Browsing Department of Comparative Politics by Issue Date
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Consequences of affective polarization: Avoidance, intolerance and support for violence in the United Kingdom and Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Affective polarization – that is, antipathy towards political opponents – sits high on the academic and political agenda. This is because it is thought to have a multitude of damaging consequences, both for how citizens ... -
Are citizens responsive to interest groups? A field experiment on lobbying and intended citizen behaviour
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The ability to mobilise public opinion is central to interest group politics. Yet, whether and how groups succeed in swaying the public remains inconclusive. The article assesses this by conducting a field experiment in ... -
Regulating low wages: cross-national policy variation and outcomes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article provides a comparative analysis of three central policies to regulate low wages: statutory minimum wages, state support for collective bargaining and topping up low wages with public transfers (in-work benefits). ... -
Minimum wages: by collective bargaining and by law
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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» ... -
Avoiding a natural resource curse? The impact of administrative efficiency on Colombian municipalities’ fiscal effort
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The term ‘paradox of the plenty’ was coined to describe an often-found inverse relationship between royalty revenue and economic development. The main causal mechanism is thought to be a substitution effect whereby governments ... -
Conflicting Interests in Clean Energy Transitions: A panel analysis of offshore wind deployment in Europe, 2001-2020
(Master thesis, 2022-12-06)Offshore wind has become an increasingly attractive energy source in the ongoing transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Until recently, this clean energy technology has primarily been deployed in a handful ... -
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 ... -
Three stones, one bird? A study of public support for meat-reduction policies in Norway
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En brikke i puslespillet - Strategiske aktørers vurderinger av trusler og sårbarheter
(Master thesis, 2022-11-21)This thesis seeks to gain an understanding regarding what threats and vulnerabilities strategic actors in the maritime domain see as most relevant, both towards themselves and more generally in society. A secondary research ... -
The Politics of Liberal Rights in Africa : Regulating and legislating freedom of association, expression, and information
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-09-02)Hvordan utspiller kampen om liberale rettigheter seg i Afrikas flerpartidemokratier? Dette spørsmålet er i sentrum for denne avhandlingen. Selv om afrikanske demokratier i stor grad har omfavnet den valgdemokratiske ... -
Humanitarian Diplomacy at the United Nations
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-08-09)I en verden preget av kriser, langvarige væpnede konflikter og hyppigere naturkatastrofer på grunn av klimaendringer, forventes humanitære behov på tvers av landegrenser og kontinenter å øke. Dette tvinger humanitære aktører ... -
Income Inequality and its Effects on Satisfaction with Democracy: A multilevel Analysis of 29 European countries
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Regionalist Party Spillover from Regional into National and European Elections: The Impact of the Multilevel Electoral System on Vertical Bottom-up Spillover
(Master thesis, 2022-06-23)This thesis explores how the permissiveness of the electoral system impacts regionalist parties’ vertical bottom-up electoral spillover effects from the regional electoral arena into the national and European electoral ... -
Offentlig støtte i asymmetrisk krigføring: Hvordan amerikansk opinion påvirket utfallet av Afghanistankrigen
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)In April 2021, President Biden announced the drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan. Thereby ending the United States’ longest war by August 31st 2021. Seemingly, the drawdown was not motivated by any new evolvement ... -
Eleven som demokratisk medborger En kvalitativ studie av demokrati- og medborgerskapsforståelsen hos videregående elever
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)The research questions for this thesis seeks to understand more about high school pupils understanding of democracy and citizenship and to see if this understanding changes after the pupils participates at an educational ... -
Challenges in Accessing Humanitarian Spaces in High-Conflict Contexts: ICRC, MSF, and NAC’s practice of Humanitarian Diplomacy in Southeast Afghanistan.
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)The nature of the practice of Humanitarian Diplomacy makes it a difficult subject for scholars to study and generalize and therefore has resulted in the field being dominated by single case-studies. This is especially true ... -
Unequal Representation and Morality Issues: The Effect of Education on Opinion-Policy Congruence
(Master thesis, 2022-06-22)A government must be responsive to all its’ citizens for a democracy to thrive, meaning that all individuals must be politically equal. This entails that their preferences are equally influential on the government’s ...