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Time, institutional support, and quality of decision making in child protection: a cross-country analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-04)This paper examines perceptions of time and institutional support for decision making and staff confidence in the ultimate decisions made—examining differences and similarities between and within the service-oriented Nordic ... -
Tinder: «Flytende kjærlighet» i den digitale datingens æra? - Implikasjoner av samtidens «Tinderkultur» for tradisjonelle idealer av intimitet, forpliktelse og romantisk kjærlighet
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)Tinder er i dag den mest brukte dating-applikasjonen på verdensbasis, og har i den sammenheng fått en del oppmerksomhet i media og populærkultur – der den hovedsakelig fremstilles negativt. Appen hevdes å fasilitere en ... -
Tindrende lys – En kvalitativ studie av relasjonsdannelse og selvrepresentasjon på Tinder
(Master thesis, 2021-06-01)Denne masteroppgaven utforsker hvordan Tinder brukes, erfares og fortolkes som en arena for relasjonsdannelse og selvrepresentasjon. Datamaterialet tar utgangspunkt i 14 kvalitative dybdeintervjuer med mål om å gi et bilde ... -
Tipping the scales: The power of parental commitment in decisions on adoption from care
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article studies how three groups of professional decision-makers – child welfare workers, experts on children and judges – exercise discretion in decisions on adoption from care in the Norwegian child welfare system. ... -
Tjenestemannsorganisasjoner og nasjonal forvaltningspolitikk: Modernisering med en hånd på rattet og en fot på bremsen?
(Doctoral thesis, 2006-06-16)This study is inspired by an international school of research that is theoreticallyinformed and empirical oriented, combining political science and organization theory.The theme of the study is the relationship between the ... -
Tjenester og tillit. En flernivåanalyse av kvaliteten på kommunale velferdstjenesters påvirkning på lokalpolitisk tillit
(Master thesis, 2019-07-06)Norwegian citizens exhibit high levels of trust towards government, politicians, and public institutions in general, compared to citizens of most other countries. In this thesis I propose that high quality welfare services ... -
To be Announced: Understanding and model checking Group Announcement Logic
(Master thesis, 2019-07-10)In this master’s thesis we present a graphical model checking tool for group announcement logic called GALMC, capable of visualizing the process of checking formulas in a step-by-step fashion. We also define how to enumerate ... -
To Be in the World But Not of It: American Evangelicals and the Dilemmas of Being Christian in a Secular World
(Master thesis, 2009-06-22)In this thesis I explore how evangelical Christians in two different churches in the US relate to the society they live in, which they regard as secular. I will give insight to their narratives on how they see their lives ... -
To be or not to be. Om strategier for overlevelse, maktkamp og vennskap i et kostskolehus
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To be unemployed is not to be dependent. The politics of narratives surrounding unemployment
(Master thesis, 2013-06-18)Based on six months of fieldwork in London in the first half of 2012, this thesis aims to understand how unemployment is a situation that is understood in different ways based on political understanding and moral categories. ... -
To comply or not to comply? Building an index for constitutional compliance
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02)There are limited, but increasing, attempts at quantitatively measuring the distance between de jure provisions and their de facto adherence. Such attempts seem mostly concerned with rights provisions, but some also concern ... -
"To hell with you and your union, we are going whatever you say". An ethnographic study of how class, race, ethnicity, and immigration affected the Brexit referendum
(Master thesis, 2018-06-06)Based on a five-month long fieldwork in Wigan, North West England this thesis presents an analysis of how class, immigration, ethnicity and race affected the Brexit referendum. I did my fieldwork in a post-industrialised ... -
To sider av same sak: Ein kvantitativ casestudie av haldningar til kommunesamanslåing og politisk legitimitet
(Master thesis, 2013-06-06)Oppgåva studerer årsaker til haldningar til kommunesamanslåing og korleis desse heng saman med legitimitetsgrunnlaget for kommunesamanslåingar. To kommunar, Hareid og Ulstein, utgjer casen for analysen. Analyseeiningane ... -
To våtmarksområder i endring over 70 år: Naturtypekartlegging og økologisk tilstandsvurdering av Ulsetstemma og Krosslivatnet i Åsane i Bergen
(Master thesis, 2020-06-23)Forvaltning av våtmark- og ferskvannsystemer havner ofte i konflikt med annen verdiskapning tilknyttet urbanisering. Slike blå-grønne infrastrukturer er svært viktige. De er grønne lunger som tilbyr både økologiske og ... -
A tough trade-off? The asymmetrical impact of populist radical right inclusion on satisfaction with democracy and government
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Populist radical right (PRR) parties are increasingly included in coalition governments across Western Europe. How does such inclusion affect satisfaction with democracy (SWD) in these societies? While some citizens will ... -
Tourism in the global periphery: A case study from Manang, Nepal Himalaya
(Master thesis, 2006)This study examines the impacts of tourism in a small mountain village in the Nepal Himalayas. During the 1980s, especially, there was a strong global increase in tourism to “remote” places. This increase consequently led ... -
Toward a Sociologically Enriched Understanding of Anti-Media Populism:The Case of Enough is Enough!
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The antagonist relationship between the people and mainstream media constitutes an integral dimension of populism. Recently, this relationship has been articulated through the concept of “anti-media populism,” which ... -
Toward ‘Cultures of Engagement’? An exploratory comparison of engagement patterns on Facebook news posts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Information production, dissemination, and consumption are contingent upon cultural and financial dimensions. This study attempts to find cultures of engagement that reflect how audiences engage with news posts made by ... -
Towards a Big Data Platform for News Angles
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Finding good angles on news events is a central journalistic and editorial skill. As news work becomes increasingly computer-assisted and big-data based, journalistic tools therefore need to become better able to support ...