-order election (SOE) model expects voters to punish parties in national government and reward opposition, small and new parties because there is ‘less at stake’ in an SOE. One key assumption that is rarely studied ...

• The Role of Parliaments in Exceptional Times 

  Poyet, Corentin (Chapter, 2024)

  What is the role of Parliaments during the COVID-19 pandemic? Countries had to adjust their decision-making procedures to address the challenges posed by the pandemic. In most countries, this has been done by strengthening ...

• Does party identification still matter for political efficacy? A cross-national assessment, 1996–2016 

  Hooghe, Marc; Okolikj, Martin; Oser, Jennifer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  It has been argued that party membership has declined in most liberal democracies over the past several decades, and the remaining party members are even more committed to party goals and policies. If partisanship becomes ...

• Health Status, Life Expectancy and Early Claiming of Pension 

  Aakvik, Arild; Holmås, Tor Helge; Kjerstad, Egil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Prior to 2011, individual life expectancy played no role in the Norwegian old-age pension system. However, after the 2011 reform, life expectancy became a central factor for early pension take-up. Asymmetric information ...

• Participatory system dynamics modeling for groundwater resources management (Case study: Marand Plain, Iran) 

  Isanezhad, Amir; Zarifian, Shapour; Raheli, Hossein; Langarudi, Saeed Pourmasoumi (Journal article, 2024)

  Introduction The capacity of groundwater systems to offer various services depends on their geographically varying properties and is dynamically influenced by ongoing natural and human processes. Because groundwater is ...

• Den aksiale tidsalder og ulike typar modernitetar: Den islamske moderniteten, ideologiske «entreprenørar» og terrornettverk 

  Møen, Atle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Denne artikkelen har to hovudtema. Det første er å gje ein introduksjon til Eisenstadts historiske analyse av framvekstane av dei ulike religiøse tradisjonane eller verdsreligionane (jødedom, buddhisme, Konfutses lære, ...

• Møtet mellom mennesker og maskiner: En komparativ casestudie av blå– og hvitsnipparbeideres samspill med kunstig intelligens i olje- og energisektoren i Stavanger 

  Jørpeland, Eirin (Master thesis, 2024-06-03)

  Kunstig intelligens og dens ekspansjon har tatt hele verdens oppmerksomhet med sitt potensiale. Feltet påvirker majoriteten av yrker, og det er derfor viktig for sosiologer å undersøke kunstig intelligens i alle dimensjoner ...

• Episodic populist backlashes against urban climate actions 

  Yazar, Mahir (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Populism is multilayered and involves two main dimensions – ideology and strategy – which are employed within and beyond political parties. These dimensions can result in sometimes overlapping but generally divergent ...

• Malicious Agents and the Power of the Few : On the Logic of Abnormality in Social Networks 

  Pedersen, Mina Young (Doctoral thesis, 2024-09-27)

  Denne avhandlingen befinner seg i skjæringspunktet mellom formallogikk, samfunnsvitenskap, informasjonsvitenskap og forskning innenfor kunstig intelligens. Den er viet til studiet av agenter i multiagent-systemer som ...

• The Information Disorder Level (IDL) Index: A Human-Based Metric to Assess the Factuality of Machine-Generated Content 

  Dierickx, Laurence; Linden, Carl-Gustav; Opdahl, Andreas Lothe (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  Large language models have enabled the rapid production of misleading or fake narratives, presenting a challenge for direct detection methods. Considering that generative artificial intelligence tools are likely to be used ...

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