Browsing Fakultet for samfunns- og utdanningsvitenskap (SU) by Title
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Whose benefit? A comparative perspective for the ISA
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article provides a critical evaluation of the International Seabed Authority’s (ISA) management of Deep Sea Mining (DSM) activities in the undersea area lying beyond sovereign territory. By juxtaposing the ISA’s nascent ... -
WHOSE DEVELOPMENT COUNTS?: Political Ecology of Displacement of Bulyanhulu Mining Community in Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2007)In 1996, an estimated 400,000 people in a gold mining community in rural Tanzania were forcibly evicted from the area to allow for the development of a large-scale gold mine project to take place. The good-intentioned ... -
Who’s Had Enough? The Effects of Organisational Participation on Post-Resistance Democratisation - A quantitative analysis of the composition of resistance campaigns and subcomponents of democracy in Africa, 1990-2015
(Master thesis, 2020)Hvem deltar i protestbevegelser, og påvirker dette bestanddeler av demokrati forskjellig? Denne studien utforsker hvordan motstandsbevegelser med mål om strukturelle endringer dominert av ulike organisasjoner, her ... -
Why a nation did not fail - A critical case study using German economic and poltical history (1871-1939) to evaluate the effect of extractive and inclusive institutions
(Master thesis, 2018)Å forklare kvifor statar veks og fell har lenge vore eit mål innanfor samfunnsfaga. I si bok, Why Nations Fail (2012), kjem Acemoglu og Robinson med eit forslag til ei mogleg løysing på denne gåta. Deira teori seier at ... -
Why African Childhoods? What Futures?
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Why are they so similar? The interplay of linguistic and extra-linguistic variables in monolingual and bilingual learners of English
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study investigates the relationship between (extra)linguistic variables and proficiency in a foreign language. Based on 1,403 secondary school students in Germany (age 12/13 and 14/15), we assess whether proficiency ... -
Why do women regret casual sex more than men do?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Sex differences in sexual regret are found to be robust across nations. Participants in Norway (N = 547) and the United States (N = 216) reported their level of regret for their most recent casual sexual experience. ... -
Why does the United States support Juan Guaidó in Venezuela?
(Bachelor thesis, 2019)Formålet med denne oppgaven er å undersøke hvorfor USA støtter Juan Guaidó som den legitime presidenten i Venezuela. En utenrikspolitisk analyse ble benyttet for å kunne vurdere de samlede empiriske dataene gjennom ulike ... -
Why hospital physicians attend work while ill? The spiralling effect of positive and negative factors
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background: Recurrent reports from national and international studies show a persistent high prevalence of sickness presence among hospital physicians. Despite the negative consequences reported, we do not know a lot about ... -
Why Intermarium Failed: A Neoclassical Realist Perspective
(Master thesis, 2022)Denne masteroppgaven handler om det mislykkede Intermarium prosjektet, en foreslått polsk-ledet union av stater i Øst-Europa i mellomkrigstida 1918-1939. I følge nyrealistisk teori så var gjennomføringen av Intermarium ... -
Why is the silo mentality still so strong? A case study investigating the silo mentality in the Company twenty years after the two sister companies merged
(Master thesis, 2017)According to Gleeson and Rozo (2013), a silo mentality does not happen by accident. The root cause may trickle down from the top management and is often caused by conflicting leadership teams. Behaviours such as a lack of ... -
Why we should distinguish between mobilization and participation when investigating social media
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In the recent past, social media has become a central channel and means for political and societal mobilization. Mobilization refers to the process by which political parties, politicians, social movements, activists, and ... -
Why worry? : sex, life history speed and metacognitive beliefs as predictors of worry
(Master thesis, 2017)Worry is by some theories viewed as a decisive part of a successful way of dealing with life’s problems. Other theories perceive worry as problem-focused rather than problem-solving cognitive processing. Complex patterns ... -
Widening educational inequalities in mortality in more recent birth cohorts: a study of 14 European countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background Studies of period changes in educational inequalities in mortality have shown important changes over time. It is unknown whether a birth cohort perspective paints the same picture. We compared changes in ... -
A Widening Gap Between Official Teacher Training and Professional Life in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)A sociological case study of Norwegian teachers reveals how teacher education reforms have inadequate definitions of teacher competence. Legislators, officials and the media continue to uphold the image of a school system ... -
Widening or Closing the Knowledge Gap? The Role of TV and Newspapers in Changing the Distribution of Political Knowledge
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)The public has gradually become more dependent on the mass media for their political information as alternative channels of political communication have been marginalized. Political knowledge is not equally distributed, ... -
Wie normativ ist die Kommunikationswissenschaft? Ein inhaltsanalytischer Vergleich deutscher und US-amerikanischer Fachzeitschriftenaufsätze
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Kommunikationswissenschaftliche Forschung ist durch die strukturellen Rahmenbedingungen geprägt, unter denen sie entsteht – etwa durch das Wissenschaftssystem, die gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen an Wissenschaft und das ... -
Wie zuverlässig ist das Peer-Review-Verfahren? Eine Untersuchung der Interrater-Reliabilität von Reviewern auf DGPuK-Tagungen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Bevor wissenschaftliche Beiträge in Fachzeitschriften publiziert oder auf Tagungen präsentiert werden, überprüfen Herausgeber*innen bzw. Organisator*innen die Qualität der Einreichungen. Dies geschieht zumeist im ...