Publikasjoner

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

In an article published in Science on 16 March 2012, 32 leading governance experts from the Earth System Governance research alliance argue for a fundamental overhaul of global environmental governance.

By F. Biermann, K. Abbott, S. Andresen, A. Underdal, et.al

According to two-level game theory, negotiators tailor agreements at the international level to be ratifiable at the domestic level. According to two-level game theory, negotiators tailor agreements at the international level to be ratifiable at the domestic level. This did not happen in the Kyoto negotiations, however, in the US case.

By Jon Hovi, Detlef F. Sprinz and Guri Bang

Hva skal til for at det vi tror, er sant? Hva skal til for at det er velbegrunnet? Er det forskjell mellom vitenskap og hverdagslige funderinger? Går det an å beskrive virkeligheten slik den er i seg selv?

Av Raino Malnes

Forskningsprosjektet “Den krevende borger” har hatt som formål å identifisere eventuelle nye mønstre i befolkningens forventninger til og måter å forholde seg til kommunesektoren på. På grunnlag av nasjonale surveyundersøkelser har prosjektet gjennomført en rekke analyser som belyser befolkningens erfaringer med og forventninger til kommunal politikk og tjenesteyting

Av Harald Baldersheim, Per Arnt Pettersen og Lawrence E. Rose

"Strategi" er et begrep som brukes nærmest på alle samfunnsområder; om både store og alvorlige spørsmål og mindre alvorlige. Men hva betyr egentlig strategi, og hvilke kriterier bør være oppfylt for at ordets assosiasjon med komplekse sammenhenger og vidtrekkende konsekvenser skal rettferdiggjøre bruken av det?

Redigert av Sverre Disen

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 Allern and Tim Bale

In this article, the author introduces, discusses, and formalizes 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

It is often argued that new technology will increase centralization of political parties but Internet-based technologies, especially the social media, provide individual candidates with opportunities to run campaigns more independently of the central party.

By Rune Karlsen

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 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

Olle Törnquist har gitt ut nytt forord til sin doktorgradsavhandling fra 1982. Avhandlingen er nettopp utgitt i Indonesia

Av Olle Törnquist

Gir begrepet dannelse eller mer presist intellektuell allmenndannelse og modning mening i dagens virkelighet? Hva er forholdet mellom dannelse og yrkesfag? Og hva er universitetenes rolle i å skape en demokratisk kunnskapsfundert kultur? Bør vi gi dannelsesbegrepet en renessanse?

Redigert av Bernt Hagtvet og Gorana Ogjenovic

International index rankings emphasize country differences where similarity is the dominant feature. Rankings based on Doing Business, the Human Development Index and Freedom House can be misleading, not because of wrong indicators, but because the estimation of the scores ignores inherent uncertainty. Re-estimated with a method that captures this uncertainty, it becomes clear that ranking every adjacent country is a rather courageous activity.

By Bjørn Høyland, Kalle Moene og Fredrik Willumsen

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

This article addresses the diverging policies of England and Scotland since 1999 on the issue of tuition fees. While the UK Parliament has introduced (and henceforth enhanced the level of) tuition fees for students at English universities, the Scottish Parliament has refuted fees in two successive stages.

By Øivind Bratberg

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

Sosialdemokratiet har siden 1930-tallet vært en sentral del av norsk politikk og samfunnsliv. Dette er den første boka på norsk som analyserer sosialdemokratiet som ideologi og politisk praksis. "Sosialdemokratiet: fortid - nåtid - framtid" gir en samlet fremstilling som diskuterer de politiske utfordringer i vår egen samtid og for framtiden, med sosialdemokratiets idégrunnlag og historie som utgangspunkt.  

Av Nikolai Brandal,  Øivind Bratberg og Dag Einar Thorsen

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