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Instead of the deliberative debate : How the principle of expression plays out in the news-generated Facebook discussion
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-08-20)Social media have become an integrated part of people’s lives and are important communication channels, utilised both for personal communication and public debate. Several studies and theories suggest how the advent of ... -
Institusjonalisering av uforutsigbarhet. En kvalitativ studie av ufrivillig deltidsarbeid i velferdsstaten
(Master thesis, 2008-12-18)Norge har i dag en gruppe på 60 000 deltidsansatte i en ufrivillig lav stillingsprosent, og mange av disse er kvinner i pleie- og omsorgssektoren. Bare i Bergen kommune er 42 % av de ansatte i byrådsavdeling for helse og ... -
Institutional and political constraints to planning sustainable settlements in suburban municipalities case of Tallinn, Estonia
(Master thesis, 2007)This thesis addresses the recent phenomenon of urban sprawl in Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia,and tries to find its institutional and political reasons. Urban sprawl is seen as a type ofsuburbanization which lacks ... -
Institutional development through crisis? an analysis of the European Court of Human Rights' pilot judgement procedure addressing systemic human rights issues
(Master thesis, 2011-09-20)The thesis aims to investigate a new approach put to use by the European Court of Human Rights for the first time in 2004, known as the Pilot Judgement Procedure, and asks whether this procedure contributes to the ... -
Institutional Logics, Organizational Action, and Change in Zambian Public Accountability Organizations
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-02-15)Public organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa have been perceived as schizophrenic and guided by incompatible ideas deriving from their local norms, colonial histories, and development paradigms, which is thought to constrain ... -
The institutional trajectory of Hamas: From radicalism to pragmatism—and back again?
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-03-06)This thesis explains Hamas’s development, from its modest beginnings to the political force it is today, by analyzing it as a case of party institutionalization. The analytical framework, based on elements from the literature ... -
Institutionalization challenges of performance appraisal system in Tanzanian local government authorities
(Master thesis, 2012-06-05)Improving the service provision of the public sector has been the struggle of many developing countries for the past two decades. Tanzania is also in the same endeavor where it aims to improve the performance of the public ... -
Institutionalization of performance appraisal system: A case study of the Maldivian public Service
(Master thesis, 2005)The public sector in most countries is going through profound restructuring in the face of environmental constraints that force the sector to become more efficient and effective. In this respect, one of the most popular ... -
Institutions that Define the Policy-Making Role of Courts: A Comparative Analysis of the Supreme Courts of Scandinavia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Scandinavian supreme courts have been described as deferential to the elected branches of government and reluctant to exercise their limited review powers. However, in recent years these courts have increasingly decided ... -
An Integrated Approach to Support Energy Policy Formulation and Evaluation
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-11-27)With the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol (UN, 1997) in 1997 and the recentincrease in energy prices, national leaders of industrialized countries have startedinvestigating options for reducing energy consumption and carbon ... -
Integrated Assessment modellering for Gøteborgprotokollen
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)Denne oppgaven søker å gi en oversikt over rollen Integrated Assessment modellering spiller i håndteringen av grenseoverskridende luftforurensing i Europa, gjennom Gøteborgprotokollen. Modellen som betraktes i denne oppgaven ... -
Integrated care for multimorbidity population in Asian countries: A scoping review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background: The complex needs of patients with multiple chronic diseases call for integrated care (IC). This scoping review examines several published Asian IC programmes and their relevant components and elements in ... -
Integrated Systems Analysis: Belgium’s SDG performance under Business As Usual scenario
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)In 2015, Belgium confirmed their political willingness to commit to sustainable development by adopting United Nations’ 2030 Agenda and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals it undermines. While the deadline to achieve the ... -
An Integrated Theory for the Accumulation of Mentally Ill Offenders and the Effect of Realignment in California
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-09-12)High mental illness prevalence in California state prisons has drawn much attention of scholars and policymakers in the past three decades. Various studies suggest that the mental illness prevalence in prison has increased ... -
Integrating Digital Landscape Model Datasets as Knowledge Graphs. Exploring the German ATKIS datasets
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)Recently, the Knowledge Graph (KG) based approach has become increasingly popular for integrating geospatial data. This popularity is due to the flexible nature of the graph data model that KGs have, and the ability to ... -
Integrating Socially Assistive Robots into Japanese Nursing Care
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper presents experiences of integrating assistive robots in Japanese nursing care through semi-structured interviews and site observations at three nursing homes in Japan during the year 2019. The study looked at ... -
Integrating Socially Assistive Robots into Japanese Nursing Care
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper presents experiences of integrating assistive robots in Japanese nursing care through semi-structured interviews and site observations at three nursing homes in Japan during the spring of 2019. The study looked ... -
Integration of Ghanaians in Bergen's Labour Market
(Master thesis, 2016-05-18)Migration research in Norway has primarily focused on refugees and larger immigrant groups, and their employment outcomes rather than on small culturally different immigrant groups from countries such as Ghana. Migrants' ... -
The Integration of Refugees in Norway: Reflection from the Eritrean Refugees in Two Municipalities
(Master thesis, 2017)The influx of refugees into Europe, Scandinavia, and Norway and the challenges that came along on how to integrate them into the host communities has been at the front-and-center of public and media debates in recent years. ...