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    • Cui Bono? Business Elites and Interstate Conflict 

      Wig, Tore; Dahlum, Sirianne; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Magnus, Bergli Rasmussen (2020-08)
      We address how regime supporters affect war-making by re-opening a classic debate on business elites and their influence on states' conflict behavior. Imperialist theories contend that business elites encourage executives ...
    • Democracy for All? 

      Lührmann, Anna; Dahlum, Sirianne; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Maxwell, Laura; Mechkova, Valeriya; Olin, Moa; Pillai, Shreeya; Sanhueza Petrarca, Constanza; Sigman, Rachel; Stepanova, Natalia (2018)
    • Female Empowerment and Economic Growth 

      Dahlum, Sirianne; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Mechkova, Valeriya (2020-06)
      We discuss how inclusive institutions enhance technological change, the main driver of long-term economic growth. Specifically, institutions that promote female political empowerment advance technological change through ...
    • Peace Above the Glass Ceiling: The Historial Relationship Between Female Political Empowerment and Civil Conflict 

      Dahlum, Sirianne; Wig, Tore (2018)
      This paper investigates whether female political empowerment is conducive to civil peace, drawing on global data on female political empowerment over a 200 year period, from the Varieties of Democracy database. We augment ...