Browsing Fakultet for samfunns- og utdanningsvitenskap (SU) by Title
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Does Individual Health Have Implications for Individuals’ Attitudes towards Minority Groups? A Case Study from the Greek Population
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Immunological defence against pathogens and behavioural responses to members of other ethnic or racial groups may be understood as co-evolved solutions to a commonly recurring adaptive problem in our ancestral environment: ... -
Does international labour migration affect internal mobility in rural Norway?
(Chapter, 2020)Since the enlargement of the European Union, which began in 2004, large numbers of international labour migrants have arrived and settled in Norway. Also, many rural areas, previously unfamiliar with international migration, ... -
Does International Media Attention Matter?
(Master thesis, 2020)I denne masteroppgaven undersøker jeg om internasjonal medieoppmerksomhet har en effekt på utfallet av ikke-voldelige kampanjer. forskningsspørsmålet lyder som følger: Hva er effekten av internasjonal tradisjonell mediedekning ... -
Does intra-EU migration aggravate economic inequality? A multiple case study on the effects of intra-EU migration on real wage growth in wealthier and poorer member states
(Master thesis, 2017)Tidligere forskning på virkningen av fri migrasjon innad i den Europeiske Union på lønnsnivå i ulike segment av arbeidsstyrken har for det meste fokusert på enkelte medlemsland og segment av arbeidsstyrken. Denne oppgaven ... -
Does military technology increase the likelihood of war? : new precision and information technology and the future prospect of great-power war between the People's Republic of China and the United States
(Master thesis, 2015)In this thesis I test whether the implementation of new military technology, which is based on precision and information, leads to a shift in the offense-defense balance to where the offense dominance is heightened, making ... -
Does Mothers’ Mental Health Predict Children's Emotion Regulation and School Performance? Longitudinal Relations Through Ages 8, 10, 12 and 14
(Master thesis, 2021)Children need a secure and stable childhood in order for an optimal development across all stages. It is known that the mother or caregiver, the familial environment and the level of support stand as main mediators towards ... -
Does Mothers’ Mental Health Predict Children's Emotion Regulation and School Performance? Longitudinal Relations Through Ages 8, 10, 12 and 14
(Master thesis, 2021)Children need a secure and stable childhood in order for an optimal development across all stages. It is known that the mother or caregiver, the familial environment and the level of support stand as main mediators towards ... -
Does Native Language Experience with Vowel Length Transfer to Non-Native Audiovisual Vowel Perception?
(Master thesis, 2022)Denne studien er en utvidelse av forskning utført av Redmon og kolleger (2020), hvor personer med engelsk (Vest-Canadisk) og Mandarin som morsmål ble testet i deres forståelse av audiovisuelle (AV) tense/lax vokalkontraster ... -
Does Norwegian aid have an effect on the recipient country's equality of access to health and education? An empirical analysis, 1960-2019.
(Bachelor thesis, 2020)Effektiviteten av bistand har vært en debatt i kontinuerlig utvikling uten varige enigheter blant forskere og beslutningstakere. Forskning har vist motstridende resultater og splittet diskusjonen om bistand inn i pessimister ... -
Does Norwegian aid promote good governance in recipient countries? : an empirical analysis, 1985-2013
(Master thesis, 2016)Denne masteroppgaven ser på effekten norsk bistand har på korrupsjonsbekjempelse i utviklingsland. Økonomer har tidligere vært mest opptatt av bistandseffektivitet, mens statsvitere på sin side har vært mest opptatt av ... -
Does Norwegian aid reduce bad governance? - Assessing the effects of Norwegian aid on political corruption and government respect for human rights in developing countries, 1980-2018
(Master thesis, 2020)Abstract The effectiveness of aid is heatedly debated in academia and policy circles. Annually, billions of dollars are transferred from industrialized countries to developing countries, both out of altruistic and more ... -
Does Participatory Planning Promise Too Much? Global Discourses and the Glass Ceiling of Participation in Urban Malawi
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article discusses how global ideas on co-production and citizenship built from below are translated into community mobilization and participatory planning practices in urban Malawi. It shows how limited national and ... -
Does politics matter? Explaining swings in wind power installations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This is a social science article on the politics of wind power, and on whether or not politics actually matters. While it may seem obvious that politics actually does, I argue that the arguments that we encounter about ... -
Does social globalisation through access to information communication technologies drive obesity among youth? An empirical analysis, 1990–2013
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Scholars debate the effects of globalisation on obesity. Using the latest data on access to ICTs and the Global Burden of Disease data on excess weight gain and obesity, we find that both social globalisation and access ... -
Does social media empower women in Brazil? : a case study on sexual harassment and #feminist NGO Think Olga
(Master thesis, 2017)The purpose of this master thesis is to examine if Brazilian women feel empowered by using social media networks. Sexual harassment is a part of Brazilian women’s everyday lives rooted in the machismo society. An online ... -
Does Sustainable Building Technology Matter to Home Buyers?: Determinants of Passive House Purchase Decisions
(Master thesis, 2011)The objective of this study was to explore what determines the decision of purchasing a passive house. Passive house projects are increasing in Norway, due to their energy saving potential, and an existing project in ... -
Does the EU Emissions Trading Scheme Work? The case of E.ON
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Does the group membership shape evaluations on other drivers? The role of symbolic cues in traffic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The present study investigated the effects of group membership on drivers’ evaluations of themselves and other drivers. An online survey was completed by 144 university students. As measurement, mini Driver Behavior ... -
Does the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Programme Improve Child–Teacher Relationships in Childcare Centres? A 1-Year Universal Intervention in a Norwegian Community Sample.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management (IY TCM) programme has shown promise in reducing behaviour problems among high-risk children in childcare. However, at present, we do not know whether the IY TCM successfully ...