Academic article

• Robert Harmel; Lars Svåsand; Hilmar Mjelde (2024). Personalization and de-institutionalization: Ourcommon conceptual framework. (external link)
• Robert Harmel; Hilmar Mjelde; Lars Svåsand (2024). The Trumpization of the Grand Old Party. (external link)
• Ragnhild Louise Muriaas; Lars G Svåsand (2015). Opposition parties and the decentralisation process in South Africa and Zambia. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2014). Regulation of political parties and party functions in Malawi: Incentive structures and the selective application of the rules. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2013). The concept of opposition and the structure of opposition in Malawi. (external link)
• Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2013). “Competition and participation, but no democracy: The politics of elections in Africa´s feckless regimes”. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2011). Democratization in Malawi: Moving Forward, Stuck in Transition or Backsliding?. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2011). Financing Elections in Malawi: Between National Processes and the International Community. (external link)
• Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2010). In search of the impact of international support for political parties in new democracies: Malawi and Zambia compared. (external link)
• Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2009). Valgets politikk: Betydningen av legale og administrative virkemidler for å beholde makten i Malawi og Uganda. (external link)
• Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2009). Valgets politikk: Betydningen av administrative og legale virkemidler for å beholde makten i Malawi og Uganda. (external link)
• Sabiti Makara; Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2009). Turnaround: The national resistance movement and the reintroduction of a multiparty system in Uganda. (external link)
• Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand; Nixon S. Khembo (2007). Fissions and fusions, foes and friends - Party system restructuring in Malawi in the 2004 general elections. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Lise Rakner (2005). Stuck in Transition: Electoral Processes in Zambia 1991-2001. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Lise Rakner (2004). From Dominant to Competitive Party System: The Zambian Experience 1991-2001. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Knut Heidar (2004). Political parties in Norway - 40 years later. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2004). Hanne Marthe Narud, Mogens N. Pedersen, Henry Valen (eds.): Party sovereignty and citizen control. Selecting candidates for parliamentary elections in Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway, Odense 2002, University Press of Southern Denmark. (external link)
• Vicky Randall; Lars G Svåsand (2002). Party institutionalization in new democracies. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2002). Political parties and democratic consolidation in Africa. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2002). Introduction: The contribution of parties to democracy and democratic consolidation. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Jon Pierre; Anders Widfeldt (2000). State subsidies to political parties: confronting rhetoric with reality. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Jon Pierre; Anders Widfeldt (2000). State subsidies to political parties: confronting rhetoric with reality. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Jon Pierre; Anders Widfeldt (2000). State subsidies to political parties: Confronting rhetoric with reality. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (1997). The Influence of new parties on old parties' platforms: the case of the Progress parties and the Conservative parties of Denmark and Norway. (external link)
• Lars Svåsand (1993). NORWAY. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Lars G Svåsand (2019). The Swedish Pirate Party: Towards Institutionalisation?. (external link)
• Robert Harmel; Lars G Svåsand (2019). Introduction. (external link)
• Robert Harmel; Lars G Svåsand; Hilmar Mjelde (2019). Party Institutionalisation: Concepts and Indicators. (external link)
• Hilmar Langhelle Mjelde; Lars G Svåsand (2016). Party decline?. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2013). Party development in the old world: And in the new. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Lise Rakner (2012). Foreign aid, democracy promotion and democratic progress. (external link)
• Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2011). In search of the impact of international support for political parties in new democracies: Malawi and Zambia compared. (external link)
• Augustin Magolowonde; Lars G Svåsand (2010). One Man Ownership: Political Parties and their Struggle for Democratic Standards. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Sabiti Makara; Lise Rakner (2008). Turnaround: The National Resistance Movement and the re-introduction of a multiparty system in Uganda. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Julius Kiiza; Robert Tabaro (2008). Organising parties for the 2006 elections. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Nixon S. Khembo (2007). Political Parties. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Marie Demker (2005). Partisystemenes utviklingslinjer. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Marie Demker (2005). Partiene som institusjoner i demokratiet. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Ingemar Wørlund (2005). Partifremvekst og partioverlevelse: Fremskrittspartiet og Ny Demokrati. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Marie Demker (2005). Den nordiska fempartimodellen: En tilfallighet eller ett fundament?. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2002). The cross-pressure hypothesis. (external link)
• Vicky Randall; Lars G Svåsand (2001). Party Institutionalization and the New Democracies. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2000). Statlig finansiering av politiske partier: intensjonene og utfallet. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (1999). Krysspresshypotesen. (external link)
• Knut Martin Heidar; Lars Svåsand (1998). Nordiske partiers samarbeidsmønstre - med hverandre og med Europa. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (1998). The Center-Right Parties in Norwegian Politics: Between Reformist Labor and Radical Progress. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (1998). Scandinavian Right-Wing Radicalism. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (1998). Nordiske partiers samarbeismønstre - med hverandre og med Europa. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Kaare Strøm; Bjørn Erik Rasch (1997). CChange and adaption in party organization. (external link)
• Kaare Strøm; Lars G Svåsand (1997). Beyond the nation-state: Foreign policy controversies. (external link)
• Kaare Strøm; Lars G Svåsand (1997). Conclusion: The limits of entrepeneurship. (external link)
• Kaare Strøm; Lars G Svåsand (1997). Political parties in Norway: Facing the challenges of a new society. (external link)
• Knut Martin Heidar; Hanne C. Pettersen; Lars G Svåsand (1997). Norske partiers internasjonale forbindelser. (external link)
• Knut Martin Heidar; Hanne C. Pettersen; Lars G Svåsand (1997). Internasjonalt partisamarbeid. (external link)
• Knut Martin Heidar; Lars G Svåsand (1997). Internasjonale partisammenslutninger: partier eller organisasjoner?. (external link)
• Knut Martin Heidar; Lars G Svåsand (1997). Politiske partier og den internasjonale arena. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Per Selle (1982). Partiorganisasjon og valgresultat: en drøfting av ulike sammenhenger. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Robert Harmel; Lars G Svåsand; Hilmar Mjelde (2018). Institutionalization (and De-Institutionalization) of Rightwing Protest Parties - The Progress Parties of Denmark and Norway. (external link)

Book anthology

• Robert Harmel; Lars G Svåsand (2019). Institutionalisation of political parties. Comparative cases. (external link)
• Marie Demker; Lars G Svåsand (2005). Partiernas århundrade. Fempartimodellens uppgång och fall i Norge och Sverige. (external link)
• Kaare Strøm; Lars G Svåsand (1997). Challenges to Political Parties: the case of Norway. (external link)
• Knut Martin Heidar; Lars Svåsand (1994). Partiene i en brytningstid. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Lars G Svåsand (2016). Electoral finance and the recruitment of women in African elections: Typology of finances and methodological challenges,. (external link)
• Ragnhild Louise Muriaas; Lars G Svåsand (2015). Opposition Parties and the Decentralization Process in South Africa and Zambia. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Hilmar Mjelde (2014). Party decline?. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2014). Promoting programmatic political parties:Exploring international party assistance and its impact on party manifestos in new democracies. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2013). The ambiguous state of political parties in new democracies. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Andrew Mpesi (2013). The development and functions of electoral manifestos in Malawi: The impact of weak parties and excessive presidentialism. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Jon Peder Opsahl (2013). Party manifestos in unorthodox parties:the cases of the Pirate Parties in Sweden and Germany. (external link)
• Ragnhild Louise Muriaas; Lars G Svåsand (2013). Party Adaptions to Municipal Elections in Post-transitional Regimes: Exploring Democratic Decentralization in Zambia and South Africa. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Svein-Eik Helle (2011). Lars Svåsand and Svein-Erik Helle (2011): The future of democracy in Africa Paper prepared for the work shop on Party systems and the future of democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa, University of Warwick 22.-24. September. 2011. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2011). “Political parties and democratic consolidation in Malawi”, Chapter for the NUFU project book: Democratic consolidation in Malawi,Solstrand, 19. October – 21. October, 2011. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2011). Lars Svåsand: The fragmentation of Malawian opposition,. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Andrew Mpesi (2011). Electoral manifestos and the functions of political parties in new democracies: the case of Malawi,. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2011). Political parties and the democratic trajectory of Malawi, 1993-2011. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2011). The functions of political parties: In theory and in Malawi. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2010). Democratic consolidation in Malawi: progressing, stuck in transition, or backsliding?. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2010). Formal rules and informal processes in the recruitment of political party elites in Malawi. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Lise Rakner (2009). The impact of international support for political parties in new democracies: Malawi and Zambia compared. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2009). Party system change in the context of the 2009 parliamentary and presidential elections. (external link)
• Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2009). The impact of international party support to political parties in new democracies: Malawi and Zambia compared. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2008). Internal party democracy and the Malawian parties. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2008). Procedural democracy in Malawian political parties. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Julius Kiiza; Robert Tabaro (2007). Organizing parties for the 2006 elections. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Lise Rakner (2007). "Free but not fair': Explaining the declining quality of electoral administration in Malawi 1994-2004". (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Lise Rakner (2007). The politics of the elections (Or how incumbents remain in office.)The cases of Malawi and Uganda. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Lise Rakner (2007). Turnaround: The National Resistance Movement and the re-introduction of a multiparty system in Uganda. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Lise Rakner; Siri Gloppen (2007). Political paralysis in Malawi: Reprecussions of party splits in a weakly institutionalised democracy. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Arne Tostensen; Happy Kanuyani (2007). Non-state actors and democratic consolidation. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Lise Rakner; Sabiti Makara (2006). From no-party to multiparty system: NRM and its competitors in Uganda’s 2006 elections. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Lise Rakner (2005). Fissions and fusions, friends and foes: Party system restructuring in Malawi. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2003). The Norwegian Progress party: a populist party?. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2002). The re-emergence of the EU issue in Norwegian politics. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2002). The quality of electoral processes: Zambian elections 1991-2001. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2002). Elections, party system development and democratic consolidation in Zambia. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2000). Challenges to political parties. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2000). Party system change in Norway. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2000). Norsk og svensk partiutvikling. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2000). Partier i nye demokratier. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2000). Comments on the manuscripts "Interest groups and parties in Scandinavian politics". (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2000). The theory of institutionalism and the study of political parties. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2000). Partiorganisasjon og valgresultat. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2000). Norsk og svensk partiutvikling. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2000). Comments on the manuscripts "Interest groups and parties in Scandinavian politics". (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2000). The theory of institutionalism and the study of political parties. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2000). Party system change in Norway. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2000). Challenges to political parties. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2000). Partier i nye demokratier. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2000). Partiorganisasjon og valgresultat. (external link)
• Vicky Randall; Lars G Svåsand (1999). Party Institutionalization and the New Democracies. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (1999). Explaining the success of new rigth wing political parties. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (1999). Current issues in Norwegian party politics. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (1997). Opportunity for participation in political parties. An examination of party statues and empirical reality. (external link)

Lecture

• Lars G Svåsand (2005). Partienes valgkampstrategi. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (1999). Om veileders rolle hovedfagsoppgavearbeidet. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (1999). Statlig finansiering av politiske partier: intensjonene og utfallet. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Lars G Svåsand (2000). Demokratiets utfordringer i det 21. århundrede. (external link)

Master’s thesis

• Lene Nordli; Lars G Svåsand (2006). Politisk opposisjon i et autoritært regime. En analyse av regimets respons til islamsk opposisjon i Egypt. (external link)
• Svenn Arne Lie; Lars G Svåsand (2006). Shifting parties, constant cleavage. Party system formation along the urban-rural cleavage in post-communist Lithuania. (external link)
• Annemarie Smestad; Lars G Svåsand (2006). The Color of Polity. Political representation of African Americans in Florida from 1996 til 2002. (external link)
• Hanne Vatnaland; Lars G Svåsand (2005). Citizenship rights in the holy land and the case of Israeli Palestinians. (external link)
• Mette Bakken; Lars G Svåsand (2005). Electoral System Design and Effects on Representation and Regionalisation in Malawi 1994-2004. (external link)
• Julie Andersland; Lars G Svåsand (2004). Continuity versus Change. A Study of the British Electoral Reform Debate after 1974. (external link)
• Erlend Iversen; Lars G Svåsand (2004). "På skinner uten styring?" En analyse av bybaneprosessen i Bergen. (external link)

Media feature article

• Lars G Svåsand (2000). Demokratiets utfordringer i det 21. århundrede. (external link)

Media interview

• Lars G Svåsand (2015). Oklara effekter av demokratibistånd SVENSK OPINION 11 februari, 2015 Oklara effekter av demokratibistånd. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2015). Mijøpartiet De Grønne i Sogn og Fjordane. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2015). Intervju om partifinansering, Kapital. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2015). Intervju om lokale lister ved kommunestyrevalg. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2014). Intervju om partiorganisasjonen for Miljøpartiet De Grønne. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2014). Om Miljøpartiet. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2014). Om makt i Bergen. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2006). Intervju om undersøkelse om politisk interesse. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2005). Partienes medlemsutvikling. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2005). Regjeringsskiftet. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand (2005). Politisk styring i nye demokratier. (external link)

Non-fiction monograph

• Knut Martin Heidar; Lars G Svåsand (1997). Partier uten grenser?. (external link)

Research report

• Lars G Svåsand (2015). What do we know about the effects of international assistance to political parties in new democracies?. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Lydeke Schakel (2015). An evaluation of NIMD’s application of direct party assistance. (external link)
• Dag Arne Christensen; Tor Midtbø; Hans-Erik Ringkjøb et al. (2004). Ny personvalgordning og hva så? En analyse av kommune- og fylkestingsvalget i 2003. (external link)
• Eddie Bwalya; Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2003). The PRSP process in Zambia. (external link)
• Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2001). Elections for better or for worse? Assessing the experiences with multiparty elections in sub-Saharan Africa. (external link)
• Harald Mathisen; Lars G Svåsand (2001). Funding political parties in emerging African democracies: What role for Norway?. (external link)

Textbook

• Lars G Svåsand; Nandini Patel (2013). Government and Politics of Malawi. (external link)
• Lars G Svåsand; Nandini Patel (2007). Government and Politics in Malawi. (external link)
• Kåre Strøm; Lars Svåsand (1997). Challenges to Political Parties. (external link)
• Kåre Strøm; Lars Svåsand (1997). Challenges to Political Parties. The Case of Norway. (external link)

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