Blar i Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap på forfatter "Jakobsen, Tor Georg"
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Caught in the Middle: Ideology, Issue Ownership and Support for the Norwegian Centre Parties, 1997-2009
Karlsen, Lasse Aleksander (Master thesis, 2013) -
Democratic peace and the norms of the public: A multilevel analysis of the relationship between regime type and citizens' bellicosity, 1981-2008
Jakobsen, Jo; Jakobsen, Tor Georg; Ekevold, Eirin Rande (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)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 ... -
Demokratisk fred og (betinget) demokratisk pasifisme: Et teoretisk og empirisk blikk på normativ demokratisk fredsteori
Ekevold, Eirin Rande; Jakobsen, Jo; Jakobsen, Tor Georg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Demokratisk fredsteori, og da spesielt dens normative variant, bygger på en forutsetning om demokratiske borgeres sentrale rolle for fred. Likevel blir individers holdninger og preferanser angående væpnet maktbruk sjelden ... -
Demokratisk fred: En flernivåanalyse av forholdet mellom regimetype og borgeres krigsvilje
Ekevold, Eirin Rande (Master thesis, 2013) -
Economic performance and Political Trust: The impact of the Financial Crisis on European citizens
Kroknes, Veronica Fagerland (Master thesis, 2013)Trust links ordinary citizens to the institutions that are intended to represent them, and thereby enhancing both the legitimacy and the effectiveness of democratic government (Bianco 1994; Gamson 1968; Braithwaite and ... -
Ethnic Composition and Democratic Values: A Global Investigation of Citizens’ Desire for Democracy, 1995–2014
Haseth, Jostein; Holum, Marthe; Jakobsen, Tor Georg (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)There is a rich literature on public support for democracy. However, few have investigated the link between ethnic composition and citizens’ desire for democracy. In this study we investigate the relationship between ethnic ... -
Ethnic Diversity, Racial Prejudice, and Attitudes towards Equity in the West and Beyond: A Multilevel Analysis, 1989–2014
de Soysa, Indra; Jakobsen, Tor Georg (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Recent studies find that increasing ethnic diversity through immigration reduces support for welfare states. Using multilevel analysis of a wide sample of countries (≅100) and a large sampling of individuals (≅310,000), ... -
Free-market capitalism, interpersonal trust, and trust in political institutions: a multilevel empirical analysis, 1994–2014
de Soysa, Indra; Jakobsen, Tor Georg; Holum, Marthe Liss (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)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 ... -
How is Economic Inequality and the Support for Income Redistribution Linked?: A Multilevel Analysis of OECD countries
Ottem, Robert Brembo (Master thesis, 2013)This thesis presents an investigation of what shapes the support for redistribution in OECD countries, in a rational choice perspective. Employing an understanding of the effect of economic inequality, first provided by ... -
Immigration, Integration and Ethnic Attitudes: A Study of Ethnic Relations and Policy Responses
Isaksen, Joachim Vogt (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:72, Doctoral thesis, 2020)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 ... -
Macro Factors and Public Opinion: An Investigation of Economic Left–Right Attitudes in Advanced Industrialized Democracies
Jakobsen, Tor Georg (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2011:129, Doctoral thesis, 2011) -
Maktfaktor eller medløper? En revidering av Israel-lobbyen og amerikansk Midtøsten-politikk
Isaksen, Joachim Vogt; Jakobsen, Tor Georg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)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 ... -
The challenge of globalisation: A world-wide investigation of public attitudes on individual vs. government responsibility
Heggem, Ida Ørjansen; Jakobsen, Tor Georg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)In this article we explore the link between economic globalization and individual attitudes toward government responsibility. Two opposing views on the effect of globalization is presented, along with a third where the ... -
The return of prejudice in Europe’s regions: The moderated relationship between group threat and economic vulnerability
Isaksen, Joachim Vogt; Jakobsen, Tor Georg; Filindra, Alexandra; Strabac, Zan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Using data from 16 countries and employing multilevel analysis that encompasses the national, regional, and individual levels, we find that both economic and social factors trigger anti-immigrant attitudes among Europeans. ... -
Tripwires and free-riders: Do forward-deployed U.S. troops reduce the willingness of host-country citizens to fight for their country?
Jakobsen, Jo; Jakobsen, Tor Georg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article investigates the relationship between U.S. overseas troops and the willingness of the citizens of host states to fight for their country. The study joins the long-running debate about burden-sharing and ... -
Unpacking Ethnicity and Civil Conflict: Exploring which Underlying Mechanism Links Ethnic Fractionalization and Civil Conflict
Bakkan, Hilde Anderssen (Master thesis, 2013) -
Unpacking Ethnicity: Exploring the Underlying Mechanisms Linking Ethnic Fractionalization and Civil Conflict
Bakkan, Hilde Anderssen; Jakobsen, Tor Georg; Jakobsen, Jo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)In the study of civil conflict, many regard ethnic fractionalization as a measure of grievance. However, there is also a rational-actor explanation as to why ethnicity might cause rebellion. A third possibility is that ... -
The US Way or Huawei? An Analysis of the Positioning of Secondary States in the US-China Rivalry
Christie, Øystein; Jakobsen, Jo; Jakobsen, Tor Georg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article examines the determinants of the positioning of secondary states in the US-China conflict over market access for China’s Huawei. Our explanations draw on three branches of realism: balance-of-threat theory, ... -
Welfare Attitudes: The Challenge of Globalization: A Multilevel Analysis of the effects of Economic Globalization on Welfare Attitudes
Heggem, Ida Ørjansen (Master thesis, 2013)Public opinion is important for advanced and aspiring democracies because it is the people that are the ultimate source of power in these societies. Peoples’ attitudes towards economic questions are thus important for a ...