Publications

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

This paper begins by developing a simple theory to explain the formation of voting coalitions in three minority cabintes in the Canadian Parliament. The theory predicts that electoral incentives and policy issues drive minority government support.

By Jean-François Godbout and Bjørn Høyland

What does the creation of sub-national legislatures entail for the work of parliamentary representatives, and by what guidelines does the cross-level relationship evolve? This article considers the issue in the context of British devolution, relating the analysis of parliamentarians to the question of how parties adapt

By Øivind Bratberg

This is the new preface for the recently launched Indonesian edition of Törnquist’s PhD dissertation at the University of Uppsala. The dissertation was first published in Swedish in1982 (Symposion) and in English in 1984 (Zed Books) with the title ‘Dilemmas of Third World Communism: The destruction of the PKI in Indonesia”. Hence it took almost 30 years for the book to reach Indonesia. Publishing takes long, especially under harsh conditions.

By Olle Törnquist

This book originated in a conference held in Oslo 11–13 November 2009, arranged by the E.ON Ruhrgas scholarship programme for political science, and commemorating the 20th anniversary of the ‘revolutions’ in Central and Eastern Europe The 16 chapters take stock of developments after 1989, with special emphasis on the causes and effects of the transitions, including the processes of state unifi cation and separation that followed in the wake of the ‘revolutions’.

Edited by Elisabeth Bakke and Ingo Peters 

The article examines the relationship between social structure and party choice in Hungary on the basis of a survey from 2009 (N=2980). The survey was part of the Hungarian Election Study and was one of several Hungarian political surveys that were financed by Norway through the European Economic Agreement (EEA).

By Oddbjørn Knutsen

The purpose of Bjørn Erik Rasch`s  chapter  in the book Parliamentary Government in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads. Coping with Challenges from Europeanisation and Presidentialisation is to discuss legislative-executive relations in the Nordic region and to shed light on the distinctly Scandinavian form of minority governance. Why do minority governments occur so frequently in Scandinavia, while broad majority coalitions seem to be the norm in the two other − apparently quite similar − countries in the region?  

By Bjørn Erik Rasch

While Africa after de-colonialization has experienced many internal conflicts, there has been a puzzling lack of interstate wars. Why is this so? Given the historically rootless borders, lack of vital resources like water, and prevalence of dictatorships, one could have predicted that several African interstate wars would have taken place.

By Carl Henrik Knutsen

The jury is still out with respect to whether European Union (EU)-level agencies act primarily as tools of national governments or not, although parts of the literature as well as the legal framework of EU agencies seem to favour the former interpretation.

By Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal

Questioning is an important activity in the Norwegian Storting. This article suggests that, in explaining and drawing inferences from patterns of questioning, attention must be given to the rules of the game.

By Bjørn Erik Rasch

This article analyze legislative voting in the 35th (1994–1997), 38th (2004–2005), and 39th (2006–2008) Canadian Parliaments.

By Jean-François Godbout and Bjørn Høyland

The book The Global Governance of Knowledge Creation and Diffusion shows that there is an increasing scientific and political sensibility for questions regarding the "governance of a knowledge society" and the societal benefits and problems of a "knowledge economy".

Edited by Helge Hveem and Lelio lapadre

Governing the Global Economy explores the dynamic interaction between politics and economics, between states and markets and between international and domestic politics. The contributors study how the governance of the global economy is shaped by interaction between international institutions, domestic politics and multinational enterprises, from a wide range of theoretical perspectives and methods.

Edited by Dag Harald Claes and Carl Henrik Knutsen

NATO has a lot of partner countries, not only in Europe but also globally. The political and military utility of all these partnerships is clear; they 'provide' more security than they 'consume'. But the utility for NATO of partners also changes over time. Political utility was more prominent in the 1990s, while military utility seems to have been more important after 11 September 2001. This is not only connected to global terrorism, but also to the decline of the US as a hegemonic power.

Edited by: Håkan Edström , Janne Haaland Matlary , Magnus Petersson

How do today's political parties relate to other organisations? Do they prefer rather distant relationships with a wide range of interest groups – or have they virtually detached themselves from civil society altogether?

By Elin Haugsgjerd Allern