2021. ‘Refugee Settlement and Decision-Making Venue: Does Public Concern Instigate Preferences for Local Referendums? Experiences from Norwegian Cities’. Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 34, Issue 3, September, p. 3044–3064, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feaa110
2020. ‘Trading Refugees: The Governance of Refugee Settlement in a Decentralized Welfare State’, medforfatter Jostein Askim. Scandinavian Political Studies; Vol. 43 (1) p. 24-45
2018: 'State Governance or Local Agency? Determining Refugee Settlement in Norwegian Municipalities', medforfatter Maiken Røed. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 22, No 1, pp 27 - 52.
2016: 'Deciding Refugee Settlement in Norwegian Cities: Local Administration or Party Politics?', in Journal of Refugee Studies. Vol. 29, Issue 4, pp 464 - 482.
2015: 'Small states and national elites in a neoliberal era,' in Baldersheim, H. and Keating, M. eds.), Small States in the Modern World. Vulnerabilities and Opportunities. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 183 - 201.
2012: 'Elite and Mass Confidence in New Democracies - Towards Congruence? The Baltic States 1992 - 2007' , in Historical Social Research. Vol. 37, 1, Special Issue: Elite Foundations of Social Theory and Politics, (eds. Pakulski, J., Best, H., Christmas-Best, V., Hoffman-Lange, U).
2011: ‘Crossing the local community border. Immigrant settlement in Norway ', in Bay, A-H; Bengtsson, Bo; Strömblad, P. (eds.) Diversity, Inclusion and Citizenship in Scandinavia. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2010: ’National Elites and the Russian Minority Issue. Does EU-NATO Integration Matter?’, in Journal of European Integration, Vol. 32, No.2, pp. 193-212, (March).
2010: ‘Democracy by Elite-Cooptation: Democratic Elitism in Multi-Ethnic States’, with Mindaugas, K., in Best, H. and Higley, J. (eds.) Democratic Elitism: New Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives. Leiden. Boston: Brill.
2009: ”Hvorfor tar kommunene imot ’de fremmede’? Eliter og lokal skepsis”, i Saglie, J. red. Det nære demokratiet – lokalvalg og lokal deltakelse. Oslo: Abstrakt forlag.
2009: ’Bosetting av flyktninger – mellom statlig styring og lokal politikk’, i: Hvordan går det med integreringen? Årsrapport for 2008, Integrerings- og mangfoldsdirektoratet (IMDi).
2004: 'The Welfare State - Still Viable?', in Heidar, K. (ed.) Nordic Politics. Comparative Perspectives. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
2003: Political Elites and the New Russia. The Power Basis of Yeltsin’s and Putin’s Regimes. Routledge.
2003: Elites and Democratic Development in Russia. A. Steen and V. Gel’man (eds.) Routledge.
1997: Between Past and Future. Elites, Democracy and the State in Post-Communist Countries. A Comparison of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Ashgate. Gower House.
1988: Landbruket, staten og sosialdemokratene. En komparativ studie av interessekonflikter i landbrukspolitikken i Norge, Sverige og England 1945-1985. Universitetsforlaget. Oslo. 1988.
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’Muhammed og Kristian’. Kronikk, Morgenbladet 7.7.2006.
‘En bedre innvandringspolitikk?’ Kronikk, Aftenposten 05.09.2005.
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‘Latvijas elite parmainu laika’. (The Latvian elite under change). Steen, Anton and Zepa, Brigita, in Diena 2003.
’De baltiske land: Demokratier i utvikling’. Kronikk, Aftenposten 19.8.1998.
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