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Crises to die for: a quantitative study of financial crises, political instability, and economic growth
(Master thesis, 2011-05-27)This thesis emphasizes the multidimensionality of political instability when examining whether financial crises may trigger political instability, and how financial crises and instability affect the growth rate of the ... -
Crisis and retirement: Alienation in Kerala’s tea belt
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The recent crisis in the tea industry has devastated the livelihood of the Dalit workforce in the South Indian state of Kerala. Retired workers were worst affected, since the plantation companies—under the disguise of the ... -
A Critical Geography of Compact Urbanism : Urban politics of difference in Oslo
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-11-16)Since the 1990s urban sustainability has become a prominent international policymaking goal and global policy discourses have encouraged people to live in cities. Compact city policies have proliferated during this period. ... -
Cross-national variation in growth models: Three sources of extra demand
(Chapter, 2021)The chapter presents a new framework for categorizing economic growth models and applies it to twenty-eight OECD countries from 1995 to 2016. The framework draws on three fundamental ways in which economies can benefit ... -
Cross-sector Collaboration in upper secondary School vocational education: experiences from two industrial towns in Sweden and Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)This study explores industry–education collaboration on vocational education and training (VET) in upper secondary schools in Sweden and Norway, with particular attention to the initiatives, organisation and operational ... -
Cross-sectoral metrics as accountability tools for twin transitioning energy systems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)As energy systems become ever more closely intertwined in order to enable electrification and real-time coordination across sectors, tracking the nature of change to ensure accountability during complex implementation ... -
Crossing borders: The Case of ethnic Dagestani in Georgia
(Master thesis, 2014-08-01)The Anthropology of borders mainly developed from 1990's. As scholars have sought to grasp the changed configuration of borders brought about by the fall of the iron curtain, the enlargement of the European Union (EU), the ... -
Crossing Hands in the Russian Cards Problem
(Master thesis, 2018-12-18)When communicating using an unconditionally secure protocol, a sender and receiver is able to transmit secret information over a public, insecure channel without fear of the secret being intercepted by a third party. The ... -
Crowning moments: Transformative populist use of the media and the case of Carl I. Hagen
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article presents the concept of a “crowning moment” and proposes an explanation for the media-savviness of many populist leaders – an under-theorised ability often referred to in existing research. A crowning moment ... -
Cuba i endring - en befolkning i spenning
(Master thesis, 2017-06-13)Temaet for denne studien ser nærmere på cubaneres situasjon i de endringene nasjonen nå gjennomgår med USA. Hva tenker cubanere om at en 54 år lang blokade fjernes og de diplomatiske relasjonene med fienden USA gjenopprettes? ... -
Cuba, Santería & The Dances of The Orichas
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Cultivation and Use of Ricebean. A Case Study of Dang District, Nepal
(Master thesis, 2008)Objectives: This research basically intends to know the cultivation and use of the ricebean in thesubsistence farming community of Dang district. The overall purpose of the study isto explore the role of ricebean in the ... -
Cultural code concept in contemporary world.
(Master thesis, 2008-05-30)Cultural code - a term, which describes a self-actualized human mentality - a unity of value orientations, socio-normative establishments (routines, rituals, heroes, symbols), fundamental features of characteristics specific ... -
Cultural divisions and time: Mapping diachronic homologies using class-specific MCA (CSA)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article, we present an alternative approach to study dimensional stability and change in cultural divisions across time. Drawing on recent developments in Geometric Data Analysis (GDA), we combine the use of two ... -
Cultural productivism and public support for the universal basic income from a cross-national perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)It has been hypothesized that the capacity of universal basic income (UBI) to attract wider public support is impaired by the strength of productivist cultural norms and values, common to the majority of develope societies. ... -
Cultural theory, rejection of cultural bias, and party preference
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)What explains party preference? Ideology and values do but these explanations are undertheorized. We offer grid-group cultural theory (CT) to provide a theory of ideology and values to explain party preference. We aim to ... -
The Cultural Value of Games: Computer Games and Cultural Policy in Europe
(Changing Media, Changing Europe, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2008)In this chapter I want to discuss the concept of ‘cultural value’ in computer games, as a reflection on why and how games might be a part of a future European cultural policy. To readers who are only vaguely familiar with ... -
The customer effect in agile system development projects. A process tracing case study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)The success of an agile system development project is dependent on many factors, including the customer organization’s ability to collaborate with and support the development team. This support consists not only of a single ... -
Cut scenes
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Cyberhendelser i Norge ved en krise eller konflikt: Science fiction eller virkelighet?
(Master thesis, 2018-06-30)I et demokrati er det viktig med ytringsfrihet og pressefrihet. Denne friheten er også nedfelt i de universelle menneskerettighetene og ytterligere presisert i Den Norske Grunnloven. I dag er mye av disse ytringene flyttet ...