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Politisk influenser-kommunikasjon på YouTube
(Master thesis, 2020-10-07)En analyse av politiske influensere sin appell på YouTube. -
Politisk kultur og demokratiutvikling i Polen
(Master thesis, 2022-12-01)Denne oppgaven tar for seg autokratiseringen som foregår i Polen og om denne utviklingen har noe med politisk kultur å gjøre, både blant de styrende og hos deler av befolkningen. Bakgrunnen for denne studien, er den generelle ... -
Politisk slagside i uavhengig presse?
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2006)Hensikten med denne studien er å undersøke VGs formidling av en viktig politisk case: ’partilederstriden i Arbeiderpartiet (Ap) mellom Thorbjørn Jagland og Jens Stoltenberg’. I artikkelen blir kvantitativ innholdsanalyse ... -
Politisk utvikling i digitale medier - En komparativ casestudie av retusjert reklame og influencerbarn
(Master thesis, 2022-06-16)Innenfor lignende kontekster prioriteres samfunnsfenomen i ulik grad. Visse tilfeller er kontinuerlig aktuelle og befinner seg på den politiske agendaen over lange perioder, mens andre eksisterer i samfunnet lenge før ... -
Politiske og institusjonelle trekk: En kvantitativ studie av norske kommuners budsjettbalanse
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)This thesis examines what political and institutional factors effect municipalities fiscal balance. Previous research in this field has tended to investigate single phenomenon’s effect on fiscal balance. This thesis aims ... -
Politiske og økonomiske effekter på utslipp av drivhusgasser: en kvantitativ studie
(Master thesis, 2011-05-31)Denne studien undersøker hvorvidt det finnes en kurvlineær sammenheng mellom økonomisk utviklingsnivå og utslipp av drivhusgasser, hvor fattige og rike land har lave utslipp mens vanlige land har høye utslipp. Dette er et ... -
The polyscopic landscape of povert research. "State of the art" in International Poverty Research. An overview and 6 in-depth studies.
(Research report, 2005)In August 2004 the Research Council of Norway announced tenders for a “State-of-the-art”report within international poverty research, with special focus on institutions and rights. TheResearch Council wanted the report to ... -
Popularity Bias as Ethical and Technical Issue in Recommendation: A Survey
(Journal article, 2022)Recommender Systems have become omnipresent in our everyday life, helping us making decisions and navigating in the digital world full of information. However, only recently researchers have started discovering undesired ... -
Population dynamic modeling to further improve the understanding of the impact of the level of the Proportion of Illegally Killed Elephants (PIKE) on elephant populations at a Monitoring of Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) site in Kenya.
(Master thesis, 2021-08-17)Elephants play an important role in ecosystem function and help maintain suitable habitats for many other species as well as maintain ecosystem health. However, African Elephant populations have declined by 60% over the ... -
The Population's Confidence in the Child Protection System – A Survey Study of England, Finland, Norway and the United States (California)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)This article examines the confidence the population (N = 4,003) has in the child welfare system in four countries – England, Finland, Norway and the USA (California). We find that about half or less of the population reports ... -
Populations trust in the child protection system: A cross-country comparison of nine high-income jurisdictions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this study, we examine the trust placed by the populations of nine jurisdictions in their child protection systems. These systems protect children’s rights and grant authority for invasive interventions to curtail or ... -
Populism and the pandemic. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro leading the country in times of COVID-19
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)While there are many studies on the buzz-word populism, there are far fewer studies on how populism effects crisis management. When the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 disease a global pandemic on March ... -
Populism in Scandinavian Immigration Discourse 1970–2016
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article measures and discusses populism in Scandinavian immigration debate from 1970 to 2016. Using descriptive statistical analysis and logistical regression analysis, we analyze items related to immigration in six ... -
Populism, Instability, and Rupture in Sustainability Transformations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The recent surge in populist politics in Europe and North America has challenged many of the policies aimed at advancing sustainable shifts. In this article we argue that this surge necessitates a rethinking of transition ... -
Populisme på samisk. Framveksten av Nordkalottfolket på Sametinget
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Nordkalottfolket (NKF) fikk sitt politiske gjennombrudd i Sametinget ved valget i 2021 med 18,3 prosent av stemmene med 9 av 39 representanter fra 6 av 7 valgkretser. Med populismens forståelse av hvordan «folket», «eliten» ... -
Populist far right discursive-institutional tactics in European regional decarbonization
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)What rhetorical strategies are populist far-right parties using to delay regional decarbonization? This paper focuses on three populist far-right parties—the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE), Alternative for ... -
Populist MPs on Facebook: Adoption and emotional reactions in Austria, the Netherlands, and Sweden
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The argument goes that social media can reinforce the rise of populism as populists' emotionally charged language fits well with social media algorithms. However, whether this potential materializes in practice depends on ... -
Populist Radical Right Parties in Government: Representational Correctives or Vehicles of Discontent?
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)In the past decades, populist radical right parties in Europe have seen a rise in popularity and have recently started entering European parliaments and governments. This thesis seeks to dive deeper into the consequences ... -
Populist Radical Right Voters in Contemporary Democracies in Western Europe: Operationalizing and Testing the Three-Dimensional Political Space hypotheses
(Master thesis, 2014-06-02)This thesis operationalizes and tests a new theoretical framework of how to map populist radical right voters in the political space. While such research has been dominated by two-dimensional frameworks, the framework of ... -
Portals to the unseen Re-inventing ayahuasca practices, shamanism, and the anthropologist in the entheogenic field
(Master thesis, 2021-08-02)