Browsing Fakultet for samfunns- og utdanningsvitenskap (SU) by Title
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Who Decides Matters: En sosialpsykologisk studie av Hamas-regjeringens og Bush-administrasjonens beslutninger etter valget i de okkuperte palestinske områder i 2006.
(Master thesis, 2010)Dette studiet anvender operasjonell kode analyse for å avdekke rasjonale bak Bush-administrasjonens og Hamas sin beslutningstagning. Analysen viser at Bush-administrasjonen oppfattet Hamas som ekstremt fiendtlig, og at en ... -
Who knows the risk? A multilevel study of systematic variations in work-related safety knowledge in the European workforce
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Objectives: Health and safety instructions are important components of occupational prevention. Albeit instruction is mandatory in most countries, research suggests that safety knowledge varies among the workforce. We ... -
Who Returns to Work? - Exploring the Role of Interpersonal Problems in Occupational Rehabilitation
(Master thesis, 2020)Background: Current interventions to facilitate return to work (RTW) after long-term sick leave show weak effects, indicating the need for new approaches to the RTW process. The importance of social relationships in the ... -
Who Returns to work? Exploring the Role of Interpersonal Problems in Occupational Rehabilitation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Purpose: Current interventions designed to facilitate return to work (RTW) after long-term sick leave show weak effects, indicating the need for new approaches to the RTW process. The importance of social relationships in ... -
Who should measure air quality in modern cities? The example of decentralization of urban air quality monitoring in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Researchers have warned that the paradigm about who should measure air quality (AQ) in cities can change as low-cost commercial sensors for monitoring atmospheric composition gain global popularity. The new paradigm implies ... -
Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Welfare chauvinism is often understood as the sentiment that the benefits and services of the welfare state should primarily be given to the native population and not immigrant minorities. Using linear regression on data ... -
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 ...