Citizens and democracy

KODEM is a national research infrastructure financed by the Norwegian Research Council. KODEM consists of four survey panels: Norwegian Citizen Panel, Norwegian Panel of Politicians, Norwegian Panel of Public Administrators and the Norwegian Journalist Panel. This infrastructure enables researchers from all over Norway to ask questions to four parts of the population, that are relevant for research at democracy and government in Norway. Read more about KODEM at their infrastructure pages.

• Research group members tied to KODEM:
  • Elisabeth Ivarsflaten
  • Ragnhild Muriaas
  • Sveinung Arnesen
  • Åsta Dyrnes Nordø
  • Erla Katrine Løvseth
  • Magne Oldeide
  • Anne Marthe Borgen
  • Emilie Kahrs Rosenlund
  • Gudrun Sylte
  • Una Christine Skomedal Nilsen
  • Tina Sofie Olsen

Gender-Gap in Political Endurance: a novel political inclusion theory. The European Research Council (ERC) funded research project run by professor Ragnhild Muriaas provides a comprehensive analysis of why, how and if structural factors affect the endurance of political careers and why endurance matter for political impact. Democracies are under pressure worldwide: The political landscape is rapidly changing, with new parties emerging and old ones suffering, as voters turn away from established parties. We also witness a significant gender-gap in political endurance, meaning that women’s careers as elected representatives in parliaments tend to end quicker than men’s. This gap between men’s and women’s political endurance challenges the quality and legitimacy of democratic processes as it limits women’s chance of having a profound political impact. Read more about the project at their web pages.

• Resarch group members affiliated with SUCCESS:
  • Ragnhild Muriaas
  • Torill Stavenes
  • Francesca Feo
  • Ida-Elise Seppola Asplund
  • Seréna Nilsson Rabia

Openings to the Inclusion of Muslim Minorities in Today’s Democracies. At the heart of contemporary politics in the old democracies in Europe and North America is a significant puzzle. How come the far right, advocating a nativist agenda particularly opposed to Muslims and Islam, is advancing at a time when public opinion research documents stability or decline in illiberal values in these populations at large? Current studies understandably focus on accounting for exclusion – opposition to Muslims, prejudice, islamophobia, and nativism. In the INCLUDE project, we expand the scope of inquiry beyond drivers of exclusion to investigate the openness of non-Muslim majorities to the inclusion of Muslim minorities. We ask, under what conditions—on what terms—are they open to inclusion? The project is run by professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten. Read more about the project at their pages.

• Research group members affiliated with the INCLUDE project:
  • Elisabeth Ivarsflaten
  • Lise Lund Bjånesøy
  • Marta Eidheim
  • Soran Hajo Dahl
  • Ingrid Kvåle Faleide
  • Una Christine Skomedal Nilsen

European Social Survey is a European Resarch Infrastructure (ERIC). The ESS is a research driven multinational survey that has been fielded every other year across Europe, since 2002. The survey studies attitudes to politics, media, society, religion and many other themes. This gives comparative data on attitudes, identity and opinion for people living in Europe. In Norway, data collection is led by Sveinung Arnesen, professor II at the Department of Government, and the rest of the National Coordinator-team. Read more about the infrastructure at the ESS pages (externally) and ESS at UiB's pages.

• Research group members affiliated with the ESS:
  • Sveinung Arnesen
  • Erla Katrine Løvseth
  • Alexander Verdoes
  • Pernille Lie

Digital Social Science Core Facility (DIGSSCORE) is a research hub that is in charge of running KODEM and the European Social Survey. Read more about DIGSSCORE at the facility's own web pages.

• Ingrid Kvåle Faleide
• Soran Hajo Dahl
• Anna-Luise Schönheit
• Ida-Elise Seppola Asplund
• Seréna Nilsson Rabia

KODEM_DEMO

• KODEM_DEMO var en pilot for en ny, digital infrastruktur for samfunnsvitenskapelig og tverrfaglig forskning. Gjennom koordinert datainnsamling i flere sub-populasjonspanel ble det lagt til rette for forskning på demokrati og styresett i Norge. Norsk medborgerpanel, Norsk representantpanel, Norsk forvaltningspanel og Norsk journalistpanel var med. Dette var et samarbeid mellom de største forskningsuniversitetene (UiO, NTNU og UiB), ledende forskningsmiljøer i Norge (ISF, NORCE og UiA), og Norsk senter for forskningsdata (NSD). 

TERMS

• Terms of Agreement: Challenges of Muslim Inclusion. Based on the previous work of the PI (Elisabeth Ivarsflaten) and her team (Paul M. Sniderman and Stefan Dahlberg), we hypothesize that native citizens in Norway and elsewhere in Western Europe are more open to inclusion, also of Muslim minorities, than has been recognized so far. The project draws on concepts and ideas from normative political theory to identify the most relevant lines of inquiry, but it engages with this theoretical work in an empirical manner asking not what the public ought to accept, but what the public does accept. Two major challenges will be addressed: (1) which terms matter most to the majority public in questions of Muslim minority inclusion and why? (2) how can the findings on acceptable terms of inclusion be squared with evidence of extremism and the demonization of Muslims in Norway and Europe today? Les mer om prosjektet gjennom denne lenken https://inclusivepolitics.w.uib.no/terms/