Tidligere arrangementer - Side 31

Policy Integration, Institutional Change and the Governance of Complex Problems

Adam Bodnar, former Polish Ombudsman for Citizen Rights, held the annual ARENA lecture.

Adam Bodnar, jurist og tidligere ombudsmann for menneskerettigheter i Polen, holdt årets ARENA-forelesning.

With Aurelien Mondon (University of Bath) and Aaron Winter (University of East London)

Astrid Schrader, University of Exeter, visits the STS Methods Lab

Fulvio Castellacci (director at TIK) speaks about his research on innovation and social welfare. The webinar is hosted by the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, an institute founded and directed by Mariana Mazzucato.

The mission of the Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research (CHAIN) is to create a global transformation in actionable health inequalities research. Bringing together leading scholars and international organizations and acting as a change agent, researchers at CHAIN aim to monitor, explain, and reduce health inequalities in the global North and South. 

Welcome to University of Oslo Arctic Day 2021: The Arctic Ocean: Concerns & Consequences at The Science Library, Vilhelm Bjerknes hus, Blindern.

Title of the presentation "International Sports Events, Media Attention, and Repression: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup"

Abstract

How do international sports events shape repression in authoritarian host countries? International tournaments promise unique gains in political prestige through global media attention. However, autocrats must fear that foreign journalists will unmask their wrongdoings. We argue that autocracies solve this dilemma by strategically adjusting repression according to the spatial-temporal presence of international media. Using original, highly disaggregated data on the 1978 World Cup, we demonstrate that the Argentine host government largely refrained from repression during the tournament, but preemptively cleansed the streets beforehand. These adjustments specifically occurred around hotels reserved for foreign journalists. Additional tests demonstrate that: 1) before the tournament, repression turned increasingly covert, 2) during the tournament, targeting patterns mirrored the working shifts of foreign journalists, 3) after the tournament, regime violence again spiked in locations where international media had been present. Together, the paper highlights the human costs of mega-events, contradicting the common whitewashing rhetoric of functionaries

Våg å vite-prisen 2021 går til fem masterstudenter som har utfordret etablerte sannheter og levert oppgaver av høy kvalitet. Velkommen til prisutdeling, sang og forfriskninger.

Lecturer: Elizaveta Gaufman, University of Groningen

Student Financing for Social Equity in Norway, 1947–2020

R. Daniel Kelemen presents the paper 'Where Have the Guardians Gone? Law Enforcement and the Politics of Forbearance in the European Union' co-authored with Tom Pavone at the ARENA Tuesday seminar on 26 October 2021.

Title of the presentation "Ethnic Inequality and Regime Change: Investigating an Asymmetric Relationship"

Abstract

The SINGLEMARKETS project hosts a two-day introductory workshop in Oslo on 22-23 October. 

EU3D researchers will participate in a workshop on EU's foreign and security policy organised by the European University Institute on 21-22 October 2021.

Title: The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Energy Policy from the Oil Crises to Climate Change

Abstract

Why are some governments more effective in promoting economic change than others? We develop a theory of the institutional sources of economic transformation. Domestic institutions condition the ability of policymakers to impose costs on consumers and producers. We argue that institutions can enable transformation through two central mechanisms: insulation and compensation. The institutional sources of transformation vary across policy types—whether policies impose costs primarily on consumers (demand-side policies) or on producers (supply-side policies). Proportional electoral rules and strong welfare states facilitate demand-side policies, whereas autonomous bureaucracies and corporatist interest intermediation facilitate supply-side policies. We test our theory by leveraging the 1973 oil crisis, an exogenous shock that compelled policymakers to simultaneously pursue transformational change across OECD countries. Panel analysis, case studies, and discourse network analysis support our hypotheses. The findings offer important lessons for contemporary climate change policy and low-carbon transitions.

Politics and administrative turnover in highly meritocratic systems

With Stephen D. Ashe (Durham University), John P. Jackson (Michigan State University) and Rae Jereza (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

John Parker visits the STS methods lab seminar 14th October

Martin Søyland (Political Science, UiO) presents his R package stortingscrape. This R package aims to effectivize this process for Norwegian parliamentary data. The package makes the data easily accessible, while also being flexible enough for tailoring the different underlying data sources to ones needs. The package philosophy revolves around three core consepts: 1) simplify data formats as much as possible, 2) make interconnected sources of data easily mergable, and 3) minimize overlap in information for different retrival functions.