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Disruptive Media Events: Managing mediated dissent in the aftermath of terror
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Terror attacks force democratic societies to mobilize, reinforce and rethink core values, including media freedom and freedom of speech. The present article analyzes how one traumatic event—the 2011 Oslo terror—challenged ... -
Diversity and Community Trust in Swedish Local Communities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)This article analyses the effect of immigration-related diversity on different forms of trust through the hierarchical analysis of three levels of approximately 5,000 respondents nested in over 800 neighbourhoods and 33 ... -
Do High-Choice Media Environments Facilitate News Avoidance? A Longitudinal Study 1997–2016
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The well-known “high-choice news avoidance thesis” and the alternative “network structure perspective” stipulate somewhat conflicting expectations about news consumption in today’s digital media systems. Based on annual ... -
Do higher wages come at a price?
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Do party organizations integrate multi-level states? The case of the Norwegian Local Government Reform
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Party organizations are often said to integrate the territorial levels in a political system. This article analyses how party organizations handled a specific issue – municipal amalgamations initiated by the state – in a ... -
Do Some Countries Discriminate More than Others? Evidence from 97 Field Experiments of Racial Discrimination in Hiring
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Comparing levels of discrimination across countries can provide a window into large-scale social and political factors often described as the root of discrimination. Because of difficulties in measurement, however, little ... -
Do terrorist Attacks Affect Ethnic Discrimination in the Labour Market? Evidence from Two Randomised Field Experiments
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Terrorist attacks are known to influence public opinion. But do they also change behaviour? We address this question by comparing the results of two identical randomized field experiments on ethnic discrimination in hiring ... -
Do unions contribute to creative destruction?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We apply a shift-share approach and historical unionisation data from 1918 to study the impact of regional unionisation changes in Norway on regional wage and productivity growth, job-creation and -destruction and social ... -
Does education affect immigration attitudes? Evidence from an education reform
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Empirical research consistently finds that people with high education have more liberal immigration attitudes. To what extent this relationship reflects a causal effect of education is, however, largely unknown. ... -
Does educational inequality predict exercise of users' choice? Survey evidence from domiciliary care services among elderly in Oslo, Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The traditional goal of equality in services remains at the heart of the Scandinavian welfare model; however, in recent decades, policymakers have also placed increased emphasis on user influence over services. Voice and ... -
Does Involved Fathering Produce a Larger Total Workload for Fathers Than for Mothers? Evidence from Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Objective: To compare mothers’ and fathers’total workloads within couples with different work-time arrangements in a social democratic welfare state (Norway) and explore possible changes in the 1990s and 2000s. Background: ... -
Does municipal amalgamation affect trust in local politicians? The case of Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)When municipalities merge, they grow and, at the same time, experience a comprehensive reform process, both of which may affect political trust. We explore whether and how the large-scale municipal amalgamation reforms in ... -
Does personal contact with ethnic minorities affect anti-immigrant sentiments? Evidence from a field experiment
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Does Relational Polarization Entail Ideological Polarization? The Case of the 2017 Norwegian Election Campaign on Twitter
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023) -
Does the clustering of immigrant peers affect the school performance of natives?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013) -
Does the impact of plant closure on labour market attachment differ between immigrants and native workers across the business cycle?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014) -
Does trust prevent fear in the aftermath of terrorist attacks?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019) -
Downbound spiral? Economic grievances, perceived social protection and political distrust
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Momentous events in Western democracies have brought renewed attention to how various aspects of government-controlled policy outputs and outcomes affect citizens’ trust in politics. Unlike most previous research, this ... -
Drammen som introduksjonsarena : En gjennomgang av kommunens introduksjons- og kvalifiseringsarbeid for nyankomne innvandrere
(Research report, 2014)Rapporten er skrevet på oppdrag for Drammen kommune basert på en gjennomgang av kommunens introduksjonsordning, norskopplæring for nyankomne innvandrere samt grunnskoleopplæring for voksne, som er samlokalisert på ... -
Dual Citizenship in an Era of Securitisation: The Case of Denmark
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article uses the case of Denmark to critically discuss key assumptions in the theoretical literature on dual citizenship. When Denmark surprisingly accepted dual citizenship in 2015, the decision reflected two distinct ...