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Understanding Credit Crunch of 2018: A System Dynamics Study of Nepalese Banking Sector
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Understanding digital disconnection beyond media studies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Digital disconnection or ‘digital detox’ has become a key reference point for media scholars interested in how media technology increasingly gains influence on our everyday lives. Digital disconnection from intrusive media ... -
Understanding Felt Accountability: The institutional antecedents of the felt accountability of agency-CEO's to central government
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The literature on autonomous public agencies often adopts a top‐down approach, focusing on the means with which those agencies can be steered and controlled. This article opens up the black box of the agencies and zooms ... -
Understanding handouts in candidate selection: Challenging party authority in Malawi
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article discusses the purposes and drivers of handouts in party primaries in Malawi. We argue that existing explanations of handouts are incomplete because they are developed to identify dynamics in presidential or ... -
Understanding Hydrologic, Human, and Climate System Feedback Loops: Results of a Participatory Modeling Workshop
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Groundwater depletion threatens global freshwater resources, necessitating urgent water management and policies to meet current and future needs. However, existing data-intensive approaches to assessments do not fully ... -
Understanding maternal mortality ratio reduction bottlenecks in Uganda. A system dynamics approach for policy development
(Master thesis, 2014-06-02)Understanding Maternal Mortality ratio reduction bottlenecks in Uganda: A System Dynamics Approach for Policy Development. Nuwagira Cranmer Abstract. Despite all efforts initiated by government and its partners , maternal ... -
Understanding model behavior using the Loops that Matter method
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06-19)The relationship between structure and behavior is central to system dynamics, but effective tools required to understand that relationship still elude us. The current state of the art in the field of loop dominance analysis ... -
Understanding patterns of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking: Evidence from the European Union
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)What explains the levels and diversity of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking? We examine a novel dataset on a stakeholder engagement mechanism recently introduced by the European ... -
Understanding resilience of farming systems: Insights from system dynamics modelling for an arable farming system in the Netherlands
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Farming systems in Europe are facing economic, social, environmental and institutional challenges. Highly intensive, climate-exposed, arable farming systems like the Veenkoloniën in the north of the Netherlands are ... -
Understanding the Audience Turn in Journalism: From Quality Discourse to Innovation Discourse as Anchoring Practices 1995–2020
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Paying close attention to news users has become fully integrated in professional journalism. Even though this practice may still meet with resistance, becoming more audience responsive is no longer automatically condemned ... -
Understanding the Different Outcomes of the Arab Uprisings: A Comparison of Egypt and Tunisia
(Master thesis, 2017-06-15)This thesis attempts to analyse and explain the reason why Egypt and Tunisia experienced different transitional outcomes following the Arab uprisings in 2011. Although both countries appear to have similar authoritarian ... -
Understanding the dynamics emerging from the interplay among poor mental wellbeing, energy balance-related behaviors, and obesity prevalence in adolescents: A simulation-based study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Both obesity and poor mental wellbeing have a high prevalence in European youth. Adolescents in six countries identified mental wellbeing factors as main drivers of youth obesity through systems mapping. This study sought ... -
Understanding the dynamics of Information Security Investments: A Simulation-Based Approach
(Master thesis, 2017-08-23) -
Understanding the Dynamics of Nutrient Management and Runoff from Plant Farms in the Potomac Watershed: Take Example of Nitrogen Management in Corn Planting of Frederick
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)In this paper, we focus on nitrogen load from corn planting in Frederick, in order to explore a generalized system dynamics structure and policy indications for nutrient pollution from agricultural planting in Potomac ... -
Understanding the left-behind: Electoral support and views on redistribution
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-11-30)I dei seinare åra har statsvitskapen retta søkelyset mot grupper som kjem dårlegare ut i den post-industrielle samfunnsutviklinga. Desse gruppene – såkalla «left-behinds» – sakkar meir akterut enn andre når samfunnet vert ... -
Understanding the Uneven Playing Field. The Multifaceted Role of Unfair Electoral Competition in a Non-Democratic Regime
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-06-15)If you are running as an opposition candidate in an election in a non-democratic regime, you know that you are running against a candidate who has better access to the state than you. As a result, you are likely to have ... -
Understanding variation in national climate change adaptation: securitization in focus
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Climate change is recognized today not just as a pressing and prominent issue on government agendas but also one that has been increasingly ‘securitized’ in a variety of national and global settings. We know little, however, ... -
Understanding ‘night grazing’: Conservation governance, rural inequalities, and shifting responses ‘from above and below’ throughout the nychthemeron in Laikipia, Kenya
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Across much of eastern Africa, the land area coverage of private or otherwise non-state conservation areas is rapidly increasing. In Kenya, these trends have sparked renewed contestation and debate concerning the property ...