Doctoral theses
The following overview provides a list of all the doctoral theses submitted at The department of comparative politics since 2005.
2017:
Svein Erik Helle: "Understanding the Uneven Playing Field. The Multifaceted Role of Unfair Electoral Competition in a Non-Democratic Regime"
Erika Kristin Gran: "Systems Engineering Applied to Evaluate Social Systems: Analyzing systemic challenges to the Norwegian welfare state"
2016:
Julie Ane Ødegaard Borge: "Creating Democratic Citizens? An analysis of Mock Elections as Political Education in School"
Ingvild Aagedal Skage: "The urban poor as citizens and clients. Enacting political agency through political parties and social movements in Kenya and Zambia"
Maren Bjune: "Religious change and political continuity. The evangelical church in Guatemalan politics"
2015:
Sondre Båtstrand: "Climate change: Challenging democracies, challenging parties"
Hans Jørgen Gåsemyr: "Civil society and NGOs in China"
Frode Løvlie: "The institutional trajectory of Hamas: From radicalism to pragmatism—and back again?"
2014:
Marybel Perez: "Who has heard of EU think tanks?"
Hilmar Langhjelle Mjelde: "Still indispensable: how modern parties need grass roots activists for campaigning and sustaining democracy"
2013:
Vibeke Wang: "Kvinners gjennomslagskraft i det ugandiske parlamentet"
Åse Gilje Østensen: "The political agency of private military and security companies: Govenors in the making"
2012:
Frøy Gudbrandsen: "Explaining Scandinavian Immigration Policy 1985-2010. Parties, Press, and Public Opinion"
2011:
Espen Dahle: "EUs effekt på demokratisering i Øst-Europa"
2010:
Tore Nedrebø: "Past and Present Sources of European Union. A Comparative Historical-Institutionalist Analysis"
Leiv Marsteintredet: "Presidential Interruptions in Latin America. Concepts, Causes, and Outcomes"
2009:
Dag Wollebæk: "Change in Local Voluntary Associations"
Jan Erik Grindheim: "Stat, region, union. Flernivåstyre i Den europeiske union"
Tord Skogedal Lindén: "Whose idea? Family policy in Germany and Norway and the role of international organizations"
Terje Knutsen: "Demokratisering av Øst-Europa 1989-2004"
2008:
Ragnhild Louise Muriaas: "Affection and Defection: Local Perspectives on the Pull Towards the Government Party in Malawi, South Africa and Uganda"
2006:
Hans Olav Stensli: "Oceans Apart: Ideologies of Extraterritorial Foreign Policy in Northern Europe and the USA"
2005:
Nina Berven: "National Politics and Cross-National Ideas. Welfare, Work and Legitimacy in the United States and Norway"