Carl Henrik Knutsen

• Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Morgenbesser, Lee & Wig, Tore (2024). On the move: Autocratic leaders, security, and capital relocations. Political Geography. ISSN 0962-6298. 113. doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103154.
• del Rio Rodriguez, Adrian; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Lutscher, Philipp Matthias (2024). Education Policies and Systems Across Modern History: A Global Dataset. Comparative Political Studies. ISSN 0010-4140. doi: 10.1177/00104140241252075.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Marquardt, Kyle Lohse; Seim, Brigitte; Coppedge, Michael; Edgell, Amanda & Medzihorsky, Juraj [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2024). Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Assessing Democratic Backsliding. PS: Political Science and Politics. ISSN 1049-0965. 57(2), p. 162–177. doi: 10.1017/S104909652300077X.
• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2024). Laying Down The Principles: How Local Socialist Achievements Spurred National Bourgeois Support for Noncontributory Pensions. World Politics. ISSN 0043-8871. 76(1), p. 172–217. doi: 10.1353/wp.2024.a916344.
• Rygh, Asmund & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2023). Does state ownership mitigate political risk in foreign direct investments? Evidence from subsidiary-level data for Norwegian MNEs. Multinational Business Review. ISSN 1525-383X. doi: 10.1108/MBR-08-2022-0117.
• Djuve, Vilde Lunnan & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2023). How Economic Systems and Performance Influence Regime Change, The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Economic Systems. Routledge. ISSN 9781003144366. doi: 10.4324/9781003144366.
• Djuve, Vilde Lunnan & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2023). Economic crisis and regime transitions from within. Journal of Peace Research. ISSN 0022-3433. doi: 10.1177/00223433221145556. Full text in Research Archive
• Gerring, John & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2022). Homicide and State History. American Sociological Review. ISSN 0003-1224. 87(6), p. 950–980. doi: 10.1177/00031224221131758.
• Dahlum, Sirianne; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Mechkova, Valeriya (2022). Women's political empowerment and economic growth. World Development. ISSN 0305-750X. 156. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105822. Full text in Research Archive
• Boese, Vanessa Alexandra; Gates, Scott; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv & Strand, Håvard (2022). Patterns of Democracy over Space and Time. International Studies Quarterly. ISSN 0020-8833. 66(3). doi: 10.1093/isq/sqac041. Full text in Research Archive
• Gerring, John; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Berge, Jonas Vidhammer (2022). Does Democracy Matter? Annual review of political science (Palo Alto, Calif. Print). ISSN 1094-2939. 25, p. 357–375. doi: 10.1146/annurev-polisci-060820-060910. Full text in Research Archive
• Gerring, John; Gjerløw, Haakon & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2022). Regimes and industrialization. World Development. ISSN 0305-750X. 152. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105791.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2021). Autocracy and variations in economic development outcomes. In Crawford, Gordon & Abdulai, Abdul-Gafaru (Ed.), Research Handbook on Democracy and Development. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 9781788112642.
• Uberti, Luca Jacopo & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2021). Institutions, Human Capital and Economic Growth. In Douarin, Elodie & Havrylyshyn, Oleg (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Economics. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783030508876.
• Hermansen, Gudmund Horn; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv (2021). Characterizing and Assessing Temporal Heterogeneity: Introducing a Change Point Framework, with Applications on the Study of Democratization. Political Analysis. ISSN 1047-1987. 29(4), p. 485–504. doi: 10.1017/pan.2020.39. Full text in Research Archive
• Cornell, Agnes; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Teorell, Jan (2020). Bureaucracy and Growth. Comparative Political Studies. ISSN 0010-4140. doi: 10.1177/0010414020912262. Full text in Research Archive
• Wilson, Matthew C. & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2020). Geographical Coverage in Political Science Research. Perspectives on Politics. ISSN 1537-5927. 20(3), p. 1024–1039. doi: 10.1017/S1537592720002509. Full text in Research Archive
• Gerring, John; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Maguire, Matthew; Skaaning, Svend-Erik; Teorell, Jan & Coppedge, Michael (2020). Democracy and human development: issues of conceptualization and measurement. Democratization. ISSN 1351-0347. doi: 10.1080/13510347.2020.1818721. Full text in Research Archive
• Fjelde, Hanne; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv (2020). Which Institutions Matter? Re-Considering the Democratic Civil Peace. International Studies Quarterly. ISSN 0020-8833. doi: 10.1093/isq/sqaa076. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2020). Democracy research: What is its status and where is it heading? Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning. ISSN 0040-716X. 61(1), p. 87–92. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-291X-2020-01-13.
• Djuve, Vilde Lunnan; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Wig, Tore (2019). Patterns of regime breakdown since the French revolution. Comparative Political Studies. ISSN 0010-4140. p. 1–36. doi: 10.1177/0010414019879953. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  We present a temporally fine-grained data set on regimes, defined as the formal and informal rules essential for selecting leaders. The data set comprises more than 2,000 regimes from 197 polities, 1789 to 2016. We highlight how the frequency of breakdowns and particular modes of breakdown have followed cyclical rather than monotonic patterns across modern history. The most common breakdown modes, overall, are coups and incumbent-guided regime transformations. Furthermore, we report robust evidence that low income, slow or negative growth, and intermediate levels of democracy predict a higher likelihood of regime breakdown. Yet, by running change-point analysis we establish that breakdown risk has cycled substantively across periods of modern history, and the aforementioned explanatory factors are more clearly related to breakdown during certain periods. When disaggregating different breakdown modes, low income is related to, for example, breakdown due to popular uprisings, whereas intermediate democracy levels clearly predict coup-induced breakdowns and incumbent-guided transitions.

• Rød, Espen Geelmuyden; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Hegre, Håvard (2019). The determinants of democracy: a sensitivity analysis. Public Choice. ISSN 0048-5829. doi: 10.1007/s11127-019-00742-z. Full text in Research Archive
• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2019). Party Institutionalization and Welfare State Development. British Journal of Political Science. ISSN 0007-1234. doi: 10.1017/S0007123419000498. Full text in Research Archive
• Gerring, John & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2019). Polity Size and the Institutionalization of Leadership Succession. Studies in comparative international development. ISSN 0039-3606. 54, p. 451–472. doi: 10.1007/s12116-019-09286-1. Full text in Research Archive
• Coppedge, Michael; Gerring, John; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Krusell, Joshua; Medzihorsky, Juraj & Pernes, Josefine [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2019). The Methodology of “Varieties of Democracy” (V-Dem)1. BMS. Bulletin de méthodologie sociologique. ISSN 0759-1063. 143(1), p. 107–133. doi: 10.1177/0759106319854989. Full text in Research Archive
• Dahlum, Sirianne; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Wig, Tore (2019). Who Revolts? Empirically Revisiting the Social Origins of Democracy. Journal of Politics. ISSN 0022-3816. 81(4), p. 1494–1499. doi: 10.1086/704699. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Teorell, Jan; Wig, Tore; Cornell, Agnes; Gerring, John & Gjerløw, Haakon [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2019). Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy dataset: Political institutions in the long 19th century. Journal of Peace Research. ISSN 0022-3433. 56(3), p. 440–451. doi: 10.1177/0022343318823866. Full text in Research Archive
• Gjerløw, Haakon & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2019). Leaders, Private Interests, and Socially Wasteful Projects: Skyscrapers in Democracies and Autocracies. Political research quarterly. ISSN 1065-9129. doi: 10.1177/1065912919840710. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli (2019). Majoritarian systems, rural groups, and (arrested) welfare state development. International Political Science Review. ISSN 0192-5121. doi: 10.1177/0192512118809106. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  While some scholars suggest that rural groups contribute to welfare state expansion, we highlight their incentives to restrain it. The ability of rural groups to achieve this preference hinges on their power resources, but also on the electoral system. We propose that in majoritarian systems, rural groups can often veto welfare legislation. In proportional systems this is less feasible, even for resource-rich groups. Instead, agrarian groups sometimes accept welfare legislation in return for other policy-concessions in post-electoral bargaining. We illustrate the argument with British and Norwegian historical experiences, and test the implications using panel data from 96 democracies. We find evidence that resourceful agrarian groups effectively arrest welfare state development in majoritarian systems, but not in proportional systems. As expected, the electoral system matters less for welfare state expansion when agrarian groups are weak. The results are robust to using alternative estimators, measures, samples and model specifications.

• Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Gerring, John; Skaaning, Svend-Erik; Teorell, Jan; Maguire, Matthew & Coppedge, Michael [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2019). Economic development and democracy: An electoral connection. European Journal of Political Research. ISSN 0304-4130. 58(1), p. 292–314. doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12282. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli (2018). Electoral Rules, Labor Market Coordination and Macroeconomic Performance. Scandinavian Political Studies. ISSN 0080-6757. 41(3), p. 367–378. doi: 10.1111/1467-9477.12126. Full text in Research Archive
• Bizzarro, Fernando; Gerring, John; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Hicken, Allen; Bernhard, Michael & Skaaning, Svend-Erik [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2018). Party Strength and Economic Growth. World Politics. ISSN 0043-8871. 70(2), p. 275–320. doi: 10.1017/S0043887117000375. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Rasmussen, Magnus (2018). The Autocratic Welfare State: Old-Age Pensions, Credible Commitments, and Regime Survival. Comparative Political Studies. ISSN 0010-4140. 51(5), p. 659–695. doi: 10.1177/0010414017710265. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this article, we argue that autocratic regimes are no less likely than democracies to adopt old-age pensions, although autocratic programs are less universal in their coverage. Our theoretical argument focuses on the strong incentives that autocratic regimes have for enacting and maintaining such programs to ensure regime survival. Autocratic pension programs can be considered club goods that (a) are targeted to critical supporting groups and (b) solve credible commitment problems on promises of future distribution, thereby mitigating probability of regime breakdown. We test three implications from the argument, drawing on a novel dataset on welfare state programs and including 140 countries with time series from the 1880s. First, we find that autocracies are no less likely than democracies to have old-age pension programs. But, second, autocracies have less universal pension programs than democracies. Third, pension programs effectively reduce the probability of autocratic breakdown.

• Dahlum, Sirianne & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2017). Do Democracies Provide Better Education? Revisiting the Democracy-Human Capital Link. World Development. ISSN 0305-750X. 94, p. 186–199. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.01.001.
• Dahlum, Sirianne & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2017). Do Democracies Provide Better Education? Revisiting the Democracy–Human Capital Link. World Development. ISSN 0305-750X. 94, p. 186–199. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.01.001. Full text in Research Archive
• Dahlum, Sirianne & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2017). Democracy by Demand? Reinvestigating the Effect of Self-expression Values on Political Regime Type. British Journal of Political Science. ISSN 0007-1234. 47(2), p. 437–461. doi: 10.1017/S0007123415000447. Full text in Research Archive
• Dahlum, Sirianne & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2017). What Counts as Evidence? Panel Data and the Empirical Evaluation of Revised Modernization Theory. British Journal of Political Science. ISSN 0007-1234. 47(2), p. 473–478. doi: 10.1017/s0007123416000107. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv & Wig, Tore (2017). Autocratic elections: stabilizing tool or force for change? World Politics. ISSN 0043-8871. 69(1), p. 98–143. doi: 10.1017/S0043887116000149. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Kotsadam, Andreas; Olsen, Eivind Hammersmark & Wig, Tore (2017). Mining and Local Corruption in Africa . American Journal of Political Science (AJPS). ISSN 0092-5853. 61(2), p. 320–334. doi: 10.1111/ajps.12268. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Møller, Jørgen & Skaaning, Svend-Erik (2016). Going Historical: Measuring Democraticness before the Age of Mass Democracy. International Political Science Review. ISSN 0192-5121. 37(5), p. 679–689. doi: 10.1177/0192512115618532. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Thorsen, Dag Einar (2016). Diktaturets mange former – Typer, styremåter og politikkutforming. In Malnes, Raino Sverre (Eds.), Velkommen til statsvitenskap. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISSN 978-82-05-49471-8. p. 78–97.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Wegmann, Simone (2016). Is democracy about redistribution? Democratization. ISSN 1351-0347. 23(1), p. 164–192. doi: 10.1080/13510347.2015.1094460.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Møller, Jørgen & Skaaning, Svend-Erik (2015). Going historical: Measuring democraticness before the age of mass democracy. International Political Science Review. ISSN 0192-5121. 37(5), p. 679–689. doi: 10.1177/0192512115618532.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2015). Reinvestigating the Reciprocal Relationship between Democracy and Income Inequality. Review of Economics and Institutions. ISSN 2038-1379. 6(2). doi: 10.5202/rei.v6i2.173.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2015). Why democracies outgrow autocracies in the long run: civil liberties, information flows and technological change. Kyklos (Basel). ISSN 0023-5962. 68(3), p. 357–384. doi: 10.1111/kykl.12087.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Wig, Tore (2015). Government Turnover and the Effects of Regime Type: How Requiring Alternation in Power Biases against the Estimated Economic Benefits of Democracy. Comparative Political Studies. ISSN 0010-4140. doi: 10.1177/0010414014565891.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv (2015). Institutional Characteristics and Regime Survival: Why Are Semi-Democracies Less Durable Than Autocracies and Democracies? American Journal of Political Science (AJPS). ISSN 0092-5853. 59(3), p. 656–670. doi: 10.1111/ajps.12168.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2015). Demokrati og økonomisk vekst. In Malnes, Raino Sverre & Thorsen, Dag Einar (Ed.), Demokrati - historien og ideene. Dreyer Forlag A/S. ISSN 9788282651219.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Thorsen, Dag Einar (2015). Diktaturet - demokratiets motsats? In Malnes, Raino Sverre & Thorsen, Dag Einar (Ed.), Demokrati - historien og ideene. Dreyer Forlag A/S. ISSN 9788282651219. p. 463–480.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2014). Hvor demokratisk er det norske demokratiet? En internasjonal sammenligning. In Baldersheim, Harald & Østerud, Øyvind (Ed.), Det norske demokratiet i det 21. århundre. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788245016147.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2014). Income Growth and Revolutions. Social Science Quarterly. ISSN 0038-4941. 95(4), p. 920–937. doi: 10.1111/ssqu.12081.
• Beyer, Audun; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Rasch, Bjørn Erik (2014). Election campaigns, issue focus and voting intentions: Survey experiments of norwegian voters. Scandinavian Political Studies. ISSN 0080-6757. 37(4), p. 406–427. doi: 10.1111/1467-9477.12029. Show summary

  This article investigates whether and how changes in issue focus in election campaigns affect voting intention, even if no preference change takes place, and whether such effects vary systematically across different groups of voters. Evidence is reported from two survey experi- ments of Norwegian voters, where respondents were treated with information drawing their attention towards issues pertaining either to immigration or the environment. Although irrel- evant for policy learning or persuasion, this information strongly increased the support of particular parties. More specifically, parties with ‘ownership’ of the issues involved gained votes. Certain types of voters were more likely to change voting intentions post-treatment than others, but which types crucially depended on the issue area under focus. Nevertheless, the results indicate that the issue focus of campaigns is very important for vote choice. Hence, one should expect that, for instance, even ‘neutral’ political news coverage at or close to election day could affect voters in predictable ways. Furthermore, one should expect different parties to fight hard to steer the focus of campaigns towards issues where they have ownership.

• Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Fjelde, Hanne (2013). Property rights in dictatorships: kings protect property better than generals or party bosses. Contemporary Politics. ISSN 1356-9775. 19(1), p. 94–114. doi: 10.1080/13569775.2013.773205.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2013). Democracy, State Capacity, and Economic Growth. World Development. ISSN 0305-750X. 43, p. 1–18. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.10.014.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2012). Democracy, Dictatorship, and Technological Change, Governance and Knowledge. The Politics of Foreign Investment, Technology and Ideas. Routledge. ISSN 978-0-415-69848-1. p. 13–28.

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• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2022). Reforming to Survive: The Bolshevik Origins of Social Policies. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108995474. 94 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik; I. Lindberg, Staffan; Edgell, Amanda & Coppedge, Michael (2022). Why Democracies Develop and Decline. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316514412.
• Kosberg, Eva; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Hovden, Hanne (2022). Demos. Lærebok i politikk og menneskerettigheter vg2/vg3. Cappelen Damm AS. ISBN 9788202689742. 350 p.
• Gjerløw, Haakon; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Wig, Tore & Wilson, Matthew C. (2021). One Road to Riches?: How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009053693. 120 p.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2021). Demokrati og Diktatur. Fagbokforlaget. ISBN 9788245032628.
• Coppedge, Michael; Gerring, John; Glynn, Adam; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Lindberg, Staffan & Pemstein, Daniel [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2020). Varieties of Democracy: Measuring a Century of Political Change. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108347860.

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• Dahl, Marianne; Dahlum, Sirianne; Wig, Tore; Gjerløw, Haakon; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Metternich, Nils W. (2023). The role of collective social groups in democratization: Evidence from two centuries of mass protest.
• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2023). Laying Down the Principles: How Local Socialist Achievements Spurred National Bourgeois Support for Non-Contributory Pensions .
• Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2023). Imperial Labor Standards: Working Time Regulation in a World Dominated by Empires.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2021). A business case for democracy: regime type, growth, and growth volatility. Democratization. ISSN 1351-0347. doi: 10.1080/13510347.2021.1940965.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Nilssen, Tore & Wig, Tore (2020). Skal snøballen rulle, må det være riktig snøball. Khrono.no. ISSN 1894-8995.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Nilssen, Tore & Wig, Tore (2020). Plan S: snøballen som stopper opp. Khrono.no. ISSN 1894-8995.
• Wig, Tore; Dahlum, Sirianne & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2020). Erna som diktator. VG : Verdens gang. ISSN 0805-5203.
• Djuve, Vilde Lunnan; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Wig, Tore (2020). Are we on the cusp of a global wave of regime change? Political Violence @ A Glance: Expert Analysis on Violence and Its Alternatives.
• Djuve, Vilde Lunnan; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Wig, Tore (2019). Ingen regimer varer evig. VG : Verdens gang. ISSN 0805-5203.
• Dahlum, Sirianne; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Wig, Tore (2019). We checked 100 years of protests in 150 countries. Here’s what we learned about the working class and democracy. Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286.
• Boese, Vanessa Alexandra; Gates, Scott; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Strand, Håvard (2019). Patterns of authority over space and time.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2019). Lenin og den moderne velferdsstatens gjennombrudd. VG : Verdens gang. ISSN 0805-5203.
• Erdal, Marta Bivand; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Midtbøen, Arnfinn Haagensen (2019). Diskriminering er et reelt problem. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Show summary

  Begrenset seksuell trakassering og diskriminering er helt normalt i akademia. 40 prosent av de spurte i en ny undersøkelse sier at de har opplevd diskriminering det siste året.

• Erdal, Marta Bivand; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Midtbøen, Arnfinn Haagensen (2019). Internasjonalisering, mangfold og diskriminering i norsk akademia. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. 36(3), p. 288–295. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3053-2019-03-11. Show summary

  En ny rapport fra Akademiet for yngre forskere (AYF) viser at yngre forskere i Norge har positive holdninger til internasjonalisering i akademia. Samtidig opplever hver fjerde forsker med innvandrerbakgrunn diskriminering og manglende inkludering. AYF etterlyser bred debatt om disse funnene, og målrettede tiltak for å komme utfordringene til livs.

• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Lind, Guro Elisabeth; Midtbøen, Arnfinn Haagensen; Hølleland, Halvard; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & De Moor, Katrien (2018). Unge forskere i Norge: karriereveier og ambisjoner: en rapport fra Akademiet for yngre forskere, 2018.
• Wig, Tore & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2018). Internasjonalisering nå! Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. 04(35).
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Gerring, John; Skaaning, Svend-Erik; Teorell, Jan; Maguire, Matthew & Lindberg, Staffan [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2018). Economic Development and Democracy: A Disaggregated Perspective. APSA Annals of Comparative Democratization. 16(3), p. 7–11.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Teorell, Jan (2018). Historical Varieties of Democracy: Political Institutions from 1789 to 1920. APSA -- Comparative Democratization Newsletter. 16(2), p. 3–8.
• Holsten, Hilde Hartmann & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2018). What democracy looked like 200 years ago. [Internet]. ScienceNordic. Show summary

  A new dataset allows you to explore the different dimensions of democracy from 1789 until now.

• Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv & Wig, Tore (2017). You’d think dictators would avoid elections. Here’s why they don’t. Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Rasmussen, Magnus (2017). Offering pensions can help autocrats stay in power longer. Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286.
• Dahlum, Sirianne & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2017). Democracies are no better at educating students than autocracies. This is why. Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Midtbøen, Arnfinn Haagensen; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; DeMoor, Katrien & Lind, Guro Elisabeth (2017). Kampen om talentene. Dagsavisen. ISSN 1503-2892.
• Rasmussen, Magnus & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2017). Party Institutionalization and Welfare State Development. Show summary

  We propose that the extent to which political parties are institutionalized shapes welfare state development. Institutionalized parties allow politicians to overcome coordination problems, avoid capture by special interests, and form stable linkages with broad social groups. These features enable and incentivize politicians to pursue generous and universal welfare policies. Employing recent measures of party institutionalization and welfare law features, we test implications from our argument on data covering from 169 countries and extending back to 1900. Even when accounting for country- and year-fixed effects and institutional features such as electoral system, regime type and state capacity, we find very robust evidence that party institutionalization leads to more extensive, universal, and generous welfare arrangements. The relationship is more pronounced in democracies, but exists also in autocracies. When disaggregating party institutionalization and evaluating mechanisms, the linkages that institutionalized parties form with social groups constitute one important, but not the only relevant, factor.

• Aronsen, Jan Magnus; Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Emblem, Kyrre Eeg; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Enberg, Katja & Knutsen, Carl Henrik [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2017). Kvalitetsparadokset i den norske forskningspolitikken. Khrono.no. ISSN 1894-8995. Show summary

  De fleste insentivene norske forskere opplever i sin hverdag, er preget av kortsiktige resultater og målstyring mot kvantitet heller enn kvalitet. Dette er et kvalitetsparadoks i norsk forskningspolitikk. skriver flere medlemmer i Akademiet for yngre forskere.

• Høgestøl, Sofie A.E.; Lind, Guro Elisabeth; De Moor, Katrien; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Midtbøen, Arnfinn Haagensen [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2016). Karrièreusikkerhet tærer på unge forskere. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. p. 16–17.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2016). Review of Carles Boix(2015) Political Order and Inequality: Their Foundations and Their Consequences for Human Welfare. Journal of Peace Research. ISSN 0022-3433.
• Gornitzka, Ase & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2015). A note from the new editors of scandinavian political studies. Scandinavian Political Studies. ISSN 0080-6757. 38(1), p. 1–3. doi: 10.1111/1467-9477.12043.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2015). Demokrati, «Quality of Government» og menneskelig velferd: Et tilsvar til Rothstein. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. 32(2), p. 184–191.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2014). Measuring Democracy. In Michalos, Alex C. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer. ISSN 978-94-007-0752-8. p. 3929–3934.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Fjelde, Hanne (2014). Property Rights in Dictatorships: Kings Protect Property Better than Generals or Party Bosses. In Croissant, Aurel; Kailitz, S; Koellner, P & Wurster, S (Ed.), Property Rights in Dictatorships: Kings Protect Property Better than Generals or Party Bosses. Routledge. ISSN 978-0-415-71944-5.
• Rygh, Asmund & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2014). The Lower Sensitivity of State-Owned Enterprise FDI to Political Risk: Investigating Political Capabilities- and Risk Preferences Explanations.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2013). Tor Midtbø: STATA – en entusiastisk innføring. Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift. ISSN 0801-1745. 2/13, p. 191–193.
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Awa, Angelique (2013). Landprofil: Kongo–Kinshasa. In Johnstad, Sigrun (Eds.), Afrikas 99%. Økonomisk vekst, ulikhet og protest. Fellesrådet for Afrika og Solidaritet Forlag. ISSN 9788291916309.
• Sørbye, Sveinung Wergeland; Iversen, Ole-Erik & Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2013). Slik kan sex og kreft henge sammen. [Newspaper]. Aftenposten. Show summary

  Michael Douglas satte HPV-viruset på dagsorden. Selv om færre røyker, får flere kreft i munn og svelg. Oralsex har skylden, mener fagmiljøet. HPV er et seksuelt overførbart og svært smittsomt virus. Mellom 70 og 80 prosent av befolkningen blir smittet én eller flere ganger i løpet livet, så det er sannsynlig at du allerede er blitt infisert.

• Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Dahlum, Sirianne; Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd; Hagfors, Sara Bjønness; Klausen, Jan Erling & Søyland, Martin [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2023). Tilstandsanalyse av det norske demokratiet. Kommunal- og distriktsdepartementet.
• Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Hermansen, Gudmund Horn (2019). Characterizing and Assessing Temporal Heterogeneity: Introducing a Change Point Framework, with Applications on the Study of Democratization. Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute.
• De Moor, Katrien; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Lind, Guro Elisabeth; Hølleland, Herdis & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2018). Unge forskere i Norge. Karriereveier og ambisjoner. Oslo: Akademiet for yngre forskere. Akademiet for yngre forskere. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Kotsadam, Andreas; Olsen, Eivind Hammersmark & Wig, Tore (2015). Mining and Local Corruption in Africa . Økonomisk Institutt.

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