Many scholars do not find evidence of a trickle-down effect from elite sport success to mass sport participation. Contrary to what is assumed by the trickle-down effect “theorem”, successful elite sportspeople do not seem ...

The democratic peace literature has convincingly shown that democracies do not fight other democracies. Theoretical explanations of this empirical phenomenon often claim that the citizenry in democracies prefers peaceful ...

Purpose Attendance at matches in the smaller European football leagues is challenged by the increased number of live broadcast matches, particularly covering the biggest leagues. The purpose of this paper is to analyse ...

Trust is important in terms of achieving economic efficiency, as it reduces the need for costly systems of supervision and control with regards to transactions in a society. Employing data from the World Values Survey and ...

The overarching topic of this thesis is ethnic attitudes in view of social and economic changes, and how this is dealt with through policy measures. The reason for writing this thesis is twofold; 1) to study ethnic attitudes ...

I lys av Knut Dahl Jacobsens klassiske artikkel om forvaltningsverdier i sentraladministrasjonen fra 1960, undersøker denne masteroppgaven forholdet mellom forvaltningsverdiene lojalitet, nøytralitet og faglig uavhengighet ...

In 2007, Mearsheimer and Walt published The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, in which they argue that the U.S. Israel lobby has managed to front its own interests at the cost of U.S. interests. In this article we ...

Contemporary research into the impact of major sports events shows that the widely used (and popular) claim of economic benefits associated with hosting them is misleading or – at best – overrated. In this paper, we aim ...