Publications

The article addresses the influence of U.S. online campaign practices on West-European party organizations. The empirical case is the Norwegian Labor Party: To what extent did Labor adopt the online practices of the Obama campaign, and in what sense was the online strategy adapted to fit existing campaign and organizational structures?

By Rune Karslen

This paper investigates whether types of dictatorships differ systematically when it comes to the protection of property rights.

By Carl Henrik Knutsen and Hanne Fjelde

Journal of European Public Policy has published a virtual special issue on Regulation in the EU, bringing together influential articles in the debate and including an article from Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal (2011).  

International organisations are typically composed of representatives with affiliations to the national level. The European Commission, in contrast, is one of the few international institutions in which key actors owe their allegiances to the supranational level.

By Morten Egeberg

In this chapter of the book  Society and democracy in Europe, edited by Silke I. Keil and Oscar W. Gabriel (2012), a cumulative file based on the three first waves of European Social Survey (conducted in 2002, 2004 and 2006) the impact of the various socio-structural variables on party choice is examined for 24 European countries.

By Oddbjørn Knutsen

This article examines the relationship between social structure and party choice in Hungary on the basis of a survey from 2009 (N = 2980).

By Oddbjørn Knutsen

This paper discusses how democracy and state capacity interact in affecting economic growth.

By Carl Henrik Knutsen

Since the late 1920s, social democracy has been preeminent in the politics of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, through dominant parties and ideological hegemony of the centre-left. "The Nordic Model of Social Democracy" relates the concept of the Nordic model to the guiding role of social democratic ideology in developing and sustaining a particular way of society, extending from the mixed economy to social and gender equality and the universal welfare state.

By Nic Brandal, Øivind Bratberg and Dag Einar Thorsen

Allegedly, the new green and left parties that were established in Western Europe during or after the 1960s tend to be characterized by informal but significant links with social movement organizations. In contrast, weak links or virtual lack of such connections is often seen as one of the enduring characteristics of the new populist (radical) right parties. However, there are both empirical and theoretical reasons for examining these conventional wisdom(s) more closely. To date, only limited evidence is available on this aspect of new European parties in general. Examining Norway's successful new left and populist right party, and based on rich original data, this case study adds to our knowledge in several ways.

By Elin Haugsgjerd Allern

Transformative democratic politics are necessary to the advance of substantive democratization. They are vital to the improvement of popular control over public affairs and for promoting economic growth and social welfare. In this diverse collection, the authors examine the political dynamics of democratization in the Global South, and the potential and problems of transformative strategies in new growth economies, as well as the benefits for post-clientelist transformations. If the contemporary challenge for democratization in the Global South is to substantiate formal and minimalist democracy, the contribution of this book is to point to the centrality of transformative democratic politics.

Edited by Kristian Stokke and Olle Törnquist

This article review the development of the legislative powers of the European Parliament (EP) vis-à-vis the other European Union institutions, and studies the impact of the growing power of the EP on political organization and behavior inside the legislature.

By Simon Hix and Bjørn Høyland

This article studies how elected representatives serving their final period face only weak incentives to provide costly effort.

By Leif Helland, Jon Hovi and Lars Monkerud

In this article the authors study how enforcement of agreements can be a major challenge in international politics.

By Frank Grundig, Jon Hovi, Arild Underdal and Stine Aakre

In the forthcoming book "Business and Politics in a New Global Order", the authors Hveem, Knutsen and Rygh have written a chapter titled "State Ownership, Political Risk and Foreign Direct Investment".

By Helge Hveem, Carl Henrik Knutsen and Asmund Rygh

This paper surveys the literature on how democracy affects economic growth.

By Carl Henrik Knutsen

This article proposes an analytical framework for exploring policy responses to common challenges of environmental governance.

By Arild Underdal

This article addresses the issue of how parties organise and work across territory in unitary states. Concentrating on policy-making in Norway, it provides a multi-dimensional description of intra-party links and power relations.

By Elin Haugsgjerd Allern and Jo Saglie

Elin Haugsgjerd Allern has written the chapter Party Patronage in Norway: No Room for Political Parties? in the book  Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies, edited by Petr Kopecky, The late Peter Mair and Maria Spirova.

By Elin Haugsgjerd Allern

Realism is making a comeback in Europe. This book brings together a new generation of realist scholars. It provides a rigorous survey for specialists seeking to understand the dynamics of international relations in a time of change.

Edited by Asle Toje and Barbara Kunz

The Political System of the European Union sets out an innovative way of analyzing, researching and teaching the European Union. Starting from the observation that the EU now possesses many of the attributes of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland argue that we should use the general theories of political science to help understand how the EU works.

By Simon Hix and Bjørn Høyland

This book examines the politics of technology, and provides a detailed analysis of developments and debates within the European Union, international trade and governance.

By Helge Hveem and Carl Henrik Knutsen  

What is special about small states? How do they adapt their policies and patterns of governance to meet turbulent times such as a new security environment and the international financial crisis? Answers to these and further questions are provided in this new book.

By Harald Baldersheim and Jozef Bátora

In this article, the authors conclude that the impacts of economic growth and UN involvement on the risk of post-conflict peace collapse are neither clear nor simple.

By Marianne Dahl and Bjørn Høyland

According to a widespread assumption, party–interest group links are significantly weaker than they used to be. Both sets of organizations, it is said, now prefer autonomy over the constraints implied by close relationships, especially in supposedly ‘cartelized’ established party systems but also in new democracies.

By Elin Haugsgjerd Allern and Tim Bale

In this article, the author introduce, discuss, and formalize the argument that the type of security threat a dictatorial regime faces has implications for economic policy making and, consequently, economic outcomes.

By Carl Henrik Knutsen