Blar i Faculty of Social Sciences på tittel
Viser treff 51-70 av 4223
-
Addressing the resilience of tomato farmers in Ghana facing a double exposure from climate and market
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Ghanaian tomato farmers are severely impacted by changing climate and related more frequent and extreme weather events such as drought and heavy rainfall. Furthermore, tomato production represents one of the main sources ... -
Adivasiness as Caste Expression and Land Rights Claim-Making in Central-Eastern India
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The adivasi population represents a special case in India’s new land wars. Strong individual and community rights to agricultural and forest lands have been enacted for this group based on notions of adivasi identities as ... -
Administrative and political grassroots corruption in rural Kenya: It takes two to tango
(Master thesis, 2012-06-07)This thesis describes public sector corruption in a rural setting of Kenya. It also assesses the effects of civil service wage on reported cases of corruption in the Kenyan public sector. It argues that understanding public ... -
Administrative coordination capacity; does the wickedness of policy areas matter?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Based on a survey of civil servants in the Norwegian central government, this article describes perceptions of coordination capacity and examines to what degree the variations in perceived coordinating capacity can be ... -
Administrative culture in Nepal: does it reflect the dominant socio-cultural values of Nepal?
(Master thesis, 2005)Nepalese bureaucracy is accused of being inefficient, corrupt, non-transparent and irresponsible. It is also said that Afno Manchhe and Chakari, which is deeply rooted in Nepalese social values, is also highly institutionalized ... -
Adolescents’ Perspectives on the Drivers of Obesity Using a Group Model Building Approach: A South African Perspective
(Journal article, 2022)Overweight and obesity increase the risk of a range of poor physiological and psychosocial health outcomes. Previous work with well-defined cohorts has explored the determinants of obesity and employed various methods and ... -
Adopsjon eller offentlig omsorg? En studie av befolkningens syn på adopsjon som tiltak i barnevernet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Barnevernet kan gjennomføre adopsjoner av fosterbarn uten biologiske foreldres samtykke. Dette representerer en betydelig utøvelse av statlig makt, og norsk rett krever særlig tungtveiende grunner for å tillate adopsjon. ... -
Adopting a mojo mindset: Training newspaper reporters in mobile journalism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Due to the visual turn in journalism and the emergence of mobile journalism, many newspaper journalists have had to change the way they work and learn to use new tools. To face these changes, traditional news organizations ... -
Adoption from care in Norway
(Chapter, 2021) -
Advances in Lifelog Data Organisation and Retrieval at the NTCIR-14 Lifelog-3 Task
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Lifelogging refers to the process of digitally capturing a continuous and detailed trace of life activities in a passive manner. In order to assist the research community to make progress in the organisation and retrieval ... -
Advancing digital disconnection research: Introduction to the special issue
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Over the past decade, scholarly interest in “digital disconnection” and related concepts has grown in media and communication studies, and in related disciplines. The idea of digital disconnection explicitly references ... -
Advocacy coalition approach to policymaking - A study of the civil society's contribution to Ghana's oil industry
(Master thesis, 2017)This study examines the civil society’s contribution to policymaking in Ghana’s oil industry. To achieve this objective, the study draws from the activism of a civil society venture called Civil Society Platform for Oil ... -
The aesthetics of depression in the work of Lars von Trier. Ethical considerations on "Depression Trilogy"
(Master thesis, 2016-08-31)The following dissertation investigates whether Lars von Trier's film representations of depression go beyond medical and social conventions related to the illness, in order to underline the complex character of its suffering ... -
Aetat: en organisatorisk kameleon. En studie av endringsprosesser i Aetat fra 1990 til 2003
(Master thesis, 2004)Tema og problemstilling: Aetat er en stor, offentlig forvaltningsinstitusjon som skal følge utviklingen på arbeidsmarkedet og gjennomføre den vedtatte arbeidsmarkedspolitikken. Etaten er preget av uforutsigbare omgivelser ... -
”AF og Akademikerne”
(Master thesis, 2007)Temaet for min hovedoppgave er hovedsammenslutninger på arbeidstakersiden i Norge, med spesielt fokus på Akademikernes Fellesorganisasjon (AF) og Akademikerne. Organisasjonsmønsteret/-kartet på arbeidstakersiden i Norge ... -
Affective Polarization in Multiparty Systems? Comparing Affective Polarization Towards Voters and Parties in Norway and the United States
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)A growing body of comparative studies on partisan hostility – a phenomenon known as affective polarization – is providing evidence that partisan affective polarization is generally no greater in the United States than it ... -
Affektiv polarisering i Norden – en oversikt
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023) -
Affirmative action measures and electoral candidates’ positioning in Zambia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While the increase of women in elected office has received much scholarly attention, less attention has been paid to the dynamics of resisting gender quotas in countries that fail to adopt such measures despite regional ...