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Mot økt folkelig innflytelse? Desentralisering og lokaldemokrati i Ukraina
(Nordisk Østforum;Vol 32 (2018), Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-18)The article analyses the results of a nationally representative survey on local democracy conducted in Ukraine in the autumn of 2017, offering insights into attitudes towards local authorities and ongoing decentralization ... -
Movers from the city in the first year of Covid
(Nordic Journal of Urban Studies;Volume 1, No. 2-2021, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12-10)Cities across the world have been severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, and out-migration from many cities was particularly high in 2020. Some movers went abroad; others moved to other parts of the same country. Using ... -
Multilevel networks for climate change adaptation – what works?
(International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Purpose - Two Norwegian municipal networks for climate change adaptation are compared and evaluated, to see how such networks should be initiated and implemented as a means of achieving adaptation measures within ... -
Municipality characteristics and the fertility of refugees in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Abstract The study of the fertility of immigrants has received much attention in recent years, particularly in societies with fertility rates below replacement levels. However, fertility in refugee populations remains ... -
The Mystification of Digital Technology in Norwegian Policies on Archives, Libraries and Museums: Digitalization as Policy Imperative
(Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-04)In this article, we investigate how digitalization has attained the role of policy imperative in the culture sector, and how the imperative is influencing contemporary policy discourses on archives, libraries and museums ... -
Network Governance in Russia: Costs and Benefits
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Nordic house price bubbles?
(Housing Lab Working Paper Series;, Working paper, 2020)This article estimates fundamental house prices for Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden over the past 20 years. Fundamental house prices are determined by per capita income, the housing stock per capita, and the real ... -
On the Diversity of India’s Democracies
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Opportunities and risks among migrant workers in the hotel industry in Oslo
(Peer reviewed; Journal article; Journal article, 2016-07-23)This article examines working conditions, careers and aspirations among immigrants working in the hotel industry in the Greater Oslo region. Using theories of labour market segregation and segmentation, and drawing ... -
Organisere for organiseringens skyld. Kultursamverkansmodellen og organisasjonsreformenes rolle i nordisk kulturpolitikk.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)I denne artikkelen diskuterer vi rollen organisasjonsreformer har i den nordiske kulturpolitikken på bakgrunn av en case studie av Kultursamverkansmodellen, som ble implementert i Sverige i 2011. Gjennom flere tiår har ... -
Pac’Stão versus the City of Police: Contentious Activism Facing Megaprojects, Authoritarianism, and Violence.
(Conflict and Society;Volume 6, Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-01)This article analyzes community activism and state interventionism within a context of racialized and gendered violence that is both direct/physical and structural. It presents a case study of Manguinhos, a cluster of ... -
Participation according to the law? The research-based knowledge on citizen participation in Norwegian municipal planning
(European Journal of Spatial Development;No. 67, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-08-15)Citizen participation is enshrined in the Norwegian Planning and Building Act (PBA) 1985 and accentuated by the 2008 revision of the PBA. In this article, we ask if the research on participation in municipal planning is ... -
Pathways to Integration: Cross-cultural Adaptations to the Housing Market in Oslo
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Immigrants move not only from one country to another, but also to different ways of living and different kinds of housing systems. Based on the studies among households with Pakistani, Tamil and Somali background in Oslo, ... -
Place Identity with a Historic Landscape – An Interview-Based Case Study of Local Residents’ Relationship with the Austrått Landscape in Norway
(Heritage & Society; Volume 11, 2018 - Issue 1: Special Issue on Cultural Landscapes, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-10)This article examines local residents’ identity with historic landscapes through the case study of the Austrått landscape in Norway, where cultural and natural heritage are under pressure from increasing local development. ... -
Planlegging for risikosamfunnet: Hvordan fungerer flomsonekart med klimapåslag som kunnskapsoversettelse?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The article presents a study of how Norwegian mu nicipalities use new flood inundation maps with «climate factor» information in their local plans. Th ese maps show the area with a certain probability of flood ... -
Planning for Polycentricity. The Development of a Regional Plan for the Oslo Metropolitan Area
(Scandinavian journal of public administration;Vol 22, No 1 (2018), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Polycentricity has become a principle of strategic regional planning in order to concentrate land use and optimise infrastructure. This paper discusses the possibilities and challenges for a polycentric strategy in relation ... -
Polycentric urban climate governance: Creating synergies between integrative and interactive governance in Oslo
(Environmental Policy and Governance;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03-08)Abstract Cities have emerged as important agents and sites in climate governance interventions, experimentations and networks. Drawing upon two strains of climate governance and collaborative governance literature, ... -
Presidencialismo em crise ou parlamentarismo por outros meios? Impeachments presidenciais no Brasil e na América Latina
(Revista de Ciências Sociais;v. 49, n. 1_Mar/Jun (2018), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)O objetivo desse artigo é contextualizar o impeachment da presidente brasileira Dilma Rousseff na literatura mais ampla sobre interrupções de mandatos presidenciais na América Latina. Contrariando a tese linziana de ... -
The Problem of Equal Opportunities in Housing. Immigrants in a Liberalized Housing Market
(Scandinavian Studies in Law;68 Equality, March 2022, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03)This chapter focuses on equality in the realm of housing, and the dilemma raised when universal policy objectives are combined with market mechanisms. More specifically, the focus here is on the equality of opportunities ... -
Protocol: Feasibility study and pilot randomised trial of a multilingual support intervention to improve Norwegian language skills for adult refugees
(International Journal of Educational Research;Volume 112, 2022, 101925, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This protocol is for a feasibility study and pilot trial of a multilingual support intervention. The intervention’s aim is to improve language training for refugees in Norway by introducing multilingual support assistants ...