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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)How should we measure parties' position on the unidimensional left - right axis? There are several answers provided by the literature, clustering around three central sources: Mass surveys of voters, expert judgements and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)Agriculture and food policy has been subject to extensive changes since the early 1990s. This study focus on Norwegian and German interest groups representing agriculture, food industry, and veterinarians, more precisely, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)To what degree are news websites in autocracies resilient to online censorship? I explore this question in Egypt, which has begun to heavily censor news websites in recent years, alongside several other autocracies. Relying ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)This thesis attempts to establish a set of conditions under which explicit threats of economic sanctions work in cases where a target state has a desire to violate a norm or standard of importance to the sender state. In ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Consultative referendums may provide crucial information about public opinion but have received little attention in the literature compared with their binding counterparts. In this article, we analyse 221 Norwegian local ...
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When Only a Genius Could Keep the Peace: The effect of repressive instability on internal conflict (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)In recent years, nonviolent conflict has increasingly captured both popular and academic attention. One established feature of nonviolent conflict is intriguing; it often arises in highly repressive circumstances commonly ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)Since the American Subprime-crisis from 2007, financial crises have been in the forefront of the political economic agenda. The questions are how such crises are created and how the economic systems should be designed to ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)The thesis deals with Norwegian responses to EU defence cooperation. From the early 1990s onwards, the EU members gradually extended the cooperation in this area. This represented a challenge to Norway, as a non-member of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This thesis will assess the impact of oil price shocks on regime survival. A large body of research into the inner workings of the «rentier states» finds oil dependency to cause political decay, low economic growth, and ...
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(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2016)The literature on EU integration gives no clear answer as to where real decision-making power in the EU is situated. Which stakeholders are the most influential when major decisions are made, for example? An approach held ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)Negotiations on climate change in the United Nations represents the key tool in addressing our time greatest challenge. Countries have negotiated on climate change for decades, and the talks ultimately resulted in the Paris ...
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Which Gender Equality in the EU? A Qualitative Text Analysis of the Discourse and Outcome of the EU Directive 2019/1158 on Work-Life Balance for Parents and CarersRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)ABSTRACT Despite decades of research, there is no consensus on the relationship between democratic institutions and risk of civil war. We alleviate measurement issues and theoretical ambiguity in much existing ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)This thesis questions who are appointed to Norwegian Public Commissions and why. Even though the public commission regime is intrinsic to the Norwegian political system, procedures regarding the selection process of members ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2000)The overall purpose of my thesis is to determine the moral responsibility of soldiers in war. My theoretical framework is that of the just war tradition, a major moral tradition that holds that war can be evaluated according ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)In 1986, the International Labour Organization (ILO) started a process aimed at revising its 1957 Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention (C107). This process was completed in 1989 with the adoption of the Indigenous ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)In many democratic societies, research has identified an increase in animosity between supporters of different political parties. While this phenomenon has been extensively examined among the general public, less research ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Several prominent accounts suggest that democratic transitions are more likely to take place when opposition to the incumbent regime is led by certain social groups. We further develop the argument that opposition movements ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2021)Abstract Scholarship on political Islam suggests that support for early Islamist movements came from literate merchants, government officials, and professionals who lacked political representation. We test these claims ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)This thesis investigates the factors affecting political support microfinance. Through a comparative case study of Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom I provide a new approach to understanding microfinance institutions ...