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NATO – an alliance for the future?

NATO is currently facing new and major challenges in today’s security environment. How well is the alliance prepared and equipped to meet these challenges?

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Scientific article

Valg i India: Få bastioner og mange svingninger

(Article available in Norwegian only): I forbindelse med valget i India hører man ofte at enkelte partier har såkalte bastioner – områder hvor de sanker inn spesielt mange stemmer. Hvor mye belegg er det for slike påstander?

  • Asia
  • Asia
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Publications
Scientific article

Valg i India: Legitimitet og ansvarlighet i kompetitive valg

(This article is available in Norwegian only): Det er sterk konkurranse i Indiske nasjonalvalg. Indiske politikere vinner med mindre marginer enn kandidater i andre land med sammenlignbare valgsystemer, for eksempel Canada og Storbritannia. I et valgsystem som det indiske, med flertallsvalg i enkeltpersonskretser, trenger en kandidat minst 50 prosent pluss én av stemmene for å vinne dersom det bare er to kandidater som konkurrerer. Hvis det er tre kandidater, vil en kandidat trenge minst en tredjedel av stemmene pluss én stemme for å vinne. I India er det vanligvis mange kandidater som konkurrerer om hvert sete i nasjonalforsamlingen, noe som gjør det mulig for indiske politikere å bli valgt med en lav andel av stemmene. Dette kan ha konsekvenser for politikernes legitimitet og ansvarlighet som folkevalgte.

  • Asia
  • Asia
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Publications
Scientific article

Hvem dominerer Indias nasjonale valg?

(Article available in Norwegian only): Antallet uavhengige kandidater har økt kraftig i India siden uavhengigheten i 1947, men hvor stor sannsynlighet har de for å vinne?

  • Asia
  • Asia
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Publications
Scientific article

Valg i India: Utdanning, urbanisering og valgdeltakelse

(Article available in Norwegian only): India er kjent for å ha en ganske høy valgdeltakelse, men hvem stiller opp for å stemme i India, og hvorfor?

  • Asia
  • Asia
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Publications
Scientific article

Valg i India: Lokale valg topper statistikken

(Article available in Norwegian only): Historisk sett har valg i India hatt en høy deltakelse på rundt 60 prosent, men i motsetning til de fleste andre demokratiske land stemmer flere indere i lokale valg enn i nasjonale valg. Hvorfor er det slik?

  • Asia
  • Asia
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Publications
Scientific article

Valg i India: en representasjonskrise?

(Article in Norwegian only): Parlamentsvalget i India for 2019 nærmer seg, og de politiske kandidatene forbereder seg på å møte velgerne sine igjen. Et enkelt og viktig spørsmål følger: hvor mange mennesker representerer egentlig en indisk folkevalgt? Svaret er at i dagens India representerer et medlem av parlamentet (Lok Sabha) i gjennomsnitt 1.5 millioner stemmeberettigede, eller nærmere 2,5 millioner innbyggere. Dette er mer enn den totale befolkningen i over 50 av verdens stater, og nesten fire ganger så mange som en folkevalgt i India representerte under det første valget i 1952. Størrelsen på velgermassen som hvert enkelt parlamentsmedlem skal representere kan være med på å undergrave det representative demokratiet i India.

  • Asia
  • Asia
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Publications
Scientific article

Study shows Indian politicians are spending less and less time in legislative assemblies

In many democracies, elected politicians spend a substantial amount of time in the legislature to propose, debate, and vote on policies. In developing countries, politicians face an extra duty – they are also expected to spend a large part of their time with constituents listening to their concerns, solving conflicts, and helping them navigate the local bureaucracy. As India votes, it is timely to ask – how much time do Indian politicians spend in legislative assemblies and why has this changed over time?

  • Asia
  • Governance
  • Asia
  • Governance
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Publications
Scientific article

Women and minorities in the Lok Sabha: Intersectionality in the Indian elections

It is well known that women are under-represented in India’s legislative assemblies. The historically marginalised Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs), on the other hand, have reserved seats proportional to their share of the population that guarantee them a political presence. What does this mean for SC and ST women? Perhaps counter-intuitively, the answer is that there are more women candidates and winners in reserved seats than in general category seats.

  • Asia
  • Asia
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Publications
Report

Should I stay or should I go? Security considerations for members leaving al-Shabaab in Somalia

The Somali jihadi organization al-Shabaab, yet again featured in the news internationally when they attacked a business and hotel complex in Nairobi 15 January this year. This is not the first time the group carries out largescale attacks outside the Somali boarders. Other examples are the Garissa University College attack in 2015, the mass shooting at Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi in 2013 and the Kampala attacks in 2010. However, the majority of the atrocities committed by al-Shabaab take place in South Central Somalia. The Global Terrorism Index 2018 ranked Somalia as number 6 on its list of countries most impacted by terrorism in 2017.1 Al-Shabaab was behind the deadliest terrorist attack in 2017 worldwide, when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden truck, killing 587 people in Mogadishu. Although al-Shabaab has had several military setbacks the last few years, the group still poses a significant threat to security and stability in the region. As the name al-Shabaab (‘the youth’) indicates, young people predominate in the group. This means that thousands of individuals spend parts of their youth in al- Shabaab. The question then arises: how to best assist the ones who want to leave the group?

  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Africa
  • Fragile states
  • Nation-building
  • Insurgencies
  • AU
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Africa
  • Fragile states
  • Nation-building
  • Insurgencies
  • AU
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