Nettsider med emneord «Political Science»
The digitalization of records of political data, historical and current, has the potential to substantively enrich, and challenge, our understanding of political phenomena. The Political Data Science (PODS) research group brings together scholars interested in the collection and exploitation of these new sources of data.
I dette seminaret snakker vi om karrierermuligheter innen data-vitenskap.
Studiepoeng: 10 (anbefalte studiepoeng, disse må endelig godkjennes av institusjonen du er tatt opp ved)
Course instructor: Jan Erling Klausen, Asbjørn Røiseland, Signy Irene Vabo
Course credits: 10 ECTS
Contact person: Mina Aasterud
ECTS: 10 ECTS
Course instructor: John Erik Fossum, Jarle Trondal
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Application deadline: 15.05.2022
Neil Ketchley presents Violent Contention and Decolonization: Evidence from the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
Neil Ketchley presents Violence, Concessions, and Decolonization: Evidence from the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
The Department of Political Science and Management at UiA are offering a PhD course in June 2021 on Political Systems and Public Governance, Governing Differentiation.
Opinion polls are not reported in the media as unfiltered numbers. And some opinion polls are not reported at all. This talk by Zoltán Fazekas from Copenhagen Business School is about how polls travel through several stages that eventually turn boring numbers into biased news. The theoretical framework describes how and why opinion polls that are available to the public are more likely to focus on change, despite most polls showing little to no change. These dynamics are empirically demonstrated using several data sources and measurements from two different democracies (Denmark and the U.K.) covering several years of political reporting. In the end, a change narrative will be prominent in the reporting of opinion polls which contributes to what the general public sees and shares, further consolidating a picture of volatile political competition.
Optical character recognition (OCR) promises to open vast bodies of historical data to scientific inquiry, but OCR can be cumbersome when documents are noisy. The past 18 months have seen the launch of new OCR processors with vastly improved accuracy. In this seminar, Thomas Hegghammer will give an overview of the latest tools and present a new R package that offers access to the most powerful of them all, Google Document AI.
This paper discusses the usefulness of reflexive reason-giving as an approach to transnational and supranational systems of governance. It is argued that deliberation must be supplemented with law and trust as resources for collective action.
ARENA Working Paper 20/2004 (pdf)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
Opinion polls are not reported in the media as unfiltered numbers. And some opinion polls are not reported at all. This talk by Zoltán Fazekas from Copenhagen Business School is about how polls travel through several stages that eventually turn boring numbers into biased news. The theoretical framework describes how and why opinion polls that are available to the public are more likely to focus on change, despite most polls showing little to no change. These dynamics are empirically demonstrated using several data sources and measurements from two different democracies (Denmark and the U.K.) covering several years of political reporting. In the end, a change narrative will be prominent in the reporting of opinion polls which contributes to what the general public sees and shares, further consolidating a picture of volatile political competition.
Optical character recognition (OCR) promises to open vast bodies of historical data to scientific inquiry, but OCR can be cumbersome when documents are noisy. The past 18 months have seen the launch of new OCR processors with vastly improved accuracy. In this seminar, Thomas Hegghammer will give an overview of the latest tools and present a new R package that offers access to the most powerful of them all, Google Document AI.
This paper shows that the main pattern of European democratisation has unfolded along the lines of an EU organised as a multilevel system of representative parliamentary government and not as a system of deliberative governance as the transnationalists propound.
ARENA Working Paper 5/2011 (pdf)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum
The paper suggests a practice turn in the analysis of political legitimacy. Current social science research on political legitimacy suffers twofold.
ARENA Working Paper 8/2011 (pdf)
Daniel Gaus
In this paper, the authors confront some commonly held assumptions and objections with regard to the feasibility of deliberation in a transnational and plurilingual setting. To illustrate their argument, they rely on a solid set of both quantitative and qualitative data from Europolis, a transnational deliberative experiment that took place one week ahead of the 2009 European Parliamentary elections.
ARENA Working Paper 9/2011 (pdf)
Irena Fiket, Espen D. H. Olsen, Hans-Jörg Trenz
Course instructor: Professor Jenny Andersson, CNRS, MaxPo; Sciences Po, Paris, France and Professor Klaus Petersen, Danish Centre for Welfare Studies, University of Southern Denmark
Course credits: 8 ECTS
Contact person: Sarah Younes
Course instructor: Professor Andrew Bennett, Georgetown University, USA
Course credits: 8 ECTS
Contact person: Sarah Younes
Course instructor: Professor Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Columbia University New York, USA and Professor Antoni Verger, Autonomous University Barcelona, Spain
Course credits: 8 ECTS
Contact person: Sarah Younes