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Everyday Politics of Forced Migration: Refugees, Host Community Members, and the Local Context
(2021-11-02)
This dissertation adds to and broadens the literature on forced migration by explaining how everyday politics influence new social dynamics in cities of arrival. Most of the existing research focuses on the Western context ...
Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of wildlife to state officials?
(2021-03)
Rulers of weak states face a predicament. They lack capacity to monitor crime and need citizens to partake in intelligence-sharing. Yet, agents of such authorities are seldom trusted, raising doubts about whether locals ...
Governing migrants through the Norwegian Introduction Programme
(2021-08-26)
This thesis focuses on the Norwegian Introduction Programme for newly arrived immigrants and refugees. With its implementation in 2004, the Introduction Programme represents one of the most significant policy measures ...
2 Pre-Election Tax Enforcement in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2021-06)
Using the literature on the political business cycle as a point of departure, this paper investigates whether incumbent politicians manipulate the enforcement of tax collection prior to elections, in order to win votes. ...
Party Organizations Around the Globe. Introducing the Varieties of Party Identity and Organization Dataset (V-Party)
(2021-07)
Although party organization plays a key role in a range of theories from democratic accountability and representation to democratic breakdown or the electoral success and persistence of parties, data on party organizational ...
Disappointed expectations: Does the Basque country really enjoy such a high level of quality of government -in European standards- when compared to a backward region such as Andalusia?
(2021-10)
The quality of government (QoG) is a concept without an undisputed benchmark. To contribute to its clarification, we propose a novel model of analysis that incorporates formal and informal institu-tions and operationalizes ...
Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties
(2021-03)
The recent increase of democratic declines around the world – “the third wave of autocratization” – has sparked a new generation of studies on the topic. Scholars agree that these days the main threat to democracy arises ...
Us Versus Them and the Role of the Media. The Influence of Media on Attitudes Toward Migration in Europe
(2021-11-02)
During the last decade, migration has become one of the most salient and politicized issues in Europe, and even more so during and after the sharp rise in immigration in 2015. This issue appears to have consolidated a ...
Towards an everyday peace? Exploring the political significance of everyday life in post-war Nepal
(2021-02-04)
This thesis aims to further our understanding of the political significance of everyday life in post-war Nepal. Building on the ethnographic turn of the everyday peace literature, I treat everyday life as a site of political ...
Sub-national Quality of Government in EU Member States: Presenting the 2021 European Quality of Government Index and its relationship with Covid-19 indicators
(2021-04)
The 2021 European Quality of Government Index (the EQI) is the largest survey ever undertaken to meas-ure perceptions of quality of government, collecting the opinions of over 129,000 respondents in a total of 208 NUTS 1 ...