Artikler

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

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

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

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

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

Negotiation behaviour is usually seen as an intervening variable—adapted to structural and institutional conditions, but with sufficient degrees of freedom to leave its own imprint on outcomes. Little is known, however, about the extent to which negotiation behaviour in fact shapes outcomes. This paper addresses that question.

By Arild Underdal

This article uses quantitative methods to deepen and broaden our understanding of the factors that determine the effectiveness of international regimes.

By Helmut Bretmeier, Arild Underdal and Oran R. Young

Olle Törnquist's articles review critically the politics and policies of the Communist Parties in the Indian Subcontinent and the Communist Party of Indonesia respectively from the 1920s until present days.

By Olle Törnquist

No previous study has examined whether voters also use elections to select good candidates. This article draws on a unique dataset on the political experience of party representatives in eighty-five national elections to the European Parliament to evaluate the extent to which voters prefer candidates with more political experience. The results show that selection considerations do matter.

By Sara B. Hobolt and Bjørn Høyland

This article addresses the fragmentation of political communication in the context of Norwegian election campaigns.

By Rune Karlsen

This article analyses the relevance of the theses that liberalization and democracy foster peace, to the remarkable dynamics of peace-building in Aceh, from the introduction of Indonesian democracy in 1998, the impact of the tsunami in 2004 and the Helsinki peace agreement in 2005 to the general elections in 2009.

By Olle Törnquist

Martin Austvoll Nome has written an article about how the assumption of causal homogeneity matter for comparative research.

By Martin Austvoll Nome

In this article Jostein Askim and Dag Harald Claes seek to answer the question: How and why has governance of the electricity industry, the e-com industry, the railway and the postal service been reformed?

By Jostein Askim and Dag Harald Claes

In this article Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal show that agency autonomy, agency influence and inter-institutional coordination seem to be relatively unaffected by agency site.

By Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal

This paper investigates whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) decisions are influenced by state ownership.

By Carl Henrik Knutsen, University of Oslo, Asmund Rygh, Statistics Norway and Helge Hveem, University of Oslo