Browsing Institutt for statsvitenskap by Author "Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv"

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  • Autocratic elections stabilizing tool or force for change? 
    Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv; Wig, Tore (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Do elections reduce or increase the risk of autocratic regime breakdown? This article addresses this contested question by distinguishing between election events and the institution of elections. The authors propose that ...
  • Characterizing and Assessing Temporal Heterogeneity: Introducing a Change Point Framework, with Applications on the Study of Democratization 
    Hermansen, Gudmund Horn; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Abstract Various theories in political science point to temporal heterogeneity in relationships of interest. Yet, empirical research typically ignores such heterogeneity or employs fairly crude measures to evaluate ...
  • Costs and Cover: Explaining the Onset of Ceasefires in Civil Conflict 
    Clayton, Govinda; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv; Rustad, Siri Camilla Aas; Strand, Håvard (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Ceasefires are common in civil conflict. Yet we have surprisingly little comparative analysis of why and under what conditions they occur. A ceasefire provides temporary relief from the costs of conflict, but also generates ...
  • Horizontal inequality and armed conflict: a comprehensive literature review 
    Hillesund, Solveig; Baghat, Karim; Barrett, Gray; Dupuy, Kendra; Gates, Scott; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv; Rustad, Siri Camilla Aas; Strand, Håvard; Urdal, Henrik; Østby, Gudrun (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Investigation of whether, how, and why inequality influences the dynamics of violent conflict has a long intellectual history. Inequality between individuals and households (vertical inequality) has dominated the literature, ...
  • Introducing the ETH/PRIO Civil Conflict Ceasefire Dataset 
    Clayton, Govinda; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv; Strand, Håvard; Rustad, Siri Camilla Aas; Wiehler, Claudia; Sagård, Tora; Landsverk, Peder; Ryland, Reidun; Sticher, Valerie; Wink, Emma; Bara, Corinne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    This article introduces the Civil Conflict CeaseFire (CF) dataset. The CF data covers all ceasefires in civil conflict between 1989 and 2020, including multilateral, bilateral and unilateral arrangements, ranging from ...
  • Patterns of Democracy over Space and Time 
    Boese, Vanessa Alexandra; Gates, Scott; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv; Strand, Håvard (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Abstract Unidimensional measures of democracy fail to account for the complex and varied nature of political systems. This article disaggregates the concept of democracy and proposes a multidimensional conceptualization ...
  • Steps to war : an analysis of the mechanisms causing the Israel - Hezbollah conflict to escalate 
    Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
    The thesis examines escalation of international crisis involving both a state and a non-state actor. It takes as its starting point the following empirical anomaly. In the summer of 2006 Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli ...
  • Which Institutions Matter? Re-Considering the Democratic Civil Peace 
    Fjelde, Hanne; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv (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 ...