Lise Rakner er professor i statsvitenskap ved Institutt for Politikk og Forvaltning Universitetet i Bergen. Forskningsinteressene spenner fra studier av demokrati, med fokus på demokratisk sammenbrudd, menneskerettigheter, partisystem og valg. Rakner's forskning er også knyttet til politisk økonomi, med særlig vekt på økonomiske reformer, utvikling av skattesystem og bistand. Hun har utført en rekke analyser og utredninger for organisasjoner som DFID, SIDA; DFID, Verdensbanken og norsk UD. Hun leder forskningsprosjektet "Breaking BAD: Understanding Backlash Against Democracy in Africa" (Frihumsam 2017-2021) og "Autocratization Dynamics" (Inpart/NFR 2022-2025). Hun er ansatt som Forsker II Chr. Michelsen Institutt (CMI), Bergen.

 

Courses

Sampol 105: States and nationbuilding (10 ECTS) (Spring semester)

Sampol 100: Introduction to Comparative Politics (10 ECTS) (Fall semester)

Sampol 219: Politics in the Developing World (10 ECTS) (not on a regular schedule)

Sampol 329: Political Parties in the Developing World (10 ECTS)  (not on a regular schedule)

Sampol 315: Elections and representation (10 ECTS) (not on a regular schedule)

Sampol 314: Elections in New democracies (10 ECTS Master level) (not on a regular schedule)

Sampol 335. Elections and Representation in democracies (10 ECTS Master level) (not on a regular schedule)

Sampol 338: Breaking Bad: Understanding Backlash Against Democracy (10 ECTS Spring 2019)

 

2018

• Lise Rakner (2018). Don´t touch my constitution. Civil society resistance and political turnovers in African pluralist regimes.. (ekstern lenke)
• Lisa-Marie Selvik; Lise Rakner (2018). Breakfast for Democracy: Plunging into a new civil War? Political crisis in Burundi. (ekstern lenke)
• Ragnhild Louise Muriaas; Vibeke Wang; Lindsay Benstead et al. (2018). Why campaigns to stop child marriage can backfire. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Leonardo Arriola (2018). The business of politics: Party defection and candidate selection in Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2018). Den demokratiske snarveien. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2018). Breaking Bad: Understanding Backlash Against Democracy in Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2018). Understanding Democratic Backsliding in Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Ragnhild Louise Muriaas; Vibeke Wang; Lindsay Benstead et al. (2018). Why the Gender of Traditional Authorities Matters: Intersectionality and Women’s Rights Advocacy in Malawi. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Leonardo Arriola; Nicolas van de Walle (2018). WORLD AFFAIRS: Threats to Democracy in Africa.. (ekstern lenke)
• Cissy J. Ballen; Dahsol Lee; Lise Rakner et al. (2018). Politics a “Chilly” Environment for Undergraduate Women in Norway. (ekstern lenke)
• Vibeke Wang; Lindsay Benstead; Boniface Dulani et al. (2018). Traditional Authority, Gender and Political Engagement in Malawi. (ekstern lenke)
• Odd-Helge Fjeldstad; Lise Rakner (2018). Tax bargains in poorly regulated countries: Lobbying and the shaping of tax policies in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2018). The International Dimension of Backlash Against Democracy. (ekstern lenke)
• Ellen Lust; Lise Rakner (2018). The other side of taxation: extraction and social institutions in the developing world. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2018). Diktatorens lærebok: Kapittelet om Tanzania.. (ekstern lenke)

2009

• Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2009). Valgets politikk: Betydningen av legale og administrative virkemidler for å beholde makten i Malawi og Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Nicolas Van de Walle (2009). Opposition weakness in Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Sabiti Makara; Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2009). Turnaround: The national resistance movement and the reintroduction of a multiparty system in Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2009). "An aid exit strategy for Zambia". (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Ottar Mæstad (2009). When and why do judges consider the costs of health right litigation?. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2009). The administration of the 2009 elections: The role of the Malawi Electoral Commission. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2009). Valgets politikk: Betydningen av administrative og legale virkemidler for å beholde makten i Malawi og Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Nicolas Van de Walle (2009). Opposition Parties and Incumbent Presidents: The New Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2009). The impact of international party support to political parties in new democracies: Malawi and Zambia compared. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Ottar Mæstad (2009). How do we measure the impact of health right litigation?. (ekstern lenke)

2011

• Lise Rakner; Peter Burnell (2011). Governance and Aid Conditionality in a Globalizing World. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Randall Vicky (2011). Institutional Perspectives. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2011). Institutionalizing the pro-democracy movements: the case of Zambia's Movement for Multiparty Democracy. (ekstern lenke)
• Ottar Mæstad; Lise Rakner; Octavio L. Motta Ferraz (2011). Assessing the impact of health rights litigation : a comparative analysis of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, India and South Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Peter Burnell; Vicky Randall; Lise Rakner (2011). Politics in the Developing World. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2011). In search of the impact of international support for political parties in new democracies: Malawi and Zambia compared. (ekstern lenke)

2022

• Lise Rakner; Nicolas Van de Walle (2022). International Strategies: Sovereignty Claims and Selective Compliance. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Samah Khalaf Allah; Moumouni Soumano et al. (2022). Human Rights Activism in Challenging Circumstances. (ekstern lenke)
• Kristen Kao; Ellen Lust; Lise Rakner (2022). Vote-buying, anti-corruption campaigns, and identity in African elections. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Caroline Borge Bjelland (2022). Divine Intervention: The democratic ethics of pentecostalism in Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2022). Verdens verste leder anno 2021. (ekstern lenke)
• Leonardo R. Arriola; Lise Rakner; Nicolas Van de Walle (2022). Democratic Backsliding in Africa? Autocratization, Resilience, and Contention. (ekstern lenke)
• Ingrid Hoem Sjursen; Lise Rakner (2022). Taxing Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Matthew Kiragu Gichohi; Lise Rakner; Fiona Shen-Bayh et al. (2022). Legal Strategies in Democratic Backsliding and Resistance in Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Marja Hinfelaar; Lise Rakner; Sishuwa Sishuwa et al. (2022). Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Kendra E Dupuy; Vibeke Wang (2022). Democratic Backsliding in Africa? Autocratization, contention and resillience. (ekstern lenke)
• Kendra E Dupuy; Leonardo Arriola; Lise Rakner (2022). Political Participation and Regime Responses. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Siri Gloppen; Marja Hinfelaar (2022). Zimbabwe: Contested Autocratization. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Nicolas Van de Walle; Marja Hinfelaar (2022). Zambia: Backsliding in a Presidential Regime. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Fiona Shen-Bayh; Vibeke Wang et al. (2022). Legal Strategies in Democratic Backsliding and Resistance in Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2022). Democratic Backsliding in Africa? Autocratization, Contention and Recillience. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2022). Democratic backsliding. Analytical perspectives. Roundtable. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2022). "Hatespeech"- en trussel for ytringsfriheten?. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Fiona Shen-Bayh; Kendra E Dupuy et al. (2022). Legal Strategies in Democratic Backsliding and Resistance in Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2022). "The politicization of LGBT rights in Africa". (ekstern lenke)

2005

• Lise Rakner; Vibeke Wang (2005). The accountability function of supreme audit institutions in Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2005). Stuck in Transition: Electoral Processes in Zambia 1991-2001. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2005). Figthing Poverty in Africa: are PRSPs making a difference. (ekstern lenke)
• Lars G Svåsand; Lise Rakner (2005). Stuck in Transition: Electoral Processes in Zambia 1991-2001. (ekstern lenke)
• Lars G Svåsand; Lise Rakner (2005). Fissions and fusions, friends and foes: Party system restructuring in Malawi. (ekstern lenke)

2007

• 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. (ekstern lenke)
• Siri Gloppen; Lise Rakner (2007). Introduction: Coming to grips with the current predicaments of political parties. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; nicloas van de walle (2007). Opposition parties in sub-saharan Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Siri Gloppen (2007). Globalization and democratization: Challenges for political parties. (ekstern lenke)

2025

• Øyvind Stiansen; Haakon Gjerløw; Lise Rakner (2025). The politics of litigating and adjudicating electoral disputes: Evidence from Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Monika Kvernenes; Arne Tjølsen; Simon Gilbertson et al. (2025). Tracing affective trajectories and triggers in university teachers – a mixed methods study. (ekstern lenke)
• Leonardo Arriola; Danny Choi Donghyun; Justine M. Davis et al. (2025). Policymakers’ Abortion Preferences: Understanding the Intersection of Gender and Wealth. (ekstern lenke)

2020

• Lise Rakner; Leonardo Arriola (2020). Democratic Backsliding in Africa? Autocratization, Resilience, and Contention. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Leonardo Arriola; Melanie Phillips et al. (2020). Partisanship, Gender, and the Structure of Politician Networks in Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2020). Don´t touch my constitution! The role of pro-democracy movements in African democratic trajectories. (ekstern lenke)
• Siri Gloppen; Lise Rakner (2020). LGBT Rights in Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2020). Lise Rakner and Nic van de Walle: Opposition parties in non-institutionalized party systems: Zambia Elections Research Network: ZERN workshop and analyses of 2021 Zambian elections. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2020). Autocratization and the effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic. (ekstern lenke)
• Anja Maria Steinsland Ariansen; Siri Gloppen; Lise Rakner et al. (2020). Time for global health diplomacy. (ekstern lenke)

2021

• Lise Rakner (2021). Democratic Backsliding in Poland and Hungary. (ekstern lenke)
• Marja Hinfelaar; O'Brien Kaaba; Tony Zhou et al. (2021). Comparing legal activism in Zimbabwe and Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Matthew Kiragu Gichohi; Leonardo Arriola (2021). Elite Responses to Policy Reforms in Autocratic Settings. Pre-Analysis Plan.. (ekstern lenke)
• Elisabeth Ivarsflaten; Lise Rakner; Hilmar Mjelde (2021). Utfordringer for demokratiet. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2021). Zambia 2011-2021: Presidentialism, Legal Autocratisation and Democratic Backsliding Institute for Democracy Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa at the University of CapeTown.. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2021). Noen blir absurd rike. (ekstern lenke)
• Lisa-Marie Selvik; Lise Rakner; Vibeke Wang et al. (2021). Autocratization dynamics in Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Odd-Helge Fjeldstad; Lise Rakner (2021). Lobbying and the shaping of tax policies in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Caroline Borge Bjelland; Lise Rakner (2021). Divine Intervention: The Influence of Pentecostal Sermons on Democratic Values Evidence from Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Leonardo Arriola (2021). Same Rules, Higher Costs: Women’s Pathways to Candidacy in Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Leonardo Arriola; Danny Choi; Justine Ina Davies et al. (2021). Paying to party: Candidate resources and party switching in new democracies. (ekstern lenke)
• Boniface Dulani; Lise Rakner; Lindsay Benstead et al. (2021). Do women face a different standard? The interplay of gender and corruption in the 2014 presidential elections in Malawi,. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2021). Don’t Touch My Constitution! Civil Society Resistance to Democratic Backsliding in Africa´s Pluralist Regimes. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2021). Carl Henrik Knutsen: Demokrati og Diktatur. (ekstern lenke)

2014

• Lise Rakner; Peter Burnell; Vicky Randall (2014). Politics in the developing world. (ekstern lenke)
• Elisabeth Eide; Dag Elgesem; Siri Gloppen et al. (2014). Norske paradokser. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Vicky Randall (2014). Institutional Perspectives. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Peter Burnell (2014). Democracy. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Peter Burnell; Vicky Randall (2014). Politics in the Developing World [4th ed.]. (ekstern lenke)
• Elisabeth Eide; Dag Elgesem; Siri Gloppen et al. (2014). Klima, medier og politikk. (ekstern lenke)
• Svein-Erik Hansen Helle; Lise Rakner (2014). Grabbing’ an election: Abuse of state resources in the 2011 elections in Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Siri Gloppen; Lise Rakner; Vegard Furustøl Vibe (2014). Stortingsklima. Klima som valgkamptema og norske politikeres syn på klimautfordringene. (ekstern lenke)
• Vegard Furustøl Vibe; Siri Gloppen; Lise Rakner (2014). Klimabistand: god bistandspolitikk?. (ekstern lenke)
• Octavio L. Motta Ferraz; Siri Gloppen; Ottar Mæstad et al. (2014). Judging the price of life: cons considerations in right-to-health litigation. (ekstern lenke)
• Bård A. Andreassen; Malcolm Langford; Lise Rakner (2014). Memorandum:Overview of research findings regarding aid in support of democratization and human rights observance. (ekstern lenke)
• Odd-Helge Fjeldstad; Jesper Stenberg Johnsøn; Lise Rakner (2014). The role of institutions in capital flight, lobbyism and tax evasion. (ekstern lenke)

2013

• Lise Rakner (2013). Foreign Aid and Democratic Consolidation in Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Siri Gloppen; Octavio L. Motta Ferraz; Lise Rakner et al. (2013). ”Prioritization of healthcare: Comparative perspectives”. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2013). Electoral mobilization in Uganda and Zambia for the 2011 elections: The interplay between opposition weakness, incumbent strength and the urban/rural electoral divide. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2013). “Competition and participation, but no democracy: The politics of elections in Africa´s feckless regimes”. (ekstern lenke)

2015

• Lise Rakner; Leo Arriola (2015). Reconceptualizing African Party Systems. (ekstern lenke)
• Ragnhild Louise Muriaas; Lise Rakner; Ingvild Aagedal Skage (2015). Explaining Variation in Government Parties’ Willingness to Build Party Organization in Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Odd-Helge Fjeldstad; Prosper Ngowi; Lise Rakner (2015). Shaping the tax agenda: Public engagement, lobbying and tax reform in Tanzania.. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2015). “Don’t touch my constitution! Civil society resistance and political turnovers in Africa´s pluralist regimes” (with I. Skage). (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Siri Gloppen (2015). Norske klimaparadokser. (ekstern lenke)

2017

• Lise Rakner (2017). Vafler for demokratiet. (ekstern lenke)
• Svein-Erik Helle; Lise Rakner (2017). The Impact of Elections: The Case of Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Svein-Erik Hansen Helle; Jonas Linde; Lise Rakner (2017). Understanding the Uneven Playing Field. The Multifaceted Role of Unfair Electoral Competition in a Non-Democratic Regime. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2017). “Politician defection in Zambia”,. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2017). Breaking BAD: Understanding backlash Against Democracy in Africa.. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2017). demokrati i forfall. (ekstern lenke)
• Lindsay Benstead; Boniface Dulani; Ragnhild Louise Muriaas et al. (2017). The Local Governance Performance Index (LGPI) in Malawi: Selected Findings on Gender. (ekstern lenke)
• Siri Gloppen; Ingvild Aagedal Skage; Getnet Tadele Tefera et al. (2017). Political determinants of sexual & reproductive health (Globvac project). (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Vicky Randall (2017). Institutional Perspectives. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2017). Democratization and Regime Change. (ekstern lenke)
• Ingvild Aagedal Skage; Lise Rakner; Carmeliza Soares Da Costa Rosario et al. (2017). Africa’s legalized politics of homosexuality: dynamics & effects of criminalization. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2017). Tax bargains in unlikely places: The politics of Zambian mining taxes. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2017). Governance. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Ingvild Aagedal Skage; Leo Arriola (2017). The politization of LGBT and abortion rights in Zambia: Preliminary findings from survey and qualitative interviews. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2017). “Understanding Backlash against democracy in Africa”.. (ekstern lenke)
• Odd-Helge Fjeldstad; Caleb Fundanga; Lise Rakner (2017). The rise and fall of the mining royalty regime in Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Leo Arriola (2017). LGBT rights in Zambia: Analyzing politicization and contentious episodes. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2017). Understanding Backlash against democracy in Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Vicky Randall; Burnell Peter (2017). Politics in the Developing World, 5th Edition. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2017). “Slaget om menneskerettighetene. Om demokratiets tilbakegang”. (ekstern lenke)

2012

• Lise Rakner (2012). WP/016 Foreign Aid and Democratic Consolidation in Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Jonas Linde; Lise Rakner (2012). Elections in hybrid regimes: Assessing the Formal and Informal Underpinnings of Electoral Contests in Africa, Post-Communist Eurasia and the Middle East. (ekstern lenke)
• Svein-Erik Hansen Helle; Siri Gloppen; Lise Rakner (2012). I pose og sekk? Klima i norsk utviklingspolitikk etter 2005. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Svein-Erik Hansen Helle (2012). The interplay between poverty and electoral authoritarianism: Poverty and political mobilization in Zambia and Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2012). Taxation, elections and populism: The salience of taxation Zambian election campaigns 2001-2011. (ekstern lenke)
• Lars G Svåsand; Lise Rakner (2012). Foreign aid, democracy promotion and democratic progress. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Svein-Erik Hansen Helle (2012). The interplay between poverty and electoral authoritarianism: Poverty and regime stability in Uganda and Zambia. (ekstern lenke)

2019

• Lise Rakner (2019). Kvinner som gjør oppgjør. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2019). Political corruption and corruption as a political strategy. (ekstern lenke)
• Lisa-Marie Selvik; Lise Rakner (2019). Breakfast for Democracy: Military coups of today. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2019). Den gode fienden: Fra flytninger til seksuelle minoriteter. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2019). Demokrati i tilbakegang i Afrika. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Siri Gloppen; Matthew Gichohi et al. (2019). Roundtable: Researching Backlash against Democracy. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Leonardo Arriola; Danny Choi Donghyun et al. (2019). Working paper: Women’s Household Bargaining Power and Abortion Policy Preferences: Evidence from Zambian Politicians. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Leonardo Arriola; Melanie Phillips et al. (2019). The Business of Politics. Campaign Costs and Party Switching in Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2019). Kvinner som protesterer. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2019). Democratic Rollback in Africa. (ekstern lenke)

2024

• Johanna Söderström; Lise Rakner (2024). Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Liv Tønnessen; Lyn Ossome et al. (2024). Labour, autocratization and resistance. (ekstern lenke)
• Leonardo Arriola; Donghyun Danny Choi; Justine M. Davis et al. (2024). Framing the Fight for LGBT Rights: How Human Rights and Public Health Narratives Shape Policymaker Support. (ekstern lenke)
• Siri Gloppen; Lise Rakner (2024). Legalised resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Odd-Helge Fjeldstad; Lise Rakner (2024). Lobbying in tax policy making: The case of VAT-reform in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Lyn Ossome; Carl Henrik Knutsen et al. (2024). The political economy of autocratization. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Siri Gloppen (2024). A perfect storm for Zimbabwe´s civil society. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2024). "Democratization in Africa" at 50 Years of Third Wave – 4-7 July 2024. (ekstern lenke)
• Kyle Lohse Marquardt; Lise Rakner; Hilmar Mjelde (2024). The US presidential election. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2024). Imagined solidarity around tax practices: a two-dimensional framework based on motivating logic and group boundaries. (ekstern lenke)

2008

• Julius Kiiza; Sabiti Makara; Lise Rakner (2008). Electoral democracy in Uganda : understanding institutional processes and outcomes of the 2006 multiparty elections. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner (2008). “Opposition parties and incumbent presidents. The New Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Sub Saharan Africa” (with Nic van de Walle)”. (ekstern lenke)

2016

• Odd-Helge Fjeldstad; Caleb Fundanga; Lise Rakner (2016). Lessons from Zambia … for a more sustainable mining tax regime. (ekstern lenke)
• Ragnhild Louise Muriaas; Lise Rakner; Ingvild Aagedal Skage (2016). Political capital of ruling parties after regime change: contrasting successful insurgencies to peaceful pro-democracy movements. (ekstern lenke)
• Odd-Helge Fjeldstad; Caleb Fundanga; Lise Rakner (2016). Lessons from Zambia – From a profit-based tax system, to a revenue-based tax system. (ekstern lenke)
• Odd-Helge Fjeldstad; Caleb Fundanga; Lise Rakner (2016). Lessons from Zambia - Recommendations for a more sustainable mining tax regime. (ekstern lenke)
• Ragnhild Louise Muriaas; Vibeke Wang; Lise Rakner et al. (2016). Using traditional leaders to end child marriage: Evidence from a survey experiment in Malawi. (ekstern lenke)
• Odd-Helge Fjeldstad; Caleb Fundanga; Lise Rakner (2016). The rise and fall of the mining royalty regime in Zambia.. (ekstern lenke)
• Ragnhild Louise Muriaas; Lindsay Benstead; Boniface Dulani et al. (2016). Using traditional leaders to end child marriage: Evidence from a survey experiment in Malawi. (ekstern lenke)
• Ingvild Aagedal Skage; Ragnhild Louise Muriaas; Lise Rakner (2016). The urban poor as citizens and clients. Enacting political agency through political parties and social movements in Kenya and Zambia. (ekstern lenke)

2003

• Eddie Bwalya; Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2003). The PRSP process in Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Odd-Helge Fjeldstad; Lise Rakner (2003). Taxation and tax reforms in developing countries: Illustrations from sub-Saharan Africa. (ekstern lenke)

2026

• Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu; Endre Tvinnereim; Ole Øvretveit et al. (2026). Fra Hans Egede til Donald Trump: Et seminar om Grønlands fortid og fremtid. (ekstern lenke)

2010

• Lise Rakner (2010). The Management of the 2009 Electoral Process. The Role of the Malawi Electoral Commission. (ekstern lenke)
• Lise Rakner; Lars G Svåsand (2010). In search of the impact of international support for political parties in new democracies: Malawi and Zambia compared. (ekstern lenke)

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PEER REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC WORKS 

Arriola, Leonardo R., Lise Rakner, and Nicolas van de Walle, 'Democratic Backsliding in Africa? Autocratization, Resilience, and Contention', in Leonardo R. Arriola, Lise Rakner, and Nicolas van de Walle (eds), Democratic Backsliding in Africa? Autocratization, Resilience, and Contention (Oxford, 2022; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 Jan. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192867322.003.0001, accessed 1 July 2025.

Boniface Dulani, Lise Rakner, Lindsay Benstead, Vibeke Wang (2021):  Do women face a different standard? The interplay of gender and corruption in the 2014 presidential elections in Malawi. Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 88, 102501 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2021.102501.

Rakner, Lise, 2021: “Don ́t touch my constitution! The role of pro-democracy movements in
African democratic trajectories”. Global Policy Volume12, Issue S5, July 2021, pp 95-105.

Arriola LR, Choi DD, Davis JM, Phillips ML, Rakner L., 2021: «Paying to party: Candidate resources
and party switching in new democracies». Party Politics. February 2021.
doi:10.1177/1354068821989563

Rakner, Lise and Siri Gloppen, 2020: “LGBT Rights in Africa”. Research Handbook on
Gender, Sexuality and the Law. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Rakner, Lise. 2019. “Democratic Rollback in Africa”. In Oxford Encyclopedia of African Politics. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.887

Muriaas, Ragnhild L., Vibeke Wang, Lindsay Benstead, Boniface Dulani, and Lise Rakner 2019. “Why the Gender of Traditional Authorities Matters: Intersectionality and Women’s Rights Advocacy in Malawi.” Comparative Political Studies, (forthcoming). doi:10.1177/0010414018774369.

Lust, Ellen and Lise Rakner, 2018. “The Other Side of Taxation: Extraction and Social Institutions in the Developing World“, Annual Review of Political Science, 21:1

Ballen, C., Lee, D., Rakner, L., & Cotner, S. 2018. “Politics a “Chilly” Environment for Undergraduate Women in Norway”, PS: Political Science & Politics, 1-6. doi:10.1017/S1049096518000045

Rakner, Lise and Vicky Randall, 2017. “Institutions”, in Burnell, Peter, Vicky Randall and Lise Rakner (eds.), Politics in the Developing World. Oxford University Press, 5^th edition.

Rakner, Lise, 2017: “Democracy and Regime Change”, in Burnell, Peter, Vicky Randall and Lise Rakner (eds.), Politics in the Developing World. Oxford University Press, 5^th edition.

Rakner, Lise 2017,: “Governance”, in Burnell, Peter, Vicky Randall and Lise Rakner (eds.), Politics in the Developing World. Oxford University Press, 5^th edition.

Helle, Svein Erik and Lise Rakner, 2017. “The impact of elections. The case of Uganda”, in Gerschewski, Johannes and Christoph Stefes (eds.). Crisis in Autocratic Regimes, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, pp. 111-134.

Rakner, Lise, 2017. “Tax bargains in unlikely places: The politics of Zambian mining taxes”. The Extractive Industries and Society (4), pp. 525-538.

Muriaas, Ragnhild Louise, Lise Rakner, and Ingvild Skage, 2016. “Political capital of ruling parties after regime change: Contrasting successful insurgencies to peaceful pro-democracy movements. Civil Wars, Vol. 18(2) pp. 175-191.

Gloppen, Siri and L. Rakner 2015. «Norske klimaparadokser», Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift, Vol 31, No. 3, pp  246-256.

Gloppen, L. Rakner og V. Vibe 2014. ”Stortingsklima: Klima som valgkamptema og norske politikeres syn på klimautfordringene”, i, Klima, Medier og Politikk. Oslo: Abstrakt Forlag.

O.L.M. Ferraz, S. Gloppen, O. Mæstad, L. Rakner, 2014. “Judging the price of life: cost considerations in right-to-health litigation” I H.S. Aasen, S. Gloppen, A-M Magnussen, E. Nilssen: Juridification and Social Citizenship in the Welfare State. Edward Elgar Publishing

Helle Svein-Erik and Lise Rakner, 2014. “Grabbing an election: Abuse of state resources in the 2011 elections in Uganda” in Tina Søreide and Aled Williams (eds.): Corruption, Grabbing, and Development. Real World Challenges. London and Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 164-174.

Rakner, Lise and Lars Svåsand, 2013. “Competition and participation, but no democracy: The politics of elections in Africa´s feckless regimes” Statsvetenskapelig Tidskrift, Vol 115, No 4, pp. 365-384.

Rakner, Lise, Mette Bakken, 2013. “Elections”, in Nadini Patel and Lars Svåsand (eds.), Government and Politics in Malawi, 2^nd edition. Zomba: Kachere Books.

Rakner, Lise, 2013: ”Foreign Aid and Democratic Consolidation in Zambia” in Resnick, Danielle and Nicolas van de Walle (eds.): Democratic Trajectories in Africa: Unravelling the Impact of Foreign Aid. Oxford University Press.

Rakner, Lise and Lars Svåsand, 2012. “Foreign aid, democracy promotion and democratic progress”, in Jens Blom-Hansen, Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Svend-Erik Skaaning(eds.): Democracy, Elections and Political Parties. Aarhus: Politica, pp. 39-49.

Rakner, Lise, 2011. “Institutionalizing the pro-democracy movements: the case of Zambia's Movement for Multiparty Democracy”, Democratization, Vol. 18 (5) pp. 1106-1124.

Rakner, Lise and Lars Svåsand, 2010. “In search of the impact of international support for political parties in new democracies: Malawi and Zambia compared”, Democratization, Vol. 17(6) pp. 1250-1274.

Rakner, Lise and Nicolas van de Walle, 2009. “Opposition Parties and Incumbent Presidents: The New Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Africa”, in Staffan Lindberg (ed.) Democratization by Elections. A New Mode of Transition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 202-225.

Makara, Sabiti, Lise Rakner and Lars Svåsand, 2009. “Turnaround: The National Resistance Movement and the Reintroduction of Multiparty-Party System in Uganda, International Political Science Review, Vol. 30 (2), pp. 185-204.

Rakner, Lise and Nicolas van de Walle, 2009. “Opposition Weakness in Africa”, Journal of Democracy, Vol 20 (3), pp. 108-121.

Rakner, Lise, Lars Svåsand and Nixon Khembo, 2007. “Fissions and fusions, foes and friends: Party system restructuring in the 2004 elections in Malawi”, Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 40 (9), pp. 1112-1137.

 

Books

Arriola, Leonardo R., Lise Rakner, and Nicolas van de Walle, 'Democratic Backsliding in Africa? Autocratization, Resilience, and Contention', in Leonardo R. Arriola, Lise Rakner, and Nicolas van de Walle (eds), Democratic Backsliding in Africa? Autocratization, Resilience, and Contention (Oxford, 2022; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 Jan. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192867322.003.0001, accessed 1 July 2025.

Burnell, Peter, Vicky Randall and Lise Rakner (eds.), 2017. Politics in the Developing World. Oxford University Press, 5^th edition.

Elgesem, D., E. Eide, S. Gloppen, and L. Rakner (red.), 2014. Klima, Medier og Politikk. Oslo: Abstrakt Forlag

Gloppen, Siri and Lise Rakner (eds.), 2007: Globalization and Democratisation: Challenges for Political Parties. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.

Kiiza, Julius, Sabiti Makara and Lise Rakner (eds.), 2008. Electoral Democracy in Uganda: Understanding the Institutional Dynamics, Processes and Outcomes of the 2006 Multiparty Elections. Kampala: Fountain Publishers.

Rakner, Lise, 2003: Political and Economic Liberalisation in Zambia. Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute.

 

2021-2024        Autocratization Dynamics: Innovations in Research-Embedded Learning INTPART Internasjonale partnerskap for fremragende utdanning, forskning og innovasjon  (PI)     

2021-2024      Rights Activism under Political Uncertainty (RightAct) (FRIHUMSAM)

2017- 2021      Research Council of Norway (FRIHUMSAM): Breaking BAD: Explaining Backlash Against Democracy (PI).

2016-2020       Vetenskapsrådet (The Swedish Research Council): Social Institutions and Governance: Lessons from Sub-Sahara Africa (Gothenburg University, co PI with Ellen Lust

2015 – 2016    Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study (UC Berkeley) grant 2015-2016: “The Bergen-Berkeley Research Program on Political Parties in the Developing World.” Co-PI with Leo Arriola (UC Berkeley)

2016- 2017      Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study (UC Berkeley) grant 2016-2017: “The Bergen-Berkeley Research Program on Political Parties in the Developing World.” Co-PI with Leo Arriola (UC Berkeley)