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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 ... -
Rentens effekt på konsumet til norske husholdninger - En heterogenitetsstudie ved hjelp av mini-NEMO
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)Rentens effekt på konsumet til norske husholdninger har de siste årene vært et omdiskutert tema. Etter en lang periode med svært ekspansiv pengepolitikk og en omfattende koronapandemi har Norges sentralbank fastsatt at ... -
Representasjoner av reality-tv i norsk reklamefilm. En kvalitativ tekstanalyse av reklamefilmer fra TINE, ICA og Gulesider
(Master thesis, 2013-02-01)Dette prosjektet ser nærmere på nyere norsk reklamefilm som benytter seg av et konsept knyttet til reality-tv i sine tv-reklamer. TINE, ICA og Gulesider viser tre forskjellige måter å utnytte en slik appell via ulike former ... -
Representations of gender in Warhammer 40,000
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)This thesis explores the representations of gender in the miniature tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000. Warhammer 40,000 is the world's most popular miniature wargame, and has spawned a sprawling transmedia franchise including ... -
Representations of madness in the cinema: Three contemporary cases
(Master thesis, 2014-12-01)The aim of this thesis is to develop a better understanding of how madness is depicted in contemporary Hollywood films. Specifically, it discusses what shapes the depiction of madness, how and why it differs from reality, ... -
Representative democracy and climate change : Climate policy preferences and congruence between citizens and elected representatives
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-06-09)Denne avhandlingen tar for seg to viktige aspekter ved politikken i dag. For det første, koblingen mellom innbyggere, folkevalgte og offentlig politikk, som er essensielt for funksjonen til et representativt demokrati. For ... -
Representing Reliability-Based Peer Pressure
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)Abstract This thesis proposes and explores three strategies for aggregating individual preferences: the non-contentious, majority, and plurality methods. The proposed methods rely on the lexicographic rule but use a ... -
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 ... -
Reproducible Builds:Break a log, good things come in trees
(Master thesis, 2019-06-26)This thesis investigates how transparency log overlays can provide additional security guarantees for rebuilders building Debian packages. In Reproducible Builds it is important to have a set of independent and distributed ... -
Rescaling the land rush? Global political ecologies of land use and cover change in key scenario archetypes for achieving the 1.5 °C Paris agreement target
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Advancing future-oriented perspectives in political ecology and critical agrarian studies, this paper examines projected land use and land cover change (LULCC) dynamics in four ‘archetypal’ scenarios foregrounded by the ... -
Research Director, Colleague, Schoolmaster? Preferred and Experienced Supervising Styles of PhD-Students at Four Faculties
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)What do the PhD candidates think of their supervisors’ supervising styles? What practices do they see as characteristic of their primary supervisors, and how does this compare to their own preferred style of supervision? ... -
Research, knowledge, and policy on goitre and iodine in Norway (1850–2016)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Our aim is to shed light on the relationships between research, knowledge, and policy in the case of goitre and the use of iodine as a preventive measure against it in Norway from the 1850s onward. Goitre was previously ... -
Researching Players to Understand the Game
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2008)Since the advent of the study of games, scholars have emphasised the idea of games as subsets of the real world, as make-believe and as representational systems. Games have been understood as delimited from the real world ... -
Researching ‘liquid integration’: breaking new ground for processual and contingent methodology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Although there has been a broad and controversial debate on the concept of integration in social science over the last couple of decades the methodological debate of how to measure the processual, contingent side of ... -
Reserve-dependent capital efficiency, cross-sector competition, and mineral security considerations in mineral industry transition
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This study pinpoints three current factors that could be momentous in a possible transition to marine mining, namely reserve-dependent capital efficiency (accessibility and grade-dependent output per unit capital), ... -
Reserved but Principled – and Sometimes Functional: Explaining Decentralisation Preferences Among Regional Bureaucrats
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In recent decades, decentralisation measures have been implemented in most advanced democracies. While such reforms may be driven by subnational pressures and demands for empowerment, the central government usually has the ... -
Residential Rooftop Solar and the Utilities Death Spiral. A system dynamics analysis of the effects of rooftop solar diffusion on the electricity rates and CO2 emissions of the U.S. electricity supply sector
(Master thesis, 2015-08-12)U.S. electric utilities are concerned by the recent exponential growth in rooftop solar installations among their customers. They fear that if their customers continue to adopt such self generation technologies and buy ... -
Resilience of small-scale farming to the emergence of bioenergy as a climate policy: lessons from Brazil’s social biodiesel programme
(Master thesis, 2019-08-06)This master thesis describes effects of the Brazilian social biodiesel policies on smallholder farmers. Through interviews, documental analysis and a simulation model, it rejects a dynamic hypothesis about market manipulation ... -
Resistance to Control—Norwegian Ministries’ and Agencies’ Reactions to Performance Audit
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-03)Ministries are increasingly subject to control, primarily by State Audit Institutions’. This control is assumed to contribute to improvement. Based on survey data from 353 civil servants in Norway this article analyses the ... -
Resource management in the Anlo-Ewe migrant fishing community Abakam in the central region, Ghana
(Master thesis, 2009-05-15)The study is focusing on resource management of the Anlo-Ewe migrant fishing community Abakam in the Central Region, Ghana. The study identifies that access to fishing rights among the migrants depends on the chieftaincy ...